Adecuación de estrategias docentes a los patrones de aprendizaje específicos de los alumnos optimizando la eficacia de los principios del aprendizaje autónomo y la aplicación de las TICs para la adquisición de competencias en Prótesis Estomatológica

Mediante la aplicación de este proyecto se agruparon los alumnos por su estilo de aprendizaje (utilizando el test de Honey-Alonso) y se diseñaron distintas actividades docentes adecuadas a cada patrón de aprendizaje. A través de dichas actividades (diferentes entre sí) se procuró la adquisición de una misma competencia en Prótesis Estomatológica (montaje de modelos y ajuste del articulador). Se evaluó dicha competencia en los diferentes grupos de estudiantes y en un grupo control no clasificado mediante el test de Honey-Alonso. Se pasó un test de satisfacción a todos los alumnos y profesores implicados en el proceso. Finalmente, se analizaron los resultados obtenidos, registrando ventajas significativas con el método descrito, respecto a los sistemas docentes convencionales.

Importance of Ecological Factors and Colony Handling for Optimizing Health Status of Apiaries in Mediterranean Ecosystems

We analyzed six apiaries in several natural environments with a Mediterranean ecosystem in Madrid, central Spain, in order to understand how landscape and management characteristics may influence apiary health and bee production in the long term. We focused on five criteria (habitat quality, landscape heterogeneity, climate, management and health), as well as 30 subcriteria, and we used the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to rank them according to relevance. Habitat quality proved to have the highest relevance, followed by beehive management. Within habitat quality, the following subcriteria proved to be most relevant: orographic diversity, elevation range and important plant species located 1.5 km from the apiary. The most important subcriteria under beehive management were honey production, movement of the apiary to a location with a higher altitude and wax renewal. Temperature was the most important subcriterion under climate, while pathogen and Varroa loads were the most significant under health. Two of the six apiaries showed the best values in the AHP analysis and showed annual honey production of 70 and 28 kg/colony. This high productivity was due primarily to high elevation range and high orographic diversity, which favored high habitat quality. In addition, one of these apiaries showed the best value for beehive management, while the other showed the best value for health, reflected in the low pathogen load and low average number of viruses. These results highlight the importance of environmental factors and good sanitary practices to maximize apiary health and honey productivity.