Program

• 15:00-15:30: DynaLearn: DynaLearn: Semantic Technologies in a Problem-based Learning Context, Óscar Corcho (UPM)
• 15:30-16:00: What Brings Linked Data Web to OpenCourseWare (OCW) Repositories, Edmundo Tovar (UPM) and Nelson Piedra (UTPL, GICAC-UPM)
• 16:00-16:30: Open Linked Data and Learning: Semantic Technology Accelerator, Ricardo Alonso Maturana (GNOSS).

Free seminar without pre-registration.

Programa

• 15:00-15:30: From Chaos to Order: The Way the Wikipedia Works and Is Organized, Miguel Vidal López (URJC)
• 15:30-16:00: Wikipedia: Free Knowledge and Learning Innovation, José Felipe Ortega Soto (URJC)
• 16:00-16:30: Wikimedia World: Supporting Free Knowledge, María Sefidari Huici (Wikimedia España)

Free seminar without pre-registration.

On the occasion of the visit of Rob Reilly, president of the IEEE Education Society (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the Spanish Chapter of this association organized a seminar in collaboration with the eMadrid Network. This event took place on Tuesday November 22th at the Auditorium of the Rector’s building of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and could be seen in live by the Internet.

The work: "Using educative-games authoring platforms and 2D simulation for developing screen-based narutalistic neuropsychological assessments" will be presented in the LXVI Chilean Congress of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, taking place in Pucón (Chile) on November 9-12th, 2011.

The First European Immersive Education Summit was hold in Madrid last November 28 and 29, 2011. This event took place at the Leganes Campus of the UC3M, near the city of Madrid. It was co-organized by the Carlos III University of Madrid and the eMadrid Project and it was the presentation of the The European chapter (iED Europe) of the Immersive Education Initiative. During these two days the audience were be able to hear about advances and trends in immersive education.

Program

• 15:00-15:30: eLearning in Companies: Keys and Future Trends, Carlos Cabañas Gárate (élogos)
• 15:30-16:00: Dynamic Experimentation as a Dynamic to Acquire Knowledge and Skills, David Moreno Canta (Virtualware)
• 16:00-16:30: Computational Support for Work-integrated Learning, Stefanie Lindstaedt (KMI-TUG)

Free seminar without pre-registration.

Following the initiatives started in the recent workshops on Software Engineering for eLearning (ISELEAR), which took place in Valencia (2010) and Madrid (2011), e-Madrid members going to edit an special collection of scientific papers in the aforementioned topic of Software Engineering for e-Learning. This special collection will be published in the JCR-indexed journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology.

Program

• 15:00-15:45: One Usability Analysis System for Authoring Tools of e-Learning Content, Manuel Freire Morán (UCM)
• 15:45-16:30: Learning Style Adaptation in Adaptive Educational Systems, Pilar Rodríguez and Álvaro Ortigosa (UAM)
• 16:30-17:15: Tackling Semantic, Mobile & Ubiquitous Learning in IBST (Inquiry-Based Science Teaching), focusing on an example taking place in the Brest Harbour, Serge Garlatti (TB)

Free seminar without pre-registration.

Next September 16th, eMadrid project members will be held the second Workshop on Software Engineering in elearning (ISELEAR'11) at the Faculty of Informatics, University Complutense of Madrid. This new edition maintains the goals set for the first successful edition of the workshop, ISELEAR10: to bring together researchers and software development experts in the field of e-Learning to present, compare and discuss the latest trends in the conception, design, development, deployment and maintenance of eLearning systems.

e-Adventure is an educational game creation tool that does not require any programming skills to develop educational adventure games. In the last few months, the research community in serious games has paid a lot of attention to its latest releases, and it is being downloaded about 1000 times per month. In order to support its growing user community, the e-Adventure website is presenting its new game repository, to allow users to see as many examples as possible.