Learning Innovation and Qualifications Frameworks for Higher Education

Central America April 26, 2022

With the purpose of presenting the experience of the Qualifications Framework for Central American Higher Education -MCESCA- and that of the National Qualifications Frameworks of Costa Rica, with a perspective oriented towards learning innovation and regional academic harmonization, the day of Today the virtual conference "Innovation of Learning and Qualifications Frameworks for Higher Education" was held.

To start the activity, the general secretary of CSUCA, Carlos Alvarado, expressed ?In the current situation, higher education must anticipate and prepare itself to fulfill its role with societies, a situation that invites us to break with traditional models of education through innovative activities for our educational systems?

Representing the German HRK Rectors' Conference, Iris Danowski indicated ?A qualifications framework offers a whole set of possibilities and perspectives, one of the most important aspects is that this tool must be the starting point for reflection on the current situation?

For her part, Juana Machado, academic vice-chancellor of UNAN-León and president of SICEVAES pointed out, "It is important to strengthen continuous improvement in our study centers, to face the challenges of scientific and technological advances presented by higher education."

The virtual conference was attended by Francisco Alarcón, Deputy Secretary General and Academic Director of CSUCA, as a speaker from MCESCA MCESCA, and Katalina Perera, representative of OPES-CONARE, who presented Costa Rica's experience with National Qualifications Frameworks.

To view the virtual conference, you can enter Facebook through the following link: https://fb.watch/cDRql87uTW/ and to download the Qualifications Framework for Central American Higher Education -MCESCA- you can access the following link: https://csuca.org/es/download/marco-de-cualificaciones-para-la-educacion-hica/.

The activity was developed within the framework of the actions of SICEVAES, a system that promotes innovation and the improvement of higher education by the member universities of CSUCA.