As information and services are becoming more and more decentralized and they are often available in the cloud, an increasing number of older adults are expected to use Internet-based services-health, education, finance and others. For this reason, it seems important to plan models and/or strategies to allow the older adult population to acquire and enhance digital competencies more easily. The goal of this research is to show a blended workshop based on a Learning Management System (LMS) as a supporting tool for older adults' digital literacy. This blended workshop was based on the adoption of an instructional model and on prior experiences of the groups of elderly that participated in the face-to-face workshops. This study involved 98 adults aged 60 and above, 72 Females (68.5 ± 6.9) and 26 Males (73.3 ± 7.4). 61 older adults participated in the face-to-face workshop (FFG) on digital literacy and 37 participated in the blended workshop (BLG). Digital literacy increased at the post-evaluation after the workshops but even more for the BLG. Likewise, in the validation of the blended workshop the results were positive regarding ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude toward using and intention to use, which showed that older adults believe that it is useful to implement this type of supporting systems for developing their digital competencies. Hence, it is possible to conclude that older adults are capable of learning and acquiring digital literacy skills as long as they are strongly motivated or they know the functional benefits related to ICT.

La utilización de un sitio web contribuye a la adquisición de conocimientos, manejo de datos, almacenamiento y difusión de la información, mediante la interacción con Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones (TIC), ya que es una herramienta de consulta y de libre acceso. En la actualidad la gran mayoría de las instituciones, de diferentes ramos, cuentan con un sitio web, pero también existen algunas que aún no cuentan con este servicio, lo cual genera en sus clientes o población a la que dirige sus servicios, desconocimiento de las actividades que realiza y de los servicios que ofrece y por tanto incumplimiento de su objetivo primordial como institución. Con base en lo anterior, se desarrollará el diseño de un Sitio Web que brinde a los usuarios o clientes de una institución, cuyo nombre se omite a petición de ésta, la información de forma oportuna y le permita la interacción con el personal de dicha institución para que satisfagan su necesidad y también la misma institución se beneficie económicamente y mejore continuamente sus servicios.

Actualmente, las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación están cambiando los paradigmas educativos debido a que posibilitan replantear los procesos tradicionales de enseñanza y aprendizaje, al mismo tiempo que proponen nuevos roles para los estudiantes y los docentes. En la enseñanza a nivel superior, se hace patente la necesidad de desarrollar estrategias didácticas acordes con el contexto y los avances tecnológicos, en las cuales los estudiantes requieren ser autónomos y activos por medio de un proceso de aprendizaje integral que les permita adquirir competencias profesionales. Se presenta el desarrollo de una estrategia didáctica basada en las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones para la asignatura de Taller de Diseño Editorial que se imparte en la Licenciatura en Diseño Gráfico de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, la cual fue implementada en la plataforma educativa Schoology y validada con estudiantes del periodo escolar 2019, obteniendo muy buenos resultados en cuanto a la valoración de los materiales didácticos, misma que ayudó a comprobar su eficacia dentro del proceso de aprendizaje y su pertinencia para la enseñanza de los contenidos de la asignatura.

Determining the press-fit quality of pieces in advance is of the utmost importance because it enables the reduction of the time that is invested in the process and the prevention of material losses. High predictive accuracy is essential in a classification model; however, several studies have shown that the class category of a new instance may be insufficient information for decision making. To provide additional information to the user, this study presents a novel system that is based on a hybrid model, which, in addition, to using a classifier, extracts a set of class association rules that enable the determination of which patterns influence the new instance to belong to a class category. To select the classifier, the accuracy, recall and F-measure metrics were utilized. The rules were obtained with the Apriori algorithm to show that this knowledge is automatically represented in an ontological scheme with the objective of applying the Pellet reasoner.

Instructional Technologies and Educational Environments are tools that together improve academic performance and facilitate student learning, favorably impacting the ability to instruct without the presence of a teacher. However, these potentialities are not always taken advantage of maximum to achieve an effective learning process. In this article, a diagnostic evaluation of a Bachelor's educational program is presented, based on an evaluation instrument that was developed to evaluate the quality of an online educational program. The phenomenological method guided this research because it explored how teachers perceive the educational program in the aspects of instructional technology and learning environments. The purpose is to identify the strengths and weaknesses that the educational program shows because it is a program designed for face-to-face modality. Most of the findings found are weaknesses and it is attributed to the fact that the program was designed for face-to-face modality, which implies that work should be deal with the indicators that have been weak to improve their quality. The use of the results will be of great importance to make decisions and improve the quality of the program to be taught in virtual mode.