The Swedish National Agency of Higher Education conducted a study, 2007-2008, in order to develop knowledge about what constitutes quality in e-learning, and how such quality may be assessed within the framework of a national quality assurance system.This paper presents a model for quality assessment of e-learning. The model has been developed using analyses of policy documents, networks and development projects initiated ...

In its first part the article sets up a historical journey through the paths of didactics, since the mid 17th century – when Juan Amós Comenio writes ¨Didactica Magna¨ a fundamental piece of further developments in the thematic – until our days. The author describes the surge of the first normal schools for teachers in the 1800´s Europe, the positioning of higher education through Universities and Superior Schools, by ...

The learning strategies have been applied in the past years in different educational contexts; several studies show that when they are put in use, the students improve their learning. On the other hand, with the development of new technologies, the virtual learning objects have been presented as an alternative for the development of cognitive abilities. Nonetheless, Carreras (2003) affirms that these kinds of objects ...

This research had the goal of developing the first phase of a one macro project. In that macro project one propose is to design software for using metacognitive strategies in a virtual learning environment. In that macro project we propose three phases. The first it was to design and to validate the content of the test whit four experts judges. The test had 111 items in which we used the Mateo’s (1985) model. That model ...

The present speech is making from two technological metaphors, RESET and F5 (Refresh), where mainly the trouble of TIC’s necessity at the present school context is exposed. Starting from a theoric reviewing of the necessity concept with some writers contribution like Fresneda and Max Neef, where, clearly, the difference between necessities, satisfactors and possessions is founded. This first part is metaphoric understanding ...

Control engineering influences the modern medicine through robotic surgery, electrophysiological systems (pacemakers and automatic implantable defibrillators), life support systems (ventilators and artificial hearts), and image-guided surgery. An additional area of medicine suited for applications of control is clinical pharmacology, in which.mathematical modeling plays a prominent role. Although numerous drugs are ...

The extraction of fat in cocoa was studied in grains or almond of “Teobroma cacao” native variety for different temperatures (45 ° C and ambient 28 ° C average) and times (12 and 24 h).The grains or almonds were placed in a fiber for fermentation, since this is the procedure carried out by indigenous communities and farmers and some cocoa in the region, so thatthe fermented cocoa markets or in the process of fermentation, ...

The blackberry, Rubus Glaucus Bent, is a high consumed fruit for its excellent flavor and nutritional qualities. The plant is grown at altitudes of 1800 to 2200 meters. It is spread in the whole country and is a source of permanent income for the producers. The genus Rubus is one of the most diverse plant kingdoms, making the genetically rich blackberry. The blackberry plant has lots of thorns, making it difficult to ...

Given the demand that nowadays present the Medicaments of biological origin, this investigation has taken the analysis of the pharmacovigilance as a principal goal in the marketing of the natural products of free sale in Ibague’s city, having in mind that unlike the allopathic products does not exist a strict control that it allows to watch for the safety and the great quantity of person that they have easy access to ...

During formative research processes, groups, lines, seedlingsand researchers who study according to a qualitative approachaimed at analyzing information, are forced to use strategies andsoftware for qualitative data analysis, however, the indiscriminateuse technological support at times makes the researcher's ability to discern and highlight the theoretical component. Therefore, it seeks to explain through a descriptive ...