Propuesta didáctica de una innovación educativa con las nuevas tecnologías en las Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas

Abstract

ABSTRACT Background: Technological changes boost new possibilities for university education, it makes possible the creation of e-learning contexts, centered on the student, with the participation of the teacher as the process’s facilitator. Objective: To design a didactic proposal of educative innovation with information and communication technologies, for the simulation of a laboratory practice of the Nutrition- Metabolism subject, corresponding to the Biological Basis of Medicine discipline. Methodology: A qualitative-descriptive research was conducted from May to June 2020. The historical-logical, analytical-synthetic and inductive-deductive methods were used. Also document review, observation and brainstorm. The population was the teachers from the Basic Biomedical Sciences Department, at the Havana University of Medical Sciences, "Salvador Allende" Faculty Results: Educative innovation was proposed for the simulation of an oral glucose tolerance test, and considered the students’ formative needs also the competences to be developed. Conclusions: A didactic proposal of educative innovation was designed using the potentialities of the Moodle platform for the management in the e-learning contexts. New technologies constitute an alternative for the continuity of the teaching-learning process at the present pandemic situation.