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Traditional learning techniques have evolved slowly and have yet to adapt the course content delivery to today's students' approaches to acquiring new knowledge. However, micro-learning has become popular in e-Learning environments as a course design technique due to short attention spans, demand for small chunks of information, and time constraints. Hence, it has been selected for creating reading mobile applications provided to the nature of its learning approach. In order to describe the multiple iterations of design, development, and evaluation of this general framework, a methodology named Design-Based Research (DBR) is implemented. First, the article presents the abstract framework components and a cloud-based software architecture that allows a modular approach to creating such applications. The pathway developed through adapting the iPAC framework, which involves personalization, authenticity, and collaboration, is part of the methodology used to design the app under pedagogical and technological considerations. The process demanded the following phases: analysis and exploration, design and construction, evaluation and reflection, redesign and reconstruction, and final critical reflections. Four applied instruments also validate the framework implementation: The iPAC Rubric, an aphorisms checklist, a pre and post-test, a focus group, and a usability test taken by 28 students in a private university in Colombia. Findings indicated that Design-Based Research (DBR) methodology emerged as an appropriate tool to encounter the needs behind reading applications design due to its sequence of operations yields results successively closer to adequate usability standards and smooth implementation. They also reveal the positive impact of new types of texts on students' motivation and awareness toward other reading strategies and micro-learning. This impact indeed proved the proposed framework's effectiveness for designing micro-learning applications.
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Objetivo: Analizar la pertinencia de un software ideado para al monitoreo de pacientes en estado postoperatorio de cirugías ambulatorias. Metodología: Se describe un sistema Web desarrollado. Se describe cómo trabaja la aplicación y se valida la funcionalidad del sistema teniendo en cuenta el criterio y percepción de un equipo médico seleccionado bajo la realización de una prueba piloto. Resultados: Percepción positiva por parte del equipo médico respecto al entorno visual del sistema, su funcionalidad y pertinencia para el cuidado postoperatorio en pacientes de cirugías ambulatorias. Conclusiones: Los resultados obtenidos son positivos en el sentido de la valoración que le da el personal clínico a la funcionalidad de la aplicación, y muestra que sería útil su implementación para el mayor control de los pacientes en estado postoperatorio de cirugías ambulatorias.
Objective: Analyze the pertinence of the software routed to the monitoring of patients in an ambulatory post-surgery state. Methodology: A structured Web tool is described. It is shown how the application works and validates the functionality of the system taking into account the criterion and the perception of a pre selected medical staff in order to perform a pilot test. Results: Positive Perception by medical team respect to the visual ambiance of tool, its functionality and its pertinence for the patients in an ambulatory post-surgery state care. Conclusions: The obtained results are positives in the sense of worth that clinical staff gives to the application's functionality, demonstrating that it could be very useful its implementation for a better control of patients in an ambulatory post-surgery state.
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Las tecnologías de información y comunicaciones brindan numerosas aplicaciones en pro de la educación, investigación y puesta en práctica de las ciencias de la salud. En este artículo se presenta una revisión sobre distintas herramientas ofrecidas por este tipo de tecnologías, desde novedosas páginas Web con fines médicos hasta innovadoras aplicaciones de grandes desarrollos tecnológicos puestos en servicio para el cuidado de la salud. Se mencionan las implementaciones realizadas en la Universidad del Norte y se muestran sus impactos pedagógicos y sociales y se citan algunos proyectos en marcha, que evidencian la incursión de la institución en estas nuevas tecnologías...
Technologies of Information and communication are useful for numerous applications in favor of education, investigation and in health science applications. This article presents an overview of the different tools offered by this type of technologies from new web pages with medical purposes up to innovative applications of great technology developments placed at service for health care. This advances where put at service at the ¨Universidad del Norte¨ and its social and academic impact are shown throughout the article. Further more, it shows the researches that are taking place and how the university is involved in this new technology...