Professional practice designed, and not a product of improvisation. A look from distance university education

Abstract

This article emphasizes the importance of the professional practice of Uniminuto university students during significant experiences in the business sector. The practices from their formative character, seek to consolidate as a reflexive and critical process helping to understand and interpret the reality of the profession in areas of knowledge with significant learning. They develop accompanying tutorials in search of understanding reality and highlighting, through reflections, the sense of development of the practice; Likewise, it is used as a parameter to measure the apprentices' learning with a focus or orientations in soft skills and organizational competencies. The sample is defined in three modalities: first: generate business ideas, second: organizational improvement plans and third: learning contract. At the end of their practice, the students present works through a business sample, where the jurors through a checklist qualify: Analysis of the work prepared according to the chosen modality, presentation of presentation and poster. In the general analysis of the sample a significant relationship was found in the development of skills and university training with their business performance. On the other hand, it was evidenced that the time established for the accompaniment of the teacher in the professional practice for the development of each student project, influences the performance of the work. It is also estimated that when choosing the project where the practice should be carried out, there should be learning in the areas delegated by the entrepreneur, in order to offer a better future performance.