El software libre como recurso didáctico en la enseñanza de métodos cuantitativos en los grados de economía y empresas

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At present there are many open-source code or free software that can be used as an education resource in the teaching of economics and business. These two branches of the social sciences need to equip students with tools to understand independently the economic situation. For this, a large part of the study program includes the teaching of quantitative methods. Thus, the use of software enables the student to raise empirically acquired knowledge in the subjects of quantitative methods. For this now can be used license-free programs like R-Project, Gretel, Sage, Freemat, Scilab, Octave and LibreOffice for teaching economics and business. With these programs it provides students a better understanding of the content and applicability of topics that include mathematics, statistics and econometrics. Also gives students the opportunity to apply these models in their self-study. Moreover, the implementation of these tools is a reduction of spending for university to avoid paying licensing or at least as high a number of them.