Trinco: A Strategy for the Transformation of Knowledge Information with the Use of the Sid

Abstract

This article presents an instructional strategy theoretically and methodologically founded in order to allow professors, as users of the information, to approach to the documental information systems to teach their higher education students how to use those systems, making easier for them to solve their information needs and transform the information into knowledge. This is the main objective of the Ph.D. dissertation, The Documental Information Systems –DIS - as instructional media: from information to knowledge, and some of its results are shared in this article as well. It is organized from a set of questions answered from the theoretical reflection as what an instructional strategy is and the methodology used for its design; the structure of the instructional strategy TRINCO designed from the methodological reflection is also explained, and final considerations arising after this research work are presented.