Modelado de servicios en contextos web. Aplicación en ecosistemas de aprendizaje

[ES]Principios de arquitecturas orientadas a servicios en contextos de aplicaciones web aplicadas a ecosistemas de aprendizaje. Conferencia invitada en los másteres de Sistemas Inteligentes e Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Salamanca, impartida el 14 de marzo de 2016 en la Facultad de Ciencias de la USAL

Knowledge Management and decision making based on informal learning activities in business

The application of the Information and Communication Technologies to everyday life activities facilitates the availability of lots of information and knowledge which can be used for multiple purposes. One of them is learning processes within organizations. However, there are two questions which must be addressed: first, that people do not only learn in organizational contexts; and second, that not all the data gathered from learning systems is useful. This makes it necessary to find a way to gather information about informal learning activities in the workplace and to facilitate visibility of what employees learn outside the organization so that such knowledge may be accessed from within the organization and be used for decision making. In order to do so this study proposes a methodology based on the identification of informal learning instances by the employee and their ecognition by the organization. The methodology is supported by a technological framework based on a Personal Learning Network, a Portfolio, a Catalog of Competences and an institutional system which includes tools for optimization of decision making. The methodology has been implemented and evaluated in the context of a pan-European project. The main findings from this study suggest that, although decision making from informal learning instances is possible, both the methodology and tools used should be flexible enough to satisfy the needs of the organization

Moodle HEODAR implementation and its implantation in an academic context.

[EN]One of the most important aspects of a 'continuously in change’ society is to improve everything everywhere. In order to obtain the best products, they should be periodically evaluated and reengineered. So the evaluation task and of course, the adequate results interpretation, can make all the difference between competitors. E-learning is similar to these products. Different issues can be evaluated to make learning process getting better and better, such as tutors, platform software and contents. In this last issue, it can be included the minimum knowledge unit: the learning object (LO) (De Marcos et al., 2008). There exist different models and methods for LO evaluation. What is pretended with this work is to choose one model and implement a singular tool, in order to automatically evaluate these LOs and produce a set of information, that can be used to improve those LOs. In this case, it is implemented in the evaluation model called HEODAR (Morales et al., 2008a) and after that the model is implanted in Studium, the Moodle campus of Salamanca University

Mobile Personal Learning environments and how they are applied in a Software Engineering subject

[ES] La emergencia en los últimos años de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación ha influido en los procesos y metodologías de muchas áreas. Una de ellas es la enseñanza/aprendizaje. Como principal representante de ese cambio están las plataformas de aprendizaje. Estos entornos, a pesar de satisfacer a las instituciones, no cubren con las necesidades de los discentes. Eso supone la necesidad de un nuevo concepto de entorno de aprendizaje, que se define como entorno personalizado de aprendizaje y que está centrado en el estudiante y considera su aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida. Dichos contextos, institucional y personal, deben coexistir y para no dejar de lado tecnologías cada vez más asentadas como los dispositivos móviles. En este trabajo se propone la aplicación de un entorno personalizado de aprendizaje móvil en la enseñanza de Ingeniería del Software. Dicho entorno se ha definido a partir de un framework de servicios y se ha probado con alumnos y profesores de dicha asignatura. Al final ha sido posible concluir que los entornos personalizados móviles pueden ayudar a mejorar el aprendizaje del alumno.[EN] The emergence of Information and Communication Technologies has affected processes and methodologies of different areas. One of them has been teaching and learning. The main representative of this change is the learning management systems. These environments, while meeting institutions’ needs, do not satisfy learners’ necessities. A new concept of learning environment should be defined, this is the personal learning environments. They consider the learners as the focus of the teaching and learning process and support their lifelong learning. Both the institutional and the personal context should coexist and they should not leave out new technological trends such as the mobile devices. Along this work the application of a mobile personal learning environment to a Software Engineering subject is described. This learning environment has been based on a service-based framework and has been tested with students and teachers of that subject. Finally it is possible to conclude that the mobile personal learning environments may help to improve students’ learning

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