This article describes the criteria for structuring Modeling Student in a MULTIFUNCTIONAL education game, using as JuEGAS_ProVEAS pilot case. The modeling of the student is defined as the current state of knowledge that the student have about a thematic domain.The multifunctional system above refers to an educational software that gives teachers the opportunity to assess, to do exercises and bring tutoring, to students, ...

This article alludes to the social and community psychology in Latin-America and Colombia as a result of dialectic processes in which are submitted to natural procedures that are given by the nature or those people and communities that have been already built. Likewise, in this historical background is made reference to ethical-political perspective that have been acquired by social and community psychology in favor ...

The purpose of this article is to identify the most relevant works related to the methodology of historical compilation based on a hypertext system. To this end, the following concepts wereused as thematic descriptors: meta-system, artificial intelligence, frame systems, emotional intelligence, cultural identity, Theory of Communicative Action, narratives and narrative types, all of which will give rise to the project ...

The need for higher education on a global and local level is ever increasing due to social, political and economical factors. Universities are faced with the challenge of educating larger student bodies with the same or even reduced resources. Efficient use of ict and adapted pedagogical design are means do meet this challenge. This paper presents a large scale ict based distance course in project management given at ...

This research was carried out in the Limbania Velasco Educational Institution, located in Santander de Quilichao, Cauca, Colombia, with students and group leaders of third grade, morning session, and eighth grade, afternoon session, during the 2008-2009 school year. The general goal was to analyze the factors which limit coexistence in schools with the purpose of validating psycho-social practices and strategies which ...

This article presents the role and place of teacher and student in the contemporary interest in educational computing research, plus the massive inclusion of information technology and communication in a school context.From an approach to implementation and development of information technologies and communication in educational contexts as a contemporary phenomenon raises the idea of a research methodology that it’s ...

This article presents the evolution of an information system created as part of the research project “Scientific Visibility and Development- The Who´s Who in Research at UNAD”. It describes its components, explains its impact on the research process, its operational structure, and emphasizes the application of Information Technology innovation to information management.

Leaning to Discussion Grupos' technique, the authors present a brief overview about to how the school community of Castilla la Nueva (Meta, Colombia) assumes technology and what kind of uses and appropriations of the Internet and laptop rest in such technological approaches. Also, the participant’s opinions highlights in matters relating to the understanding, leisure and identity, they find in that technology’s expressions ...

This paper presents a literature review on the topic of modeling productive chains in order to find some answers to questions such as whether the system dynamics is appropriate for modeling productive chains and if it is relevant program models or use specialized software for that purpose.Initially a brief lecture on the theme of the models and how these can be seen is presented to the reader, showing that even concepts ...

The difficulties teaching and learning computer programming have been a worldwide recurrent topic for the last twenty years. The community of computer science educators has proposed a vast number of approaches but, unfortunately, none of them has been truly effective. To the motivational issues suffered by the students, we have to add the absence of a serious study regarding the skills and abilities they have to develop, ...