[An experience in the use of NTIC (New Technology for Information and Communication) in the teaching process of the immune system].
BACKGROUND
Not very often an integrated approach is applied in knowledge areas as Immune System, instead, the contents are usually a sort of "atomization" that prevents from having a holistic vision of the set as a whole. At the moment, our university students usually incorporate the Internet in their study work, similarly, the teachers can resort to this tool to "widen" the boundaries of the real classes. Perhaps, to achieve a deeper study level in this knowledge field, the use of NTIC may result an appropriate resource for complementing and supporting the current conventional techniques.


OBJECTIVE
To create a communication space designed to deepen and up-date knowledge as well as to help the student construct a comprehensive, significant structure of knowledge by making interrelations with concepts previously acquired.


METHODS
Course supported in a digital platform Moodle like, in LEV, FCEF and N, UNC. http://routerlab.efn.uncor.edu/moodle Category: Natural Sciences. http://lev.efn.uncor.edu/course category.php)id=2 RESOURCES: Power Point files: "Immune System" and "Cytokines"; forum discussion: Contents selected and organized upon a constructivist approach aiming at a reflective student responsible for his own learning (self learning).


RESULTS
The students according to their own concerns and time availability selected to deepen the knowledge field. The possibility to interact permanently in the discussion forum generated closer bonds between the participants, enriched the analysis about the different dealt issues, raised concerns that altogether brought about the rebuilding of the contents in a significant learning.


CONCLUSIONS
Bearing in mind that the educational contents are vital, it also has been proved that the use of NTIC provides of tools for the distance education courses and of useful resources for the teaching-learning sciences.
Novak
Ivón T C
IT
II Cátedra de Biología Celular, Histología y Embriología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria. inovak@cmefcm.uncor.edu
D003142:Communication; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007107:Immune System; D020407:Internet; D007858:Learning; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*