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The current environment is increasingly complex, global and uncertain: a. the pandemic that our society is experiencing today; b. related to the pandemic, the effect on the economy in countries and in particular with micro and small businesses have been affected on their survival; c. and in the educational sector the impact is equally relevant, face-to-face education became digital suddenly at all levels. This situation has led to the institutions of higher education a reflection and transformation to generate impact on student learning and to contribute to the demands and needs of society. In order to address this new reality, a faculty team integrate a partnership between 3 universities in different countries Colombia, Peru and Mexico, using active learning (Lobo, 2017) and research methodology on issues of supply chain management, companies' resilience and the generation of roadmap to support the microenterprise in challenging environment (Tanco, et al 2018). The methodology consisted of: the common planning phase (definition of courses, work plan, objectives); 2. Implementation of the projects with micro enterprises (diagnosis stage, proposal and development of solution and presentation of results); 3. Application of evaluation tools in order to measure the elements of active learning present as well as the engagement of students with their discipline and their society. The results show the elements of active learning present as learning by doing (even the digital education), the socialization of the knowledge and the concern and commitment with the microenterprises, using their knowledge as industrial and logistics engineers.
Keywords
Action Learning, Supply Chain Management, Educational Innovation, Higher Education
1.Introduction
From January 2020 the world faces a situation where it reflects very clearly the global and borderless term: the Covid virus pandemic 19. The effects of this virus on different sectors of society have been of an unexpected impact, due to the need to pause much of the social, educational, and productive life of countries, in order to protect the health of the population. The impact on supply chains (delivery delays), the uncertainty of the time of confinement, the lack of knowledge about the virus and its behavior, as well as the lack of a vaccine, and the initial fears of the population, generated losses in the productive sector (especially in micro and small businesses),...