Radical Solutions for Digital Transformation in Latin American Universities

1. Front Matter

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2. Higher Education (HE) Across the Continent. How HE Is Addressed by Region

   • Edison Spina, Carlos Mario Zapata-Jaramillo, Marcel Simonette

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3. A Roadmap for Digital Transformation of Latin American Universities

   • Sandra Martínez-Pérez, Guillermo Rodríguez-Abitia

   Pages 19-36

4. Virtual Education in CEIPA: New Educational Paradigm at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

   • Julián Andrés Zapata Cortés, Ángel Rodrigo Vélez Bedoya, Martín Darío Arango Serna, Diego Mauricio Mazo Cuervo

   Pages 37-53

5. Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges in the Digital Transformation of HEIs in Latin America

   • José Humberto Serna Gómez, Flor Nancy Díaz-Piraquive, Yasser de Jesús Muriel-Perea, Alejandro Díaz Peláez

   Pages 55-75

6. Digital Transformation of Academic Management: All the Tigers Come at Night

   • Marcel Simonette, Mario Magalhães, Edison Spina

   Pages 77-92

7. Education in Latin America: Toward the Digital Transformation in Universities

   • Amadeo-José Argüelles-Cruz, Francisco-José García-Peñalvo, María-Soledad Ramírez-Montoya

   Pages 93-108

8. State of Digital Transformation in the Universities of Central America

   • Aris Castillo, Vladimir Villarreal, Dafni Mora, Lineth Alaín

   Pages 109-128

9. Behavior Analysis of Digital Transformation in Latin American and Colombian Universities, Based on a General Identification of Variables

   • Lina María Castro Benavides, Johnny Alexander Tamayo Arias, Daniel Burgos

   Pages 129-156

10. Artificial Intelligence and Industry 4.0 Across the Continent: How AI and 4.0 are Addressed by Region

    • Nilda Yangüez Cervantes, Carlos Mario Zapata-Jaramillo

    Pages 157-177

11. Artificial Intelligence as a Support Philosophy for Change: Comunidad Andina Case Study

    • Ben Y. P. Yabar-Vega, Yvan F. Diaz-Zelada

    Pages 179-195

12. Mining Pre-Grade Academic and Demographic Data to Predict University Dropout

    • Álvaro Martínez-Navarro, Elena Verdú, Pablo Moreno-Ger

    Pages 197-215

13. A Personalized Brand Proposal Based on User’s Satisfaction and Curriculum Supported by an Intelligent Job Recommender System

    • Nelly Rigaud Téllez, Patricia Rayón Villela

    Pages 217-242

14. Machine Learning and Student Activity to Predict Academic Grades in Online Settings in Latam

    • Pablo Moreno-Ger, Daniel Burgos

    Pages 243-257

This book presents how Digital Transformation is a requirement to upgrade Latin American universities to a next level in management, lecturing and learning processes and strategies. The book starts with a thorough introduction of the Latin American context addressing the three main topics in the book: Digital Transformation, Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence & Industry 4.0. They will be depicted by region, with a clear distribution between Central America & Mexico, Comunidad Andina (Perú, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia), Mercosur (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay), and other countries.

The book also shows how online learning is a key part of the transformation, with a clear focus on learning management systems, innovation and learning analytics. Further, personalised services for every single profile at the university (students, lecturers, academic managers) are presented to guarantee inclusive education service aggregation for networked campuses. Following, the book addresses strategy and overall services that concentrate on sustainability and revenue models integrated with a strategic planning.

Finally a set of chapters will show specific experiences and case studies of direct application of Artificial Intelligence and Technology 4.0, where the readers can learn from and transfer directly into their educational contexts.

• Digital Transformation
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learning Analytics
• Technologies 4.0
• Latin America
• Academic Management
• Knowledge Transfer
• Higher Education
• Process Innovation
• Paradigm Shift

• Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain

  Daniel Burgos

• Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia

  John Willian Branch

Daniel Burgos works as a Full Professor of Technologies for Education & Communication and Vice-rector for International Research, at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). He holds a UNESCO Chair on eLearning and the ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources. He is the Director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED). He has implemented more than 60 European and Worldwide R&D projects, and published over 180 research papers and over 25 books. He is a Professor at An-Najah National University (Palestine), an Adjunct Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL, Colombia), an Extraordinary Professor at North-West University (South-Africa) and a Visiting Professor at Coventry University (United Kingdom). He works as a consultant for United Nations (UNECE), European Commission & Parliament, and the Russian Academy of Science. He holds degrees in Communication (PhD), Computer Science (Dr. Ing), Education (PhD), Anthropology (PhD), BusinessAdministration (DBA), Theology (PhD), Management (PhD), Open Science and STEM (PhD) and Artificial Intelligence (MIT, postgraduate).


John W. Branch received the B.S. degree in Mining and Metallurgical engineer and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, in 1995, 1997, and 2007, respectively. Since 2000, he has been a full-time Professor with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has directed 50 master’s theses and 15 Ph.D. theses and currently directs five Ph.D. theses and ten master’s. In the last 20 years as a Professor, he has more than 200 scientific publications in national and international journals and conferences, mostly related to his research theme Artificial Intelligence,Computer Vision Digital Transformation and related areas. He has received the following prizes and distinctions, namely the Meritorious degree Work on mining and metallurgy engineering from the Universidad Nacional deColombia, in 1995, the Fourth Place Best Grade Contest VI Version from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in 1996, the Thesis of Meritorious degree, Postgraduate in computer engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in 1997, and the Meritorious Ph.D Thesis from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in 2007.

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