{"title":"Adaptive multilevel clustering model for the prediction of academic risk","authors":"X. Ochoa","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751800","url":null,"abstract":"The selection of a model for academic risk prediction systems is usually based on the global performance of the model. However, this global performance is not an important factor for the end-user of the system. For the end-user, the performance of the model for his or her specific case is the most important aspect of that model. Given that the model is usually selected at design time, the end-user could end up with a sub-optimal prediction. To solve this problem, this work presents a conceptual framework to build adaptive multilevel clustering models for academic risk prediction. This frameworks allows the system to automatically select between several levels of hierarchical or semi-hierarchical features to create a clustering model to best predict the particular risk of each student. This conceptual framework is validated through its realization into an adaptive model to predict the risk of failing a course during a semester in a Computer Science program. In this study, the adaptive model consistently outperforms the prediction of the best-performing static model.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132527120","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 recommender system for learning objects on a learning management system: Implementation experience","authors":"Jacqueline Solís-Céspedes, M. Chacón-Rivas","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751788","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to present the experience of implementing a recommender system for selecting learning objects (LO) for lessons through the Learning Management System (LMS) of Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Our implementation approach is made up of three components: A user model based on the descriptions of the lessons of a course given in an Instructional Design (ID), a serie of items which constitute the metadata bank of resources described using IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata model (IEEE-LOM) and harvested by Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and finally, an utility function derived from the weighting between the collaborative assessment of LO and similarity measures to compare LO's metadata with descriptions of activities given for course. As validation mechanism, ID's tests were conducted in order to determine whether or not recover resources for lessons and precision tests with a pilot plan remained pending.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128612483","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}
Jose Vega Alvarado, Agustin Francesa Alfaro, Mario Chacón Rivas, Cesar Garita Rodriguez
{"title":"Collaborative logical framework: An e-learning assesment tool in .LRN platform","authors":"Jose Vega Alvarado, Agustin Francesa Alfaro, Mario Chacón Rivas, Cesar Garita Rodriguez","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751748","url":null,"abstract":"In the teaching and learning process, one of the most widely used assessments under the constructivist model is to work in groups. This has many advantages, but also weaknesses such as lack of collaboration, poor organization, difficulty in assessing, poor communication, among others. This paper describes the functionality of the Collaborative Logical Framework and the redesign made by the TEC Digital Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) which aims to aid students and teachers to reduce the problems that can be generated working in groups, through a tool integrated in a LMS applying usability criteria on web and mobile platforms and some integrations with others applications on .LRN LMS. This was validated applying a survey to grade and postgrade students at the TEC. The results were favorable, such as the usability of the interface, in a (very low) scale of 1 to 5 (very high) average usability by the twenty seven students surveyed is 4 points.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134035936","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":"Proposal of a virtual environment design of digital literacy","authors":"J. G. Guzmán Mendoza, C. R. Valdez","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751772","url":null,"abstract":"The differences in terms of access and ICT skills between different groups in society have created a problem of digital divide. To overcome this problem, models and strategies are required to achieve a greater impact on the population and that population can develop skills that enhance inclusion in the society knowledge. This work proposes the design of a digital literacy virtual environment that aims to set a new educational paradigm approach to encourage different learning communities to uses new ICT that allows them to be more competitive in today's world and thus shorten the digital divide.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123102563","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}
Graziela de Souza Sombrio, Leonardo Enrico Schimmelpfeng, Vania Ribas Ulbricht
{"title":"The production of a gamified Learning Object accessible to people with visual or hearing disabilities for teaching Geometry","authors":"Graziela de Souza Sombrio, Leonardo Enrico Schimmelpfeng, Vania Ribas Ulbricht","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751787","url":null,"abstract":"The inclusion of people with disabilities in regular schools needs to be effective. Therefore, appropriated teaching methods, materials and capacitated teachers are indispensable factors. By using learning objects, it is necessary to ensure that they were built considering the needs of people with disabilities, which means the possibility of using accessibility resources. In this work, only visual and hearing disabilities were considered. The bibliographic review on Distance Education, gamification and accessibility has guided the construction of a gamified and accessible Learning Object for calculating the triangles' perimeter. As a result, the article brings the steps for building a LO, its navigation map and the description of the accessibility features that were used.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128899992","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}
Li-Hsiun Chou, Kaique Pantosi D'Amato, Caue A. da Silva, Beatriz A. Pacheco, I. Souza-Concilio, B. C. Santos
{"title":"Educa+: Educational game for children","authors":"Li-Hsiun Chou, Kaique Pantosi D'Amato, Caue A. da Silva, Beatriz A. Pacheco, I. Souza-Concilio, B. C. Santos","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751752","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims to discuss a digital game called Educa+, a small plataform of digital games that challenges the students in Math, Portuguese and Natural Sciences. Developed for iOS systems, the game is based on the Izzi Game and has 12 diamond shaped pieces, each one divided into four coloured triangles. The goal is to arrange the pieces connecting the same color borders in attempt to form the design that's on the screen.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122648840","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}
Valéria Farinazzo Martins, Andrea Niedermeyer, Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães
{"title":"Educational game for aid in literacy process: Comparative study between kinect and mouse use as interaction and motivation way","authors":"Valéria Farinazzo Martins, Andrea Niedermeyer, Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751797","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main difficulties of the literacy process is the question of the spelling of the Portuguese language, which has no regularity in relation to issue of letter-sound conversion. The advancement of technology in the educational environment has become the most dynamic and engaging lessons for students and teachers. The use of natural interfaces makes it the simplest and easiest applications to interact. This paper presents the development of an educational game covering the issue of misspellings of children in the literacy process and the use of the interface by gestures, such as motivation and attraction to the educational environment. The application developed was tested with children of the second year of elementary education at a private school in São Paulo and usability rating is described in this paper. The main contribution of this work to the educational environment is the experience of children with new ways to interact with the computer and the motivation for using the application in everyday school life.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115773910","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}
Virginia Rodés Paragarino, Flavio Pelerino Francolino, Adriana Gewerc Barujel, M. Llamas Nistal
{"title":"A characterization of users of digital educational resources repositories the case of the Latin American Community of Learning Objects — LACLO","authors":"Virginia Rodés Paragarino, Flavio Pelerino Francolino, Adriana Gewerc Barujel, M. Llamas Nistal","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751793","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a characterization of users of digital educational resources repositories, within the framework of the Latin American Community of Learning Objects (LACLO). This is an exploratory research, based on a quantitative longitudinal study. It takes as case study the community of university teachers that had participated in the Learning Object Contest developed in the LACLO Conference in its 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions. Results show that 283 individuals had participated in LACLO's Learning Objects Contest during the period reviewed, coming from 49 Higher Education Institutions of 10 countries. They are mostly women, and 25 academic disciplines are identified. From the data collected it is possible to make a projection about a characterization of users of digital educational resources repositories in Latin America. This exploratory study will be improved with future qualitative studies, deepening the knowledge on individual experiences, in order to know the dimensions of the adoption of digital educational resources repositories in the Latin American region.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116892459","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}
Germán A. Osorio-Zuluaga, Néstor Darío Duque Méndez
{"title":"Collaborative construction of metadata and full-text dataset","authors":"Germán A. Osorio-Zuluaga, Néstor Darío Duque Méndez","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751767","url":null,"abstract":"One of the difficulties when testing algorithms for information retrieval, is having benchmark datasets to determine their effectiveness, since for several indicators used in this discipline, it is necessary to know in advance results for a query given and that the same results are evaluated by experts on the subject under investigation. This paper describes the collaborative implementation of a dataset created from the metadata and full-text of articles from nine areas of knowledge, with the participation of fourteen researchers at master or doctoral level, supported with the bibliographical reference manager Mendeley. Final dataset with metadata and full text, consists of 1678 papers and the result of 38 queries of two, three and four words.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122147038","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":"Authenticity and versioning of learning objects using the digital signature infrastructure of Costa Rica","authors":"Isaac Alpizar-Chacon, M. Chacón-Rivas","doi":"10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LACLO.2016.7751775","url":null,"abstract":"There are a large number of educational resources available on the Internet through different repositories. However, authenticity methods of learning objects has not been widely adopted by repositories, making it difficult to verify the authors of the content. To solve this problem, our goal is to aid users and authors of learning objects to have a trusted verification of authenticity and versioning of learning objects by applying digital signatures into the lifecycle of learning objects. In our propose, after a learning object is uploaded to a repository, the author presents his/her digital certificate, a special LOM record is created with the information from the author's certificate, and then it is signed to prove its authenticity. The signature is produced using digital certificates issued by the digital signature infrastructure of Costa Rica, which guarantees legal binding and trust over time. We hope to propose a generic framework than can be implemented in any repository.","PeriodicalId":271823,"journal":{"name":"2016 XI Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology (LACLO)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129813648","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}