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The objective of this paper was to verify by means of a descriptive case study the students' acceptance for incorporating educational guides in exe-learning to the teaching-learning means system for the subject Mathematics II with freshmen of Food Sciences in the academic year 2012-2013 in attended study modality, at the University of Camagüey “Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz", Cuba. It has managed to implement a learning object in order to guide the independent study and encourage self-learning. This is a website supported on exe -learning that has instructional devices for reading activities, reflection and self- evaluation. In the work performed the case study showed as a result the adoption of this learning object in the means system of the subject by the students and positive results in 5 of the 6 variables used. A majority of freshmen of Food Science explored the learning object implemented and used it in the independent study of three topics. In the means system of the subject the more accepted resource by the students was the companion book "Calculus with Early Transcendent" by James Stewart, but they recognize the value of the educational guide in exe-learning in order to achieve focus on the examples and similar exercises to those made in classroom activities. [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]