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Date
2012-01-20
Lecturer
Óscar Corcho (UPM)
Summary
Problem-based learning has been applied over the last three decades to a diverse range of learning environments. In this educational approach different problems are posed to the learners so that they can develop different solutions while learning about the problem domain. When applied to conceptual modelling, and particularly to Qualitative Reasoning, the solutions to problems are models that represent the behaviour of a dynamic system. The learner’s task then is to bridge the gap between their initial model, as their first attempt to represent the system, and the target models that provide solutions to that problem. We propose the use of semantic technologies and resources to help in bridging that gap by providing links to terminology and formal definitions, and matching techniques to allow learners to benefit from existing models.
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Date
2011-04-12
Lecturer
Israel Gutiérrez (UC3M)
Summary
The adoption of the European Space of Higher Education leads to a series of challenges for the teaching staff at the University, among them, the adaptation of the existing courses to the new rules. The usage of standards in the authoring of e-learning content makes this task easier; concretely, the assessment resources should be adapted in order to address the intended learning outcomes of the course, and the outcome-based assessment standards could be a critical tool used to accomplish this difficult task.
In this session the current state of the outcome-based assessment standards and specifications will be presented. At the beginning, we will introduce the advantages of using standards in the e-learning context, and an analysis of the assessment standards ans specifications will be presented. After that, a practical use case will be introduced and a set of recommendations of the usage of standards and specifications will be presented, addressing higher education management and faculty. These recommendations are the outcomes of the ICOPER project (Interoperable Content for Performance in a Competency-driven Society).
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Date
2011-02-11
Lecturer
Jaime Moreno (UAM)
Summary
The evolution of the Web in the last ten years has brought the democratized this media, end users have taken the main role of information providers, but increasingly also the roles of application developers and service providers.
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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.
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