Diseño de Metodologías Activas para Másteres

El objetivo de la Universidad de Burgos desde el Máster en Inspección, Restauración, Rehabilitación y Eficiencia Energética de Edificación (MIREE), es la implementación de metodologías docentes activas con el fin de la formación del alumnado, a través de casos concretos y reales que adicionalmente reportarán un beneficio social. Alguno de estos métodos pueden ser el estudio de casos, la resolución de ejercicios y problemas, el aprendizaje basado en problemas y orientado a proyectos, el aprendizaje cooperativo, etc. Lo que pretendemos con las metodologías activas de aprendizaje es, que los alumnos adquieran las competencias propuestas en el programa docente, desarrollando un aprendizaje profundo en cada una de ellas. Para ello debemos evitar que el profesorado monopolice la docencia, y es necesario comunicarles tanto al alumnado como al profesorado, que la docencia es una inversión en beneficio mutuo. La realización de este tipo de proyectos favorece notablemente a los alumnos ya que desarrollan la motivación de aprendizaje o puesta en práctica de las enseñanzas recibidas, pero lo que sin duda es motivador para ellos es el reconocimiento social al trabajo realizado. Esto se ve reflejado en la Estrategia Europea 2020 a nivel universitario que habla de reforzar la cooperación entre la Universidad, Investigación y Empresa

Sicole: diagnóstico y tratamiento computarizado de la dislexia en español

En este articulo realizamos un recorrido sobre las investigaciones más relevantes en el campo de la tecnología aplicada al diseño instruccional, las cuales marcan las pautas de diseño de los programas educativos actuales y presentamos los criterios pedagógicos y tecnológicos que hemos seguido en el diseño e implementación de un ITS para la diagnóstico, evaluación y tratamiento de niños con Dislexia en el lenguaje español. Este trabajo se halla dentro del marco de un proyecto de investigación interdisciplinar titulado SICOLE, formado por psicólogos, pedagogos e informáticos.In this paper we present the most significant researchers in the area of technology applied to instructional design. Also, we describe the pedagogical and technological principles followed in the design and implementation of an Intelligent Tutorial System for assessment and treatment of dyslexic children in Spanish language. This work is result of a multidisciplinary research with engineers, teachers and psychologists and it has been funded by «Fondos Europeos para el Desarrollo Regional» (FEDER), 1FD97-1140, and the «Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica» (DIGICYT). This package has being used in several Spanish schools as part of its validation process

Thermoelectric assessment of laser peening induced effects on a metallic biomedical Ti6Al4V

Laser peening has recently emerged as a useful technique to overcome detrimental effects associated to another well-known surface modification processes such as shot peening or grit blasting used in the biomedical field. It is worth to notice that besides the primary residual stress effect, thermally induced effects might also cause subtle surface and subsurface microstructural changes that might influence corrosion resistance. Moreover, since maximum loads use to occur at the surface, they could also play a critical role in the fatigue strength. In this work, plates of Ti-6Al-4V alloy of 7 mm in thickness were modified by laser peening without using a sacrificial outer layer. Irradiation by a Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (9.4 ns pulse length) working in fundamental harmonic at 2.8 J/pulse and with water as confining medium was used. Laser pulses with a 1.5 mm diameter at an equivalent overlapping density (EOD) of 5000 cm-2 were applied. Attempts to analyze the global induced effects after laser peening were addressed by using the contacting and non-contacting thermoelectric power (TEP) techniques. It was demonstrated that the thermoelectric method is entirely insensitive to surface topography while it is uniquely sensitive to subtle variations in thermoelectric properties, which are associated with the different material effects induced by different surface modification treatments. These results indicate that the stress-dependence of the thermoelectric power in metals produces sufficient contrast to detect and quantitatively characterize regions under compressive residual stress based on their thermoelectric power contrast with respect to the surrounding intact material. However, further research is needed to better separate residual stress effects from secondary material effects, especially in the case of low-conductivity engineering materials like titanium alloys

Locating privileged spreaders on an Online Social Network

Social media have provided plentiful evidence of their capacity for information diffusion. Fads and rumors, but also social unrest and riots travel fast and affect large fractions of the population participating in online social networks (OSNs). This has spurred much research regarding the mechanisms that underlie social contagion, and also who (if any) can unleash system-wide information dissemination. Access to real data, both regarding topology --the network of friendships-- and dynamics --the actual way in which OSNs users interact--, is crucial to decipher how the former facilitates the latter's success, understood as efficiency in information spreading. With the quantitative analysis that stems from complex network theory, we discuss who (and why) has privileged spreading capabilities when it comes to information diffusion. This is done considering the evolution of an episode of political protest which took place in Spain, spanning one month in 2011.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure

Combining Static and Dynamic Contract Checking for Curry

Static type systems are usually not sufficient to express all requirements on function calls. Hence, contracts with pre- and postconditions can be used to express more complex constraints on operations. Contracts can be checked at run time to ensure that operations are only invoked with reasonable arguments and return intended results. Although such dynamic contract checking provides more reliable program execution, it requires execution time and could lead to program crashes that might be detected with more advanced methods at compile time. To improve this situation for declarative languages, we present an approach to combine static and dynamic contract checking for the functional logic language Curry. Based on a formal model of contract checking for functional logic programming, we propose an automatic method to verify contracts at compile time. If a contract is successfully verified, dynamic checking of it can be omitted. This method decreases execution time without degrading reliable program execution. In the best case, when all contracts are statically verified, it provides trust in the software since crashes due to contract violations cannot occur during program execution.Comment: Pre-proceedings paper presented at the 27th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017), Namur, Belgium, 10-12 October 2017 (arXiv:1708.07854

Metodología Aprendizaje-Servicio en el Postgrado de Rehabilitación

El objetivo de la Universidad de Burgos desde el Máster en Inspección, Restauración, Rehabilitación y Eficiencia Energética de Edificación (MIREE), es la implementación de metodologías docentes activas con el fin de la formación del alumnado, a través de casos concretos y reales que adicionalmente reportarán un beneficio social. Alguno de estos métodos pueden ser el estudio de casos, la resolución de ejercicios y problemas, el aprendizaje basado en problemas y orientado a proyectos, el aprendizaje cooperativo, etc. Lo que pretendemos con las metodologías activas de aprendizaje es, que los alumnos adquieran las competencias propuestas en el programa docente, desarrollando un aprendizaje profundo en cada una de ellas. Para ello debemos evitar que el profesorado monopolice la docencia, y es necesario comunicarles tanto al alumnado como al profesorado, que la docencia es una inversión en beneficio mutuo. La realización de este tipo de proyectos favorece notablemente a los alumnos ya que desarrollan la motivación de aprendizaje o puesta en práctica de las enseñanzas recibidas, pero lo que sin duda es motivador para ellos es el reconocimiento social al trabajo realizado. Esto se ve reflejado en la Estrategia Europea 2020 a nivel universitario que habla de reforzar la cooperación entre la Universidad, Investigación y Empresa

From circular paths to elliptic orbits: A geometric approach to Kepler's motion

The hodograph, i.e. the path traced by a body in velocity space, was introduced by Hamilton in 1846 as an alternative for studying certain dynamical problems. The hodograph of the Kepler problem was then investigated and shown to be a circle, it was next used to investigate some other properties of the motion. We here propose a new method for tracing the hodograph and the corresponding configuration space orbit in Kepler's problem starting from the initial conditions given and trying to use no more than the methods of synthetic geometry in a sort of Newtonian approach. All of our geometric constructions require straight edge and compass only.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure

Non-invertible transformations and spatiotemporal randomness

We generalize the exact solution to the Bernoulli shift map. Under certain conditions, the generalized functions can produce unpredictable dynamics. We use the properties of the generalized functions to show that certain dynamical systems can generate random dynamics. For instance, the chaotic Chua's circuit coupled to a circuit with a non-invertible I-V characteristic can generate unpredictable dynamics. In general, a nonperiodic time-series with truncated exponential behavior can be converted into unpredictable dynamics using non-invertible transformations. Using a new theoretical framework for chaos and randomness, we investigate some classes of coupled map lattices. We show that, in some cases, these systems can produce completely unpredictable dynamics. In a similar fashion, we explain why some wellknown spatiotemporal systems have been found to produce very complex dynamics in numerical simulations. We discuss real physical systems that can generate random dynamics.Comment: Accepted in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chao

Ausencia de síndrome de burnout en un grupo de docentes de educación primaria y secundaria de Cali, Colombia

Objective: To determine the prevalence of Burnout syndrome in primary and secondary school teachers from a public institution in Cali, Colombia. Methodology: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was then carried out. Results: Sociodemographic and labor data were collected and the CESQT-EP instrument was used to determine the prevalence of Burnout. According to the results obtained, the prevalence of Burnout syndrome in the group of teachers evaluated was zero; although, at the individual level, the most affected dimensions was that of mental exhaustion (75%). Conclusion: It is stated that the absence of burnout in this group is due to the presence of various protective factors, including: age, work experience and having children.Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia del síndrome de Burnout en docentes de primaria y secundaria de una institución pública de Cali, Colombia. Metodología: Se realizó entonces un estudio de tipo descriptivo y transversal. Resultados: Se recolectaron datos tanto sociodemográficos como laborales y se utilizó el instrumento CESQT–EP para la determinación de la prevalencia de Burnout. Según los resultados obtenidos, a prevalencia del síndrome de Burnout en el grupo de docentes evaluados fue de cero; aunque, a nivel individual, la dimensiones más afectada fue la de desgaste psíquico (75%). Conclusión: Se plantea que la ausencia de Burnout en este grupo se debe a la presencia de varios factores protectores, entre ellos: la edad, la experiencia laboral y tener hijos