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Closing the Gap in Education and TechnologyThis report focuses not only on the gaps
 facing Latin America in both education and technology, but
 especially on the interactions between the two. The central
 premise of the report is that skills and technology interact
 in important ways, and this relationship is a fundamental
 reason for the large observed differences in productivity
 and incomes across countries. This report argues that skills
 upgrading technological change, and their interaction are
 major factors behind total factor productivity growth.
 Skill-biased technological change is indeed being
 transferred today at faster speeds to LAC countries, as
 elsewhere. Technological change has been complementary with
 skill levels in Latin America in the last two decades. It is
 further estimated that firms have substantially increased
 the demand for educated workers in the region, particularly
 workers with tertiary education. This technological
 transformation appears to be intimately related to patterns
 of integration in the world economy. Firms in sectors with
 higher exposure to trade are subject to more competitive
 pressures. Adopting and adapting more advanced technologies
 and hiring and training more educated workers is one way to
 respond to this pressure to become more productive. The
 increased potential demand for education offers the
 possibility to accelerate productivity growth in the economy
 by closing the educational and technological gaps that Latin
 American countries exhibit with respect to their peers.
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Hand Biometrics TechnologyIn this activity, learners explore how engineers incorporate biometric technologies into products as well as the challenges of engineers who must weigh privacy, security and other issues when designing a system. Learners examine different biometric techniques, find their own hand geometry biometrics, and then work in teams of "engineers" to design a high-tech security system for a museum.
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E- Learning: An effective pedagogical tool for learningIn the info-tech age E-Methods of learning are becoming the most important vehicle in disseminating knowledge in higher education institutions. This sector is growing and changing at a rapid speed due to developments in technologies. But teaching is an art. Can there be fun learning with raw and dry technology? How can we make the best use of E- Methods, can we make the required information and data available to the students in a flexible manner, at ease all the time? What are the advantages of traditional methods of teaching and learning? Is E-learning a progressive stage incubating all the benefits of the Manual learning or it is only a window dressing on the face of advancement? Can we convert the boring, tedious subjects into interactive, monotony breaking joyous learning? In this paper the researchers have focused on the modernization of E- Pedagogy vis-à-vis the traditional method of learning. They have highlighted the effectiveness of using the E- learning elements and various E- Methods. This work has used the decision tree algorithms particularly Classifiers.trees.J48 The obtained results show that using online examination attribute plays major role in increasing the average grade of the class in higher education. The novelty of this work is that the researchers have focused on the teaching methodology used by the faculty members and the tools available in the universities. We believe that this work will play a constructive role in building higher education system. Our generated rules/output can be used by the decision makers in the improvement of higher education system processes.