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DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-892-187-203

<title>RLCS, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social</title>
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<meta name="DC.creator.personalName" content="Dra. Nerea Vadillo Bengoa"/>
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<meta name="DC.creator.personalName" content="Dra. Carmen Marta Lazo"/>
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<meta name="DC.creator.personalName" content="Dr. Daniel Cabrera Altieri"/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.editor" content="Dr. José Manuel de-Pablos-Coello"/>
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<meta name="DC.Description" lang="en" content=“Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, RLCS, is a scientific journal edited at the University of La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife, Canary Islands) in the Laboratory of Information Technologies and New Analysis of Communication, LATINA according to its initials in Spanish, founded in 1987 by Dr. José Manuel de Pablos Coello, under the protection of special doctorate programmes for Latin American professors. The journal publishes under the main summary almost exclusively research papers written following the formula IMR&DC+B: introduction, methodology, results and discussion plus conclusion, with a updated bibliography: at least 70% of the bibliographic entries must be from the past 10 years and half of them from scientific journals in Spanish and English languages. Reviewers make a double blind peer examination. This is a collective and inter-university project, including many professors and researchers from almost all Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. The journal is the following databases: EBSCO (USA), DOAJ (Lund University, Sweden), Redalyc (Mexico), Dialnet (Spain); and is indexed by the CINDOC-CSIC in DICE, ISOC, RESH, Office of Latin American Education, OEI according to its initials in Spanish; Dulcinea, etc. In Spain the journal is a reference in the Directory of Index of Spanish Periodicals of Social and Communication Sciences, IN-RECS, of the University of Granada, UGR. RLCS occupies the first position in the cumulative index for the periods 2003-2007; 2004-2008 and the year 2008”/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.referee I" content="Adaptation process of Communication studies to the EHEA. The case of Aragon, a pioneering region. The issue raised in this article has great interest today. The new curriculum in the Spanish university system will introduce considerable changes, which despite its importance within and outside academia, are still largely unknown, so this work contributes to sharing experiences in universities where the EHEA is already underway. The objectives are clearly formulated and adhered to throughout the work. The introduction, contextualizing the history of studies of Communication in Spain, is appropriate and necessary, taking into account the subsequent analysis in exhaustively reporting the professional profiles and competencies outlined by the principles of Bologna for each degree programme (Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations) and mainly oriented to the professional world. The section on research is laid out well so that research, its methodology and results are easily understood and the conclusions are completely relevant. An added value to this work is its extensive documentation and its geographical specificity, making it overcome the increasingly frequent theorizing about studying in the EHEA. Its publication is encouraged due to the quality of work and because of the historical moment it is written in.- Dr. Estrella Martínez Rodrigo - Universidad de Granada."/>
<meta name="DC.contributor.referee II" content="Review 2. Report on the article "Adaptation process of Communication studies to the EHEA. The case of Aragon, a pioneering region”. Higher education in Europe is undergoing a transformation. That transformation is located, or is called, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The author of the article states that the public universities and private university in the region of Aragon are pioneers in this transformation. The author refers to the Universidad de Zaragoza (public) and the Universidad San Jorge (private) to identify the main keys of the paradigm shift resulting from the Bologna Accords in Communication studies and to seek to identify results obtained from the innovations. The author offers a historical framework: communication studies in Spain and Aragon have a short trajectory, which began in 1971 with the creation of the respective powers in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. It is also mentioned that the studies existed at other institutions, but that was until the 70's when the profession acquired an academic dimension. Indeed communication studies have a short trajectory. The author lists the principles and objectives of the university system of Aragon and concludes in a few paragraphs while directly integrating the parameters of the Bologna Accords, including: a) The principle of lifelong education; b) The application of systems and methods of evaluation and accreditation based on internationally comparable criteria and methodologies c) To promote the achievement of the European Higher Education Area. The author describes the educational resources of the universities of Aragon in Communication. The curricula of the degrees in Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication. An explanation is given about how each program meets the expectations of the Bologna Accords. And to confirm the results research is being conducted through a survey, a sample of 120 students from Journalism and Advertising and Public Relations. Methods of tutoring, case studies and problem solving are most valued by students, giving the traditional methods, including the lecture and the written tests, the lowest rating. The article is timely for the university community. In principle: a) It offers elements to validate the Bologna Accords, b) It provides a path that other universities or Schools of Communication may follow to structure their curricula; c) it justifies the transformation of the teaching process, leaving behind traditional methods and incorporating tutorials, case studies and problem solving; d) The results of field research confirm that the article does not merely rhetorically state or declare the goodness of educational provision in Communication. Dr. Meliton Guevara Castillo. Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (Mexico)."/>
<meta name="DC.description.abstract" content="Abstract: The Autonomous Region of Aragón (Spain) is one of the pioneers in its full adaptation to the parameters and demands established by the European Higher Education Area . The Aragonese universities with on-site classes began their study plans in their respective Communication degree programmes under the philosophy known as the “Bologna model” in the academic year of 2008-2009. The aim of this article is to analyze the initiation process these studies have gone through in both the public university (Universidad de Zaragoza, UNIZAR) as well as in the private university (Universidad San Jorge, USJ). The main objective of this work is to study how new Communication study plans created in the common European framework began to be implemented and to evaluate the new forms of learning that this model of university teaching has created. Therefore, we will conclude with the results that have been obtained to date with the application of active methods of learning aimed at acquiring professional skills based on concepts such as flexible and lifelong learning (LLL). To sum up, the aim is to identify the keys of paradigm change brought on by Bologna in Communication studies and how and with what concrete results the innovations that have been introduced in content and teaching methodology in degree programmes can be interpreted based on the experience in Aragón./>
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DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-892-187-203-EN/>