Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric – Step 0 - Recognize
technologic innovation as a key source for successful business

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Basic Science, Technology and Engineering

Academic Unit School
Academic Level Undergraduate
Academic Field Disciplinary
Course Name Valuation and Negotiation of Technology
Course Code 212032
Course Type Theoretical Can be ye ☒ N ☐
enabled s o
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of Numbe
the Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ r of 2

activity: weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
activity: 25
Environment
Starting date of the
Deadline of the activity: 14/02/2020
activity: 01/02/2020
Competence to develop:
The student recognizes the course structure and the importance of
technologic innovation as a key source for successful business

Topics to develop:
Course contents and environments recognition

Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

Recognition Step - Recognize technologic innovation as a key source
for successful business
Activities to develop

It is important to clarify: This course is in English and as it is specified

in the Rules and conditions for the development of the course:
The student must develop the proposed activities on due time,
in English. Contributions in different languages won´t be evaluated.

Also it is important to take into account: Submitting a document that

is not developed by the student will achieve a score of (1)

Individual
The students must develop the following activities:
 
1. Update its profile including picture of your face.

2. Review all environments and contents of the course, download

and analyze the syllabus of the course at the Knowledge
Environment

3. On the Initial Environment, General forum (Social Interaction

Forum), participate sharing the following:

 Name, Skype user, professional profile, expectations with

this course and the course language (English).

4. Identify your tutor and send an invitation to get communication

on skype. Include in the message the following:

 Name, course, group number.

5. Read the following article, attached as Annex 1 - You need an

Innovation Strategy, at the Collaborative Learning
Environment:

PISANO, G. P. (2015). You Need an Innovation

Strategy. Harvard Business Review, 93(6), 44–54. Retrieved
from: https://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co/login?
url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=buh&AN=102786227&lang=es&site=eds-
 live&scope=site
6. Based on the article, record and post in YouTube a 2 - 3
minutes video where the student appears himself including in
English:

 Name
 Date
 Group number
 Explain the four types of innovation and its importance
to create and capture value

7. Based on the article, write a conclusion (100 to 200 words

paragraph), answering the following question:

How Breakthrough Innovations have changed the way managers

run business?

As time has elapsed we have seen how many companies have

emerged and fallen, but there are other companies that have
been able to stay in business and that is due to the innovative
strategies they have constantly, good strategies promote
alignment between various groups within an organization, clarify
objectives and strategies and help focus their efforts around
them.

Because of this, many managers run the business focusing on

the R&D study, constantly looking at how they can improve their
products so that they are of better quality, easier to use for the
user, easily acquired, more durable, etc.

The revolutionary innovations of companies have been

implemented in many labor fields, both in industry and
technology, as well as in pharmaceutical products and
technological advances in medicine, without neglecting
technological and innovative advances in agricultural production.

8. With the aim of sharing your ideas with your group mates, post
your conclusion on the Collaborative Learning Environment
Forum
 9. Consolidate all evidences in a creative PowerPoint presentation,
according to the guidelines given below in section Products to
deliver by student, and name it with the following structure:

 VNT_Recognition Step_John Camacho_43

Environme
nt for the Initial, Collaborative Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation
developme and Practice Learning Environments
nt

Individual:

Each student submits to the Monitoring and Evaluation

Environment a creative PowerPoint presentation
including:

 Cover (Activity tittle, Student name, Group

Number, Date)
Products
 Profile update screenshot (Activity 1)
to deliver
 Social Interaction forum participation
by student
screenshot (Activity 3)
 Skype invitation student-tutor screenshot
(Activity 4)
 YouTube link (Activity 6)
 Screenshot of conclusions posted on the
Collaborative Learning Environment forum
(Activity 7)
 References (Use APA format)

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of  Recognize and get familiar with the virtual

activities for campus, its different environments and
the activities.
development  Review frequently News and General forums.
of  Develop a personal agenda to achieve all
collaborative proposed activities.
work  Do not leave everything to the last minute. 
  Participate on due time posting relevant
information on the forums.
 Respect copyright, citing the sources.
 Use correct English grammar and spelling
 In case of doubt, ask in advance to the due date
Roles to  Compiler
perform by  Reviewer
the student  Evaluator
in the  Deliveries
collaborative  Alerts
group
Compiler: Consolidate the document constituted as
the final product of the debate, taking into account
that the contributions of all the participants have been
included and that only the participants who
participated in the process are included.

Reviewer: Ensure that the writing complies with the

rules of presentation of work required by the teacher.

Evaluator: Ensure that the document contains the

Roles and
criteria present in the rubric. You must inform the
responsibilit
person in charge of the alerts so that you inform the
y for the
other members of the team in case any adjustments
delivery of
have to be made on the subject.
products by
students
Deliveries: Notify delivery times of the products and
send the document in the stipulated times, using the
resources destined for the shipment, and indicate to
the other partners that the delivery has been made.

Warnings: Ensure that the members of the group are

notified of new developments and inform the teacher
through the work forum and messaging of the course,
which has been sent the document

Use of Use APA format. Edition 6th

references The APA Standards is the most used style of
organization and presentation of information in the
area of social sciences. These are published under a
 Manual that allows to have the scope in the forms in
which a scientific article must be presented. Here you
will be able to find the most relevant aspects of the
sixth edition of the Manual of the APA Rules, such as
references, quotations, elaboration and presentation
of tables and figures, headings and seriation, among
others. You can check how to implement them by
entering the page

http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
policy 99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
 apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric

Activity Individual Collaborativ

☒ ☐
type: Activity e Activity
Moment of Unit
the Initial ☒ Intermediat ☐ Final ☐
evaluation e:
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Scor
Aspects High score Media score Low score e
The student
submits a
creative The student
PowerPoint submits a
presentation, PowerPoint
Recognitio according to the presentation,
The student
n of the given guidelines, but it is not
does not
course including a according to
submit a
structure complete profile the given
PowerPoint
update, guidelines or
presentation,
communication the activities
or it does not 5
on skype with proposed to
include any of
the tutor and a recognize the
the required
complete course
activities
personal structure are
presentation not complete
posted on the or well-
Social developed
Interaction
forum
(up to 5 (up to 3 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Comprehen The student The student The student 10
sion of the submits a submits a does not
technologic YouTube link video, but it submit a video
innovation with a video does not meet or it does not
 where appears all
himself requirements
indicating its or does not evidence its
name, date and evidence understanding
the group clearly the of the
number, understanding importance of
explaining the of the combining
for business
importance of importance of innovation and
success
combining combining technology in
innovation and innovation and sustainable
technology in technology in businesses
sustainable sustainable
businesses businesses
(up to 10 (up to 5 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
The student
writes a 100 to
writes a
200 words
conclusion,
conclusion The student
but, it does not
Understan evidencing a does not write
meet the
ding of proper a conclusion in
requirements,
technologic understanding of relation to the
or its content
innovation the relevance of technologic
does not 10
as a key technologic innovation as a
evidence an
source for a innovation, key source to
understanding
new including some run a business
of the
business of the contents
proposed
explained in the
reading
proposed article
(up to 10 (up to 5 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 25