ICT as Blending Methodology: A Case Study in a Bilingual School in Castilla la Mancha

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is increasingly affecting every aspect of our daily lives, including the educational field where new approaches and methodologies are being developed. CLIL is currently one of the most popular educational approaches in Europe as it combines specifically created online course materials with more traditional teaching strategies. The case study introduced in this paper involves a charter school in Castilla-La Mancha called La Merced where CLIL was introduced in 2013. In the academic year 2018-2019, the school was taken over by an international educational network named Red Educativa Arenales, which decided to modernize the school by introducing highly innovative education teaching strategies related to ICT methodology. The initial stage of the modernization plan consists of equipping every classroom with digital devices such as laptops and tablets, as physical textbooks have been substituted by an online learning platform. Most school stakeholders agree that this first year has proved to be highly satisfactory regarding students’ motivation and academic achievement. Drawing on my experience as an English teacher in La Merced since 2011, in this paper I compare the classroom atmosphere and the academic achievements of my students until 2018, when more traditional methods were in use, to last year’s textbook-free pilot program. I will focus on my own grade, namely 3rd level of secondary education class (age 15-16) whose exam results have remarkably improved since the implementation of ICT blending methodology

Innovación en servicios en la era del conocimiento = Services innovation in the era of knowledge

Actualmente, la economía global esta basada en el conocimiento, estamos viviendo y haciendo negocios en una nueva era y con nuevas reglas, en donde el sector de servicios esta tomando un lugar de mayor importancia y un rol más relevante que lo hecho anteriormente, y donde la innovación se convierte en la manera que este tipo de firmas pueden competir, acceder a nuevos mercados y ganar crecimiento a largo plazo. Usualmente la investigación hecha sobre la innovación, las definiciones acerca de ella y las tipologías desarrolladas fueron diseñadas para productos tangibles, siendo un legado de etapas económicas anteriores (basadas en la industria manufacturera), sin embargo, los Servicios tienen sus propias particularidades y características distintivas de los productos. El entendimiento y comprensión de esto es de suma importancia para las compañías proveedoras de servicios, porque las ayuda a ajustar su proceso de innovación para hacerlo más congruente con un modelo de desarrollo de servicios que un modelo de desarrollo de productos que ha sido adaptado. Este artículo resalta las características de esta nueva era del conocimiento, la importancia de la innovación en el sector de servicios en la nueva economía y las tipologías para innovación disponibles para servicios, con el propósito de ayudar en la evaluación y ajuste del proceso de innovación de las firmas que pertenecen a este segmento. Abstract: Now a day the world economy is based in knowledge, we are living and making business in an entirely new era with new rules, where services sector is taking a more important place and a more relevant roll than previously were, and the innovation becomes the way this kind of firms can compete, access to new markets and gain long term growing. Usually, innovation research, definitions and typologies developed were done for tangible products, a legacy from an earlier economic age (based on manufacturing industry), however, Services has they own particularities and distinctive characteristics from products. The understanding of this issue is very important to service providers companies, because they could adjust their innovation process more according to a service development model than an adapted product development one. This article points out the characteristics of the new knowledge era, the importance of innovation in services sector in this new economy and the typologies available for services with the purpose to help in the evaluation or adjustment of the firm’s innovation process that fall in this segment

Integração regional e desenvolvimento Tecnológico no Mercosul

TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Sócio-Econômico. Relações Internacionais.A tecnologia possui relevância estratégica que trasborda para todas as esferas do Estado e do Sistema Internacional, gerando maior competitividade para as empresas, criando produtos mais baratos e com maiores funcionalidades e produzindo maior renda e qualidade de vida à população. Assim, o objetivo do presente trabalho monográfico é investigar se o progresso tecnológico das nações em desenvolvimento pode ser potencializado pelas Organizações Internacionais de Integração Regional. Para tal, utilizou-se uma metodologia do tipo qualitativa, de caráter descritiva-explicativa, partindo-se de uma abordagem direta e bibliográfica de material teórico, estudos empíricos e documentação primária institucional. Utilizou-se a abordagem dos Sistemas Nacionais de Inovação e realizou-se um levantamento sobre os determinantes nos processos de acúmulo de aptidões tecnológicas nacionais – as instituições, os mercados de fatores e as políticas de incentivo – e como as organizações internacionais, em especial as de Integração Regional, podem favorecê-los. Por fim, este substrato analítico foi aplicado ao estudo do Mercosul, observando os órgãos e programas da instituição que favorecem o desenvolvimento tecnológico. Com isto, foi concluído que o Mercosul possui mecanismos para fortalecer todos os fatores utilizados no acúmulo de aptidões tecnológicas nacionais, criando normas, reduzindo e compartilhando custos, promovendo a cooperação técnica e tecnológica e ampliando e qualificando o mercado consumido

La gestión del conocimiento y la innovación en servicios de telecomunicaciones en las empresas de México.

The purpose of this research paper is to provide with empirical evidence that helps to support to the roll of the knowledge management in telecommunications services innovation in Service Providers operating in México. The followed methodology was based on the data collection from primary sources, through an electronic questionnaire applied via Web, which was sent to CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, COOs and other officers, also to managers and specialists of Large companies as well SMEs of the telecommunications sector in Mexico. A total of 400 invitations were sent and 185 were answered and useful for the investigation (46% of rate of answer). The hypotheses were tested using structural equations modeling by partial least square (PLS). The findings present knowledge management as a coordinated mechanism and the empirical evidence supports the argument that states that a company with knowledge management capabilities uses the resources more efficiently, therefore is more innovating. The implications and limitations of the present research have to do with the fact that were performed only in one sector of the economic activity and it is circumscribed to Mexico, therefore would be necessary to replicate it different contexts. The practical implications are focused to serve as a support, to show the importance of knowledge management and his impact on innovation within the company, helping in the creation of the business case to justify the funding necessary to implement the internal programs and the acquisition of specialized software and hardware. The originality value of the research work has to do with fact of being one of the few of this type in Mexico and that is focused in the telecommunications sector

Abastecimiento, paga y fiscalidad en Orán y Mazalquivir (1529-1534)

Los problemas para garantizar a las tropas de los presidios norteafricanos un abastecimiento periódico de alimentos y mercancías y el cobro puntual de su soldada surgen ya en los primeros tiempos de la conquista, en el reinado de los Reyes Católicos. En un intento de solución, la administración carolina estableció la firma de asientos con mercaderes y banqueros para la paga y abastecimiento de algunos presidios. En este artículo se analiza con mayor detalle el firmado en 1529 para Orán y Mazalquivir. Este contrato abarca tres ámbitos: el arrendamiento de las rentas de la Corona en el norte de África, la paga de las guarniciones y su abastecimiento. Las fuentes documentales, que son la base de este trabajo, proceden del Archivo General de Simancas. En concreto, de las secciones de Consejo Real, Contaduría del Sueldo, 1ª serie y Guerra y Marina, serie de Libros RegistroProblems in order to guarantee a periodic supply of food and goods and the one-off payments of salary to the troops in fortresses in North Africa already appeared at the beginning of the conquest, during the kingdom of los Reyes Catolicos. In an attempt to provide a solution, the caroline administration established the signing of asientos with bankers and traders, for the payment and supply of some fortresses. This article analyses the one signed in 1529 for Oran and Mazalquivir in greater detail. This contract encompasses three aspects: the rental of the Kingdom’s money in the North of Africa, the payment of the military and the supply of goods. The documents used as sources, on which this work is based, come from the Archivo General of Simancas. In particular, the sections of Consejo Real, Contaduria del Sueldo, 1a serie and Guerra y Marina, serie Libros Registr

Semantic HMC for Big Data Analysis

Analyzing Big Data can help corporations to im-prove their efficiency. In this work we present a new vision to derive Value from Big Data using a Semantic Hierarchical Multi-label Classification called Semantic HMC based in a non-supervised Ontology learning process. We also proposea Semantic HMC process, using scalable Machine-Learning techniques and Rule-based reasoning