LMS y web 2.0 una relación simbiótica en las aulas universitarias Diseño e integración de actividades pedagógicas 2.0 en una plataforma Blackboard

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Cal Educamp 2011. Apuesta por una formación disruptiva al otro lado del charco

Peer-reviewed

La evaluación de competencias en un entorno virtual de aprendizaje

Peer-reviewed

From institutional repositories to personal collections of learning resources

Institutional digital repositories are a basic piece to provide preservation and reutilization of learning resources. However, their creation and maintenance is usually performed following a top-down approach, causing limitations in the search and reutilization of learning resources. In order to avoid this problem we propose to use web 2.0 functionalities. In this paper we present how tagging can be used to enhance the search and reusability functionalities of institutional learning repositories as well as promoting their usage. The paper also describes the evaluation process that was performed in a pilot experience involving open educational resources.

Binary proposal for assessing quality of Open Access Institutional Repositories : the case of Spanish repositories

The reason for this study is to propose a new quantitative approach on how to assess the quality of Open Access University Institutional Repositories. The results of this new approach are tested in the Spanish University Repositories. The assessment method is based in a binary codification of a proposal of features that objectively describes the repositories. The purposes of this method are assessing the quality and an almost automatically system for updating the data of the characteristics. First of all a database was created with the 38 Spanish institutional repositories. The variables of analysis are presented and explained either if they are coming from bibliography or are a set of new variables. Among the characteristics analyzed are the features of the software, the services of the repository, the features of the information system, the Internet visibility and the licenses of use. Results from Spanish universities ARE provided as a practical example of the assessment and for having a picture of the state of the development of the open access movement in Spain.

Is It Possible to Predict the Manual Web Accessibility Result Using the Automatic Result?

The most adequate approach for benchmarking web accessibility is manual expert evaluation supplemented by automatic analysis tools. But manual evaluation has a high cost and is impractical to be applied on large websites. In reality, there is no choice but to rely on automated tools when reviewing large web sites for accessibility. The question is: to what extent the results from automatic evaluation of a web site and individual web pages can be used as an approximation for manual results? This paper presents the initial results of an investigation aimed at answering this question. He have performed both manual and automatic evaluations of the accessibility of web pages of two sites and we have compared the results. In our data set automatically retrieved results could most definitely be used as an approximation manual evaluation results.

Maintaining unlinkability in group based P2P environments

In the wake of the success of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking, security has arisen as one of its main concerns, becoming a key issue when evaluating a P2P system. Unfortunately, some systems' design focus targeted issues such as scalabil-ity or overall performance, but not security. As a result, security mechanisms must be provided at a later stage, after the system has already been designed and partially (or even fully) implemented, which may prove a cumbersome proposition. This work exposes how a security layer was provided under such circumstances for a specic Java based P2P framework: JXTA-Overlay.

A Security Framework for JXTA-Overlay

En l'actualitat, la maduresa del camp de la investigació P2P empès a través de nous problemes, relacionats amb la seguretat. Per aquesta raó, la seguretat comença a convertir-se en una de les qüestions clau en l'avaluació d'un sistema P2P, i és important proporcionar mecanismes de seguretat per a sistemes P2P. El projecte JXTAOverlay fa un esforç per utilitzar la tecnologia JXTA per proporcionar un conjunt genèric de funcions que poden ser utilitzades pels desenvolupadors per desplegar aplicacions P2P. No obstant això, encara que el seu disseny es va centrar en qüestions com ara l'escalabilitat o el rendiment general, no va tenir en compte la seguretat. Aquest treball proposa un marc de seguretat, adaptat específicament a la idiosincràsia del JXTAOverlay.

Experimental Results and Evaluation of SmartBox Stimulation Device in a P2P E-learning System

In this paper, we present the experimental results and evaluation of the SmartBox stimulation device in P2P e-learning system which is based on JXTA-Overlay. We also show the design and implementation of the SmartBox environment that is used for stimulating the learners motivation to increase the learning efficiency. The SmartBox is integrated with our P2P system as a useful tool for monitoring and controlling learners¿ activity. We found by experimental results that the SmartBox is an effective way to increase the learner¿s concentration. We also investigated the relation between learner¿s body movement, concentration, and amount of study. From the experimental results, we conclude that the use of SmartBox is an effective way to stimulate the learners in order to continue studying while maintaining the concentration.

Securing a Java P2P framework: The JXTA-Overlay case

In the wake of the success of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking, security has arisen as one of its main concerns, becoming a key issue when evaluating a P2P system. Unfortunately, some systems' design focus targeted issues such as scalabil-ity or overall performance, but not security. As a result, security mechanisms must be provided at a later stage, after the system has already been designed and partially (or even fully) implemented, which may prove a cumbersome proposition. This work exposes how a security layer was provided under such circumstances for a specic Java based P2P framework: JXTA-Overlay.

Taking on new challenges in multi-word unit processing for Machine Translation

This paper discusses the qualitativecomparative evaluation performed on theresults of two machine translation systemswith different approaches to the processing ofmulti-word units. It proposes a solution forovercoming the difficulties multi-word unitspresent to machine translation by adopting amethodology that combines the lexicongrammar approach with OpenLogos ontologyand semantico-syntactic rules. The paper alsodiscusses the importance of a qualitativeevaluation metrics to correctly evaluate theperformance of machine translation engineswith regards to multi-word units.

Bootstrapping a statistical speech translator from a rule-based one

We describe a series of experiments in which we start with English to French and English to Japanese versions of an Open Source rule-based speech translation system for a medical domain, and bootstrap correspondign statistical systems. Comparative evaluation reveals that the rule-based systems are still significantly better than the statistical ones, despite the fact that considerable effort has been invested in tuning both the recognition and translation components; also, a hybrid system only marginally improved recall at the cost of a los in precision. The result suggests that rule-based architectures may still be preferable to statistical ones for safety-critical speech translation tasks.

Evaluación continua y rendimiento académico: un análisis interdisciplinar

La evaluación continua (EC) es una de las herramientas básicas que configuran la enseñanza centrada en el aprendizaje del estudiante. Este trabajo se centra en evaluar el impacto de la EC en el rendimiento académico del estudiante utilizando como base el proceso de análisis iniciado en el grupo de innovación docente TRANSEDU de la Universidad de Barcelona. A través del estudio descriptivo y analítico de las siguientes asignaturas :Arte e Historia (Grado Historia del Arte); Bioquímica i Microbiología Industrial (grado de Biotecnología); Desarrollo comunitario (Grado de Pedagogía); Fundamentos de Mecánica (Grado de Física); Información y Sociedad (Grado de Biblioteconomía), Política Económica de España (Grado de Economía) y Técnicas Instrumentales (Grado de Farmacia) se han ido identificando los elementos que configuran la EC en las diferentes asignaturas para elaborar posteriormente un marco de análisis que pretende definir los elementos facilitadores del proceso de EC.Identificados los mismos, se realiza a lo largo del trabajo un estudio cualitativo de los mismos y un análisis empírico que permita establecer el impacto de alguno de estos elementos sobre el rendimiento académico.

La Capacitat d'adaptació de la universitat a l'obtenció de resultats i l'educació dels intangibles : un moment clau

Les tendències socioeconòmiques actuals imposen noves exigències als sistemes que confi guren les economies nacionals, i els obliguen a cercar alternatives perquè els individus desenvolupin les competències que es requereixen. En aquest sentit, són molts els escenaris on es discuteix i es planteja un canvi en l’educació que s’adeqüi als requeriments d’un entorn que exigeix cada cop més la valoració dels resultats i la competitivitat, i això no hauria de conduir la universitat a descuidar la formació dels valors més humans i intangibles.

Logopèdia i educació

Aquest article té per objectiu descriure com, des de la practica logopèdica i a partir d'una determinada manera d'entendre l'adquisició del llenguatge, s'orienta un model de treball inclusiu per abordar les dificultats del llenguatge en el context escolar. Es revisa breument el marc teòric i els principis de la intervenció naturalista i els nous reptes que aquest enfocament planteja pel que fa a l'avaluació i a la intervenció en contextos naturals i vinculats amb el currículum.