Austria has gone through two cycles of university reforms since the 1960s. The first aimed to open the universities to social and labour market demand and to make their structures more democratic and flexible. The second reform cycle dealt with…

Knowledge-intensive processes are widely used to recover from errors, handle exceptional cases and complaints, and to improve or adapt a process itself. In this context, evolved Business-Process Reengineering (BPR) techniques are changing to give some answers to this reality. In…

The goal of the work reported here is to capture the commonsense knowledge of non-expert human contributors. Achieving this goal will enable more intelligent human-computer interfaces and pave the way for computers to reason about our world. In the domain…

The Didactics of Geography in the schools must leave traditional and obsolete elements that constitute the basis of the geographic knowledge at the present time. On the matter, the education of that discipline is in a deficient and limited situation…

This is an essay where an interpretation of applied research that is current in the System of Studies of Post grade of the University of Costa Rica (SEP) is exposed, for the final work of graduation in the professional masters'…

This article is descriptive-explanatory with a documentary approach. It outlines the main theories and approaches to the assessment of learning, in line with their time of appearance, and then set up a scenario for participative management in the classroom from…

Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay…

Different programs that analyze the education of sciences like Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics look to explain the low interest of the student on those subjects. An explanation of this phenomenon is the methodological procedure that the teaching staff uses…

To think about education implies to think about social actors, scenes and contexts. Sexuality, education, the learning, the experience and the corporeality play a preponderant role in the formation of the citizen's conscience of the participation in a plural and…

If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that we humans have…