Use of ICT in Cuban Educational System
MPh. Lidia Lauren Elías Hardy
Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences (InSTEC)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA)
Havana, Cuba
laurenelias@yahoo.com, lauren@info.isctn.edu.cu
Summary
• An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
Educational System (Primary, Secondary
and Pre university levels)
• The ICT in the Higher Education
• Physics and ICT in the Higher Education
An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
Educational System
The ICT in the Cuban Educational System
have been introduced tacking into
consideration:
• The level (early education, primary,
secondary or pre university)
• The class level (1st, 2nd, 3rd,7th,9th,12th)
An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
Educational System
(Primary Level)
Early Educational
Level
Primary Level
1rst - 2nd
3rd - 4th
5th - 6th
Educational Games
Learning Microsoft Office
Use of
An Overview of the use of ICT in Cuban
Educational System
(Secondary and Pre-University Level)
Secondary Level
Pre-University Level
Educational Software
Learning Microsoft Office
Use of
ICT in Cuban Higher Education
Two points of view:
• Computing Matters in the curriculum
• Computing as tool
ICT in Cuban Higher Education
(Computing Matters in the curriculum)
• All careers have Computing Director Programme
The aim of Computing Director Programme is
learning the mathematical and computing tools
which will use the student after his graduation.
• The Computing Director Programme is different
for different career
ICT in Cuban Higher Education
(Computing as Tool)
• Presentations by the professor in the lecture using MS Power
Point.
• Presentations by the students in the seminar and the scientific
student events using MS Power Point.
• Simulations
• Virtual Laboratories
• E-mail
• Virtual Library
• Software Development for different matters
• Distance Learning
• Web-site
• And others
ICT in Cuban Higher Education
(National Research Programme on Computing in Higher
Education)
The Ministry of Higher Education leaders the National
Research Programme on Computing in Higher Education
Some topics of the Research Programme are:
• Development of Software for Distance learning
• Development of Virtual Laboratories
• Development of Cuban Higher Education Network
and its Management
• Others
ICT in Cuban Higher Education
(National Research Program on Computing in Higher
Education)
Development of Virtual Laboratories:
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Physics
Chemistry
Automatic Control
Hydraulic
Agronomy
Others
VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION AND COMPLEMENTARY
SIMULATION IN PHYSIC LABORATORY
University of Havana
Higher Polytechnic Institute “José Antonio Echevarría” (ISPJAE)
Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences (InSTEC)
Central University of Las Villas “Martha Abreu” (UCLV)
University of Oriente (UO)
With the collaboration of CEATICEC Network (ALFA Project)
PROJECT COORDINATION
GENERAL COORDINATOR
PhM. Irma Gladis González Carmenate
UH
ISPJAE
InSTEC
UCLV
UO
CENTRE’ COORDINATORS
PhM. Irma Gladis González Carmenate
PhD. Amparo Patiño Castro
PhM. Lidia Lauren Elías Hardy
PhM. Carlos Mujica
PhD. Faustino Repilado Ramírez
APPLIED PROJECT
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
MULTIDISCIPLINE
MULTIINSTITUTIONAL
RESEARCH PROBLEM
The lack of up to date equipment in the Physics
laboratories means that alternative methods of
teaching and learning need to be established to
accommodate the entire curriculum.
RESEARCH OBJECT
The teaching and learning system of Physics disciplines in the
upgrade careers.
GENERAL GOAL
Contribute to the improvement of Physics disciplines
through the early, systemic and systematic
incorporation of elements from experiences in the
creation activity into theirs teaching contents.
SPECIFIC GOAL
Achieve the didactic-methodological design and
technical assembly of laboratories for
different Physics disciplines using ITC,
incorporating in their contents the elements of
the system of experience in the creation
activity
SOME OF MAIN PROBLEMS IN THE
PHYSIC LABORATORIES
Obsolete hardware.
No replacement parts for some laboratories.
The impossibility to show some physical
phenomena and some variant of the physical
process.
Absence of some measuring
instrumentation.
Others.
EXPECTED RESULTS
 Virtual Laboratories
 Virtual Instruments
 Simulations
 A pedagogical model for Physics Virtual Laboratory
 Methodologies for design, use and evaluation of
Physics Virtual Laboratories
 Project Network and website
Project Network and Websites
Project Web site
UH
Project Web site
ISPJAE
Project Web
site Faculty
Project Web
site Faculty
Project Web site
InSTEC
Project Web
site Faculty
Project Web
site Faculty
Project Web site
UCLV
Project Web
site Faculty
Project Web
site Faculty
Project Web site
UO
Project Web
site Faculty
Project Web
site Faculty
PROJECT RESULTS
Front Panel of Microtron Automatic Control
Virtual Instruments
Front Panel of Ceramic Characterization
PROJECT ISSUES
InSTEC
Virtual Laboratory
PROJECT RESULTS
Real Laboratory & Computer as measuring instrument
Laboratory on Electromechanical Resonance
Oscilloscope
Signal Generator
Now
Resistance Box
Frecuencymetr
Before
Computer
PROJECT RESULTS
• Use of Applets and Physlet
• Video Laboratories
• Instructions for Real Laboratories