Date

2011-02-11

Lecturer

Javier Velez (UNED)

Summary

Collaborative learning is a recent pedagogical paradigm that it is providing its instructional adequacy in many educative contexts. Nevertheless, the design and development of that kind of experiences is quite complex to teachers and instructional designers.

Actually, these scenarios require not just defining the social arrangement being kept by students along the experiences, the sequence of learning activities being developed by them and the patterns and collaborative interaction protocols being used by them but also the orchestration logic facing the continuous adaptation requirements of the environment to allow a fluid progression of the experience. This speech is going to introduce PELICAN, a technological platform for collaborative learning that fully supports all of these requirements and it allows designing collaborative scenarios as formal and computational assets that can be deployed and reused within different context and instructional settings.

Slides

Videos

Seminario eMadrid sobre "Aprendizaje colaborativo y redes sociales" - Aprendizaje colaborativo con PELICAN from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Author Biography

Javier Vélez (UNED)

Javier Velez Reyes is a Computer Science engineer by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid since 2001 and Ph. D. in Computer Science by the Open University of Spain (UNED) since 2009. Currently, he is working as researcher in the latter university within the Learning Technologies and Collaborative Systems researching group. His specialization area is related with design and construction of systems for collaborative learning support. As part of his researcher development, it can be highlighted the construction of the PELICAN platform, a learning system to fully support all the processes revolving around this kind of scenarios and make up a core part of his Ph D. Thesis.  Furthermore he has participated in several researching projects with both national and international scope and belongs to the net of excellence NoE – Kaleidoscope wherein he has been involved in several projects related with design and analysis of collaboration.