Introduction to the hyperenvironment of Virology in the program of the subject Microbiology in the specialty of Stomatology

Abstract

The High Education in Cuba is submitted to a wave of changes, and the specialties of the Medical Sciences are not free of them. The subject Microbiology, as part of the ones integrated in the specialty of Stomatology, is lack of the adequate teaching means allowing assuming with quality the learning-teaching process in the conditions of the universalization, so it should be made good use of the possibilities of the communications and information technologies to increase the quality of the teaching process. To solve this inadequacy, the authors, in their function as teachers of this subject in the Medical Sciences University of Matanzas, wanted to integrate the subject program to the hyperenvironments contributing to each of the themes that form it, making a didactic integration of all the contents. In this research we show the results obtained with the implementation of the hyperenvironment of virology in the teaching learning process of the subject Microbiology, after being used during a school year. The hyperenvironment allows not only the information transference, but also the organization of process of the access to the information, the collaboration and independent activity of the student, in correspondence with the didactical exigencies of the universalization process.