Formative research, POL and the influence of the teacher-researcher in the production of science and technology: Integrative project cases

In a context of active and constructive teaching, the role of the teacher-researcher takes on crucial meaning, as a mediator in the formalization and promotion of research skills in university students, as demonstrated in this research project. From didactics and pedagogy, the Project Oriented Learning (AOP) strategy was used to articulate scientific theoretical knowledge with practice, which provides solutions to needs and problems of various kinds. In this sense, a compilation of integrative projects is presented as a training strategy within the framework of the training research of the Technological University of Jalisco in the periods 2020 and 2021, where the students integrated theoretical, conceptual and methodological knowledge, as well as own skills of their discipline – Maintenance Industrial area, Mechatronics Automation area and Information Technologies Multiplatform Software Development area, which help to strengthen technical, scientific, communicative, teamwork and cognitive skills, which materialized in the construction of technological prototypes and reports scientists where the processes and results achieved are made explicit as evidence of their investigative skills and, in turn, allowed a better evaluation of the academic performance of the students.