Towards eLearning 2.0 University

The editorial introduction to the special issue: Towards eLearning 2.0 University. Interactive Learning Environment

Special Issue on Managing the Knowledge Society Construction

[EN]Our current society is characterized by the strategic importance of the knowledge. Managing the knowledge within an institution is a strategic activity for company survival, independently of the kind of business or activity area in which it may be involved. This special issue presents four different proposals of knowledge management with clear strategic foundations. One it is oriented to analyze the impact of demographic change in Information Technology departments in order to help improving the company knowledge strategy. Other is more oriented to manage the produced knowledge in the educational innovation processes. The third proposal is linked to the management of the knowledge that is created informally in the communities of practice. Finally the last proposal fits into a learning area with two different orientations an organizational learning strategy and a personal knowledge management of both teacher and student roles

Educational Innovation Successful Cases: Part 2

Educational innovation is a key factor to improve educational goals and learning outcomes. There are very good practices in different contexts that may be reused and adapted in other ones, however these good practices are difficult to find and share, this means teachers repeat again and again the same “innovative” practices with local results and an overall idea of reinventing the wheel than produce a valuable improvement or adaptation of an existing practice. This is the second part of a special issue that is devoted to share some interesting teaching practices that may be adopted and adapted in other different contexts and subjects. In this second part of the special aspects as metaverses, entrepreneurship practices, portfolios and gamification issues are going to be presented

Managing the Knowledge Society Construction

[EN] Our current society is characterized by the strategic importance of the knowledge. Managing the knowledge within an institution is a strategic activity for company survival, independently of the kind of business or activity area in which it may be involved. This special issue presents four different proposals of knowledge management with clear strategic foundations. One it is oriented to analyze the impact of demographic change in Information Technology departments in order to help improving the company knowledge strategy. Other is more oriented to manage the produced knowledge in the educational innovation processes. The third proposal is linked to the management of the knowledge that is created informally in the communities of practice. Finally the last proposal fits into a learning area with two different orientations an organizational learning strategy and a personal knowledge management of both teacher and student roles

Analysis of Neighbourhoods in Multi-layered Dynamic Social Networks

Social networks existing among employees, customers or users of various IT systems have become one of the research areas of growing importance. A social network consists of nodes - social entities and edges linking pairs of nodes. In regular, one-layered social networks, two nodes - i.e. people are connected with a single edge whereas in the multi-layered social networks, there may be many links of different types for a pair of nodes. Nowadays data about people and their interactions, which exists in all social media, provides information about many different types of relationships within one network. Analysing this data one can obtain knowledge not only about the structure and characteristics of the network but also gain understanding about semantic of human relations. Are they direct or not? Do people tend to sustain single or multiple relations with a given person? What types of communication is the most important for them? Answers to these and more questions enable us to draw conclusions about semantic of human interactions. Unfortunately, most of the methods used for social network analysis (SNA) may be applied only to one-layered social networks. Thus, some new structural measures for multi-layered social networks are proposed in the paper, in particular: cross-layer clustering coefficient, cross-layer degree centrality and various versions of multi-layered degree centralities. Authors also investigated the dynamics of multi-layered neighbourhood for five different layers within the social network. The evaluation of the presented concepts on the real-world dataset is presented. The measures proposed in the paper may directly be used to various methods for collective classification, in which nodes are assigned to labels according to their structural input features.Comment: 16 pages, International Journal of Computational Intelligence System

The Teaching of Computer Science, Programming and Computational Thinking in Pre-University Studies

Llorens Largo, F.; García -Peñalvo, FJ.; Molero Prieto, X.; Vendrell Vidal, E. (2017). La enseñanza de la informática, la programación y el pensamiento computacional en los estudios preuniversitarios. Education in The Knowledge Society (EKS). 18(2):7-17. doi:10.14201/eks2017182717S71718

Simul@: una experiencia para el desarrollo de competencias transversales en la formación de docentes en Educación Física en mundos 3D

Este artículo muestra el uso de mundos virtuales en la formación de docentes en educación física en el ámbito universitario. Participaron un total de 11 estudiantes de la especialidad de educación física. Se utilizó un modelo de evaluación de eventos basado en tres elementos: los eventos, el referente y los criterios. Mediante un trabajo en grupo se tenía que desarrollar una propuesta docente para la organización de una olimpiada escolar en un entorno virtual. Los resultados muestran que se resolvieron muy satisfactoriamente todos los requisitos de dicha propuesta y, por tanto, la utilidad de las simulaciones en los mundos 3D en la formación de docentes en Educación Física

Personal Learning Environments and Online Classrooms: An Experience with University Students

[EN]The present study investigates the use of Learning Management Systems as tools constituting student’s Personal Learning Environments in the degree of Informatics Applied to Education in the National University of Chimborazo – Ecuador. The main result of this work is that there is an increasing number of courses that rely on virtual classrooms, but learning occurs both in and out of these learning environments. This study is the starting point for future research on the relevance, impact, and effectiveness of incorporating Learning Management Systems in university teaching, as well as on relations and possibilities of integration between them, Personal Learning environments, and mobile learning trends

Simul@: una experiència per al desenvolupament de competències transversals en la formació de docents en educació física en mons 3D

Aquest article mostra l’ús de mons virtuals en la formació de docents en educació física en l’àmbit universitari. Van participar-hi un total d’onze estudiants de l’especialitat d’Educació Física. Es va utilitzar un model d’avaluació d’esdeveniments basat en tres elements: els esdeveniments, el referent i els criteris. Mitjançant un treball en grup, s’havia de desenvolupar una proposta docent per a l’organització d’una olimpíada escolar en un entorn virtual. Els resultats mostren que es van resoldre molt satisfactòriament tots els requisits de l’esmentada proposta i, per tant, la utilitat de les simulacions en els mons 3D en la formació de docents en educació física