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Adaptive Learning Supported by Learning Analytics for Student Teachers’ Personalized Training during in-School Practices
This paper presents the results of the second phase of the international project “Improving
Educational Innovation, Competitiveness, and Quality of Higher Education through Collaboration
between University and Companies (EKT)”. The use of adaptive learning supported by learning
analytics is proposed as a pedagogical strategy to work on the collaborative and personalized
learning process that takes place during the school placement period of initial teacher education.
Learning analytics is expected to facilitate the analysis of the different sources of information and
data generated in the learning process. The collected data will be centralized in a learning record
store (LRS), which will serve as a repository for xAPI compatible traces from the tools that make up
EKT intelligent system. The system is expected to provide a strong support to decision-making so
that participant agents can collaborate, advise, and contribute to the future teacher’s personalized
training according to his or her progress and the context in which the practice takes place. The need
analysis of tutors in the five pilot countries is presented, which has made it possible to define the
process variables that make up the learning analysis architecture of the EKT systemS
WikiSensing: A collaborative sensor management system with trust assessment for big data
Big Data for sensor networks and collaborative systems have become ever more important in the digital economy and is a focal point of technological interest while posing many noteworthy challenges. This research addresses some of the challenges in the areas of online collaboration and Big Data for sensor networks.
This research demonstrates WikiSensing (www.wikisensing.org), a high performance, heterogeneous, collaborative data cloud for managing and analysis of real-time sensor data. The system is based on the Big Data architecture with comprehensive functionalities for smart city sensor data integration and analysis. The system is fully functional and served as the main data management platform for the 2013 UPLondon Hackathon.
This system is unique as it introduced a novel methodology that incorporates online collaboration with sensor data. While there are other platforms available for sensor data management WikiSensing is one of the first platforms that enable online collaboration by providing services to store and query dynamic sensor information without any restriction of the type and format of sensor data.
An emerging challenge of collaborative sensor systems is modelling and assessing the trustworthiness of sensors and their measurements. This is with direct relevance to WikiSensing as an open collaborative sensor data management system. Thus if the trustworthiness of the sensor data can be accurately assessed, WikiSensing will be more than just a collaborative data management system for sensor but also a platform that provides information to the users on the validity of its data. Hence this research presents a new generic framework for capturing and analysing sensor trustworthiness considering the different forms of evidence available to the user. It uses an extensible set of metrics that can represent such evidence and use Bayesian analysis to develop a trust classification model.
Based on this work there are several publications and others are at the final stage of submission. Further improvement is also planned to make the platform serve as a cloud service accessible to any online user to build up a community of collaborators for smart city research.Open Acces
Data-driven Computational Social Science: A Survey
Social science concerns issues on individuals, relationships, and the whole
society. The complexity of research topics in social science makes it the
amalgamation of multiple disciplines, such as economics, political science, and
sociology, etc. For centuries, scientists have conducted many studies to
understand the mechanisms of the society. However, due to the limitations of
traditional research methods, there exist many critical social issues to be
explored. To solve those issues, computational social science emerges due to
the rapid advancements of computation technologies and the profound studies on
social science. With the aids of the advanced research techniques, various
kinds of data from diverse areas can be acquired nowadays, and they can help us
look into social problems with a new eye. As a result, utilizing various data
to reveal issues derived from computational social science area has attracted
more and more attentions. In this paper, to the best of our knowledge, we
present a survey on data-driven computational social science for the first time
which primarily focuses on reviewing application domains involving human
dynamics. The state-of-the-art research on human dynamics is reviewed from
three aspects: individuals, relationships, and collectives. Specifically, the
research methodologies used to address research challenges in aforementioned
application domains are summarized. In addition, some important open challenges
with respect to both emerging research topics and research methods are
discussed.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure
Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente: mapeo de la cultura libre en un sistema mediático híbrido
From the nineties, the Internet has been providing new political hybrid action forms. At the
same time, some communities make a disruptive use of technologies aiming to subvert
network power relationships at the current capitalized and centralized cyberspace.
Addressing a collaborative mapping, we identified 290 free culture communities in
Spain. Their characteristics suggest the relevance of offline spaces and local areas to
deliberate, propose and perform political participation towards a neutral, centralised
and free Internet.Desde los años noventa, el ciberespacio ha propuesto formas acción política híbrida.
Asimismo, algunos colectivos realizan un uso disruptivo de las tecnologías para subvertir las
relaciones de poder en la Red. Mediante un mapeo colaborativo, identificamos 290 grupos
relacionados con la cultura libre en España. Sus características sugieren la relevancia de los
espacios offline y de los territorios locales para deliberar y activarse políticamente a favor
de un Internet libre
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