Visual learning: a contribution of the Technologies of Informatics and Communications to education.

Authors

  • Ángela Ojeda Cabrera FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS DE MATANZAS “DR. JUAN GUITERAS GENER”
  • Félix E Díaz Cuéllar FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS DE MATANZAS “DR. JUAN GUITERAS GENER”
  • Lázara González Landrián FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS DE MATANZAS “DR. JUAN GUITERAS GENER”
  • Luisa Patricia Pinedo Melis FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS DE MATANZAS “DR. JUAN GUITERAS GENER”

Keywords:

TELEMEDICINE, MEDICAL INFORMATICS, MEDICAL INFORMATICS COMPUTING, UNIVERSITIES, LEARNING

Abstract

Development of the Technologies of Informatics and Communications has provided contexts of study, characterized by their visual and creative power. They are particularly effective in pedagogical models directed to allow autonomous learning, as in the case of the model applied in Cuban High Medical Education since the introduction of the University Policlinics. The method, known as Visual Learning, presupposes using a whole of graphic organizers to order information with the objective of helping the student in building knowledge through working with ideas and concepts. Applying Visual Learning as a learning strategy propitiates that student, using the graphic representation of the information and ideas reinforces his comprehension, integrates new knowledge (organizing, processing and privileging new or already-known information), and identifies wrong concepts. To provide implements for Visual Learning there are several informatics tools as CmapTools, Inspiration, ConceptDraw MindMap, MindManager, Cronos y Macrosoft.
We expose: the concept of Visual learning, the description of the most used graphic organizators and its possible aplication according to the learning objectives, the characteristics of Inspiration´s aplication and examples of graphic organizators with didactic purposes using the Inspiration tool.

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Ojeda Cabrera Ángela, Díaz Cuéllar FE, González Landrián L, Pinedo Melis LP. Visual learning: a contribution of the Technologies of Informatics and Communications to education. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 5 [cited 2025 May 9];30(4):526-37. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/530

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 4 (2008)

Section

Review article

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