Academic resources · Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs
Learning Innovation Center
The Learning Innovation Center (CIA) offers services that support academic processes and adapts creative, innovative proposals that help improve the quality of education at ECOTEC.
Core pillars
Two fronts to learn better
For students
Academic support
Helping students plan their academic activity and supporting them throughout their student life to ensure they continue through to the completion of their degree or program.
For faculty
Teaching competencies
Strengthening the competencies of academic staff in carrying out their teaching activities, in order to have a positive impact on students' education.
Our team
Who leads the CIA
A unit of the Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs.
CIA Director
Mónica Pérez, Mgtr.
Coordinator
Yadira Armas, Mgtr.
Coordinator
Nadia Villena, Mgtr.
What do we do?
Personalized academic support
We enhance personalized support for students through academic performance monitoring, academic reinforcement, and academic guidance. It is a program designed to help you plan your academic activity and to support you throughout your student life. Its three pillars reinforce course content and psychosocial support.
Academic performance monitoring
Each student's academic tutor identifies academic difficulties to ensure the proper progress of their university studies.
Academic reinforcement
Reinforcement activities on course content, with students committed to their education and the course instructors.
Academic guidance
A prevention and support process that helps detect students' various psychosocial needs.
Academic reinforcement
Academic group leaders
Academic reinforcement is a space to strengthen course content with students committed to their education and with the course instructors. Assignments are organized by the academic group leaders of each school.
School
Beatriz Loor, PhD.
Group: Communication · Journalism
María Belén Morales, PhD.
Group: Psychology
Lorraine Chedraui, Mgtr.
Group: Multimedia
Marwin Lavayen, Mgtr.
Group: Marketing
César Castañeda, Mgtr.
Group: Humanities
Mónica Llanos Encalada, PhD.
Group: Administration and Human Talent
Fernando Cevallos Ruales, Mgtr.
Group: Commercial Management (Sales)
Mónica Armijos Santos, Mgtr.
Group: Accounting and Auditing · Digital Business
Guido Macas Acosta, Mgtr.
Group: Economics and Public Administration
Eduardo Ron Amores, Mgtr.
Group: Finance
Ana Correa Vaca, Mgtr.
Group: Logistics and International Management
Soledad Murillo Ortiz, Mgtr.
Group: History and Theory of the State and Law
Estrella Hoyos, Mgtr.
Group: Criminal and Criminological Sciences
Mercedes Coronel, Mgtr.
Group: Civil and Family Law
Roger Nieto, Mgtr.
Group: Business and International Law
Paolo Domínguez
Group: Public Law
Rosa Portero
Group: Criminalistics
Wilson Polo, Mgtr.
Group: Electronics and Circuits
Giraldo León, PhD.
Group: Basic Computing
Manuel Ramírez, Mgtr.
Group: Networks, Infrastructure, and Security
César Bustamante, Mgtr.
Group: Software, Databases, and Programming
Diego Peña, PhD.
Group: Basic Sciences
Magaly Peñafiel, Mgtr.
Group: Natural Sciences, Ecology, and Environment
Roberto Aguilera, Mgtr.
Group: Agricultural Development
Fernando Montalvo, Mgtr.
Group: Industrial Engineering
Blga. Ivonne Mora
Group: Basic Sciences
Viviana Henriques, Mgtr.
Group: International Relations
Sofía Pacherres, Mgtr.
Group: Tourism and Hospitality
For faculty
A culture of continuous learning
We foster an innovative culture that values the professional development and continuous learning of our faculty.
Consulting
The CIA team is available to address any faculty inquiries.
Educational innovation
We adapt creative, innovative proposals that help improve educational quality.
Workshop planning
Workshops for faculty
Training throughout the year to strengthen teaching practice.
Tools for assessment and collaboration
Uploading documents to the DSpace CEDIA–ECOTEC repository
Using the Blackboard platform
Using the vLex platform
Digital training and ICT
Educational leadership development program
Conflict management
Structural equation model estimation: SPSS, AMOS, and Warp
Researcher-teacher training
Using the FIEL Web Plus tool
Using the Scopus database
Decision-making development program
Introduction to Ouriginal: a system to prevent academic plagiarism
Teaching through the case method
University life
