Call 001 – Distance and Online Undergraduate Tutors 2025

REGISTRATION and

Verification of Documents

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• First. Verification of documents. The Academic Sub-Directorate of IPRED verifies that the applicant has submitted the documents required for registration.

• Second. Formation of the Tutor Candidate Selection Committee. According to Agreement 105 of 1999, this body is responsible for carrying out the entire evaluation process and for establishing evaluation formats and score weighting for the tests.

• Third. Verification of requirements. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee verifies that the résumés meet the minimum requirements for the profile to which they are submitted.

EVALUATION OF the Résumé

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• Fourth. Evaluation of résumé. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee evaluates the résumé based on the criteria established in Agreement 105 of 1999. The Academic Coordination will inform candidates who obtain 24 points or more in the résumé evaluation about the next step (essay submission). Candidates who score below 24 will not continue in the process.

SUBMISSION OF

the Essay

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• Fifth. Evaluation of the essay. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee evaluates the submitted essay according to the defined criteria, for applicants who achieved the minimum score in the previous step. The essay must be defended during the interview.

The essay evaluation will be conducted for those applicants who pass the requirements review and résumé evaluation stages. This essay must be prepared taking into account the following guidelines and within the dates established in the call schedule:

Guidelines for the Essay:

At Universidad Industrial de Santander, it is established ^[[1]] that in distance and virtual modalities, the relationship between the hours of interaction with the professor and independent work hours (HIP: HTI) has a higher proportion of HTI than in the face-to-face modality. Interaction hours between the teacher and the student (HIP) are mostly synchronous (between 70% and 80%) and are mainly conducted online (between 70% and 80%), although the program establishes a proportion of academic activities carried out in physical spaces defined in the educational project (between 20% and 30%). In the virtual modality, HIP development is mainly asynchronous (over 80%) and mostly online, mediated by ICT (over 80%).

The higher proportion of independent work hours makes one of the main tutorial guidelines the detailed organization of interactions, which becomes a key factor in the training process in distance and virtual modalities. Additionally, participation in synchronous tutorial sessions is not established as mandatory.

• Topic: Write an argumentative essay ^[[2]] presenting the critical aspects to make interaction with students possible in distance and virtual modalities and, based on your arguments, what specific actions you would carry out.

1. The argumentative essay must be submitted in PDF format, contain between 700 and 1000 words, in Arial font size 11, with 1.5 line spacing and margins of 2 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm (approximately 2 pages in length).

2. The subject of the applied-for profile being used as the basis for the essay must be stated.

3. If applying to profiles from different academic programs, one essay must be submitted for each program. If the profiles belong to the same academic program, only one essay must be submitted.

4. The evaluation criteria are: Organization, coherence and relevance, Use of language, Argumentative and creative capacity, Validity of the concepts addressed, and Updated references in the bibliography.

[1] UIS – Academic Council. Agreement 023 of 2022. By which the institutional guidelines for the creation, reform, and modification of academic programs at Universidad Industrial de Santander are approved.

[2] Fazio, D. & Roa, S. Guide for Writing an Argumentative Essay https://leo.uniandes.edu.co/guia-para-la-elaboracion-de-textos-argumentativos/

CALL FOR

Interview

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• Sixth. Interview. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee will schedule the interviews according to the criteria defined at the beginning of the process.

• Applicants who achieved the minimum essay score will receive an email indicating the date and time of the interview, during which the following aspects will be assessed:

• Defense of the essay: argue the topic presented in the essay.

• Defense of teaching experience: demonstrate experience and specific competencies in the subject area(s) of interest as a teacher.

• Defense as a virtual tutor: demonstrate experience and competencies in the use of ICT tools and virtual education platforms.

• Perspective as an IPRED tutor: express your interest as an IPRED tutor, by presenting a vision of personal and collective growth that enables the constant improvement of educational dynamics in dialogic interaction with the student, in accordance with the Institutional Pedagogical Model.

PUBLICATION OF

Results

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• Seventh. Publication of results. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee prepares a report recording the evaluations of the candidates and submits it to the IPRED Directorate for the publication of the corresponding resolution.