Luis Carlos Guzmán-Arias, Jacqueline Solís-Céspedes, Agustín Francesa-Alfaro
{"title":"Exploring Mobile UX/UI for an OER Repository Search Engine Integrated to an LMS","authors":"Luis Carlos Guzmán-Arias, Jacqueline Solís-Céspedes, Agustín Francesa-Alfaro","doi":"10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00020","url":null,"abstract":"In the information age it's natural for students to search Open Educational Resources (OER) for their own learning process from several sources, this searching must give the results with simplicity, speed and relevance, to make the information understandable in an environment free of data overload. However, although some universities make great efforts to create their own learning materials to provide the student with the resources they need, often the user's experience in repositories of OER is not suitable for the students, triggering disuse and unawareness of the generated resources. This study was conducted at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, which aims to help students to find reliable OER, in a simple, fast and relevant way, by means of a search engine proposal integrated to the LMS platform. To achieve this, quantitative studies were conducted with student samples, first, an email survey about the characteristics of a search engine, second, a usability test of an existing repository and then a search engine's GUI integrated with an LMS was designed and validated with users so the main result was that students may have a better UX when looking for OER than with the existing one developed with the open-source software DSpace.","PeriodicalId":229069,"journal":{"name":"2019 XIV Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121471240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Armando Muñoz del Castillo, Mario Andrés Muñoz, Lydia Cruz Acosta Huertas, Edgar Herrera, Javier Alejandro Jiménez Toledo, Deixy Ximena Ramos
{"title":"Developing a Teacher Training Curriculum Including Computational Thinking Skills: Early Advances on a Study Focused on Colombia","authors":"Armando Muñoz del Castillo, Mario Andrés Muñoz, Lydia Cruz Acosta Huertas, Edgar Herrera, Javier Alejandro Jiménez Toledo, Deixy Ximena Ramos","doi":"10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00012","url":null,"abstract":"During training at the Complementary Formation Program (CFP), Colombian primary school teachers do not acquire Computational Thinking (CT) skills, which are considered fundamental for the knowledge economies of the 21st century. In this paper, we describe the early stages of a project aiming to reform the CFP curriculum, such that CT skills becomes an integral part. As a first step, we carried-out four introductory workshops with 64 first-and third-semester CFP students and then surveyed them to gather their perceptions on CT. The results show that the students have a limited understanding of CT and its associated skills, but they recognize their importance. Moreover, they agree that primary school should be the starting point to develop them. The project will continue gathering information from current CFP teachers, current primary school teachers, and university professors who are experts in curriculum development, to develop the curricular proposal.","PeriodicalId":229069,"journal":{"name":"2019 XIV Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127899917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}