The educational materials generated at the university have high quality and a huge potential to be useful to a large number of students and teachers. However, these educational resources themselves can not be used by ...

This paper aims to present the experience of implementing a recommender system for selecting learning objects (LO) for lessons through the Learning Management System (LMS) of Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Our ...

In the teaching and learning process, one of the most widely used assessments under the constructivist model is to work in groups. This has many advantages, but also weaknesses such as lack of collaboration, poor organization, ...

People claim the right to study and learn what they desire, when and where they want; for this reason it is necessary to offer flexible training methods that provide real opportunities for independent learning. In order ...

There are a large number of educational resources available on the Internet through different repositories. However, authenticity methods of learning objects has not been widely adopted by repositories, making it difficult ...

Lean Practices are well known and applied worldwide; their implementation purpose must be tailor-made because each firm is unique. There is a whole “management philosophy” behind it; its origins are based on Toyota’s Just ...

This paper focuses on the automatic classi cation of self- assessed personality traits from the HEXACO inventory du- ring crowded mingle scenarios. We exploit acceleration and proximity data from a wearable device hung ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of one productive development program (PROPYME) in a developing nation like Costa Rica. This program seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized ...

Purpose – Various investigations have shed light on the positive and negative effects of telework on the work-family conflict. These effects might be related to the conditions under which telework is carried out. The ...

El proyecto de investigación plantea el estudio de la “autoconfianza matemática” de los/as estudiantes de la educación media costarricense. La “autoconfianza matemática” es una creencia sobre la propia competencia ...