Innovación de gestión en educación

[ES]La gestión educativa depende del contexto en que la acción formativa se desarrolla y, por tanto, la innovación que se quiera desarrollar en sus procesos y recursos. La gestión de l a innovación educativa depende de las estrategias que se desarrollen tanto a nivel institucional, centros educativos, como a nivel de personas, docentes e investigadores. Las políticas impuestas desde la dirección hacia los docentes, estrategia descendente , sin contar con su apoyo no suelen tener el efecto buscado; pero, por otro lado, las propuestas que nacen en el profesorado , estrategias ascendentes, y no cuentan con el apoyo necesario de la institución suelen acabar con efectos muy ligados al contexto c ercano a las asignaturas de los docentes, con poca difusión y transmisión de conocimientos y muy poco efecto sobre el conjunto de la institución. Por tanto, se necesitan estrategias que combinen ambas direcciones, descendente y ascendente, para lograr el m ayor efecto en las instituciones educativas. En esta conferencia se revisarán algunas iniciativas a nivel internacional sobre gestión de la innovación educativa para plantear las lecciones apren didas de cada uno de los caso

Educational Innovation Management. A Case Study at the University of Salamanca

[EN] This is the presentation of the paper entitled “Educational Innovation Management. A Case Study at the University of Salamanca” in the TEEM 2015 International Conference held in Porto (Portugal) in October 7-9, 2015. This paper is devoted to present the implantation of a repository for educational innovation projects management at the University of Salamanca in Spain. This repository stores the selected best practices of educational innovation in this University and classifies them according a set of indicators that have been previously agreed. The paper explains the processes to define the indicators and their application to a set of selected projects that have been stored in the repository

Study of the flexibility of a learning analytics tool to evaluate teamwork competence acquisition in different contexts

Learning analytics tools and methodologies aim to facilitate teachers and/or decision makers with information and knowledge about what is happening in virtual learning environments in a straightforward and effortless way. However, it is necessary to apply these tools and methodologies in different contexts with a similar success, that is, that they should be flexible and portable enough. There exist several learning analytics tools that only works properly with very specific versions of learning platforms. In this paper, the authors aim to evaluate the flexibility and portability of a methodology and a learning analytics tool that supports individual assessment of teamwork competence. In order to do so the methodology and the tool are applied in a similar course from two different academic contexts. After the experiment, it is possible to see that the learning analytics tool seems to work properly and the suggested new functionalities are similar in both contexts. The methodology can be also applied but results could be improved if some meetings are carried out to check how team works are progressing with their tasks

Your Teammate Just Sent You a New Message! The Effects of Using Telegram on Individual Acquisition of Teamwork Competence

Students’ acquisition of teamwork competence has become a priority for educational institutions. The development of teamwork competence in education generally relies in project-based learning methodologies and challenges. The assessment of teamwork in project-based learning involves, among others, assessing students’ participation and the interactions between team members. Project-based learning can easily be handled in small-size courses, but course management and teamwork assessment become a burdensome task for instructors as the size of the class increases. Additionally, when project-based learning happens in a virtual space, such as online learning, interactions occur in a less natural way. This study explores the use of instant messaging apps (more precisely, the use of Telegram) as team communication space in project-based learning, using a learning analytics tool to extract and analyze student interactions. Further, the study compares student interactions (e.g., number of messages exchanged) and individual teamwork competence acquisition between traditional asynchronous (e.g., LMS message boards) and synchronous instant messaging communication environments. The results show a preference of students for IM tools and increased participation in the course. However, the analysis does not find significant improvement in the acquisition of individual teamwork competence

Un mapa sobre las tendencias en Innovación Educativa

[ES]Conferencia impartida el 17 de marzo de 2016 en la Academia de Logística del Ejército de Tierra (ACLOG) en Calatayud en el contexto de la edición XII del Curso básico de enseñanza en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje. El objetivo de esta conferencia fue hacer un recorrido por algunas de las principales tendencias en innovación educativa que se están desarrollando actualmente a nivel internacional