{"title":"Development of a mobile learning framework for an analog electronics course","authors":"R. Madeira, V. Pires, O. P. Dias, J. Martins","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492526","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing popularity of mobile devices, several projects for mobile learning courses have been developed. Those equipments allow a superior portability and accessibility of the learning courses. In this context, the present paper focuses on the development of a mobile learning framework for an analog electronics course. This course was designed as a supplementary mean to the classic analog electronics courses. The course project consists of several interactive multimedia modules. At the end of each module, students have several oriented questions to answer. The set of answers, in SMS format, gives feedback to the teacher about the learning process. Another module, that is under development, is responsible for storing and managing the answers in a server, where all the results from students are processed in a competitive learning based methodology application.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130858852","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}
{"title":"A simulation software for sequential control","authors":"Pablo San Segundo, D. Rodríguez-Losada","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492529","url":null,"abstract":"Finite state machines are a fundamental issue in a big number of fields in industry, such as sequential control, digital electronics, automated systems, automated reasoning etc. In our experience at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) we have found that the traditional approach of teaching the fundamentals of finite state machines through formal models is neither motivating nor allows to transmit the basic underlying principles to the student in a simple way. Bearing this in mind we have developed a simulation software prototype in C++ programming language which uses the powerful 3D graphical libraries OpenGL and the portable Window Manager (GLUT) to develop simple 3D systems for sequential control which can be visually attractive to the student.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131051821","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}
Roberto Pérez-Rodríguez, M. Caeiro-Rodríguez, L. Anido-Rifón
{"title":"Adaptation in a PoEML-based e-learning platform","authors":"Roberto Pérez-Rodríguez, M. Caeiro-Rodríguez, L. Anido-Rifón","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492404","url":null,"abstract":"In EML-based e-learning platforms for engineering education, adaptation can be focused whether in the EML metamodel or in the run-time environment. In the approach centered in the EML meta-model, adaptation is carried out by advanced modeling and late modeling. In the approach based on the runtime system, it is the run-time system the one that supports the change types that are allowed. This paper presents a conceptual framework and software architecture aimed to support late modeling in an e-learning system based on PoEML (Perspective-oriented Educational Modeling Language).","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133233487","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}
{"title":"OCW consortium: Learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses: Special session","authors":"E. Tovar","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492400","url":null,"abstract":"A special session is proposed to present the current status of OpenCourseWare Consortium from different viewpoints: from the OCWC Board of Directors's view, UNIVERSIA as leader of a regional OCW consortium, and best practices of other universities.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133781281","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}
{"title":"Continuous proactivity in Learning Management Systems","authors":"S. Coronado, D. Zampuniéris","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492579","url":null,"abstract":"Three studies, conducted on graduate level, show findings that students with highly proactive behavior are more likely to succeed in a Learning Management System (LMS) environment. Statistical analysis techniques were used in the studies. In the second study the concept of continuous proactivity was introduced to observe if a study-group was more likely to succeed in the lesson compared to a control-group, and in the third study, proactivity was applied to the entire class. This paper reports the results of the second and third studies and introduces the concept of “continuous proactive learning strategies” to frame the future development of proactive rules in LMS.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133812210","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}
S. Martín, Germán Carro, E. Sancristóbal, R. Gil, Gloria Murillo, Ramon Carrasco, Guillermo Lafuente, Igor Chávez, Carlos Conde, Ruben A Paredero, J. A. Cámara, A. Dopico, P. Calviño, Alicia Sánchez, E. López, M. Castro
{"title":"Engineering Societies as a vehicle tool for engineering students","authors":"S. Martín, Germán Carro, E. Sancristóbal, R. Gil, Gloria Murillo, Ramon Carrasco, Guillermo Lafuente, Igor Chávez, Carlos Conde, Ruben A Paredero, J. A. Cámara, A. Dopico, P. Calviño, Alicia Sánchez, E. López, M. Castro","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492518","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the importance of Engineering Societies inside the educational environment, focusing on the new learning models that appear in the student branches. This model involves pedagogical methods differents than the more formal ones used in the classrooms. They are based on more informal approaches where learners are the real center of the process and teachers appear just as tutors or learning drivers, providing the required material and support to learners. The paper describes the successful experience of a Student Branch in a University for Distance Education, overcoming the traditional collaboration and interaction lacks that these kinds of institutions own due to its inner organization and learning methodology.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124581031","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}
Jorge A López Vargas, Nelson Piedra, Jeanneth Chicaiza, E. Tovar, Manuel Blázques, M. Castro, J. Arriaga, F. Pescador, Jesús Romo, O. Casquero, M. Benito, Ariana Landaluce
{"title":"Meta-analysis of the TAEE project applying social network analysis","authors":"Jorge A López Vargas, Nelson Piedra, Jeanneth Chicaiza, E. Tovar, Manuel Blázques, M. Castro, J. Arriaga, F. Pescador, Jesús Romo, O. Casquero, M. Benito, Ariana Landaluce","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5493061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5493061","url":null,"abstract":"The social network analysis (SNA) is an approach that can be applied as a complement to other analysis (such as statistical) in order to obtain other valuable information. The social network analysis has been used in several initiatives showing that it is an approach that can contribute in building the semantic web. Within the project Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching (TAEE) there are biannual conferences (it has been organized since 1996) and have accumulated a significant amount of data resulting from the conferences held. All of this information constitutes a data source that should be exploited and that can provide meaningful information. In this document we describe, how to social network analysis has been used on data sources generated by user communities, in order to obtain some semantic artifacts, like ontologies. Also describes how to was applied the social network analysis and its metrics on the information generated in the TAEE congresses to answer a set of questions (What are the relationships and the level of cohesion of the different organizations (at the level of Spain and across continents) involved in TAEE? How have evolutioned the thematics covered in the conference?, What are the new ontological additions in technology over the years?, and How have evolutioned the thematics in the research and studies related to teaching electronics?) formulated by the organizers of the congresses and that through other approaches would have been a large task and complicated. The answers to the questions can provide us important information about the behavior and characteristics of the elements present in TAEE conferences, furthermore being an element for making decisions on future initiatives with the same style of TAEE.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129859535","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}
{"title":"The use of role playing in engineering curricula: A case study in human-automation systems","authors":"P. Ponsa, Ramon Vilanova, B. Amante","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492373","url":null,"abstract":"This communication presents a collaborative experience between four Spanish centers: the School of Engineering (ETSE) and the Sports Services Area (SAF) both from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) jointly with two centers of the Technical University of Catalonia, the high school from Vilanova i la Geltru (EPSEVG) and the high school in Terrassa (ETSEIAT). The idea behind this collaboration is to explore the possibility of role engineering education and project development for engineering students. The basic principle of such projects is the identification of the corresponding roles associated with the different parts that can be found on current social/industrial activity.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127144839","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}
{"title":"Computation for Science and Engineering","authors":"T. Magoc, E. Freudenthal, François Modave","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492471","url":null,"abstract":"Computation for Science and Engineering is an introductory computer science course for students majoring in fields other than computer science. This course, which was previously taught as a traditional introductory course focusing on syntax of C, will be offered with its new curriculum in Spring 2010. The new curriculum defocuses syntax and involves students in analyzing dynamic systems, which are frequently not deeply understood by students attending science and engineering courses. This course aims at attracting more non-computer science majors into computing disciplines and providing students with a deeper understanding of dynamism of real-life situations.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129983501","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}
S. Aammou, Mohamed Khaldi, Kamal Eddine El Kadiri, A. Ibrahimi
{"title":"Adaptive hypermedia systems for e-learning","authors":"S. Aammou, Mohamed Khaldi, Kamal Eddine El Kadiri, A. Ibrahimi","doi":"10.3991/ijet.v5s3.1287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v5s3.1287","url":null,"abstract":"The domain of traditional hypermedia is revolutionized by the arrival of the concept of adaptation. Currently the domain of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) is constantly growing. A major goal of current research is to provide a personalized educational experience that meets the needs specific to each learner (knowledge level, goals, motivation etc…). In this article we have studied the possibility of implementing traditional features of adaptive hypermedia in an open environment, and discussed the standards for describing learning objects and architectural models based on the use of ontologies as a prerequisite for such an adaptation.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130986137","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}