{"title":"The LULA Project by the Telefónica Chair of the University of Extremadura: LULA Linux distribution for Latin American universities","authors":"A. Lozano-Tello, Marcos Blanco Galan","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492416","url":null,"abstract":"Many universities use free software applications as tools for theoretical teaching and for resolving practical exercises. In many cases they are software packages in the development of which many users collaborate, in constant evolution and adaptable to different teaching needs. In Latin American universities there is a growing tendency to use it and there are communities highly committed to its development. As an attempt to compile those applications most used in Latin American universities, the LULA Project (Linux para Universidades LAtinomericanas) is about favouring the integration of this software and the exchange of educational material amongst universities. It is a non-profit initiative coordinated by the Telefónica Chair of the University of Extremadura, in which the integrating universities of the Virtual Latin American Campus (CAVILA) collaborate.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"89 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":"132476533","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}
M. Llamas, M. Caeiro, M. Castro, E. Tovar, I. Plaza, F. Arcega, G. Díaz, J. Sánchez, F. Mur, R. Pastor, Francisco Sánchez, F. Jurado, J. Carpio, F. Falcone, M. Domínguez
{"title":"Use of e-learning functionalities: Results of a survey along Spain","authors":"M. Llamas, M. Caeiro, M. Castro, E. Tovar, I. Plaza, F. Arcega, G. Díaz, J. Sánchez, F. Mur, R. Pastor, Francisco Sánchez, F. Jurado, J. Carpio, F. Falcone, M. Domínguez","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492359","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows the results of a survey performed in Spain about the different functionalities of e-learning platforms. This survey was filled in by a group of teachers, experts in Engineering Education along all Spain, through the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. The paper shows the opinion on several aspects about the e-learning functionalities, such as knowledge level, usage level, usefulness, etc., as well as the most used platforms. One of the objectives of this work is to create a reflexive debate in the international community about the e-Learning platform use.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"37 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":"116703805","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":"Assessing competency in undergraduate Software Engineering teams","authors":"M. Devlin, Chris Phillips","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492569","url":null,"abstract":"From 2005, Active Learning in Computing partners Newcastle and Durham University (ALiC), part of the UK CETL initiative,[1], introduced a collaborative learning model of Software Engineering to level 2 Computing Science students that reflects global industry practice by focusing on cross-site software development. Assessment for this effort focuses on measuring students' development of both the technical and transferable skills associated with the practice of being a software engineer. However, it is often difficult for the student to perceive and articulate what skills they have learned during the project based on marks and feedback from lots of separate elements of coursework. In this paper, we propose that assessment of Software Engineering team projects should focus on the development of a range of competencies that could be measured in a style that relates directly to professional performance appraisal. We describe the current assessment methods we use and then outline a set of alternative competencies and appraisal methods that could be used to help staff and students better evaluate levels of achievement and skill development in qualitative terms during undergraduate team projects in Software Engineering.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"196 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":"114255026","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":"Assessing assessment formats: The current picture: Special session: Assessing assessment formats","authors":"Israel Gutiérrez, C. D. Kloos, Raquel M. Crespo","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492384","url":null,"abstract":"Student assessment plays a fundamental part in every e-learning process, where it can serve to check whether the learner has achieved the intended learning outcomes (summative assessment), but also as a means to aid in the learning itself (formative assessment). Nevertheless, there exist no formal standards to cover this type of content, just some specifications, such as IMS QTI. In this article, we present a study of formats for assessment and their usage in Europe. We also present a reference metamodel for assessment that covers the needs of all stakeholders in relation to this topic.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"600 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113966793","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":"Developing global teamwork skills: The Runestone project","authors":"A. Pears, M. Daniels","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492460","url":null,"abstract":"The Runestone project is a collaborative course currently offered by Universities in Sweden, Finland, and China. The course provides a unique opportunity for third year engineering students from a variety of programs to experience the opportunities and challenges that international teamwork involves. Teams composed of students from two countries work intensively over a 10 to 13 week project cycle to develop a system which allows a user to remote-control a LEGO NXT robot. The teams negotiate the features of their final system with the academic supervisors from the participating Universities, propose a development time-frame and deliverables, and develop and demonstrate a prototype system. This paper uses teaching and learning findings from engineering education research. The evidence is used to arrive at an instructional design that aligns learning outcomes, with instruction and assessment to support student's learning outcomes development throughout the course, We also discuss the evolution of the course over the past 12 years as we moved from a pilot version with eight students from two universities to a large scale course with between sixty and eighty students from between three and five universities distributed over three continents and widely different educational and social cultures.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"29 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":"122859416","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":"An experience of a multidisciplinary activity in a Biomedical Engineering Master Degree","authors":"J. Colomer, P. Miribel-Català","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492560","url":null,"abstract":"Training Biomedical Engineers presents major challenges because of the different backgrounds they are coming from. These activities should stimulate the student's professional skills and, in the particular case of a Master Degree, this is even more complicated. It represents a higher educational level where students should increase and improve their ability to solve problems related to very different areas such as the engineering and biomedical. The Biomedical Master Degree shared between the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and the Universitat de Barcelona has students coming with extremely different backgrounds, from the medical or biological to the engineering profile. Taking into account this situation, we have developed a 4-days multidisciplinary charge activity in a particular course of Biomedical Devices. It is focused on the amperometric sensors and in the conception and application of biopotentiostat amplifiers. Regardless the student's profile the activity is focused in such a way that everyone has to work actively in the experience. This paper presents a proposal based on cooperative learning strategy and the feedback that students give to the learning process as a first approach for future improvements.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"65 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":"133626565","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}
K. Silius, Thumas Miilumäki, Jukka Huhtamäki, Teemo Tebest, J. Meriläinen, S. Pohjolainen
{"title":"Social media enhanced studying and learning in higher education","authors":"K. Silius, Thumas Miilumäki, Jukka Huhtamäki, Teemo Tebest, J. Meriläinen, S. Pohjolainen","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492586","url":null,"abstract":"Social media services have recently become well known especially among young people [1]. In social networking sites a user can participate intensively in activities in the service. To support collaborative study at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and also to provide social networking tools for students especially at the beginning their studies, the development TUT's own social network site was begun in spring 2008. To make the system popular among students, developers and researchers at the Department of Mathematics and Hypermedia Laboratory at TUT designed interventions for fall 2009 when the semester began and new students started their studies. The earlier research [2] revealed numerous motivating aspects that should be somehow included in a study oriented social networking site. This paper will describe the research results of interventions to motivate students to use a social networking site in the context of studies. The results will show that such an environment with social aspects connected to studying and study life on various levels is a means of enhancing studies and basically a necessary tool, especially for students in the early phase of their studies in a new university. The motivation should be further encouraged by the system itself when it relies on students' own voluntary activity. Moreover, the intensive actions of developers, researchers and administrators can be used as tools in directing network activity development.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"12 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":"131915684","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}
J. Soler, I. Boada, F. Prados, J. Poch, R. Fabregat
{"title":"A web-based e-learning tool for UML class diagrams","authors":"J. Soler, I. Boada, F. Prados, J. Poch, R. Fabregat","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492473","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a web-based tool designed to give support to teaching and learning of UML class diagrams. The proposed UML environment is capable to correct automatically UML class diagrams exercises providing feedback to the student immediately. The tool is part of a more general framework, denoted ACME, which provides the main functionalities of an e-learning platform. The tool has been used in a first experimental group of an introductory database course.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"36 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":"123541122","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}
P. Fernández-Sánchez, A. Salaverría Garnacho, E. Mandado Perez, V. Valdés
{"title":"An integrated system as a tool for complex technologies learning","authors":"P. Fernández-Sánchez, A. Salaverría Garnacho, E. Mandado Perez, V. Valdés","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5493059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5493059","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a integrated computer-based learning system improving engineering teaching and learning of complex technologies. It combines a tutorial with a virtual laboratory and a self assessment tool to achieve a self-learning system. The tutorial is a hypermedia document linking different concepts of Electronics technology and combining them with a virtual laboratory. This virtual laboratory is made up of a set of virtual experiments with a user-friendly graphic interface and interactive simulated electronic instruments relating practical and theoretical concepts. The self assessment tool combines a test with each experiment of the virtual laboratory. The whole system matches the constructivist theory and constitutes an interactive computer-based complex tool.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"92 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":"126168487","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":"Business and management competency of engineers: Curriculum and assessment","authors":"Joosung J. Lee, S. Kang, Jun-Haeng Heo","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492564","url":null,"abstract":"It is a global trend that those engineers who are proficient with the principles of business and management are rewarded with leadership roles. With the growing interdependence between technology, industry, economy and society, more opportunities will be available for engineers to exercise their potential as leaders, not only in business but also in the nonprofit and government sectors. In this paper, the following questions are addressed: What does it mean for engineers to have business and management competency? How can engineering schools prepare their students to attain the type of business and management competency demanded by industry? The analysis presented in this paper addresses the above questions in the following ways. First it defines the meaning of business and management competency for engineers. Second, it offers a minimum learning criterion for the business and management competency of engineers and a set of three learning outcomes of engineering management education. Third, this paper shows the results of an industry demand survey for engineering management education as well as provides a review of the global educational trends in this field in the U.S., Japan and Korea. Finally, the leading examples and lessons learned from engineering management education at Yonsei University are presented, and recommendations are made.","PeriodicalId":244961,"journal":{"name":"IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference","volume":"58 2 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":"126223030","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}