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Design, Implementation and Efficiency Analysis of the Special Degree Unit as an Alternative for the Graduated Students’ Degree: UPS Case

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Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences (AHFE 2018)

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The little effectiveness of the degree systems in higher education is not an isolated problem in the long list of the university tasks, to be better understood, it has to be referenced to complementary processes, such as the access and the permanence into the system. To favor students get their degrees, in Ecuador, the Higher Education Committee, promoted in 2013 the implementation of Special Degree Units in each institution of higher education (IES). In this article, we share and demonstrate the experience of the Salesian Polytechnic University regarding the implementation of its Special Degree Unit (SDU). It has allowed young “university students with no degree” to get it as professionals. It is concluded that the 80% of the students who, according to the regulations, could be embraced into this Unit, got their degree, through a more effective instrument, which was the Degree Completion Exam.

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  1. Research Group on Artificial Intelligence and Assistance Technologies (GIIATA), Salesian Polytechnic University, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Miguel Arcos-Argudo & Fernando Pesántez-Avilés

  2. Rethinking the Education – Educational Innovation Group, Salesian Polytechnic University, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Miguel Arcos-Argudo & Fernando Pesántez-Avilés

  3. Cátedra UNESCO – Education for Inclusion, Salesian Polytechnic University, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Miguel Arcos-Argudo & Fernando Pesántez-Avilés

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  1. Institute of Maritime Operations, University College of Southeast Norway, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  2. Safety Solutions, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland

    Anna-Maria Teperi

  3. Department of Production Management and Logistics, Faculty of Management and Production Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

    Aleksandra Polak-Sopińska

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Arcos-Argudo, M., Pesántez-Avilés, F. (2019). Design, Implementation and Efficiency Analysis of the Special Degree Unit as an Alternative for the Graduated Students’ Degree: UPS Case. In: Nazir, S., Teperi, AM., Polak-Sopińska, A. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93882-0_8

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