PARADIGMATIC CHANGE AS A PLATFORM FOR TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A REAL CASE FROM THE USE OF A BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SIMULATOR AS A TEACHING TECHNIQUE AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL

Abstract

The results of a work made from the initiative of incorporating a business management simulator as a bachelor’s degree learning technique is presented, whose experience is studied to determine if during the simulation performed during the first quarter of the year 2019, the students experimented limitations related to the equipment usage and technological resources, since it exists in the imaginary of the officials of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) from Costa Rica, the paradigm that the students of this higher education center, have difficulties to count on the equipment and the access to the technological resources, which is one of the main concerns when the incorporation of such learning technique was planned all over the country. In reason of the previous, once finished the business management simulation experience, the participant population was interviewed, to determine the existence or not of the problematic linked to the limitation of the equipment access and technological resources, finding contrary results to the paradigm that was present in the imaginary from the university officials.