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The INDEC thus inaugurates a new channel of communication with young
users of statistical information, with the intention of expanding the statistical
culture of the population in the stages of construction of citizenship.
In the university context, the situation is different. They have mostly
computer rooms with computers for teachers to develop their classes of
Statistics. Most of them have virtual campuses. The presence of the ICT makes
the contact with the students and teachers more fluid, facilitating the
understanding of the contents of this subject, but sometimes internet does
not work at universities.
Another alternative is web pages, especially of Statistics. Adell (1997)
argues that they facilitate teaching and learning processes, understanding this
virtual resource as a tool that helps the student to continuously carry out a
metacognition exercise.
Web pages, especially Statistics, tend to improve the quality of teaching,
through a methodological change in teaching and learning processes in the
Statistics Chair. This change makes it possible to expand the traditional
learning spaces thanks to the use of digital communication and information
technologies supplied by digital networks. Teachers adopt a methodology
where the student plays an active role in the construction of knowledge
through observation, recording, comparison, analysis and synthesis of what is
observed in a series of programmed activities.
Another option in the digital age is to introduce a combination of non-
face-to-face classes or elearning and blended learning or blended learning
classes; being the face-to-face activities carried out in the theory and practice
of the Statistical Classes, while the remaining, non-presential ones, are carried
out through the web pages, developed by the Statistics Chair, with free
support from the Wix company.

2. Methodology
In the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of Casilda, dependent on the
University of Rosario, the Chair of Biostatistics has developed a website that
acts as a link, beyond the face-to-face classes, between teachers and students
in order to improve the learning process.
The website is https://bioestadisticavete.wixsite.com/cursada
The construction of this website was made based on evaluation criteria
related to the technological aspect, the quality of the information and the
design. These aspects were focused as follows: Technology: accessibility to the
site and its contents was prioritized, making sure that it was always available
and that its elements could be consulted from the widest variety of equipment
and systems. For its analysis, the following items were taken into account: ease
of location of the site, access speed, functioning of the links and quality of the
multimedia elements.

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