This study aimed to characterize students from the Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Etla (ITVE), located in Oaxaca, Mexico, within the virtual learning environment (VLE) and to identify the main technological challenges affecting their learning experience. The research adopted a descriptive quantitative approach, using a self-administered questionnaire applied to a sample of 71 students enrolled in distance education programs. The instrument made it possible to analyze variables such as online instructional design, teaching experience, and information technologies. The results evidenced four distinct student profiles identified as follows: demanding, digitally competent, dependent on didactic material, and with technological barriers. These profiles reflect disparities in connectivity conditions, digital competencies, and expectations toward instructional design. The evidence generated by this research contributes to the formulation of more inclusive and resilient educational policies, in line with Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), which promotes inclusive, equitable, and quality education for all.

Employability capital has become established as a construct for understanding the resources that individuals accumulate and mobilize to obtain, retain, and manage employment throughout their careers. However, the proliferation of personal resources associated with human, social, cultural, psychological, and identity capital has generated conceptual overlaps that make it difficult to delimit the construct, measure it, and accumulate theoretical knowledge. The purpose of this article is to characterize employability capital based on its dimensions, with the aim of establishing a future research agenda for the construct. Through an integrative conceptual analysis of the seminal and recent literature, the construct is delimited from related notions, and a three-dimensional framework is proposed. The results indicate that employability capital is organized along three axes: the forms of capital that constitute its resource base (human, social, cultural, identity, and psychological capital), which have already been addressed in the literature; the domains of application toward which these resources are mobilized (employment, career, and development); and its temporality (accumulation, interaction, and mobilization), in which agency operates as a transversal mechanism of activation rather than as a sixth dimension. The main contribution of this study lies in integrating these elements into an Employability Capital Framework (ECF), which explicitly articulates the relationships between the different forms of capital, their domains of application, and their temporal dynamics. It is concluded that the proposed framework organizes the field, distinguishes capital from its manifestations (perceptions and outcomes), guides its measurement, and provides a methodological, contextual, and theoretical research agenda for the study of the construct.

Sustainable food systems depend not only on how food is produced but also on how consumers form trust, identity, and lasting relationships with local producers. Regenerative gastronomic tourism, rooted in ancestral knowledge and place-based culinary practices, has emerged as a catalyst for short food supply chains (SFSCs), yet the psychological mechanisms converting immersive culinary experiences into sustained demand remain poorly understood. This scoping review synthesizes evidence published between 2016 and 2026 through the Stimulus–Organism–Response (SOR) framework, integrating consumption value and social identity perspectives. Regenerative experiences, heritage workshops, farm visits, and digital stimuli activate internal consumer states, including perceived authenticity, territorial identity, groundedness, and multidimensional consumption value. These states drive willingness to pay price premiums, post-trip purchasing, and digital advocacy, with tourist-generated word-of-mouth feeding back as stimuli for future consumers. The discussion identifies critical gaps: longitudinal loyalty decay, digital mediation after the trip, community sovereignty risks, contextual diversity, and greenwashing resistance. The SOR framework offers a conceptual pathway to inform the potential scaling of regenerative gastronomic tourism as an economic lever for sustainable food system transformation.