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This paper shows the design and validation of a questionnaire aimed at college students to assess their satisfaction level with mathematics study materials. Starting from the theoretical framework presented, we proposed three dimensions: overall quality of mathematics study materials, didactic adequacy and motivation capacity. To that effect, we hereby explain the analysis and validation procedure of the psychometric properties of the assessment instrument. The study sample comprised 1,666 university students. Sample was chosen using a random sampling technique. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) performed on two consecutive samples of freshmen studying Computer Science Engineering confirmed that the Questionnaire to assess student satisfaction with mathematics study materials measures satisfaction conditions in five scales: Didactic Adequacy, Relevance, Engagement, Interaction and Technological Quality. The results revealed the existence of significant psychometric features of the constructed questionnaire.

Inquiry in Global Studies: Music and Politics is a regular course offering in which first-year honors students examine the social and cultural import of music in a global context. This qualitative study examines the practical and pedagogical implications of teaching music and politics during the coronavirus crisis. In a thematic, five-part series analyzing non-Western music both in service to the government and as protest against it, the author describes how students perceived the commonalities and diversities in global culture, history, politics, and society through music while at the same time demonstrating growth in music-making processes and confronting a remote learning paradigm. In a curriculum spanning North Korea, China, Russia, Cuba, and Iran, the author considers the impact of music instruction in cultivating an understanding of transnational community. The paper concludes with selections from the final student showcase and a review of learning outcomes, prompting honors practitioners to consider how high-impact practices in the arts can empower students, cultivate community, and give rise to new multicultural competencies. Changes driven by COVID-19 (course content, delivery, and assessment measures) are presented.

This paper considers education abroad (EA) and its relationship to global citizenship and colonialism by describing and analyzing the agitated interactions of one EA course through a post-colonial lens. Rather than claim the EA experience as emancipatory or colonialist, the paper illustrates the ways that colonialist tendencies can manifest in particular moments and through specific dynamics of an EA course. This paper illustrates the ways that colonialist tendencies related to a reifying of consumerist ideologies, a westernizing of the EA experience, and an ongoing employment of an objectifying tourist gaze became manifest in an education abroad context. The paper concludes with a discussion of the findings that includes some ideas for how education abroad programs can address its colonialist tendencies.

This paper analyzes the results of a diagnostic study carried out with second year students of the computational sciences majors at University of Oriente, Cuba, to determine the limitations that they present in computational algorithmization. An exploratory research was developed using quantitative and qualitative methods. The results allowed verifying insufficiencies that have their base in the processes of interpretation and understanding of the problematic situations and in the insufficient design of algorithms, using pseudocodes, before implementing the solutions in a programming language.

This paper pursues to define the pillars for designing the specific (SC) and optional curricula (OC) of Unit Operations and Processes (UOP) Discipline in the Chemical Engineering Program. To achieve this objective a methodology was developed, which was characterized by the participation of every member in the educational process: professors, experts of industrial sector and students. The joint work made it possible to carry out a variety of tasks: the characterization of regional industries according to the academic requests of the UOP discipline, the identification of deficiencies in the basic curriculum (BC), the needs of industries in environmental matters and the students´ preferences in their optional professional formation. The result of this qualitative study expressed a high convergence of all the variables under study. The importance of arranging SC and OC was validated, among other important alternatives, towards environmental technologies. These subjects combine important contents in the academic order with significant contributions to solve imperative problems of the territory. The significance of taking into account the strategic matters associated with Biotechnology, Petroleum Technology, and Food Technologies, key subjects for indispensable development of our regional context, was also recognized.

The first years of the twenty-first century saw the introduction of a new mode of higher education in Cuba. Local university centres were set up across the country offering part time study to a range of students previously marginalised from higher education. As well as massively increasing access, this programme created a new kind of teacher -- local professionals teaching part-time alongside their regular employment. Using the personal testimony of students and teachers in rural Granma, this paper examines the role of these teachers, with a particular emphasis on the value of their capacity to offer a pedagogy situated in the workplaces, communities and daily lives of their students.

Reflecting on our efforts to provide Canadian university students with a transformative learning experience in Cuba, we were surprised to find that dominant forms of liberal thinking were more difficult to challenge than was anticipated. This paper explores this phenomenon and offers deliberation as a means toward lessening the stronghold of such beliefs. It begins with a sketch of our group participants and an explanation of our methodology, alongside the theory of cultural liberalism that frames the study. This is followed by a two-part description of our findings, suggesting that the liberal ideologies accompanying such innocuous practices as facilitating group harmony filter into understandings of democratic citizenship well beyond such parameters. We end with a tentative conclusion about the possibilities for democratic education in the increasingly complicated space of global interdependence and Cuban transformation in that space.

The academic programs at the graduate level are increasingly interested about the enrollment management challenges in terms of international student mobility. Understanding fundamental enrollment concepts to attract international students provides the essential key to consider the competitive environment concerning university resources, academic program potential, complex cultural dynamics, and workplaces among others. Based on a six-year quantitative and descriptive statistical study, this paper addresses the trends of first-time graduate enrollment and patterns of international student mobility by faculty at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. Results revealed the sustained trend of graduate enrollment of international students mainly from South America, Central America, and the Caribbean among others. Moreover, the presence of international graduate students adds a dimension of diversity to UPRM between teaching and research undertakings that enhance the Colleges of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, and Business Administration. The international student mobility has a consistent tendency mainly in the Colleges of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and Agricultural Sciences. This consistency resembles the quality and reputation recognized by educational institutions and organizational world rankings. In-depth, understanding the trends related to international graduate enrollment and mobility should be considered by institutional leaders and administrators at UPRM to make knowledgeable decisions and to effectively set priorities to recruit highly qualified international students.

Presents a discussion of the history of visual poetry in Cuba and nine examples of visual poetry. (RS)

One of the ongoing debates in Canadian higher education is the dilemma of the brain drain and the seemingly conflicting goals between the strategies and intentions of various government departments. While Citizenship and Immigration Canada aims to recruit the brightest students from across the globe to study in Canada and to enable their long-term stay as permanent residents and ultimately as citizens, the Canadian International Development Agency is mandated to strengthen human capacity in developing countries. This paper provides a critical analysis of the brain drain problem by juxtaposing Canadian policies with Cuban policies as manifested in the two countries' divergent approaches to international students and tertiary education scholarships for students from poorer countries. Following an overview of the existing scholarship programmes in both countries, ethical and philosophical considerations are examined that appear to underlie the two countries' individual-rights-based and collective-rights-based justifications for making decisions about the terms on which students from other countries are permitted to study in Canada and Cuba. (Contains 2 figures.)

Professional culture is a complex and important concept in Cuba as result of the special attention the State and Government give to the integral education as essential complement of academic quality in Higher Educational programs. The aim of this paper is to make an up-to-date reflection about the concept of professional culture and its operationalization in the higher medical education in the country. Key programmatic and normative documents as well as the main papers and authors treating the concept were reviewed. The paper invite to discuss about the concept. Theorical and conceptual breaches were identified and discussed in order to contribute to entrenche professional and behavioural values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main objective of the present paper is to systematize the contributions of more than 15 15 years teamwork around the understanding of communication as a field of complex inter and transdisciplinary reflections, built on the research practice of the Center for Cuban and Caribbean Social Studies “Dr. José A. Portuondo ”, from the Universidad de Oriente (Cuba). To systematize the results, a large volume of data contained in 49 undergraduated and postgraduated investigations, 60 scientific articles, 8 books, 15 book chapters, as well as the empirical experience accumulated in dozens of communities, cultural projects, social institutions was analyzed., local governments, unions, companies, scientific events among others, where research results have been socialized and introduced. A complex conception of communication of a socio-anthropological and micro-cultural nature is proposed, which is already located in the analysis of the media, cultural management, socio-cultural relations, politics and local development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The so-called hegemonic model of masculinity constitutes a risk factor. It is a multiconditioned phenomenon, but every time it's highlighted the role of personality's socialization. In this way, the higher educational levels are called to perform a primordial function through its substantive process. The purpose of this paper is: Characterize the treatment of this subject in the experiences of some Cuban universities. An integrated analysis was made of the concepts: masculinities and substantive process of high education, expressed in a group of indicators distributed per each one of these concepts. As theoretical methods of research were used: the analytical synthetic, the transit from the abstract to the concrete, the inductive-deductive and the historicallogical. In an empirical level, the study of documents. The conclusions make reference to the developments and challenges within Cuban high education about the treatment of the researched topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new social context leads to a new model for professional learning. In the curricular designs, that supposes the move from professional solving-problems, to a competenceslearning description. In fact, this movement has begun with the curricula D, due to the participation of some presidents of the national commissions of careers in the project Tuning-América Latina. These changes are tuned with the state of art of professional learning in the world. Also, attending a demand of the universities to accept more flexibility, according the development of each institution. In this paper, a definition of the concept of competence is showed, that may be applied to Higher Education Pedagogy in Cuba, the main changes that must be introduced in curricula, and the challenges the universities must face in order to a successful application. It is discussed the resistances to this approach and the need to move on comprehension and acceptance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of the paper is to show the educational novelty of a new subject of the architect's formation curriculum at the "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas Central University (UCLV), aimed at updating and promoting a critical vision among the students about contemporary urbanization processes and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Taking into account the reality and trends of world urbanization processes, the hypothesis is formulated that an education in sustainability needs to develop a social awareness focused on the SDGs 2030. The Sustainable Urbanization and 2030 Agenda subject is explained, as well as the results of its application and the lessons learned of this novel experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Physics teaching in the basic formation of engineers in Cuba has evolved through different stages since the 1960's until the present. Each stage has been marked by changes in the plans of study, which have been modified substantially both in terms of contents and of teaching hours. This paper presents a brief summary of these changes, the current state of the Physics programs, and warns about the challenges to be faced nowadays in order to guarantee a solid basic formation of the future engineers in connection with the physical foundations of present and future technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a brief look at the evolution of university libraries and a change to a new library model named "Learning and Research Resource Center - CRAI (in Spanish, Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje y la Investigación"). Here, the paper shows the results obtained on a diagnosis conducted in Universidad de la Havana's library network ( in Spanish, Red de Bibliotecas de la Universidad de La Habana); we propose a series of strategic lines to work and actions to transform this network into a CRAI, and finally, the paper proposes a CRAI model for Universidad de La Habana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims at revealing the place of the development of civic competences in the citizen's formative dynamics with higher education. The paper is part of the results of the theoretical research carried out by the authors about the civic formation of the university students. The understanding of the civic formation as a process developer of competences for the sociotransformation, the determination of the civic competences that are sought to develop in the Cuban youths with university education, as well as the precision of their functions and concretion ways are important moments of the present valuation. The classification of the basic civic competences and the definition of the sociotransforming competence as the integration of all of them contribute to the upgrading of inadequacies present in the theoretical referents on the topic and in the educational practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents some reflections regarding how students training is carried out through Technology and Construction Organization discipline. It deals with the values developed in the different subjects and their relationships with the aims and the contents of the syllabuses. This has been enhanced by means of the discussions arisen from the elaboration of the Curriculum for Architecture (Plan C), its improvement and then, the designing of the current Curriculum (Plan D).The resulting proposals shown and suggested in the conclusions of the paper come from the teaching practice and the systematic reviewing and changes performed in each subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the scientific problem stated on this paper, related to the insufficiency of Agricultural Engineering graduates, the main objective is the pedagogical educative process and the professional education model of this career in the University of Ciego de Avila. There is a study plan which includes the basic and pre-professional levels by means of term papers and disciplines, as well as thesis in the professional level. This is carried out by means of the technological processes in the different engineering systems. This professional education model gives a practical significance to the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the partial results of an investigation carried out at the School of Architecture at CUJAE since 1994. It gives data obtained from more than fifty research papers that include Diploma, Master and Doctorate theses which have provided different solutions for ceiling and cover building systems in Cuba. This paper also shows the most common causes to the problems of durability, and bad building conditions in dwelling buildings constructed from XVlll to XX century, together with their possible solutions. Through this investigation, data from more than four provinces and seven municipalities have been collected. The most common similarities and differences found in the eight hundred seventy three buildings under study have been analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper falls within the research project «Building University Social Responsibility (USR) to Be Taken on by Professors and Students at Cuban Higher Education Institutions». It focused mainly on evaluating young professors' research performance by means of some indicators to measure their training as ethical and socially responsible researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a historical analysis of two fundamental aspects of hydraulic engineering is made. They are the construction of works and engineering teaching in Cuban context. Evolution of construction and its influence in the formation of professionals can be appreciated. Also, the presence of this professionals has influenced the amount and complexity of works. Here, some social and environmental factors are mentioned, establishing an ancient memory, which has been divided into five parts withholding five centuries. On each part development of works and teaching of this engineering are presented, thus making a historical - logical link between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, it was analyzed to what extent the current process of selecting students for entering Cuban higher education institutions contributes to the selection of white students and students whose parents are university graduates, professionals or managers. The study included senior high school students from the whole country, who applied to universities in the 2013-2014 school year, as well as 74 % of those who didn't. While the process does contribute to the selection of students having the above mentioned characteristics, it begins after they have finished secondary school. Additionally, reasons why students didn't want to enter any higher education institutions in this school year were examined. The main reason was that they wanted to have a job instead; secondly, they said that they didn't feel trained enough to pass entrance examinations and that they had few opportunities to study for degrees they liked the most, and finally, that they had no motivation to attend any universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports research exploring students’ perceptions of higher education in traditional and local universities in England and Cuba. The study has explored parallels identified in the course of researchinformed teaching that harvested qualitative questionnaire data from students at two English universities. One a Traditional (high-status and elite) institution, the other a Local (post-92 widening participation) university. This data was analysed in relation to pre-existing qualitative data from two Cuban universities with similar profiles. Thematic analysis extrapolates parallels in relation to students’ experiences and motivations, and considers the relative impact of political culture, systems of access and choice, and the community character of each of the institutions. Key findings suggest that the marketisation of the system in England provides choice that is dependent on (and therefore reinforces) socio-economic status. They further suggest that both a participatory political culture and local modes of study can be effective in developing perceptions of higher education that are more closely aligned with social contribution and the collective good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper discusses the management of methodological work that takes place in five Cuban universities as part of the university management. The methodology designed considered for impact assessment two dimensions: Political Dimension that responds to which are the priorities, how it is implemented and how it controls the methodological work being done in the universities, and the Strategic Dimension, given by their relevance. Does it respond to the needs of the school? Does it respond to the training needs of the student? The head teachers recognized the impact of methodological work in university, but identified that this is still marked by the inexperience of those who manage and direct, inadequate educational category structure, and insufficient educational preparation of the teachers, the lack of a diagnosing problems in the formation and the absence of an integrated and systemic view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper the antecedents of the current process of civic formation in the higher education centers in the colonial and neocolonial stage of our national history are revealed. In both prerevolutionary stages it is confirmed as a tendency the confrontation among conceptions and educational practices of civic formation methodologically opposed and due to their classist and political content, as expression of the contradictory development of the sociopolitical life of the country. These experiences constitute, without doubts, referential antecedents for the new citizen's formative process that emerges with the revolutionary changes starting from 1959. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a sketch of the development of teaching, research and applications of statistics in Cuba. Some clues for understanding the historical process are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing production of digital educational materials has encouraged the emergence in recent years of repositories that concentrate valuable resources for teachers, students and educational institutions in general, well as the importance of using these repositories in teaching and learning. At present projects Learning Object Repositories (ROA) has been increasing, which is why this paper addresses the issue of ROA and its use in the University of the East, for its development is a review of the concepts basic Learning Objects, since no one could speak of the ROA without mentioning these object types and then state why the use of this at the University of the East and the strategy for its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Higher education shows important changes in the last decade in Cuba which has required the transformation of university facilities. This process has taken place in an empirical way by adapting the standards used for more than twenty years to the current demands of higher education. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how these transformations were influenced by the impact of the information technologies on the education process and the way this affects the functioning of buildings. Four universities in Havana City were taken as study cases; The Higher Institute of Art; the University of Havana; the University of Informatics and the José A. Echeverría Higher Polytechnic Institute. Current trends for the architectural building programs in Cuba have been defined and recommendations for updating design standards in higher education institutions are also set. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The university is responsible for training software professionals entering industry. Therefore, it has the duty to impart knowledge and develop the necessary skills for students to be able to work individually and in teams, so that they are disciplined and produces quality work. In this sense, to meet the expectations of the software industry, we must continually improve the process of the formation of roles in computer engineering career. This paper refers specifically to the curriculum to train software engineers in Cuban universities. Although, it is the opinion to the authors that the problems identified and its possible solution is applicable to other contexts. The article sets out a strategy for the creation of roles and disciplined work habits, implemented for four academic years and proposes actions to improve the training process, based on analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Learning General Physics I in technical sciences of university courses in the semipresential category is a pedagogical problem which needs attention and prompt didactic solution and well--based pedagogically proposals due to the fact that these courses are designed with a great deal of contents to be taught in a rather short period time. The course are mainly influenced by presential category along with a traditional design which has a tendency to separate physical phenomena in an analytically and simplifying way. However, these physical phenomena are to be studied since they provide students with formal learning of this discipline which, at the same time, brings about unnoticed difficulties to learn the basis of this science obviously necessaries for the future engineer is fulfillment. This paper shows a completely new didactic experiment based on revolutionary changes in the design of General Physics I which aims at the learning of general laws and principles that control real physical processes. This helps achieve a more rational organization of this course and makes a more firmly and better acquisition of knowledge about the basis of this discipline possible. All this is done fronts logical design of the contents which characterizes necessary magnitudes to describe mechanical movement from a logical point of vie co that responds to a construction of an initial conceptual map. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following results belong to a significant research that has been carried out by the School of Architecture since a long time ago, where the contents of the subjects Technology and Project have been put into practice. These studies were done annually from 1998 up to 2007 and were presented at the International Urban Studies Workshop in Cerro, also, as a diploma paper and in granting(getting) the master's degree. Partial results about some diploma thesis of the architects Carlos Alberto Pupo González (October 2003), Sándor Pérez González and architect Carina Marrero Leivas (June 2007) are also shown. The work entitled "Different housings studies in Cerro" showed a variety of ideas about the development and use of materials as well as building techniques for the community; also, investigations about types of housing and their charactristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pastos y Forrajes is the official journal of the Ministry of Higher Education for the livestock production sector. The objective of this paper is to show how this publication emerged and how it has evolved in correspondence with the transformations of the livestock production sector and information technologies. The structure of its Editorial Board, the topics included, the need for its periodical evaluation are reported as well as the role played in the training of professionals, the dissemination of scientific results and the exchange with other publications. It is concluded that the staff should work to achieve higher excellence indexes, maintain the accreditation granted by the Cuban Academy of Sciences, as well as increase the national and international visibility of the journal through a continuous improvement process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge management systems support education at different levels of the education. This is very important for the process in which the higher education of Cuba is involved. Structural transformations of teaching are focused on supporting the foundation of the information society in the country. This paper describes technical aspects of the designing of a model for the integration of multiple knowledge management tools that support teaching. The proposal is based on the definition of an ontology for the explicit formal description of the semantic of motivations of students and professors in the learning process. Its target is to facilitate the spreading of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present an educational data analytics case study aimed at the early detection of potential dropout in Computer Engineering studies in Cuba. We have employed institutional data of 456 students and performed several experiments for predicting their permanency into three (promotion, repetition, and dropout) or two classes (promoting, not promoting). We have also tested a combination of classification features for training and testing decision trees and neural networks; including information obtained at the time of enrollment, after the first semester and after the first academic year. Our results show a considerable accuracy using all features (96.71%). Using only the features available at the time of enrolment and after the first semester we obtain very positive results (68.86% and 93.85% accuracy respectively) with a high recall of non-promoting students. Thus, it is possible to obtain an early assessment of the risk of dropout that can help defining prevention policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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