Internationalization of Higher Education in the framework of Knowledge Construction Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en el marco de la construcción del conocimiento

Abstract

The presence of a nation in the international context depends on its competitive level, optimizing human resources, through teaching-learning processes, where Higher Education plays a preponderant role. The objective is to highlight the importance of the internationalization of Higher Education through the construction of knowledge. Within this framework, a qualitative methodology and documentary research are developed according to secondary sources through the search for data, a process that allowed analyzing results such as advances in Colombia of Higher Education in terms of educational quality and interest of the State in implementing a process of internationalization, allowing to conclude that innovation is a key element of success and that it is the university must articulate the student's and society's own needs with changes in the national, regional and international spheres, which implies increasing public and private investment according to demands of the globalized environment.