Julio Meneses

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | UOC · Psychology and Educational Sciences Studies

En el contexto del debate sobre la calidad de las intervenciones educativas, este libro presenta el proceso de investigación científica como una competencia profesional esencial al servicio de la mejora de las prácticas de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Dirigido a estudiantes, profesores y profesionales que intervienen en los diversos ámbitos de la educa...

El análisis multivariante puede contribuir a enriquecer el debate público sobre los fenómenos que son objeto de interés para los profesionales y los investigadores, gracias a la oportunidad que les ofrece para llevar a cabo un análisis complejo de los datos obtenidos en sus estudios. Al servicio de la investigación cuantitativa, y como extensión de...

Most distance universities have adopted advising practices traditionally employed in on-campus institutions. Nonetheless, little is known about the role of academic advisers while guiding students with dis/abilities to engage and achieve success in online higher education. This study aimed to explore and analyze advisers’ perspectives related to su...

Early dropout in online higher education remains a complex challenge intrinsically linked to stopout behaviour. Time poverty and time-related conflicts seem to be central for these phenomena; however, time issues have seldom been studied from the perspective of learners. This qualitative study explored retrospectively the lived experiences of time...

Disabled students must communicate their condition to the university to access accommodations, but many do not disclose or do so late. We explored identity management and disclosure decisions in a sample of 34 students from a Spanish open university through email interviews. Results show that these students carefully assess disclosing their disabil...

Artificial intelligence in education has emerged as an opportunity to facilitate teaching and learning, especially in learning environments mediated by technology, such as online higher education. Despite its growing prominence, there is a lack of empirical research analysing how artificial intelligence affects inclusive education. Therefore, this...

Online doctoral dropout is a persistent yet largely overlooked issue by institutions and researchers. This qualitative study investigated the candidates’ circumstances leading to withdrawal, its emotional repercussions, and subsequent academic trajectories. We conducted in-depth interviews with ten former part-time online PhD students and employed...

Online learning offers learners the convenience and freedom to study at their own pace and place, but it also poses various obstacles for those with specific educational needs. This paper aims to delve into the subjective experiences of online learners with disabilities, focusing on how they manage the challenges encountered in asynchronous online...

Artificial intelligence in education has emerged as an opportunity to facilitate teaching and learning, especially in learning environments mediated by technology, such as online higher education. Despite its growing prominence, there is a lack of empirical research analysing how artificial intelligence affects inclusive education. Therefore, this...

Despite the increasing number of non-traditional doctoral researchers, this population's experiences remain largely understudied and their voices unheard. Through in-depth interviews with 24 part-time online doctoral candidates, we explored the perceived facilitators and barriers to academic integration and sense of belonging, as well as how online...

El aprendizaje colaborativo en línea ofrece numerosas ventajas para el desarrollo de las competencias del estudiantado, abarcando aspectos cognitivos, metacognitivos y afectivos. No obstante, su aplicación en la práctica docente enfrenta algunos desafíos, especialmente respecto a la participación de los estudiantes con discapacidad. El profesorado...

Most distance universities have adopted advising practices traditionally employed in on-campus institutions. Nonetheless, little is known about the role of academic advisers while guiding students with dis/abilities to engage and achieve success in online higher education. This study aimed to explore and analyze advisers’ perspectives related to su...

Abordamos la intersección entre la alfabetización digital y la educación social, particularmente en el trabajo socioeducativo con la población joven orientado a fomentar su compromiso cívico. Este desafío requiere que los profesionales de la educación social tengan una formación holística en alfabetización digital, tanto en competencias como en con...

Data set used to estimate the number of women editors and their editing practices in the Spanish Wikipedia

Online higher education has the potential to offer extra benefits for students with disabilities in comparison with campus-based universities, but it can also cause them some challenges. This case study addresses why students with disabilities choose online studies and how a fully online educational model fits their expectations and needs. Twenty-f...

Online doctoral programmes have become increasingly popular, allowing adult professionals to pursue their academic goals while carrying on with their lives. This research inquired into a seldom-explored aspect of the online PhD experience: its transformative nature. Through in-depth interviews, we investigated the impact of online doctorates on can...

The online doctoral population is growing steadily worldwide, yet its narratives have not been thoroughly reviewed so far. We conducted a systematic review summarizing online PhD students' experiences. ERIC, WoS, Scopus, and PsycInfo databases were searched following PRISMA 2020 guidelines and limiting the results to peer-reviewed articles of the l...

The development of new educational environments based on the use of ICT has enabled the possibility to improve access and involvement for students with disabilities at the university level. Hence, this systematic review attempts to synthesise the main findings of previous interventions aimed to promote the inclusion of these students in Online High...

Student persistence in the first year of studies is a crucial concern in online higher education. Recent accelerated growth in online programs due to the COVID pandemic has increased concerns over higher dropout rates, which are often connected to students’ time challenges—time poverty, juggling multiple commitments, and fitting studies into busy l...

L'alumnat amb discapacitat ha guanyat presència en l'educació superior de manera progressiva en els últims anys, especialment en el cas de les institucions a distància. Les universitats en línia presenten avantatges per a aquest grup d'estudiants quant a accessibilitat i flexibilitat. No obstant això, l'alumnat amb discapacitat continua sent un col...

El alumnado con discapacidad ha ganado presencia en la educación superior de forma progresiva en los últimos años, especialmente en el caso de las instituciones a distancia. Las universidades en línea presentan ventajas para este grupo de estudiantes en cuanto a accesibilidad y flexibilidad. Sin embargo, el alumnado con discapacidad sigue siendo un...

Wikipedia is one of the most widely used information sources in the world. Although one of the guiding pillars of this digital platform is ensuring access to the diversity of human knowledge from a neutral point of view, there is a clear and persistent gender bias in terms of content about or contributed by women. The challenge is to include women...

Flexibility is typical of open universities and their e-learning designs. While this constitutes their main attraction, promising learners will be able to study “anytime, anyplace,” this also demands more self-regulation and engagement, a cause for student dropout. This case study explores professors’ experiences of flexibility in e-learning design...

Los cambios en la organizaciones son percibidos, habitualmente, como un problema para los individuos implicados, principalmente porque los beneficios de las organizaciones son diferentes a los de los participantes. Sin embargo, tal y como apunta Oreg (2003) aspectos conductuales, cognitivos y afectivos en ocasiones llevan a sujetos en igualdad de i...

Wikipedia is one of the most widely used information sources in the world. Although one of the guiding pillars of this digital platform is ensuring access to the diversity of human knowledge from a neutral point of view, there is a clear and persistent gender bias in terms of content about or written by women. Through semi-structured interviews wit...

The global pandemic caused by the Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent mandatory lockdown made university students spend more time at home, changing their daily habits including studying, as a consequence of the forced self-confinement. In this article we describe the changes observed in the connection patterns to the institutional learning managem...

The Covid-19 crisis has affected Higher Education around the world in different ways. In most countries, face-to-face universities had to move immediately their academic activities to online because of the lockdown. On the one hand, this shift has influenced positively the students’ academic performance (Gonzalez et al, 2020). Beyond some environme...

The expansion of distance and online education in the last two decades has opened the possibility to universalise access to higher education around the world. Hence, a diverse range of non-traditional students have enrolled in online higher education (Henry, 2018) to start new studies or to complete the studies they started previously in face-to-fa...

Las agresiones físicas y psicológicas son una realidad poco investigada en el ejercicio profesional de la Educación social. Los educadores y las educadoras sociales son especialmente susceptibles de sufrirlas dado el contexto laboral de dificultad social y la atención directa que proporcionan a las personas que viven estas situaciones. Por ello, es...

This presentation aims to describe the lived experiences of students with disabilities at UOC during and post lockdown and the lessons we can learn from the situation, in order to improve the support for this population in the coming future.

Wikipedia’s significant gender bias is widely acknowledged. In this paper we analyze the Spanish Wikipedia with the aim of estimating the percentage of women editors and measuring their engagement and editing practices with respect to their men counterparts. To identify the gender of Wikipedia registered users, we analyzed both the information cont...

Presentació al Seminari "Aplicació de la cultura de les dades a la millora de la docència i la recerca a la UOC" de la Càtedra UNESCO d'Educació i Tecnologia per al Canvi Social de la UOC.

Presentació al Workshop “Eines i estratègies per a la motivació i el seguiment dels estudiants de doctorat”. 1. Teoria i pràctica de la metodologia d'investigació 2. Formulació canònica del mètode científic 3. Implicacions de la formulació canònica 4. Jerarquia d’evidències segons el disseny de la investigació 5. Els límits de la formulació canòni...

Child and adolescent sexual abuse (CSA) is an important global health problem, especially in non-Western low-and middle-income countries. A number of studies have indicated that, in Latin American countries, male CSA is phenomenon of great concern. However, research on this topic is seriously lacking, and more specifically, on male-on-male CSA. We...

Universities should ensure equal opportunities and educational inclusion for all students, especially for disadvantaged groups such as students with disabilities (SWD). The Open University of Catalonia (UOC) is a fully online university that gathers a significant share of the SWD in Spain. In this presentation, we describe the institutional support...

1. Teoria i pràctica de la metodologia d'investigació 2. Formulació canònica del mètode científic 3. Implicacions de la formulació canònica 4. Jerarquia d’evidències segons el disseny de la investigació 5. Els límits de la formulació canònica 6. Un enfocament pragmàtic sobre el procés d’investigació 7. Principis de l’enfocament pragmàtic 8. Revisit...

Online higher education continues to grow, yet its high dropout rates remain a pressing and complex problem. However, there are many different definitions of dropout (and related concepts: attrition, persistence, and retention) in the literature, usually related to a temporal conception, and the issue is controversial. Inconsistent terminology is p...

Dropout represents one of the greatest challenges faced by online higher education. This paper presents an institutional intervention aimed at fostering retention and success of first-year undergraduate students at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), an online and open university, through measures addressing learning design and academic supp...

Wearable sensors are becoming increasingly popular in organizational research. Although validation studies that examine sensor data in conjunction with established social and psychological constructs are becoming more frequent, they are usually limited for two reasons: first, most validation studies are carried out under laboratory settings. Only a...

This study analyses predictors of students’ coping responses to academic sexism. 954 high school students (MAge = 17; SDAge = 0.90, 57% girls) participated. Boys were therefore more likely to use avoidance responses, whereas girls confronting and help-seeking responses. Likewise, hierarchical regressions suggest that girls and boys and girls whose...

Online higher education continues to grow, yet its high dropout rates remain a pressing and complex problem. This article presents a scoping review of the recent literature on the theme, focusing on dropout definitions, concepts, and models, study domains and themes, methodological approaches, and findings. A search of relevant databases yielded 13...

Mixed methods research has been increasingly recognized as a useful approach for describing and explaining complex issues in palliative care and end-of-life research. However, little is known about the use of this methodology in the field and the ways in which mixed methods studies have been reported. The purpose of this methodological review was t...

Entre en una de sus aulas, no importa si es de grado o de posgrado, y pregunte a sus estudiantes: ¿qué es para ustedes la investigación? ¿Qué es investigar? ¿Qué hace un investigador? Si, como docente, se permite el lujo de lanzar estas preguntas en lugar de proporcionar una respuesta, muy probablemente se encontrará de frente con el reflejo del pr...

En el actual contexto social, el juego digital es prácticamente ubicuo. No se trata únicamente de que los videojuegos inunden los comercios y los espacios publicitarios en la grandes campañas de venta del año, o de que las compañías que comercializan dispositivos digitales utilicen los juegos como uno de sus reclamos de venta, sino de que lo lúdico...

El projecte ESPRIA (acrònim de l'expressió “EStudiants de PRImer Any”) és una intervenció institucional a gran escala de millora de l'acompanyament dels estudiants nouvinguts a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), que té com a objectiu incrementar la seva retenció als programes de grau, establint un conjunt de mesures orientades a facilitar-ne...

The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study is to describe and compare how researchers in the education, nursing, psychology, and sociology disciplines operationalize and conceptualize the quality of mixed methods research (MMR). An international sample of 44 MMR researchers representing these four disciplines were interviewed. The study fi...

En este trabajo se presenta una intervención a escala institucional llevada a cabo con el objetivo de mejorar la experiencia de los estudiantes de primer año en la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, una institución online y abierta. El objetivo final es mejorar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes y así incrementar su retención en los programa...

Wearable sensors are providing exciting new research opportunities for social scientists. The scholarly community has invested considerable effort to assess the validity and reliability of gathered data over the recent years (Kayhan et al., 2018; Parker et al., 2018). The grand majority of these initial studies has relied on laboratory experiments...

Online higher education (OHE) continues to grow, yet its high dropout rates remain a pressing and complex problem. This research aimed at investigating and exploring how first-year, fully online OHE students experienced and managed their time and how it impacted their persistence, stop-out behavior, or withdrawal. Participants were 24 undergraduate...

Wikipedia began in 2001 and already reaches more than 40 million articles in more than 300 languages. It is the main source of information for many users, especially in the educational field, where seven out of ten students recognize using Wikipedia. But even though Wikipedia promotes the ‘neutral point of view’ in its articles, it is well recogniz...

En esta comunicación se presentan resultados de un estudio de casos múltiples realizado en Uruguay, donde ha sido implantado el modelo 1:1 de inclusión de las TIC en el sistema educativo público desde 2008. En este contexto, se estudiaron las prácticas innovadoras entre docentes. Se seleccionaron ocho centros de los niveles de educación primaria y...

The aim of this paper is to understand the emotions associated with the experience of teaching online in an online university and the factors that influence these emotions. A total of 965 online teachers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (www.uoc.edu) were surveyed. Three emotions linked to teaching online were identified: satisfaction, relief...

This module aims to introduce students to some important issues related to the incorporation of professional competence in research as a key instrument for promoting quality in educational interventions. Taking the professional debates that have dealt with this issue during the last two decades as a starting point, we will explore the internal and...

Docents i educadors atenen problemàtiques compartides que necessiten un treball cooperatiu per construir alternatives educatives. La millora de l’èxit educatiu requereix garantir un treball interdisciplinari entre els diferents agents implicats. Aquest article recull informació rellevant sobre la incorporació dels educadors socials al sistema educa...

Docentes y educadores atienden problemáticas compartidas que necesitan un trabajo cooperativo para construir alternativas educativas. La mejora del éxito educativo requiere garantizar un trabajo interdisciplinario entre los diferentes agentes implicados. Este artículo recoge información relevante sobre la incorporación de los educadores sociales en...

La recerca que presentem a continuació neix de la necessitat que tenen avui en dia els centres educatius a l’hora de donar resposta a tots aquests reptes. En aquest capítol introductori farem un recorregut per les recerques prèvies que han centrat la seva atenció en la incorporació de la figura professional de l’educador social en l’àmbit escolar e...

Scratch is a visual programming language developed by MIT and designed to facilitate the teaching of programming to children. The first version appeared in 2005 and since then it has been used in different educational levels and with diverse objectives: to improve the learning of some subjects as mathematics or music, to work on computational think...

Proyecto de investigación interdisciplinar financiado por la Fundació “La Caixa” http://waww.blogs.uoc.edu Esta investigación en curso pretenden entender por qué hay mujeres que deciden no participar u ocultar su participación en Wikipedia, identificando causas y proporcionando recomendaciones para la comunidad de editores, contribuyendo así a eli...

Fer-se gran és sinònim de modificar les pràctiques lligades a la cultura i l’oci. Es deixen de fer unes coses i se’n comencen a fer d’altres. Escoltar música, sortir de nit, quedar amb els amics, llegir el diari, utilitzar les xarxes socials o assistir a actes polítics són pràctiques que tenen molt a veure amb el moment vital. Analitzar què diu l’E...

This paper addresses the factor of time in relation to dropout in online higher education (OHE), linking both to fully online models such as UOC's. In OHE, time‐related reasons are the most important factors for dropping‐out; conversely, time management factors emerge as a key issue for continuance intention and re‐enrolment. This paper thus presen...

As an open university, at UOC there are nearly no enrolment requirements and, furthermore, students freely choose the courses they want to take each semester. But most of the students that choose UOC to combine their daily live with university studies are not really aware about the effort and workload implied. Therefore, there is a significant drop...

This study introduces a new multivariate framework around a set of digital practices such as entertainment-oriented uses, information-oriented uses, social-connection uses and e-commerce uses, and shows that these digital practices are, in fact, important predictors of the positive and negative perceptions of digital gaming. We developed two multip...

La intervención educativa forma parte de la práctica habitual de muchos profesionales que, en sus ámbitos específicos de actuación, se proponen planificar e implementar acciones que conduzcan a mejorar las oportunidades en la vida de las personas. Tanto en el ámbito de la educación formal como en el sociocomunitario y el laboral, el éxito de las in...

En los últimos años se ha puesto de manifiesto la persistencia de una segregación vocacional por género, que se traduce en diferencias significativas entre mujeres y hombres en las diferentes disciplinas a través de las que se organizan los estudios superiores y la posterior trayectoria profesional. En este artículo revisamos la problemática centrá...

Resumen. La enseñanza de la programación en la infancia es un hecho. Obligatoria en algunos países y etapas, algunos autores defienden su bondad como herramienta para trabajar el pensamiento computacional. En este póster presentamos un estudio que estamos realizando para conocer cómo y porqué se está introduciendo la programación en la educación...

Studies on ICT use in education usually focus on ICT's contribution to training processes. However, scarce research has concentrated on the problematic use of ICT among young people in the school context, and most of it approaches the problem from a psychopathological perspective. The purpose of this paper, in contrast, is to analyse problematic IC...

La colaboración entre docentes, con o sin uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC), constituye un factor determinante en su desarrollo profesional y, en consecuencia, un elemento clave para el buen funcionamiento de los centros educativos y la calidad del sistema escolar. Por este motivo, y dada la escasez de investigaciones...

Studies on ICT use in education usually focus on ICT's contribution to training processes. However, scarce research has concentrated on the problematic use of ICT among young people in the school context, and most of it approaches the problem from a psychopathological perspective. The purpose of this paper, in contrast, is to analyse problematic IC...

In recent years there has been widespread interest in the implementation of online courses in universities. While most studies about online learning environments primarily focus on technology-related issues or instructional methods, little attention has been given to online teachers and their teaching approaches. The aim of this paper is to provide...

Este módulo tiene como objetivo introducir al lector en algunas cuestiones importantes relacionadas con la incorporación de la competencia profesional en investigación como un instrumento clave para la promoción de la calidad en las intervenciones educativas. Tomando como punto de partida los debates profesionales que han tratado esta cuestión dura...

Esta comunicación presenta los resultados preliminares de un estudio de casos múltiple que se está desarrollando en centros educativos del departamento de Colonia, Uruguay. Como objetivos, se busca describir las formas en que se manifiesta la colaboración entre docentes, analizando experiencias dentro y fuera de los centros. Se procura conocer la i...

Se buscan ingenieras, físicas y tecnólogas En la actualidad, y a pesar de que los resultados académicos de chicas y chicos en ciencias y tecnología son cada vez más similares e incluso mejores en el caso de las chicas, todavía sigue siendo escasa la presencia y participación activa de estas en estudios y profesiones ligadas a algunos ámbitos STEM,...

Internships are an essential element of initial teacher training programmes, contributing not only to student teachers’ skill development, but also to their career guidance and job placement. However, there is little empirical evidence on both the factors affecting skills acquisition during in-school curricular practices and required conditions for...

La finalidad de esta investigación ha sido proporcionar una visión integradora de algunos componentes constitutivos de la identidad del profesor como docente en aulas virtuales universitarias, en una universidad con una docencia completamente virtual. Los tres aspectos estudiados son los roles en la enseñanza virtual, los enfoques en la enseñanza v...

La finalitat d'aquesta recerca ha estat proporcionar una visió integradora d'alguns components constitutius de la identitat del professor com a docent en aules virtuals universitàries, en una universitat amb una docència totalment virtual. Els tres aspectes estudiats són els rols en l'ensenyament virtual, els enfocaments en l'ensenyament virtual i...

This study tackled secondary students’ gender-stereotyped portrayals of ICT occupations, together with the use of gender references associated with these occupations. Likewise, the existence of gender differences was also examined. 443 boys and 457 girls (mean age 15 years; S.D.= 0.65) from Catalonia (Spain) participated in the study. A content ana...

Este artículo analiza la opinión que tiene sobre la profesión de informática el alumnado del último ciclo de educación primaria. Se encuestaron 300 alumnos de 12 escuelas y se observó que la opinión de las niñas era sensiblemente peor que la de los niños además de que ellas se consideran menos capaces de realizar un programa informático. A partir d...

Este libro introduce al lector a cuatro técnicas de recogida de datos a menudo utilizadas en la investigación social y educativa: el cuestionario, la entrevista, el grupo de discusión y la observación participante. En el ciclo de la investigación, estas técnicas son implementadas con el fin de aglutinar un conjunto de evidencias que, una vez analiz...

Studies of student re-enrolment patterns in higher education constitute, along with traditional studies of persistence and dropout, a key element for improving the quality of higher education institutions. However, these studies tend to be limited as they are centred on a single institution, due to the lack of national-scale data sets for monitorin...

En este capítulo trataremos de acercarnos a las características principales del cuestionario como técnica para la recogida de datos en las investigaciones sociales. Así, empezaremos por plantearnos algunos elementos básicos relativos a su origen, su función en el marco de las diferentes técnicas disponibles y, finalmente, cómo se inserta en el proc...

This study examined Spanish young people’s gender-stereotyped beliefs and attitudes about people working in the field of information and communications technology (ICT). For this purpose, their positive, negative, and neutral perceptions of the associated characteristics of these workers were also analyzed. Likewise, the use of masculine, feminine,...

Aquesta introducció als aspectes bàsics de l’anàlisi multivariant té com a objectiu general proporcionar al lector algunes claus importants per a abordar els coneixements, les habilitats i els valors vinculats amb el desenvolupament de models estadístics que permeten portar a terme una anàlisi complexa de les dades obtingudes en la investigació qua...

Este estudio pretende identificar los factores que influyen en las percepciones de los profesores sobre los beneficios de los medios educativos digitales para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje. Varios estudios relevantes han indicado que cuando los profesores creen que los medios educativos digitales son valiosos para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje, son...

Using a digital inequality approach, this study analyses the introduction of the internet into teachers’ daily activity in order to support and enhance community building in classrooms and schools. From a representative sample of 350 schools offering compulsory and postcompulsory education in Catalonia (Spain), 2,163 teachers were surveyed. After c...

El principal objetivo de este artículo es clasificar los diversos usos que los docentes y los alumnos hacen de las Tecnologías de la Comunicación y la Información (TIC) como