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. 

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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eMadrid at the Conference on Educational Technologies of the CRUE-TIC in SIMO EDUCATION 2018

|Madrid, 8 nov. 2018| Carlos Delgado Kloos, currently vice rector of Digital Strategy and Education at UC3M and eMadrid project coordinator, will participate next Tuesday, November 13, at 10.30 am, in the Conference on Educational Technologies organized by CRUE-TIC in this edition of SIMO EDUCATION, called «Learning Ecosystems». Delgado Kloos will assess the impact of digital disruption on universities, along with other leading experts from the spanish academic world. The event, at the Aula Magna of pavilion 14.1 of Ifema (Feria de Madrid), will be free of charge but requires registration at the following link.

• Please review the whole programme of SIMO EDUCATION 2018 

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eMadrid special session at SIMO EDUCATION 2018 on «Innovation in the classroom»

|Madrid, oct. 30th 2018| For the third consecutive year, the eMadrid network will attend SIMO EDUCATION 2018, a technological leading event for teachers and other professionals in this sector, scheduled for 13-15 November at IFEMA (Feria de Madrid). In this new edition, the eMadrid session will focus on «Innovation in the classroom», through research developed in new methodologies such as gamification, flipped classroom, MOOCs and SPOCs and coding at pre-university levels. If you are interested in these topics, please join us the 14th, from 12 pm to 1.30 pm, in the Orange Room of pavilion 14.1. eMadrid's presentations will be made by:  

• Ahmed Alzaghoul, from UPM: «Experimenting with gamification in the classroom».
• Carlos Alario Hoyos, from UC3M: «Reusing MOOCs in a flipped clasroom for learning how to code at UC3M».
• Diana Pérez, de la URJC: «Introducing the teaching of coding at pre-university levels».

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eMadrid seminar on «Serious Games»

Date

Friday, October 19, 2018

Programme 

• 11.00 - 11.40 / «Designing serious games for combined reality environments». Telmo Zarraonandia Ayo, associate professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), and Paloma Díaz Pérez, full professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at UC3M.   
• 11.40 - 12.20 / «Using gamification to automate neuropsychological tests and investigate active ageing». Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, full professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). He has the Telefonica-UCM chair in Digital Education and Serious Games. 
• 12.20 - 13.00 / «Serious game environments and interfaces for psychological evaluation». Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, researcher at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and PhD student in Technology for Health and Wellness and Systems Medicine at the UPV. 

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eMadrid session at OEB 2018 Conference (Online Educa Berlin) next December

OEB Global, the world’s leading conference on technology supported learning and training, will take place in Berlin from December 5 – 7, 2018. The eMadrid project will offer a special session on «Data-Driven Education», as part of the official programme of this conference. If you are interested in attending, you can benefit from our eMadrid member rate for OEB.

• To obtain a reduction to the ticket price (a 795€ member benefit rate, versus the 895€ standard participant rate), request your discount code at this email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• To see the eMadrid speakers and their talks on «Data-Driven Education», please click here 
• Check out some interesting facts about the Conference and the conditions to register   

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eMadrid seminar on «MOOCs as part of the future of digital learning»

Date

Friday, September 28, 2018

Registration

Admission to this seminar, which is part of the LWMOOCS 2018 conference programme, is free of charge, but registration is required to attend

Programme

Live streaming

• Welcome from LWMOOCS general co-chairs and eMadrid members Ruth Cobos (UAM) and Edmundo Tovar (UPM).
• 15.00 - 15.25 / «It is time to move up to the next level in digital education». Carlos Delgado Kloos, full professor at UC3M and vice president for Strategy and Digital Education.
• 15.25 - 15.50 / «Learning Analitycs in MOOCs». Pedro J. Muñoz Merino,
  associate professor at UC3M and coordinator of the LALA project.
   
• 15.50 - 16.30 / Lightning Talks:
  • «Experiences from two hybrids postgraduates deegres using MOOCs. Unbundling higher education with internationalization». Héctor R. Amado-Salvatierra, Rocael Hernández and Miguel Morales. Galileo University (Guatemala).
  • «Flexible, self-directed and bottom-up: are employees overtaking their human resource departments with MOOCs?». Christian Friedl, FH JOANNEUM - University of Applied Science Graz, Austria; Thomas Staubitz, Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Germany; and Darco Jansen, EADTU, The Netherlands.
  • «A comprehensive MOOC creation approach». Leonardo Favario, Politécnico de Torino, Italy.
  • «Local MOOC solution for thight budgets or limited internet access». Pedro Plaza, Elio Sancristóbal, Germán Carro, Manuel Blázquez, Antonio Menacho, Manuel Castro, Clara Pérez and Félix García-Loro. UNED, DIEECTQAI, Spain.
  • «On the impact of programming exercise descriptions. Effects of programming exercise descriptions to scores and working times». Ralf Teusner and Thomas Hille. Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany.

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Madrid welcomes the 5th LWMOOCS Conference, «MOOCs for all: a social and international approach»

Madrid will host the 5th LWMOOCS (Learning with MOOCs) Conference next september (26, 27 and 28), a meeting that until now had always been organized in the Unites States. This educational event around massive open online courses (MOOCs) aims to achieve greater international and social projection, under the umbrella of the largest engineering association in the world, the IEEE.

More information about the Congress http://learningwithmoocs2018.org/index.php

See how to register http://learningwithmoocs2018.org/index.php#registration

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Learning COMPASS: open pathways in a sea of learning

The COMPASS project is working on a twofold objective to modernise higher education institutions: to support the discovery of new learning opportunities and to develop flexible lifelong learning pathways. If you are interested in these lines of research, you can learn more about this project at the event organized at the Puerta de Toledo Campus of the UC3M, on July 2, 2018. For more information and the complete programme, please visit http://compass.gast.it.uc3m.es/ and don't forget to bring your laptop or tablet!

** with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the EU  

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Meet the winners of the eMadrid 2018 Awards

The eMadrid network, as part of the call for R&D programs in IT 2013, The eMadrid network, has selected the winners of the eMadrid 2018 Awards, all of them authors of papers in which the theme was wholly or partly related to research or development of educational technology. We would like to thank all the candidates who have participated in this edition for their efforts and to highlight the quality of the work presented.

We announce the winners of each category below:

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VIII eMadrid Workshop on «Cyberlearning»

Date

July, 2-3, 2018

Place

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Campus de Puerta de Toledo. Ronda de Toledo, 1 / 28005 Madrid

Title

«Cyberlearning» 

Registration

Attendance is free, but registration is required 

Live streaming

Where to eat 

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IV Workshop on Innovation and Educational Technologies (JITE) at UNED

The IV Workshop on Innovation and Educational Technologies (JITE), organised by the UNED Computer Science School, will be held on wednesday, May 16 at the Faculty of Education (calle Juan del Rosal, 14, Madrid) of this institution. The event, which proposes a joint review of both methodological proposals and the digital support of educational technologies, is free of charge, from 10.15 a.m. to 17.30 p.m.   

• Check the program 
• Follow the Workshop in streaming
• Follow the Workshop in Twitter: #jiteUNED2018
• See the webside http://www.ii.uned.es

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VIII eMadrid Workshops on «Cyberlearning», July 2-3

The eMadrid network will hold its VIII Workshops on July 2-3, 2018. Experts from academia and the business world will share with the audience the latest researchs in the development of Technology Enhanced Learning, during two days focused on «Cyberlearning». The meeting will be at Puerta de Toledo Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the institution that runs this project, in collaboration with the UAM, the UCM, the UPM, the UNED and the URJC. 

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eMadrid seminar on «When digital meets physical in education»

Date

Friday, May 11, 2018 

Programme

Live streaming

• 11.00 - 11.40 / «Bridging the gap». Michael Kirch, academic counsel at the department of Pedagogy and Rehabilitation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich. 
• 11.40 - 12.20 / «Conversational agents in MOOCs: What’s the point?». Stavros Demetriadis, associate professor at the School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece.
• 12.20 - 13.00 / «Innovations in pedagogy using MOOCs». Ting-Chuen Pong, professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

• 13.00 - 13.30 / Spanish wine sponsored by the MOOC-Maker project (www.mooc-maker.org), co-organizer of this seminar.

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The SHEILA Project will discuss at a conference how to integrate learning analytics into higher education

To assist european universities to become more mature users and custodians of digital data about their students as they learn online, the SHEILA Project is developing a policy framework that promotes formative assessment and personalized learning. This project is using innovative strategies to disseminate and translate the outputs, and to set up a long term learning analytics policy agenda and community among higher education institutions across Europe.

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Call for eMadrid 2018 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 2013, launches a new edition of eMadrid Awards. This year three categories have been enabled: 

• Best Final Degree Proyect
• Best Master's Thesis 
• Best PhD Thesis 

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