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There are few references to how the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the training process, by facilitating the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the development of their functions, can contribute to improving the management of inventories without needing to be absent from their job. From the analysis of the process ofCuban organizational reorganization, the creation of the Ministry of Industries and taking into account the need to implement the Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution, a study and systematization of the concept of training, The ICTs as mediators of the training process, Logistics and Inventory Management and the use of virtual environments in the training process carried out by different authors to theoretically and methodologically base the proposal of the design and development of a set of training actions in Management of Inventories mediated by a virtual environment of learning directed to managers, executives and specialists of the business system attended by the MINDUS andthus to contribute to the sustainable development of the Cuban industry.Keywords: ICT integration, training, inventory management, virtual teachinglearning environment.

The transformations that have occurred in recent years in Cuban Higher Education, respond to the need to prepare new generations to conduct themselves in an interdisciplinary society, however, it is practical to teach subjects in isolation despite the fact that among them there are close links and relationships. Educators have the challenge of creatively becoming protagonists of the development of the teaching-learning process in higher education and can provide original ideas to discover and specify in classes the interrelation between the different subjects of the curriculum. In the present work the experiences obtained by applying anInterdisciplinary Curricular Strategy (ECI) that reveals actions for the Biomedical Engineer's training are exposed. It proposes changes in the career, from the curricular and didactic activity, with emphasis on a redesign of the Plan of study; harmonic integration of the Integrative Discipline (Bioengineering) and the BasicBiomedical Sciences (Biological Sciences), as well as the use of practical tools to teach classes with an interdisciplinary approach, placing even in the same teaching scenario, two or more teachers involved in planning in different moments of the formation.KEY WORDS: Interdisciplinary curricular strategy, Biomedical Engineer

One of the main purposes of Higher Education in Cuba is the training of competent professionals, not only in their field but also in using the English language. Therefore, it is important for the future graduates to develop communicative skills in English and among them the skill of summarizing scientific texts. A study carried out to senior (fifth year) metallurgical students at Cujae, showedthat they face difficulties in writing summaries for their Diploma paper. This article is aimed at presenting some strategies and procedures for writing summaries in English and showing how they contributed to improve the quality of the summaries written by students from the metallurgical field at the Technological University of Havana.Key words: communicative skills, summary, strategies, procedures, English language.

This work belongs to a Socio-Educative Methodology for Professional-Vocational Orientation to Social Priority Profiles which is a national research project. It shows the transition made of the students about their professional and vocational orientation in Agronomical Engineering at the Agrarian University of La Habana(UNAH).For this, two cohort instances were used: at the end of first year in 2012 – 2013 and later, during the first semester of the fifth year in 2016-2017. A study of other works with the same theme, main ideas from the author as well as the results arisen from the professional development in that period. From this, specific considerations about professional and vocational orientation to this field could be established. It took into account Socio-Cultural Approach. For this, a Need Analysis was used. As conclusions,although the professional orientation developed during the training process in the first year was not enough, the students’ motivation level increased.Key words:  professional-vocational orientation, professional interest, Agronomical Engineering.

The new functions for the professional profile, derived from the social mission that was endorsed to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment in 2014 generate the necessity of an approach to the postgraduate model for the training of specialists.The training of those specialists at the Training Center for Trade and Investment lacks external links with undergraduate courses for preparing employment stages and postgraduate training taking into account a systemic articulation of the main organizational professional training and academic training. For this, transformations are necessary.As a starting point for the required model transformations for the specialist postgraduate education, the optional course is of vital importance for the students’ awareness in broad profile specialties to seek for an aim and attain a permanent education at the International Trade to get prepared for work and life. In this waythey will fulfill equilibrium between the scientific and technical training and a full spiritual development.Key words: optional course, starting point, students.

Estimados lectoresUn nuevo número de la revista Referencia Pedagógica sale a la luz. Las contribuciones que durante años han realizado autores de diferentes latitudes cobran hoy más relevancia, al arribar al 55 Aniversario de la fundación de nuestra universidad.Por eso dedicaré algunas reflexiones para homenajear aquellos docentes entregados a la obra de la educación y que han participado como autores en esta revista.

One of the challenges imposed by the contemporary world is the linking of universities with social changes, as centers that generate a cognitive capital that can and must configure new realities with commitment and social responsibility. This is a reflection on the extension work of the university and its management as a public good generating institution, which acquires greater relevance in today's world, with ample debate in the academic space in search of vindicating the citizen's right. The popular education of Paulo Freire, and the Participatory Action Research, are referents in this paper in function of an extension agent for the local development and the growth of the professionals of the academy; based on an experience of the Faculty of Social Communication, fruit of pre-professionalpractice. It is the result of two years of extension experience by the authors.

21st century students demand that learning sessions be more challenging and exciting, and education has become the resource humanity needs to grow as a society, supported by tools that innovate learning sessions. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the influence of online gamification tools such as Kahoot and Quizizz in the process of feedback of student learning from the secondary level of regular basic education, the reasons that justify the research are: the educational strategies for optimal learning are constantly changing and propose a series of challenging activities seeking to transcend the learning sessions to become part of the student's life for which first took a test of previous knowledge about the issues of Educational Technology, where most of the students involved have basic knowledge by placing them on a scale of process, a second assessment is applied with respect to the knowledge in the process and the final test in which students present significant progress using the platforms, demonstrating their effectiveness for learning feedback; also despite the similarity of the platforms, through Quizizz students present a greater response to feedback of learning compared to Kahoot demonstrated through aspects of software, hinders optimal feedback of learning.

The presented work shows the need to transform the educational orientation that is made in the teaching-learning process (PEA) for the training of engineers. Theoretical, empirical and statistical research methods are used to reach results. Theoretical references are systematized related to the educational orientation, the teaching-learning process and the pedagogical diagnosis. The study allowed the determination of indicators to diagnose the educational orientation in the PEA. The results of the diagnosis made at the second year of the Mechanical Engineering career at the "José Antonio Echeverría" Technological University of Havana, demonstrate the need to provide educational guidance from the PEA itself in a renewed manner taking into account a positive communication, stimulation of thezone of proximal development as well as the use of mediation and group coordination, which will favor the self-determination of the students. Actions are based on the transformation of the educational orientation in the PEA towards a higher form that allows the personal growth of the students through the teachingactivities.

The identification of professional competences allows the setting of performance expectations and development plans. In the professional training system in recent years, curricula have been designed focusing on competencies, based on the social request expected from professionals in training or already in practice, thelatter subjected to a system of continuous postgraduate training, due to the need to adapt themselves to the changing contexts which demand new knowledge, skills and values, to successfully fulfill their duties. Considering the growth of the technological infrastructure in the country in all areas, and taking into accountlabor and territorial factors, the groups of teachers in charge of the professionals´ training have faced the challenge of using Virtual Teaching-Learning Environments to favor the development of professional competencies, among them, thecommunicative competence in the English language. This paper aims at presenting a Commercial English Online Course for developing communicative competence in the English language of foreign trade professionals from CIMEX Enterprise Group, which is based on the use of such environments. The results ofthe course implementation are also given in this work.