From bureaucratic planning to disruptive innovation: ubiquitous-prosumer student leadership in higher education
Keywords:
Educational innovation, disruptive planning, prosumer, ubiquitous learning, higher educationAbstract
This article presents an educational innovation experience developed by ninth-semester Pedagogy students, who designed and implemented disruptive projects in response to diagnosed needs in their institutions. From the perspective of the ubiquitous and prosumer student, the strategies and learning outcomes of the implementation are analyzed, showing how planning can become a creative rather than a bureaucratic process. This qualitative, action-research-based study documented achievements, learning and challenges related to autonomous management, creativity and resilience. The results indicate that students, by leading the design and execution of their projects, strengthened professional competences in leadership, collaboration and critical reflection, while transforming institutional spaces and practices. This experience demonstrates that educational planning, understood as a flexible and inclusive exercise, can be a driver of pedagogical innovation in higher education.
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