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Learning History promotes students’ reasoning. According to Van Drie & Van Boxtel (2008), historical reasoning involves six elements: substantive concepts, metaconcepts, asking historical questions, using sources, contextualization, and argumentation. Although there are didactic strategies that promote historical reasoning, these do not include systematic continuous feedback using rubrics, which can be useful both in assessing and promoting students’ progress and progression of ideas on metaconcepts. This study described the development of the six historical reasoning elements in a strategy that included formative assessment for K8 students. A case study was carried out in Mexico City: four teams of three students were formed according to their knowledge of history, with a single History teacher providing continuous systematic feedback on metaconcepts by using graded rubrics. Results showed that the six historical reasoning elements were developed in different ways and suggested possible methods for use in future didactics.

The objective of this paper is to expose results about e-learning instructional design of human sexuality in Medicine degree program. It was derivative from situated learning, co-constructivist learning and theoretical perspectives competences. The design was tested with 16 students of 2 professional programs, it was organized in Moodle into 16 thematic weeks. At the end of the course students answered an anonymous opinion questioner in order to assess the course. Highest results were about attitude, knowledge and quickly answer from the on-line assessor, the lowest grade was usability of Moodle. Students had visited the resources from 21 to 162 times per week it depends of topic. 90% of students did all learning activities. This information is useful to improve the instructional e-learning design of this course., El artículo expone el diseño educativo, puesta en práctica y evaluación de la operación en línea (pataforma Moodle) de una asignatura (Sexualidad humana) a nivel universitario. Se parte de tres referentes teóricos: el aprendizaje situado, la co-construcción del conocimiento y la formación profesional basada en competencias. El procedimiento se dividió en tres fases: encuadre teórico e institucional, estructuración curricular y validación, puesta en práctica y evaluación. El diseño se probó con estudiantes de dos carreras de medicina. Al concluir el curso, los estudiantes respondieron un cuestionario para evaluarlo. Se observaron resultados positivos en actitudes, conocimientos y atención con respecto al asesor; la evaluación más baja fue la otorgada a la plataforma. Los recursos (links, video y artículos) fueron visitados por los estudiantes de 21 a 162 ocasiones, las diferencias se dieron según los temas. El 90% de los estudiantes realizaron todas las actividades de aprendizaje. Estos resultados son útiles para poder mejorar el diseño en términos de recursos tecnopedagógicos.