A re-design process implies dealing with complex interactions between stakeholders, especially if we are talking about a personalization re-engineered process, which can be applied to an existing web application. In this context, knowledge becomes a main factor of influence, but…

Abstract: In today’s competitive global economy characterized by knowledge acquisition, the concept of knowledge management has become increasingly prevalent in academic and business practices. Knowledge creation is an important factor and remains a source of competitive advantage over knowledge management.…

As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

When researchers in the field of Applied Linguistics or L2 teachers
try to carry out any kind of research, several problems arise. The first
one is knowing how to start the process of ‘researching’. The second
problem, perhaps more frustrating,…

The design and analysis of research may cause systematic gender dependent errors to be produced in results because of gender insensitivity or androcentrism. Gender bias in research could be defined as a systematically erroneous gender dependent approach related to social…

Se trata de un estudio sobre en el tema de los Conocimientos Tradicionales de los Pueblos Indígenas, es decir, las experiencias asimiladas y sistematizadas, que han sido transmitidas mediante procesos informales colectivos, pudiendo ser compartidos en mayor o menor medida…

This research paper describes the use of computer mediated conferencing (CMC) to support the teaching of biology to undergraduates. The use of this pedagogical innovation was a first-time experience for both the instructor and his students. The objectives of this…

En este artículo se expone el caso de un mulato guatemalteco que tuvo acceso a la alta cultura, pese a que pertenecía a un estrato social bajo. El mulato leyó libros y autores de temas religiosos: la Biblia, fray Luis…

En las zonas productoras de café los desechos de esta actividad son arrojados a los cursos de agua y/o terrenos agrícolas, sin tratamiento alguno, ya que el productor no cuenta con alternativas de uso, causando graves problemas de contaminación. Planificar…

The IMS Learning Design specification provides a potential means for capturing units of instruction in a machine-readable, consistent way. However, in order for the IMS Learning Design specification to be used widely by educators and instructional designers for whom it…