Edmundo Tovar

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | UPM · Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software

italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Contribution: This article analyzes the learning and motivational impact of teacher-authored educational video games on computer science education and compares its effectiveness in both face-to-face and online (remote) formats. This work presents compa...

Contribution: This article compares the effectiveness for online software engineering education of video-based learning and game-based learning using teacher-authored educational video games created by using authoring tools. Background: Although substantial research has evaluated the impact of video-based and game-based learning versus traditional...

The curricular educational components comprise all the educational resources designed and used in the teaching- learning process, from the curricular design of a career, through analytical programming to the didactic material used in class. The use of heterogeneous data in unstructured formats and systems that do not share data make it difficult fo...

This paper showcases relevant initiatives to address inclusive and sustainable development through the objectives of UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) towards ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. These research projects have been possible thanks to initiatives such a...

The presence of plants in learning spaces can substantially improve well-being among students and teachers. Plants can positively influence environmental parameters such as air quality, temperature, or reverberation, but they also have an impact on parameters such as concentration, collaboration, and learning performance. This study aims to use pla...

Nowadays, it is mandatory to complement the traditional learning methods with active ones that enhance the student’s motivation and facilitate the development of technical and soft competences. LEGO® Serious Play is an experiential methodology designed to enhance innovation and performance in the business world and it is fully aligned with these ne...

This paper presents findings on participants of a massive open online course named "Educational Robotics for all" developed under Open edX platform. The document describes the organization and structure of the MOOC and some of its preliminary results. As an example, Module 2 about Gender and STEAM is presented and discussed.

Contribution: This article provides evidence on the effectiveness of game-based learning (GBL) for computer science education when using educational video games created by teachers using authoring tools. Background: Although teacher-oriented authoring tools for creating educational video games can help overcome the main barriers hampering the use a...

Information Technologies are the key assets within any public or private organization, these assets should be governed by a senior executive or a special body in the higher hierarchical level of the organization. Public universities need to create an IT governance body that allows direct, evaluate, monitor all the management process of the projects...

Robotics and computational thinking are valuable tools for developing the pedagogy of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM), and for promoting the inclusion and integration of diverse groups of students. There is a multitude of robotic teaching tools at our disposal intended to promote innovation and motivation of students...

The knowledge exchange in higher education is growing day by day demanding more advanced methods of teaching rather than the old methods. This paper presents an approach that tracks and measures changes in learner's behavior, based on two main learning strategies: video-class and LEGO serious play. The objective of the work is to address the questi...

The Web is the most used Internet's service to create and share information. In large information collections, Knowledge Organization plays a key role in order to classify and to find valuable information. Likewise, Linked Open Data is a powerful approach for linking different Web datasets. Today, several Knowledge Organization Systems are publishe...

The development of citizens’ and organizations’ entrepreneurial capacity is a key policy objective of any country. The information required for monitoring development of curricula and learning activities fostering entrepreneurship as a competence is obtained from different data sources in different information systems. The semantic interoperability...

The huge amount of knowledge sharing in the process of education is increasing day by day. The typical normal methods of teaching courses remain the same even of the variety of techniques that are been used. This paper presents an attempt to find new learning methods, with the objective of improving the process of learning by measuring the changes...

Scientific publishing conveys the outputs of an academic or research activity, in this sense; it also reflects the efforts and issues in which people engage. To identify potential collaborative networks one of the simplest approaches is to leverage the co-authorship relations. In this approach, semantic and hierarchic relationships defined by a Kno...

New and innovative technologies enable a variety of instructional environments that help students overcome many traditional boundaries and constraints to learning. As the classroom becomes more of an abstraction than a physical space, educators and learners embrace a variety of pioneering tech-powered teaching and learning paradigms that will serve...

The purpose of the paper is to show a literature review and its current status about developing a generic understanding of how to sustain the process of learning through gamifications in OER repositories. That once instantiated can lead us to the development of Quality Model of OER Sustainability concept. Having a strategy to innovate the eLearning...

The purpose of the paper is to show a literature review and its current status about developing a generic understanding of how to sustain the process of learning through gamifications in OER repositories. That once instantiated can lead us to the development of Quality Model of OER Sustainability concept. Having a strategy to innovate the eLearning...

The OER movement has challenged the traditional value chain by employing new methods to deliver high-quality educational content. Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education as well as to facilitate knowledge sharing, and capacity building. OER not only play a crucial role in nonformal and in...

In professional environments, attention paid to aspects such as supervisory styles, interpersonal relationships and workers eagerness can have a positive impact on employee motivation and, consequently, on their performance and well-being. To achieve this, knowledge management models such as those presented here can be applied. This model generates...

Open education has revolutionized the educational environment. Massive open online courses have become the main showcase for open educational resources, but the competition to establish a position in this movement has led to the rapid publication of many courses of arguable quality. This paper presents and analyzes the process of creating a small p...

One of the fundamental concepts of Open Educational Resources (OER) is “the ability to freely adapt and reuse existing pieces of knowledge.” The application of Semantic Web approach and Linked Data technologies to Open Education seeks to turn data and metadata from open educational repositories into actionable interoperability for the improvement o...

The paper presents the experience developed by the authors in two virtual learning platforms oriented to learning about helicopters in aerospace engineering. The first course on OCW-UPM project will be explained, and as well as the evolution towards a step further in open education resources with the course "Introduction to Engineering Helicopter"...

This editorial introduces the first selection of papers in iJOE from the REV annual conference held in 2016. It publishes an overview of the REV coverage of issues and topics inside their papers published.

Both, MOOCs and learning analytics, are two emergent topics in the field of educational technology. This paper shows the main contributions of the eMadrid network in these two topics during the last years (2014–2016), as well as the planned future works in the network. The contributions in the field of the MOOCs include the design and authoring of...

The use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) system has increased significantly in the recent years. Among the pioneers of the MOOCs is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The latest development, that of the Internet (including very recently the mobile Internet), has similarly been adopted by many existing higher education providers...

This paper presents a proposed IT artifact, denominated framework for the entire process of IT Demand Management (IT-DM), which identifies the phases, main activities, and sub-activities of each of the phases of the IT-DM viewed from a strategic level view. This framework is the result of the combination of conceptual models and standards related t...

Entrepreneurship in Europe is a priority as a powerful driver of economic growth and job creation. The increasing demand for this skill and to reduce unemployment requires innovative ways to train. This paper present the StartUp model composed by the redefinition of Entrepreneurship in terms of competences and an Open Educational Practice based on...

The paper presents the results of the implementation of the course "Introduccion a la Ingenieria del Helicoptero" (Introduction to Helicopter Engineering) in the new e-learning platform edX. The publication of this subject in the edX platform is the natural evolution in the process of teaching and learning helicopter engineering in an Aeronautical...

While MOOCS have emerged as a new form of open online education around the world, research is stilling lagging behind to come up with a sound theoretical basis that can cover the impact of socio-economic background variables, ICT competences, prior experiences and lifelong learning profile, variance in intentions, environmental influences, outcome...

In these days, much of the information published on the Web is published on social media, represented through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter, to name only the most prominent. Each of the media and social networks has its own scheme of operation and different working characteristics; for example, Twitter is a social network where millio...

This editorial introduces the first selection of papers in IEEE-RITA from the FIE annual conference held in 2014. It publishes an overview of the FIE coverage of issues and topics inside their engineering coverage of Latin American countries, and of the solutions and vision they provide worldwide and for the Region.

Open Educational Resources include a diverse range of materials making it the most representative icon arisen within the Open Content movement. Users who access and use OERs could be classified into one of these three groups: instructor, student and self-learner. To provide personalized lists of OERs according to the user profile and personal prefe...

This paper reports on two noticeable approaches to digitalizing and globalizing engineering by applying information and communication technologies (ICTs) to engineering education. In the first approach, a new European and interinstitutional online master's degree program was developed and prepared among five different institutions from four differe...

This editorial introduces the first selection of papers in IEEE-RITA from the LACCEI annual conference held in 2014. It publishes a view of the LACCEI coverage of issues and topics inside their engineering coverage of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and of the solutions and vision they provide worldwide and for the Region.

The OER movement has tended to define “openness” in terms of access to use and reuse educational materials, and to address the geographical and financial barriers among students, teachers and self-learners with open access to high quality digital educational resources. MOOCs are the continuation of this trend of openness, innovation, and use of tec...

Motivation is a critical factor in the academic performance, especially in the EHEA context, where the active learning must be promoted. In the case of engineering education, it is particularly necessary to care the student motivation by several reasons. The difficulty of engineering degrees can hinder the motivation of students and it can affect t...

From the point of view of access to metadata from distributed repositories, the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) proposed a protocol for the interchange and harvesting of metadata called OAI-PMH. This protocol provide a low degree of interoperability, however, with an approach based on semantic technologies, the interoperability of data can reach a h...

Open Education is changing the educational paradigm. The consolidation of the OpenCourseWare initiative, supported by the top universities of the World, and the revolution generated in the recent years through the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses, present a new educational scenario for teachers, students and institutions. This new environme...

Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education as well as facilitate policy dialog, knowledge sharing, and capacity building. One of the fundamental concepts of OER is “the ability to freely adapt and reuse existing pieces of knowledge.” Reuse of educational resources by both individuals and org...

The contribution of GICAC UPM group in the eMadrid initiative has focused to the application of semantic web technologies in the Open Education context. This work presents the main results obtained through different applications and models according to a roadmap followed by the group.

The access to information is essential to learning as much as instruction. The evolution of the Web, from Web 1.0, where we were consumers of information, to a Web 2.0 where now we are producers and consumers of information, has allowed the Web becomes a huge database and in constant expansion. In these days much of the information published on the...