The aim of this article is to expose how the topic of usability in the course Multimedia, which is part of the Business program imparted by Universidad de Costa Rica in Western Campus at Grecia location. The study took place on I semester 2011 and it used the teaching strategy called case study, where students had to design an Internet shopping cart graphical user interface for a...
The purpose of the research was to determine the learning strategies implemented through the use of XO and Classmate computers and Internet as support mechanisms for curricular learning in Science and Social Studies for students of the León Cortes Castro school at San Marcos de Tarrazú, Costa Rica.The research was implemented with three sixth-level school groups in 2011. The...
The aim of this article is to expose how the topic of usability in the course Multimedia, which is part of the Business program imparted by Universidad de Costa Rica in Western Campus at Grecia location. The study took place on I semester 2011 and it used the teaching strategy called case study, where students had to design an Internet shopping cart graphical user interface for a...
This study describes the implementation of Project-Based Learning (PBL) with the aim of promoting learning of basic aspects of disease prevention and health promotion to foster the development of skills to increase participation in public health interventions. During 3 weeks, senior pharmacy students at the University of Costa Rica, worked on a project that addressed a health...
The key objective was to reveal what the experience from starring in an interactive and participatory teaching strategy, implemented in the second stage of basic school, represented, for a sample of education students in the pedagogical university Libertador, Venezuela Maracay. Field research was conducted with an interpretiveparadigm and qualitative, naturalistic and hermeneutic...
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the use of information and communication technology as a means to support teacher training in Venezuela, specifying how the technological intervention has been taken in the educational environment. This is a documentary work that malíes mention to experiences of some countries such as Panama, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina in relation...
In Costa Rica, Nicaraguan people constitute the largest immigrant group. This article re-ports the third and last part of the findings of a qualitative research that investigated how thirteen Nicaraguans who lived in the Costa Rican Metropolitan Area spend their spare time. The data reported was obtained through interviews. The findings of this phenomenological research are...
Equity in education is socially desirable because of the relevance of education for the development of people. Therefore, it is interesting to study whether the allocation of spending on education takes into account this aspect. Since the concept of fairness is not univocal, it is necessary to define a position. Here, it is assumed that there is educational equity if equality...
This research sought to understand and interpret the educational context in which a group of university students took part, in a popular dance course. The objectives of the study were designed to determine whether the methodology and teaching influenced the learning and leisure of the students, and to detect if the class work influenced the student's interpersonal relationships...
In the scope of the Healthy Pedagogy Investigation Project, currently under development at the Elementary Education Division of the Costa Rican National University's (UNA) Center for Investigation and Teaching in Education (CIDE), this essay suggests a relationship between pedagogy and health, based on an ethical vision of caring. The authors propose the understanding of Healthy...
The objective of this paper was to explore and characterize the construction of knowledge based on the perceptions of prospective teachers. It is a qualitative study that attempts to understand and interpret the meanings and beliefs about teacher knowledge. The participants were the last semester students enrolled in Basic Integral Education at the University of Los Andes Dr...
In the scope of the Healthy Pedagogy Investigation Project, currently under development at the Elementary Education Division of the Costa Rican National University's (UNA) Center for Investigation and Teaching in Education (CIDE), this essay suggests a relationship between pedagogy and health, based on an ethical vision of caring. The authors propose the understanding of Healthy...
This article presents an approach toward the conceptualization of the educational practice in an in-service teachingprogram in the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM). After establishing the difference between initial and continuous educational programs, the problems about the current in-service teachingpreparationprograms oriented to prepare in-service teachers...
This research sought to understand and interpret the educational context in which a group of university students took part, in a popular dance course. The objectives of the study were designed to determine whether the methodology and teaching influenced the learning and leisure of the students, and to detect if the class work influenced the student's interpersonal relationships...