Mejoramiento del aprendizaje a través de las nuevas tecnologías de información en la educación a distancia.

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Respuestas al adiestramiento en industrias de alta tecnología mediante la educación abierta y a distancia.

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De Vancouver (1982) a Viena (1999) : la educación a distancia toma nuevos rumbos.

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La construcción social del miedo. Caso: Sucumbíos

La circulación de la violencia, las palabras, los rumores, el miedo representado e impregnado en personas o cosas cotidianas vuelven a éste una epidemia que corroe las raíces mismas de la sociedad, rompe con la cotidianidad y, en su lugar, dispone de nuevos códigos que harán de las relaciones sociales una convivencia en tensión permanente, en desconfianza, en inseguridad. Es posible hablar de una nueva ciudadanía, una ciudadanía basada en el miedo donde confluyen más de un discurso y más de un símbolo. En sociedades mutiladas por la angustia queda el silencio como la única protección, la única garantía de vida. Entonces, se debe pretender que, si se ve, se oye y se calla, nada pasará. Es mejor no preguntar quién murió y menos por qué, todos lo saben, nadie lo dice. Belén Vásconez escribió este relato en Sucumbíos, a manera de diario de campo, tratando de leer a la ciudad como un texto, con la certeza de que “los capítulos están incompletos porque las palabras se hacen todos los días, porque el ser humano tendrá siempre cosas que decir y, con suerte o con algo de dignidad, seremos -tendremos que ser- nosotros y nosotras quienes aprendamos a escuchar y hasta podría ser que algún día, ojalá pronto, seamos capaces de dar un respuesta”.

Interoperability for eLearning Service Management and Provision

Learning Objects offer flexibility and adaptability for users to request personalised information for learning. There are standards to guide the development of learning objects. However, individual developers may customise these standards for serving different purposes when defining, describing, managing and providing learning objects, which are normally stored in heterogeneous repositories. Barriers to interoperability hinder sharing of learning services and subsequently affect quality of instructional design as learners expect to be able to receive their personalised learning content. All these impose difficulties to the users in getting the right information from the right sources. This paper investigates the interoperability issues in eLearning services management and provision and presents an approach to resolve interoperability at three levels.

A Conceptual Model for Group Support Systems in Local Councils

This paper proposes a conceptual model of a context-aware group support system (GSS) to assist local council employees to perform collaborative tasks in conjunction with inter- and intra-organisational stakeholders. Most discussions about e-government focus on the use of ICT to improve the relationship between government and citizen, not on the relationship between government and employees. This paper seeks to expose the unique culture of UK local councils and to show how a GSS could support local government employer and employee needs.

Case-based analysis in user requirements modelling for knowledge construction

Context: Learning can be regarded as knowledge construction in which prior knowledge and experience serve as basis for the learners to expand their knowledge base. Such a process of knowledge construction has to take place continuously in order to enhance the learners’ competence in a competitive working environment. As the information consumers, the individual users demand personalised information provision which meets their own specific purposes, goals, and expectations. Objectives: The current methods in requirements engineering are capable of modelling the common user’s behaviour in the domain of knowledge construction. The users’ requirements can be represented as a case in the defined structure which can be reasoned to enable the requirements analysis. Such analysis needs to be enhanced so that personalised information provision can be tackled and modelled. However, there is a lack of suitable modelling methods to achieve this end. This paper presents a new ontological method for capturing individual user’s requirements and transforming the requirements onto personalised information provision specifications. Hence the right information can be provided to the right user for the right purpose. Method: An experiment was conducted based on the qualitative method. A medium size of group of users participated to validate the method and its techniques, i.e. articulates, maps, configures, and learning content. The results were used as the feedback for the improvement. Result: The research work has produced an ontology model with a set of techniques which support the functions for profiling user’s requirements, reasoning requirements patterns, generating workflow from norms, and formulating information provision specifications. Conclusion: The current requirements engineering approaches provide the methodical capability for developing solutions. Our research outcome, i.e. the ontology model with the techniques, can further enhance the RE approaches for modelling the individual user’s needs and discovering the user’s requirements.

Capturing temporality and intentionality in information systems

Information modelling is a topic that has been researched a great deal, but still many questions around it have not been solved. An information model is essential in the design of a database which is the core of an information system. Currently most of databases only deal with information that represents facts, or asserted information. The ability of capturing semantic aspect has to be improved, and yet other types, such as temporal and intentional information, should be considered. Semantic Analysis, a method of information modelling, has offered a way to handle various aspects of information. It employs the domain knowledge and communication acts as sources of information modelling. It lends itself to a uniform structure whereby semantic, temporal and intentional information can be captured, which builds a sound foundation for building a semantic temporal database.