Biomedical sciences in Moodle: Transdisciplinary play in the classroom

Abstract

This article is a summary of the talk given during the “First Regional Meeting for the Teaching of the Exact and Natural Sciences”, carried out at Universidad Católica  Popular del Risaralda in the month of November-2007. A compilation is presented as a resultof a development project supported by the Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina (FUNANDI), using theMOODLE platform as a tool for helping teachers and students in the areas of Biomedical Sciences.The arrivalof computingtechnologies forcommunication, the implementation of the academic creditssystem, and the globalizationof the information, require teachers who can be mediators forall those processesrelated to transdisciplinar ludic in the classroom, applying the GRIDs(Global Resources Informatic Databases) and the Tics (Technology for Information and Communication) as learning toolsin order to generate reflexive and virtual critical academic communities that can interact among them.This paper introduces the webpages of the Basic SciencesFacultyof Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina in Pereira, which can be used bythe academic communitythat requires them for its professional work. Some of them are: Clinical Microbiology, Electrophysiology (PowerLab), Pharmacology, Ocular Propedeutics , General Pharmacology, Occupational Health and Research amongothers.The fact of inviting the academic community in general, to navigate as guests in the Moodle Platform as part of a classroomteaching projectis the main objective of this work.   It can finally be said that this process has contributed tostrength the connection between Media and Higher Education and the ONDAS Project of Colciencias in our region.