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, ...

This article shows the results, advances and projections from this investigation, obtained during the last years, concerning to the bilingual/bicultural after-school activity proposal, confined in a topic called The Magic Class. This pedagogical innovation, made with several communities in the San Pascal American Ethnic Group, in California, follows the Vygotzky´s theories about the game factor involved in the development ...

The aim of this work is to describe and illustrate the use of different kinds of arguments in a communicative setting as the focus group. We will show the pertinence of studying ways of deliberation in relation to ways of arguing in the debate. After that, we will analysethe architecture of arguments displayed by a group of women attending an adult literacy course, extracted from a research ran in Seville (Spain), about ...

Recientemente se celebraron los 228 años de la insurrección comunera liderada por gente de esta bravía tierra. Entre ellos se destacaron José Antonio Galán y Manuela Beltrán quienes se manifestaban contrarios al mandato déspota de la corona española. Este artículo pretende ser una especie de homenaje al pueblo del gran Santander que ha demostrado su tesón y carácter fuerte a través de la historia, forma de ser que ...

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 ...

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 ...