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The potentialities of the educational units as medium of university extension, as material vehicle of promotion of culture, in their more wide meaning, it is the referring that defends this work. It includes a summaries of the main epistemological conceptions about the extension as university process, as well as those that it maintain to the educational units as fundamental vehicle for the investigative labor formation and it reflects about the possibilities of these to be a canal that possesses the university to extend their culture to community. Appear also a proposal of methodology for the development of the process of university extension in the educational units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presented describes a linguodidactic strategy to enhance teachers' skills in scientific communication, since the relationship science-technology-society-education requires that scientific results are communicated effectively and efficiently to the scientific community and society. The strategy was the result of an institutional project of the Central University «Marta Abreu» of Las Villas, which ran from 2011-2013 and obtained Prize Provincial Academy of Sciences Award Rector Cuba and the result already implemented most useful to Education superior. Among the actions executed diagnoses were highlighted; the description of the linguistic peculiarities of scientific language; indicators for evaluation; digital resources; conferences, courses, and training; which were developed in different centers of higher education and institutions. The strategy is characterized by integrating the linguistic and the didactic; see action in Spanish and English; by the work of teachers and students; by the joint efforts of teachers of Spanish, English and computing from research. The strategy helps teachers produce better quality scientific papers, watching the ethical principles of the scientist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Model of Formation of the Professional of the Accounting and the Finances, it is modeled the formation of a professional of wide profile and on the logic of the profession, where the process of formation of investigative-labor abilities plays an important paper. This model will be determined in great measure by the formation contents that those professionals will acquire, where the use of the countable method as procedure to solve the countable and financial problems in correspondence with the accountant's functions, it will propitiate the domain of the investigative-labor abilities, as those abilities that express in themselves the way of acting of this professionals. The present article is directed to establish the paper of the countable method inside the process of formation of investigativelabor abilities in the students of Accounting and Finances of the Pinar del Río University. For they were used it theoretical methods as: the historical method - logical; the analysis method and synthesis and the induction method and deduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper which deals with the professorial training, a relevant topic for the Cuban Higher Education, present the results of a research which was developed at Sibanicu Municipal University Campus, all through the school years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, having proved that there were contradictions between the general formation of the professors who guide teaching staffs and the specific formation they need to develop their functions. The study's objective was to design and apply the proposal of a strategy to conduct the training of the eight professors who were guiding teaching staffs at this center. Different theoretical methods were used to analyze the documentary information, to demonstrate the scientific hypothesis, to characterize the required training process, to provide the model with the required theoretic support and to propose the strategy. Empirical methods were also used to reveal the existence of the problem and its causes. The study permitted to characterize the formation of these professors as general and not suitable in order to guide their teaching staffs; it also provided a system of actions and a group of consulting materials which enable the unequal treatment that each professor needs. The proposal was putted into practice during the second semester of the school year 2012 - 2013 and the school year 2013-2014. It elevated the efficacy of the work at Sibanicu Municipal University Campus; that's why the proposal is considered a way of important value to guarantee the teaching training of the professors who guide teaching staffs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presented by the authors aims at making a reflection about the teaching of learning strategies as a pedagogic perspective for the transformations of tertiary education in Cuba. The paper is based on the transformations that are taking place in the world today and particularly in the Cuban tertiary educative system. The authors also assume the rationale of developing teaching-learning process. Some questions briefly answered are precisely related to the important role that the teaching of learning strategies play in the process of educative changes. ¿What are learning strategies?, ¿which role is given to the teaching of learning strategies in the process of changes?, ¿How to sustain the teaching of learning strategies in the process of transformation in tertiary education? and ¿What methodological lines should orient any pedagogical performance that has as its objective to teach learning strategies in tertiary education? Some instruments for a diagnosis used in the pedagogic research by the authors can contribute to know the students' learning process better. It is reflected when teaching learning strategies. It is concluded that learning strategies can be taught and learned in an instructional context in the Cuban tertiary education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a study about the knowledge the students had when beginning the agronomy studies during the 2008-2009 course. The measurements are based on the theoretical grounds of the integration of content, as a primordial element in the agronomist engineer formation. In the opinion of the authors of this paper, the integration of contents goes beyond the teaching-learning process which supports it and directly influences on the content integrated appropriation results as a consequence of the learning integrated management. The study includes an integrated knowledge test; its results show the students entry level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is about a very important topic nowadays, the pedagogical permanent formation of professors due to their manifest lack of knowledge about pedagogical issues. Most of these professionals have been well prepared in many fields, other than pedagogy, thus they have not been educated to perform as lecturers. For this reason, this is a strategic area for their professional development to guarantee their performance in the teaching-learning activities and other crucial activities in campus. It is proposed in this paper, a systematization methodology that helps to alleviate the need for pedagogical knowledge among the faculty in the University of Cienfuegos, "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez". In this research, the theoretical foundations of the Systematization Theory are taken as scientific support because it highlights the methodological conception of the systematization of the lecturers education on Pedagogy in a coherent, holistic, strategic and adapted to the context of the characteristics of the new Cuban University. It is worth to take into account the importance given to the practical experience of the lecturers as key element in the perfectioning of permanent education in modern higher education. The revision of official documents and regulations of the Higher Education Ministry was very important to develop three workshops where academic leaders and professors linked to the program of massive university education to diagnose their performance of these professionals and to transform the educative reality in a critic and collective way taking as starting point the education about pedagogy the professors may receive as premise for the improvement of the education process they lead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on considerations done in two previous papers about the viability to assume certain premises of the curricular approach based on the formation by competences; this possibility in relation to important aspects of the improvement in professionals formation in Cuba are discussed. Special attention is dedicated in this paper on discussion about the development of the denominated curricular strategies in Cuban Superior Education. Founded on these premises the idea to continue assuming, agreed with the increasing exigencies of our society, the challenges that until the moment have implied the development of the denominated curricular strategies in the curricula, are viable using itself some of the bases that are applied in the approach of formation by competences in relation to the denominated generic competences, transversals or professional basic, being an alternative makes specific the proposals that in present work consider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teacher academic performance evaluation is a way of increasing the quality of teaching at the university and an important source to carry out this process is the student's criteria. The aim of this paper was to analyze the evaluation of the academic competencyof a teacher, using the student's perceptions, through a Research Methodology course that was thought as a part of the mastership in Spanish language and literature teaching taking place at Artemisa University, Cuba. To do so, a survey based on the academic competency indicators was used. The software “Coharentia" made possible to process the results of the survey. According to the student's perceptions, the teacher was evaluated as competent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doctoral training in pedagogical science has had a sustained development in Cuba that has caused a steady increase of doctoral theses; however, the quality of the theses defended has not been systematically subjected to an evaluation to determine the difficulties that affect them. The aim of this paper is to assess their quality through the shortcomings identified by expert judgment, so a survey was applied to several specialists from different universities in the country, according to their professional experience in the training of doctors in this specialty. The criteria were processed through a qualitative methodology, which have a high degree of overlap and reveal several problems related to insufficient cultural and scientific background of the candidates, the weaknesses of the theoretical and methodological designs and the little rigor of the results contributed by scientists. Several suggestions to continue researching this problem are proposed, as well as ways to improve the professionalism of PhD already trained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is intended to express some theoretical and practical considerations about the process of designing didactic training of professionals, so that helps promote the professionals who are in college public participation in cultural spaces. Promote the idea that such a transformation in students is argued, requires the development of actions to arouse in them a personal need, the enjoyment of the arts and literature, as well as artistic and aesthetic sensitivity training. The formation of cultural audiences on campus is conceptualized. Theoretically modeled the dynamics of cultural management training system extension and teaching procedures for implementation on campus is proposed. The relevance of the proposals made is corroborated through consultation with a group of specialists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theroleof universitiesis to forma technical professional capable of assimilating all changes ineverysp here of life, particularly in science and technology. Engineering, for its part, has a very significant role because it allows the planning, construction, operation, maintenance and modernization of infrastructure projects as well as the generation of goods and products, providing services necessary for the development of the country, which requires engineering professionals each day have better preparation. The refiremen process of the formation of a wide profile graduate emphasizes basic training ands kill acquisition, in view of the necessary self–preparation hat requiresa professional contemporary company. The development ofa solid foundation of essential knowledge, particularly in Mathematics, ways and methods of performance, enables the graduate college provide greater capacity to assimilate new knowledge and develop new techniques. Hence it is intended, in this paper, is to show how it should be carried out the teaching of mathematics to achieve the integral development of a quality engineer, able to meet the challenges of the future professional life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teaching learning process has gone a long way through the history of education in which the curriculum has been transformed within the traditional education models. This paper aims at proposing an alternative about the way of teaching, taking into account the integration of two subjects: Sociology of Culture and Social Psychology, which are taught in the Socio-cultural Studies career. By means of the syllabuses of both subjects t it is expressed the importance of teaching them through the extension, the participation and developmental elements considering the main objective of this career: to investigate the community and the bettering of their settlers. It is not possible to continue teaching these subjects separately, because they both have the same system of content. Some workshops are proposed under the principle of interdisciplinary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study carried out in relation to the development of the sociocultural competence in pre-service Foreign Language teachers at "Félix Varela" Pedagogical University. First of all, the study presents both the conceptual and operational definitions of the term, assuming a notion of competence as a complex psychological configuration. Then, it presents the essential features of a didactic model, specifically designed by the authoress for the development process of such competence in the particular context of a curricular discipline named Integrated English Practice. The implementation of the model was carried out through a pedagogical pre-experiment. Different methods belonging to both the theoretical and the empirical levels of knowledge were used for the experiment. Within the empirical level the most important ones were the pedagogical test, the survey, the scientific observation, and the analysis of documents. The results of the study were essentially positive, which stimulated the development of further research on the matter pursuing improvement and efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to achieve a more education, it is a priority in Cuba to know the behavior of enrollment as well as the implementation of strategies of access and retaiment. These strategies are constantly restructured in order to meet the social needs. This paper explains the theoretical basics that underlay in curriculum conception including the aspects of gender perspectives as ones of the challenges for higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historically, an effective development of the Informatics Sciences Engineers' education in the Engineering and Management of Software discipline, through the participation of the students in the software industry, has not been achieved. The main causes have been the non-systemic and limited treatment of the components and the dynamics of the teaching-learning process; as well as the distinctly empiric character of its conception. At the University of Informatics Sciences, the discipline faces the problem of how to achieve a conception of the student's education that integrates the teaching and the industrial software production. As a solution, this paper exposes a systematization of the theoretical-methodological foundations that support the conception needed at the university, as well as a didactic model and strategy that allows its introduction into the educational practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Plan of Action Integral Tutoral is shown that cooperates to the student's formation, starting from the improvement of the work tutoral, the educational and political-ideological work, to elevate the permanency and academic efficiency in the Central Headquarters and Municipal University Centers. Theoretical, empiric methods were used, as well as the approach of an expert group of the UNAH "Fructuoso Rodríguez Pérez", what allowed to determine inadequacies of the work tutoral, in the planning, characterization of the tutorados and lack of orientation of the activity, for what doesn't reach the protagonism, improvement and efficiency that it is expected from her, in correspondence with the current state of this work in the CES and CUM of the counties of Mayabeque and Artemisa. A Plan of Action Integral Tutoral is exposed, assisting to the five dimensions of its to work, its foundation, characterization, is presented general objective, stages and its specific objectives, procedures and tasks of these, including the actions for its implementation in the different levels of address of the Educational Process. The paper of the work tutoral is evaluated in the current stage of the Cuban university, and the importance of having a Plan of Action Integral Tutoral, like instrument for the improvement of the tutorship. Where their progress and effectiveness are closely bound to the indicators of academic efficiency, formation of values and the educational work. It is to contribute to the student's integral formation, from the pattern existent semipresencial in the Cuban Superior Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present methodological alternatives of teaching, which can be used in the teaching-learning process of Statistic, in particular, in the treatment of the so-called Poisson distribution. Moreover, the work provides some suggestions about the possibilities that methodologically can be used in order to motivate and strengthen the learning of such matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The universalizing process of the Cuban Higher Education constitutes, without doubt, an important challenge to the professional training because they should have the same qualification as the graduated students from the regular courses. The engineering education is also involved in this. This paper tries to think about some didactic characteristics arising in the semi-attendance conditions that are the basis of the pedagogic model. The didactic conception of the process is derived from the basic actions to execute by an engineer in any field, taking into consideration the Cultural and Historical Approach. Two points are of fundamental concern: the independent study guidance and the teaching job. The last is remarkable because it makes the student faces with similar situations to his future performance, a very important aspect under the conditions of this kind of teaching. These didactic tools leading to an integral student education and the logical generalization skill are basic for the development of the engineer under these new teaching conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of researching skills in undergraduates is an imperative command of Cuban higher education to bringing up creative professionals who helps scientifically to our country. Traditionally, by attaining high quality scientific works, the students of mining engineering career stand out in Mining-Metallurgic High Institute. The obtaining of several awards in different scientific conferences and the presenting of excellent course projects corroborate the previous affirmation. Nevertheless, it has been diminished in the last few years; due to, on the one hand, the inadequate training and motivation of student to face up to extracurricular scientific work, and on the other hand an insufficient work made by scientific tutors. For that reason, it is needed a methods or strategy to strengthen the mining engineering undergraduate scientific work, such that allows to form skills related to technical and scientific work, using the scientific research methodology in the formation of professional process. This paper presents the curricular strategy to undergraduate scientific work at mining engineering career, describes the resource system designed to mining engineering students to support the research and show the main results of its application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays videolaparoscopical surgery awakes the interest of researchers who seek for alternatives in order to contribute to diminish risks by the implementation of Minimum Invasive Surgery; nevertheless in the formation of general surgeons, this technique is not dealt with, that's why, it becomes necessary to offer learning strategies towards this ain. This paper offers partial results of a research where videolaparoscopical surgical training is proposed for general surge or, by means of distance learning and focused on professional skills that should be developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Preparing professionals for pursuing a Ph.D. is a current and constant concern of postgraduate education in Cuba. A lot a work is been done to help advisers, critiques and participants in examination boards improve their performances while advising or evaluating thesis. This paper is intended to contribute to such preparation by putting the qualitative and the quantitative approaches and their usage in the center of PhD's reflections and by giving opinions and suggestions that help doctors and doctors-to-be improve what they are doing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many achievements, that take place worldwide in the field of sciences and engineering, are supported in high level mathematical theories; moreover, the rapid development of technologies of information and communication facilitates the application of mathematical concepts to the problems that arise. That is why the teaching of mathematics should not be limited to a mere transmission of knowledge: it is important that students learn how to think and learn, which presupposes a major challenge for teachers. This paper is the result of the author's professional experience and analysis, in which a reflection is made on what issues are integrated into the process of teaching - learning of mathematics at a superior level, in order to achieve a better educational use and increase motivation for the study of this science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intellectual stimulation becomes a need and a challenge for Cuban Educational sciences. Learning situations in English Language curriculum may constitute a way for intelligence stimulus in the education process of university professionals. Teaching / learning process is commonly based on stimuli or extrinsic and intrinsic incitements implying students' personal interest on the content of the activity they carry out. Some ways are offered in this paper, to enhance motivation in English language lessons through participative techniques and teaching tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cuban university to environmental changes, increased activity levels and decentralization of resources requires the development of economic knowledge management contribute to this greater adaptability to these changes and improvement of internal control. Have tools to guide, monitor and evaluate the degree of introduction of the model designed for this purpose is essential. This paper aims to present the application of the technique of case-based reasoning (CBR) to assess the degree of introduction of information management and economic knowledge in Cuban universities. It provided the theoretical foundations of this paradigm of artificial intelligence, and the results of the implementation of software for creating and processing knowledge base. The application of computer tools allows for the systematic evaluation of this activity is to support decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study a problem that requires a scientific approach to achieve the successful confrontation of this complex and multifactorial phenomenon, becoming effective tool for enhancing the quality of the educational process. It highlighted the importance, timeliness and complexity of current trends regarding access, retention, quality and dropout in higher education internationally (UNESCO, World Bank, IESALC, CINDA, among others). As far as Cuba is assessed by reference to the particular higher education universalization process and the present concern in many research works, the Union of Communist Youth and the Ministry of Higher Education on the issue of quality and student dropout. Were selected for the study all students enrolled in the careers of the Ministry of Higher Education of the City University Headquarters (SUM) and then City University Center (CMU) of Alquízar since its founding in 2002 until July 2009. We describe the methods and techniques used for the study, and some concepts related to research variables and quality indicators and the analysis of the results obtained from the instruments used and the application of mathematical statistical methods so after techniques are applied Tree problems and objectives, allowed us to construct the system of proposed actions to combat the drop in the University Center City Alquízar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The design, development and results of a semipresential course of the optional subject "The Chemical Reaction" is presented in the present paper. The subject, given in the Faculty of Chemistry of Havana University, is taught using the multimedia "General Chemistry. Integrated Assignments". The students' opinions, obtained by applying polls, denote a high degree of satisfaction for the organization and development of the course and for the use of the multimedia, employed as main textbook. The good qualities of the final works presented show a high assimilation of the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is said that the current global population could be included as living at present with an "international average economic level", when the prevailing interest and performance is to satisfy the spiritual, cultural needs; towards scientific, artistic and ethical creation. Only then, we will create the possibility of enjoying a more human world, where the transmission, the appropriation of knowledge and its application will be the "advanced education" in its highest expression. In Latin American and the Caribbean, higher education grew sixty times in the last six decades, a trend that will continue the enhancement of the multiplication and diversification of its organizations, by increasing offers; modifying the student composition and those of the new academic environments. In our region, it goes from the most legitimate government universalization of higher education to the multiple variants of the hybrid assembly determined by privatization, by the marketing costs. In an equivalent time, by walking through the ways of equity, the Cuban higher education shows at present significant achievements, both in consolidating its links and commitments with it social, political and economic life, as being oriented to excellence, of its process and results. According to the formerly stated, now this paper orders its contents through the following groups: 01- Universalization of the university: equity-quality in higher education. 02- Elite Model , Mass Model, Universal Model.03- Tertiary Coverage Rates in the Current World: Statistical Reliability and Calculus Difficulties. 04- Cuba in figures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of curricular strategies is present in the perfection of Cuban Superior Education in the general aspects of each profession that are not possible to take shape from a discipline in particular, which have not been able to be formed within any particular discipline and require the presence of the remainder, in order to have a coherent integration with the study plan of each career, as part of its design and with a real balance between the whole and each one of its parts. In this case, the curricular strategy of computing contributes to the guarantee of an aspect of a professional profile, which responds to the demands of technical scientific development. In order to measure the results of this strategy obtained in the different careers under the Ministry of Superior Education, a diagnosis is made in each academic course of the computing skills acquired from a sample of students in advanced years of these careers. The results of this diagnosis show that the majority of the skills related to the use of the means provided for tools of the Office program package's have the highest results, as well as communication by e-mail. The required levels have not yet been obtained with database systems and bibliographic gestors. In the case of use of software for self-learning, the percent of students approved is not the best, due to the incident that the development of this skill has in the professional formation. For careers groups, Technical Sciences careers show the best results. The group of careers with best results was Social Sciences and Humanities. This paper also analyzed results obtained during the five academic courses in which the diagnosis of computing has been developed, and an increase in the percent of students approved for this skill has been achieved. Likewise, the percent of students who have achieved the superior level has increased during the last five academic courses, which demonstrates the validity of this strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To go towards an excellence higher education is one of the goals which makes necessary to count on management processes that enhance teaching and learning. In the present paper, some of the theoretical-methodological elements related to professional competence, interrelated with performance and suitability, besides the psychological-didactic elements that favor the learning process in this educational level are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search of the excellence in the superior education is a current demand that one manifests in the will of a continuous improvement of the university teaching on scientific bases what impels the development of the pedagogic investigation, where it has a fundamental paper the improvement of the administration, of the educational process and of the methodological activity to perfect and to optimize this process. Was the scientific problem identified how to contribute to solve inadequacies that are presented in the formation of the professionals and those they stay in the time? A road is the development of a methodological work of quality and to know its state they developed interviews to educational chief and careers chief of five academic areas of the University of Ciego de Ávila and the SUM of Majagua, analysis to five serial plans of methodological work of an academic area and educational department. It was demonstrated that most of the causes that originate the problem are due to inadequacies in the administration, of here that the objective of the present investigation was the elaboration of a methodology to design the plan of work methodological group like system that it contains the most significant elements in the administration to contribute to elevate the quality of the methodological work and the excellence of the educational process. The methodology was designed, it was corroborated by experts' approaches and professors and it was used for the elaboration of a plan of methodological work that them evaluated the elements of the methodology among very appropriate and quite appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an educative software for self learning of the content of Superior Mathematics I studied in the Degree of Accounting and Finances in the mode Semi witness . It is based on the learning theories by L.S. Vigotsky and D.P. Ausubel. For its analysis and design UML was used and RUP methodology. Different scientific research methods were followed such as: analysis and synthesis method, inductive-deductive method, historical and logical analysis, statistics method, teaching experiment method, surveys and interviews which yielded true results. The theoretical foundations of the methodologies and engineering techniques of the software are described herein. The assessment of the product sustainability is carried out as well as an evaluation of it using the expert criterion method, bringing us to the conclusion that it is assessed as sustainable and very relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to propose, through concepts and methodological categories, the variable: pedagogic professional performance of the tutor professor of the Mechanic Career on the Superior Education, considering this as the real role of the educational, that expresses the dialectical interrelation of the pedagogic professional competences, to train, to guide, to control, and to evaluate the educational process, and the intellectual production in the development of the student; their dimensions conformed by the components: theoretical scientific, psycho-pedagogic, investigative and intellectual production, educative and administration of the relationships, as well as technological professionals; and their indicators, where the fundamental knowledge are explained to develop the tasks and functions that interrelated must be considered in the professionalism of the tutor professor, constituting in this way an instrument of valuation of his performance, his formation, and his improvement. The variable pedagogic professional performance of the tutor professor, their dimensions and their indicators were evaluated by experts through Delphy Method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The continuous improvement of the Cuban Higher Education has been systematized during the last years by means of the study plans and programs of disciplines according to the conception of the study plans "C" and "D" or of the conscious processes, which has one of its fundamental tendencies, the increase of the professional abilities (Alvarez, 1989). In this sense, there are basic disciplines where the abilities that are developed, are identified with the professionals. Paper exposes how through the discipline: General chemistry is contributed to the development of professional abilities and the integral formation of the students. Presenting the widespread ability of General Chemistry disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an invited professor at a higher studies center in an African republic, I had to face the combination of a distressing situation caused by both the methodological adjustment that usually takes place during a course and so called culture shock in the lessons English specialists-to-be. Trying to find a practical way to ensure satisfactory results and have students grow under our influence led us into action research. This paper contains our reflections about the experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]