C. Cardenas

Publications of C. Cardenas

• A Grid-based Architectural Framework for Composition and Execution of Complex Learning Processes

  Authors: J. Torres, C. Cardenas, J.M. Dodero, I. Aedo

  Advanced Learning Technologies, 2008. ICALT '08. Eighth IEEE International Conference on; 08/2008

  Educational Modeling Languages (EML) are currently used to design and specify complex learning process that adapt the demands of a particular learning setting. LPCEL (Learning Process Composition andEducational Modeling Languages (EML) are currently used to design and specify complex learning process that adapt the demands of a particular learning setting. LPCEL (Learning Process Composition and Execution Language) is a formal language used to specify complex learning scenarios. From a software architectural point-of-view, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) provide an important approach in order to implement dynamically learning environments from diverse, distributed and heterogeneous learning resources and services, these can be hardly synchronized and coordinated through an EML specification. Based upon SOA principles, Grid-Computing offer a powerful environment to use of resources such as processing power, disk storage, applications and data. This work presents a grid-based architectural framework that enable the dynamic and unanticipated composition of distributed learning services.

• Development and implementation of a new model for academicevaluation

  Authors: C. Cardenas

  Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual; 02/2000

  Finishing an engineering program with the highest academic standards, and giving a diploma certifies the graduate skills to apply pertinent knowledge to the practice of engineering. Traditionally,Finishing an engineering program with the highest academic standards, and giving a diploma certifies the graduate skills to apply pertinent knowledge to the practice of engineering. Traditionally, the way of certifying the knowledge is through isolated academic evaluations whose results are supposed to estimate the overall student performance. The necessity for predicting and diagnosing the students performance and for improving the teaching-learning processes through the use of academic evaluations, in a continuous way, is imperative in educational institutions with the commitment of continuous quality improvement. Moreover, with these results, the administration could take actions on time, especially if the institutions have defined (a requirement for graduation) to pass an academic evaluation. This document shows the academic results of the Monterrey Tech Queretaro Campus versus Monterrey Tech System (ITESM System) and CENEVAL national evaluations (National Center for Evaluation) in different curricula of electronics engineering programs. A methodology is proposed for implementing an academic adaptive evaluation system using the technological platform Lotus Notes/Learning Space. The objective is to certify the academic performance of the students when they finish their engineering studies

• Improving academic performance through typifying electronicsengineers

  Authors: C. Cardenas

  Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual; 02/2000

  Traditionally when a professor begins teaching a given course, he or she can assume that all of the students enrolled in said course possess the necessary abilities, knowledge, attitudes and valuesTraditionally when a professor begins teaching a given course, he or she can assume that all of the students enrolled in said course possess the necessary abilities, knowledge, attitudes and values in order to achieve the desired maximum results of the course in terms of performance. However, that is not always the case. In order to reach said performance goal, it is necessary to first realize a diagnostic analysis of the students from a holistic approach, as opposed to a behavioral one, and to use said results in adapting the learning-teaching process to the group of students in question (adaptive process). From this perspective, it is therefore necessary to define the ideal profile of the alumnus, based on consulting those constituents whom actually interact with students upon graduation or who typically employ students with said profile, and through the use of various tools, not only those academic in nature but moreover those tools related to social skills