Fondef Fund for the Promotion of Scientific and Technological

Interactive Graphic Organizers (OGI) Interactive Visualization and Educational Content (VICE) were the stars at the Radisson, where more than 200 education experts, engineers, business executives and academic directors of institutions such as the Army, Navy and universities heard presentations made by the directors of four projects related to Information Technologies Education, FONDEF funded mostly by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT).

 

Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and project manager, Mario Lopez, was one of the exhibitors that caught the most attention from the audience when he presented the conclusions of VirtuaLab and Interactive Graphic Organizers (OGI), synchronous set of shapes connected by links to develop a skill or a special or computer program that takes several other small programs or computer connectivity to organize work in the classroom in order to achieve specific learning.

 

“Conceptual model is a significant learning”, Lopez explained, “is made in common shares, where they are used and coders coding areas in order to pass encoders learning strategies graphics. Ultimately, is a sum of Inspiration or CMap software and the result is a graphic organizer integrable”.

 

To the President of CONICYT, Vivian Heyl, the day he tried to report the results of four projects awarded in the second contest of ICT-EDU program CONICYT, whereby publicly presented the results of two years of collaborative work in universities and institutions related to education and technology to get new applications to improve national education.

 

In the case of the project developed in-house studies teachers and Hector Mario Lopez Ponce, Fondef received a budget of 110 million have been invested in the 18 months spent developing the VirtuaLab.

 

The other two projects were presented findings “Learning with learning objects”, developed by Professor Fernando Santibanez at the University of Chile and “Tools for design and implementation of competency-based training activities”, that expuso Michele Bass Reunite.

 

Source: www.universia.cl

Date: 02/SEP/2006