2 research outputs found
An updated review of the concept of eLearning. Tenth anniversary
[ES]Los continuos avances en el plano tecnológico
provocan flujos de innovación-aceptaciónconsolidación-
obsolescencia propios de las
estrategias, ya sean ad hoc o planificadas, de
gestión del conocimiento y de la tecnología
de las corporaciones, y, a otra escala, de
los propios individuos. Los procesos de
enseñanza+aprendizaje no son, obviamente,
ajenos a esta circunstancia. La irrupción
de las Tecnologías de la Información y la
Comunicación como herramienta educativa
supone un punto de inflexión conceptual
y metodológico en la forma en que las
instituciones, educativas o no, afrontan
los procesos educativos y la gestión del
aprendizaje, especialmente en lo tocante
al concepto de educación a distancia, que
evoluciona, de una manera más o menos
significativa, al adoptar Internet como medio, lo que da lugar al término eLearning. Pero
desde las primeras experiencias eLearning –
muy asentadas en el concepto de plataforma
o Learning Management System–, hasta
las más recientes, se han producido
importantes cambios, de nuevo tanto en el
plano tecnológico como metodológico, en los
que, además de otros factores, destacan las
influencias que los medios sociales producen
en los hábitos diarios de los usuarios, de
forma que se pone de manifiesto una mayor
demanda de personalización del aprendizaje,
una conectividad absoluta con otros pares,
un acceso ilimitado a los recursos y fuentes
de información, una flexibilidad total del
modo, el lugar y el momento del acceso y
una convivencia cada vez más natural y
necesaria de los flujos formales e informales de
aprendizaje. Con todo esto, las plataformas
eLearning “tradicionales”, aunque gozan
de un porcentaje altísimo de penetración
y se encuentran sumamente consolidadas,
requieren de una evolución y una mayor
apertura para dar soporte a este rico abanico
de posibilidades que demandan sus usuarios,
dejando de ser el centro de atención tecnológica
para pasar a ser un componente más en un
complejo ecosistema digital orientado a la
gestión del aprendizaje y del conocimiento,
ya sea institucional o personal. Es, por
tanto, necesario volver a hacer una revisión
actualizada del concepto de eLearning y
releer las definiciones que de este concepto se
han aportado desde la experiencia y enfoque
de nuestro grupo de investigación GRIAL
(GRupo de investigación en InterAcción
y eLearning), coincidiendo con el décimo
aniversario del artículo “Estado actual de los
sistemas e-learning”.[EN]The continuous advances in technology
cause innovation-acceptation-consolidationobsolescence
flows regarding the knowledge
and technology management strategies, both
ad hoc and planned, of the corporations and
also, in a different scale, of the individuals.
Teaching and learning processes are not
obviously unaware of this situation. The
irruption of Information and Communication
Technologies as educational tools mean both
a conceptual and a methodological turning
point in the way that institutions, educational
or not, face training processes and learning
management, especially with regard to the
concept of distance education, which evolves,
in a more or less significant way, when it
adopts Internet as media; that is how the
eLearning concept rises. However, from the
first eLearning experiences, too much settled on the concept of platform or Learning
Management System, up to the present times,
there have been significant changes, again
in both technological and methodological
levels. It is important to underline, among
others, the influence of social media in the
daily habits of users. This way, an increased
demand of learning personalization it is
shown, as so as a complete connectivity with
other peers, an unlimited access to resources
and information sources, a complete flexibility
in the way, place and time they access, and
a natural and necessary coexistence of both
formal and informal learning flows. Thus, the
“traditional” eLearning platforms, despite
their large penetration and consolidation,
need to evolve and open themselves to support
this rich fan of possibilities demanded by the
users, ceasing to be the centre technological
attention to become another component
into a complex digital ecosystem oriented
to the learning and knowledge management,
both at institutional and personal levels. It
is therefore necessary to make an updated
review of the eLearning concept and its
definitions that have been provided from
the experience and perspective of our
research group GRIAL (Research Group in
InterAction and eLearning), coinciding with
the tenth anniversary of the “Current status
of e-learning systems” paper
Integration of Reciprocal Teaching-ICT Model To Improve Students’Mathematics Critical Thinking Ability
This research examines the effectiveness on how mathematics teachers have begun to integrate
information and communication technology (ICT) with reciprocal teaching model to improve students’
mathematics critical thinking ability into seventh junior high school classroom practice. This study was
experimental research with a quasi-experimental design. The samples of the study are 36 students for classroom
experiments and 36 students for classroom control. The instruments employed in this study were pre-test and
post-test. All the instruments are made in essays forms. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics.
Based on the research findings, it was gotten that (1) the development of teaching instructional multimedia of
the seven grade students of junior high school; (2) the improvement of students’ mathematics critical thinking
ability in experimental class; (3) the aspect of attractiveness shows that the developed instructional multimedia was very interesting; and (4) reciprocal learning has good impact on students’ mathematics critical thinking ability