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Accounting (I) : New Forms of Economics

Accounting, a course against obsolescence Many sectors seem suspended in time with regulations, laws and habits typical of the last century. Some of these industries have suffered strong conversions and losses of specific weight and are on the verge of evolutionary extinction, swallowed up by globalized giants that move numbers with many zeros. Others, however, seem to be safe from these storms, oblivious to the turbulence, accounting has been relatively static over time. For a long time the area of business administration was like this, with its idioms and reforms, but solid and immutable because...

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What is the “gig” economy?

Legend has it that, during the time of prohibition in the cities of Chicago and New York, the Big Bands of the illegal venues changed their instruments at dawn for blunt objects to form pickets and prevent the trucks carrying the goods. The first models of gramophones hit stores and endangered their lifestyle. In these times of 3.0 and wearables, things have not changed and capitalism continues its dynamic of giving way to new business opportunities based on the gradual death of the past. The horse died at the hands of…

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IPTS publishes the first update of DIGCOMP

The IPTS (Institute for Technological Prospective) has updated the European framework for the development and understanding of digital competences (DIGCOMP). DIGCOMP establishes 21 digital competencies, each with 3 levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) and grouped into five areas (Information, Communication, Content Creation, Security and Problem Solving). The new version maintains the 21 digital skills with 3 levels each and grouped into five areas, but has incorporated nuances in some areas and skills. The new version of DIGCOMP adds the adjective digital in those skills that dealt with technologies and content, now specifying the…

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e-Pedagogy

In this world of training there has always been pedagogy, but almost never pedagogues, since they were absent. The specialist in teaching-learning processes and in charge of designing training actions and detecting learning needs had not been recognized within his own field of work, a task that would not happen to a lawyer, doctor or psychologist. Traditionally, the pedagogue was linked to the guidance offices of regulated education and this was the main problem in its recognition; Society was unaware of his professional performance in the world of work. Therefore, and thanks to…

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Big Data is the parents

All areas have "gurus" who fill newspaper headlines and news headlines with predictions of what the next revolution will be in their field, but the technology sector is especially susceptible to this phenomenon. The infoxication that all these supposed experts generate fills our conversations with impossible concepts (always in English) and chimerical ideas. The crisis has meant that their forecasts now almost always refer to "employment sources." A clear example of these erroneous predictions is Big Data. A thorough search for vacancies related to Big Data gives us…

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Cybersecurity an operational necessity for companies

Cybersecurity, a transversal problem

The numbers of cyber attacks on companies and also on vital infrastructures such as hospitals, water treatment plants, energy supplies, etc. They are alarming. Only the cases that have a more mediatic nature appear on the front pages of the newspapers, with the rest of the incidents, silent or silenced, being those that represent a greater threat to citizens and to companies, regardless of their size or activity. Medium and high intensity cybersecurity must be present in all companies regardless of their size. Spyware, Trojans, phishing... are just some of the many intimidating terms that attack hackers, crackers...

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The pending challenge for companies: Digital skills

According to a study carried out on digital skills in Spanish companies, only a quarter of companies (27%) have a specific position that develops digital functions. Among the most implemented tasks are those related to the web and its performance. Thus, a 33% of the firms has a digital content manager and a 31% has a web master. This is followed by the position of social media manager and digital communication expert that already exists in a 29% of the companies consulted. The person responsible for digital marketing (28%), the web analyst (27%), the…

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INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN, THAT GREAT UNKNOWN

When we create a course virtually, we have to be aware that a series of variables come into play that we will have to take into account when designing and planning it, one of these variables is that the interaction between the student and the teacher is It is governed by two screens, without any physical contact.

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Business diagnosis to provide the future of winning strategies

Consensus for the state call for vocational training for employment.

On May 12, 2016, the board of trustees of the State Foundation for Employment Training reached a consensus for the preparation of the proposed call for the training of employed workers. It has been quite a challenge for the to be the first under the umbrella of the broad regulatory change that Law 30/2015 represented. Focused on promoting the individual qualification of workers to help improve their employability but also the global competitiveness of companies, it includes notable elements such as: The participation of up to a 30%…

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Quality is only achieved through equality and conciliation

The future is here….

We have lived immersed in the golden age of e-learning. We have had time to experience several evolutions and reinventions of digital training. But it's just now that things get interesting. The maturation of the post-PC era, together with the advent of several truly disruptive technologies, opens the door to the incorporation of hitherto forgotten sectors of the population and the use of methodologies far removed from education. Until now, teaching 2.0 has been in charge of a very specific segment of society. A group made up of young people, but with a minimum age,…

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