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2019 Open Education Award for Excellence for Carlos Delgado Kloos, eMadrid coordinator

Imagen: Carlos Delgado Kloos, during the last eMadrid Workshop

{ Madrid, September 15, 2019 } The Practitioner Award was given to Carlos Delgado Kloos, professor and vice president for Strategy and Digital Education at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). The Open Education Awards for Excellence provide annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the Open Education (OE) community, recognizing exemplary leaders, open educational resources and Open Projects & Initiatives. In this edition, 2019, have also been honoured Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, with the Leadership Award, and Dirk Ulijn and Bart Meeuwissen, with the Student Award.

Read more about the 2019 Open Education Awards for Excellence recipients.
Take a look at Carlos's professional career.
UC3M proposal for OEC Practitioner Award for Excellence 2019

eMadrid seminar on «Entrepreneurship for all in the digital age»

Date

Friday, September 20, 2019

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Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend.

Programme

11.00 - 11.45 / «EntreCom4ALL: an online platform for the social development of entrepreneurial skills through OER».

«EntreCom4ALL goals. Adapting a framework of entrepreneurial skills for different objetive groups». Edmundo Tovar, associate professor at UPM.

«Structure and modalities of EntreCom4ALL». Bernardo Tabuenca, assistant professor at UPM.

«The use of EntreCom4ALL in the classroom». Tomás Serrano, educational project manager at CECE (Confederación Española de Centros de Enseñanza).

11.45 - 12.15 / «EntreCompEdu: developing teachers' entrepreneurial skills». Paloma Lozano, directora de Innogate to Europe.

12.15 - 12.45 / «Evolution and new approaches to elearning for entrepreneurs in the current digital age». Belén Sandoval Rodríguez, Head of the Academy area of OPINNO, an innovation consultant dedicated to the training and development of people and organizations for digital transformation.

12.45 - 13.30 / Mini Business Programme «Learning to Entrepreneur» for students aged 15 to 19. Javier Samarán, head of Operations for Junior Achievement's Entrepreneurs Area.

13.30 / Spanish wine sponsored by EntreCom4ALL.

ID number: 2017-1-ES01-KA202-038383

Call for papers for the eMadrid Workshop on Smart Education in next UCAml (2-5 December, Toledo)

{ Madrid, July 15, 2019 } The eMadrid network will offer a workshop within the next UCAml (13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence), a congress related to the main research area of this group, educational technologies, scheduled from 2 to 5 December 2019 in the city of Toledo (Spain). The eMadrid Workshop will be held on December 2 and will be focused on the concept of «smart education». The eMadrid network has opened a «call for papers» for this occasion: candidates can send their proposals (on the topics announced) until 9 September 2019.

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IX eMadrid Worshop on «Educational technology with a human touch»

Date

June, 26-27, 2019

Place

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Campus de Puerta de Toledo / Aula 1.A.01 /

Ronda de Toledo, 1 / 28005 Madrid

Title

«Educational technology with a human touch»

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Eventbrite - Seminario eMadrid sobre "Sacarle partido al aprendizaje colaborativo"

Attendance is free, but registration is required.

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IX eMadrid Worshop on «Educational technology with a human touch» / 26-27 June, 2019

«Educational technology with a human touch». The IX eMadrid Workshop, scheduled 26-27 June 2019 at the Campus de Puerta de Toledo of the UC3M, will focus on this topic. The program of this consolidated event, which includes the participation of leading experts from both the academic and business worlds, highlights with this idea one of the main challenges of the educational sector in all its stages: the impact of the newest technology in the classroom. The eMadrid Network (a collaboration project between the universities UC3M, UAM, UCM, UPM, UNED and URJC) will be free of charge and open to the general public, as in previous editions. Please note that registration is required to attend.

Topics we will discuss: machine learning, augmented and mixed reality, learning analytics, voice search, serious games, OERs (Open Educational Resources)...

Who might be interested in attending: those who, whether they come from the education sector or not, need to understand its digital transformation.

Check the program of the 9th eMadrid Workshop.

Keep on reading to know the experts already confirmed.

Meet the winners of the eMadrid 2019 Awards

The eMadrid network, within the framework of the call for R&D Programmes in Technologies 2018, has selected the winners of the eMadrid Awards 2019, all of them authors of works whose theme is totally or partially related to research or development of educational technologies. We would like to thank all the candidates who have participated in this edition for their efforts and highlight the quality of the works presented.

Keep on reading to find out who are the winners in each category

Call for paper for LASI Spain 2019 in Vigo June 27-28

{ Madrid, May 9, 2019 } The call for papers of LASI Spain 2019 (Learning Analytics Summer Institute) invites researchers across the globe to submit original research and work in progress that further contributes to advances in the field. The deadline for submitting works to this eighth edition will remain open until 19 May. The event, an outstanding meeting point for researchers from all over the world in the field of learning analytics in higher education, will be held in the city of Vigo on 27 and 28 June 2019. The University of Vigo organizes this event with the collaboration of SNOLA (Spanish Network of Learning Analytics) and TELGalicia. Members of the eMadrid network are also involved in the organization of LASI Spain 2019.

Deadlines and topics

The researchers of the eMadrid network, awarded at EDUCON 2019

{ Madrid, May 4, 2019 } It's a great pleasure for us to share with our followers the awards received during the last IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON 2019), organized between 9 and 11 of April in Dubai. Both the eMadrid network team that participated in this leading congress, as well as some of the network researchers, have been distinguished for the quality of the works presented in the following categories:

Best Paper Awards

1. Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education area: "What can you do with educational technology that is getting more human?", by Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carlos Alario Hoyos, Pedro J. Muñoz Merino, María Blanca Ibáñez, Iria Estévez Ayres y Raquel M. Crespo García (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

2. Virtual and Remote Labs (V&RL) in Engineering Education area: "Implementation of an arduino remote laboratory with Raspberry Pi", by Atilano Fernández Pacheco, Sergio Martin Gutiérrez y Manuel Castro (UNED, Spanish University for Distance Education, Spain)

Best Student Paper Award

1. "Promoting computational thinking skills in Primary School students to improve learning of geometry", by Leovy Echeverría, Ruth Cobos, Mario Morales, Fernando Moreno y Víctor Negrete (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

Call for papers! for the VI Learning with MOOCS Conference

{ Madrid, 29 apr. 2019 } If you would like to attend the next Learning with MOOCS Conference as a speaker, have a look at the call for papers, open until 1 May 2019. The sixth edition of this international event (second under the IEEE Education Society organization) will be held in October 2019 in Milwaukee, USA. «Enhancing Workforce Diversity and Inclusion» is the main theme of the LWMOOCS 2019 Conference. As we reported, Madrid hosted this conference last year (for the first time outside the United States), with the special collaboration of eMadrid, who organized this seminar: «MOOCs as part of the future of digital learning».

We're looking forward to receive your abstracts!

Please review the Conference website
Deadlines and topics for discussion

eMadrid seminar on «Technologies for education inside and outside the classroom»

Date

Friday, May 10, 2019

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Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend.

Programme

15.00 - 15.40 / «Learning analytics, user modeling and adaptation in e-learning contexts». Rosa Mª Carro Salas, professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
15.40 - 16.20 / «Supporting teachers with community, desing and learning analytics». Davinia Hernández-Leo, lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona.
16.20 - 17.00 / «Virtual Craft: apps and virtual worlds». María José Lasala Bello, teacher at INS Narcís Oller (Valls, Tarragona) and PhD student in Educational Technology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV).

Call for the eMadrid 2019 Awards

eMadrid Excellence Network, dedicated to the research and development of educational technologies in the Comunidad de Madrid and financed by the regional administration, as part of the call for R&D programs in IT 2018, launches a new edition of eMadrid Awards. The following three categories have been enabled:

Best Final Degree Project
Best Master's Thesis
Best PhD Thesis

eMadrid talks at EDUCON2019 about how to develop a more human educational technology

{ Madrid, 1 Apr. 2019 } The eMadrid network visits EDUCON (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference) once again, a congress hold this year between 9 and 11 of April in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), focused on «Engineering education through student engagement», as EDUCON2019's motto points. eMadrid researchers will paticipate in a special session on the 11th, starting at 1.30 pm, with several presentations related to the idea of developing a more human educational technology («Experiences from the eMadrid network: making educational technology more human»).

Check out eMadrid's special session here
Please review the whole programme of EDUCON2019
Keep on reading to see all eMadrid presentations

"ACM-W Informática para tod@s" runs its four edition

{ Madrid, 27 mar. 2019 } "ACM-W Informática para tod@s" celebrates its fourth edition on the 28th and 29th of March in La Coruña with the aim of promoting the role of women in the field of technology, in Spain. We would like to highlight one of the talks of its interesting programme, given by Ruth Cobos, professor at UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and eMadrid member, on "Informatics applied to education: advances and contributions of informatics to the field of education".

eMadrid seminar on «The teacher's digital competence»

Date

Friday, March 22, 2019

Registration

Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend.

Eventbrite - Seminario eMadrid sobre "Sacarle partido al aprendizaje colaborativo"

Programme

11.00 - 11.40 / «Connectivist MOOC as a tool to develop digital competences». Oriol Borrás Gené, professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC).
11.40 - 12.20 / «The teacher of the digital age or the teacher's digital competence?». Jordi Adell Segura, professor of Educational Technology and head of the Centre for Education and New Technologies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón.
12.20 - 13.00 / "The teacher's digital competence for the improvement and transformation of classroom practices". Isabel Mª Solano Fernández, professor and head of the Department of Didactics and School Organization, researcher of the Educational Technology Research Group, Universidad de Murcia.

eMadrid seminar on «Trends in educational technology»

Date

Friday, December 14, 2018

Registration

Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend

Eventbrite - Seminario eMadrid sobre "Sacarle partido al aprendizaje colaborativo"

Programme

11.00 - 11.40 / «The challenge of innovating in massive university classrooms». Óscar Jerez Yañez, professor and researcher at Universidad de Chile.
11.40 - 12.20 / «The role of conversational agents in the digital transformation of higher education». Pedro M. Ruiz, chancellor's delegate for the Digital University, Universidad de Murcia.
12.20 - 13.00 / «Serious games as a learning method: how to move from vision to evidence». Virginia Vázquez, pedalogical responsable of Everis Education.

eMadrid seminar on «Learning Analytics»

Date

Friday, November 23, 2018

Registration

Admission to the seminar is free but please note that registration is required to attend. This event is part of the activities organised for the commemorative exhibition "Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, fifty years into the future". Those interested in visiting this free exhibition, have more information at the following link.

Access to the building is also free of charge. To avoid delays at the entrance due to security control please come with enough time.

Eventbrite - Seminario eMadrid sobre "Sacarle partido al aprendizaje colaborativo"

Programme

Pilar Rodríguez Marín, lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering of the UAM and member of the eMadrid network, will moderate the round table.

12.05 - 12.15 / «Intervention and action based on educational data». Pedro J. Muñoz Merino,
associate professor at UC3M and coordinator of the LALA project
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12.15 - 12.25 / «Examples of tools that supports learning analytics in MOOCs»
. Ruth Cobos Pérez, associate professor at UAM.
12.25 - 12.35 / «Implications of learning data coming from MOOCs»
. Edmundo Tovar Caro, associate professor at UPM.
12.35 - 12.45 / «Learning analytics in mass experimentation environments».
Sergio Martín Gutiérrez, associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Control of the School of Industrialists of the UNED.
12.45 - 12.55 / «Analytics and learning in serious games». Manuel Freire Morán, associate professor at UCM.
12.55 - 13.15 / Open debate and question time.

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