Laura Alonso Díaz

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Extremadura

Els canvis esdevinguts les darreres dècades relacionats amb la digitalització i el desenvolupament de competències han fet necessària l'aprovació d'una normativa reguladora per aconseguir que la ciutadania de la Unió Europea es perfili com a ciutadania competent. Per aquest motiu, i per democratitzar el desenvolupament de competències, i més encara...

Este libro titulado Avances de la pedagogía actual. Propuestas de educación cívica y educación del carácter recoge varios capítulos redactados, en su gran mayoría, por docentes de diferentes universidades españolas, así como de otros países latinoamericanos. Es un libro con temáticas variadas, útil para quienes se dedican a la pedagogía, así como p...

Este libro titulado Avances de la pedagogía actual. Propuestas de educación cívica y educación del carácter recoge varios capítulos redactados, en su gran mayoría, por docentes de diferentes universidades españolas, así como de otros países latinoamericanos. Es un libro con temáticas variadas, útil para quienes se dedican a la pedagogía, así como p...

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted societal structures worldwide. In the educational realm, the forced closure, and subsequent reopening of school settings disrupted the personal and professional lives of administrators, teachers, parents, and students. Two groups of Spanish stakeholders affected by the return to face-to-face instruction during the pan...

Bilingual education is getting great achievements because of the performance of bilingual programs. In Spain, these programs have been developed at the university thanks to the efforts made during the previous decades of their implementation. The autonomous region of Extremadura has been working cooperatively with other institutions since then, and...

Bilingual education requires teachers who are effectively trained for that purpose. Relying on this premise, the present research studies the impact that a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) training program taught by in-service bilingual schoolteachers has on the trainees’ self-perception of their general and specific competences on t...

La formación investigadora del profesorado se ha revelado como uno de los retos pendientes en la actualidad, máxime porque como colectivo, ha sido más consumidor de investigación que productor de la misma (Robinson, 2003). Tanto es así, que se puede distinguir entre el profesorado que elabora el conocimiento y quien lo consume al trasladarlo a su a...

How to better prepare future bilingual teachers for foreign language learning classrooms and their challenges is a key consideration in education, a concern echoed across the world as such programmes, where curricular content is taught in a foreign language, grow in popularity. This article presents student profiles and satisfaction for the first y...

El presente estudio analiza la relación entre la frecuencia de uso de las redes sociales y ladimensión cognitiva del bienestar psicológico en población preuniversitaria y universitaria (n= 200), mediante un procedimiento de muestreo no probabilístico. Con objeto de medir lafrecuencia de uso de las redes sociales se diseñó un cuestionario ad hoc; pa...

¿Hacia dónde se dirige la práctica profesional educativa? A pesar de los esfuerzos que las instituciones, organizaciones y empresas realizan por ofrecer prácticas de calidad a los estudiantes de profesiones educativas, sigue existiendo una desconexión importante entre lo la formación que la universidad ofrece y el talento que el mercado laboral dem...

The paper presents the results of the international research on the ICT tools use by academic teachers. The research was based on the authors' typology of ICT tools comprising three groups of tools according to teaching objectives-information , communication and management ICT tools. The data analysis proved that teachers apply all three types of p...

Is it possible that by playing video games adults can develop key competences that may prove beneficial in dealing with the new challenges of 21st-century society? The present study identifies the profile of adult video gamers and defines the characteristics of the games they choose to play. It also examines the way and with what type of video game...

This chapter describes the experience of using synchronous virtual classroom (SVC) with undergraduate students in both Telematics and Computer Science Engineering degrees at the University of Extremadura. A problem-based learning methodology to mentor and monitor the course entitled Information Security in 2014–2015 was implemented. SVC was used in...

In response to the European Union’s call for the promotion of linguistic diversity and multilingualism among its member states at various levels, the Teacher Training College at the Universidad de Extremadura in Spain launched a bilingual track in its primary education degree. The track has four main goals: Increasing graduates’ English language pr...

In response to the European Union’s call for the promotion of linguistic diversity and multilingualism among its member states at various levels, the Teacher Training College at the Universidad de Extremadura in Spain launched a bilingual track in its primary education degree. The track has four main goals: Increasing graduates’ English language pr...

Presentamos el “modelo formativo para un empleo de sostenibilidad integrada”. Se trata de un modelo que apuesta porque todo tipo de profesión integre en su visión profesional el carácter de sostenibilidad. Esta propuesta incardina con el paradigma de la “sostenibilidad fuerte” que presentan Longueira, Bautista y Rodríguez (2018), según el cual hay...

Estamos preparados el profesorado y los formadores de hoy en día para hacer frente a los desafíos de una sociedad cada vez más tecnológica, intercultural e interconectada? ¿Estamos haciendo bien nuestro trabajo o simplemente se opta por replicar los sistemas de enseñanza tradicional en la nube? ¿Se está trabajando sobre un modelo de cambio conceptu...

The present paper analyses the development and results of an online postgraduate training course addressed to pre-service teachers from different educational fields who aim to be trained in intercultural matters. The mentioned course was implemented in 2013–2014 at the University of Extremadura. Discussion groups and log books were used from a qual...

The present paper analyses the development and results of an online postgraduate training course addressed to pre-service teachers from different educational fields who aim to be trained in intercultural matters. The mentioned course was implemented in 2013-2014 at the University of Extremadura. Discussion groups and log books were used from a qual...

En la presente obra, se reflexiona sobre los efectos y las exigencias que la era digital está reclamando a la educación, concretamente a los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, pero muy especialmente a su evaluación. Su finalidad es ofrecer a los docentes una revisión del papel de la evaluación en los entornos digitales en contextos educativos esc...

The paper studies the specificity of the use of ICT tools by Spanish and Russian teachers. The research was carried out within the framework of the IRNet project with the participation of two universities - Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia and University of Extremadura, Spain. The results of the survey described give a general idea of...

Resumen. Para lograr una verdadera democratización de la formación docente, necesitamos de un profesorado en continua formación, que sea capaz de adaptarse a las demandas de la sociedad actual. El objetivo de esta adenda es complementar la ponencia " Transiciones for-mativas para una práctica docente democrática: La dialéctica entre los contextos u...

El objeto de la investigación, se centra -más allá del uso de las redes sociales- en el concepto del “bienestar psicológico”. Por el destacable crecimiento del uso de este tipo de estructuras sociales digitalizadas en los últimos años, es necesario conocer en qué medida o de qué forma afectan directa o indirectamente a las personas. Puesto que el s...

An assessment system for e-learning methods is analyzed in this study. The system proposed used videoconference to assess students. The model tested has been used in three different countries. Teachers, students and external evaluators were involved in the process. Using a qualitative methodology, interviews, focus groups and questionnaires were us...

RESUMEN El proposito del presente estudio ha sido analizar la influencia del programa de intervencion psicopedagogica “ENFOCATE”, en la atencion selectiva y focalizada del alumnado de 3o de Educacion Primaria de un CEIP de la localidad de Merida. Los participantes del estudio fueron 43 estudiantes con edades comprendidas entre los ocho y nueve anos...

This work describes a research study developed to assess teaching designs and methodologies used in a course of the University Lecturer Training Plan at the University of Extremadura (Spain) called Virtual Learning and the environments in Synchronous Virtual Classrooms (SVCs). Training was given in three editions in different university campuses. T...

This research analyzes the main study methods of research problems salvation, as the most important in the search of innovative research ideas with the utilization of separate components of computer oriented system in the process of teaching the natural and mathematical sciences. The structural components of salvation theory of research problems ar...

An assessment system for e-learning methods is analyzed in this study. The system proposed used videoconference to assess students. The model tested has been used in three different countries. Teachers, students and external evaluators were involved in the process. Using a qualitative methodology, interviews, focus groups and questionnaires were us...

This article shows results obtained after evaluating the integration of ICT in the professional, teaching and research development of university faculty members. The research has been implemented in the frame of the IRNET European Project. A questionnaire designed ad hoc has been applied to a number of universities that join the mentioned project....

http://jec.sagepub.com/content/early/recent This study traces the development of a grounded theory of assessment in e-learning environments, a field in need of research to establish the parameters of an assessment which is both reliable and worthy of higher learning accreditation. Using grounded theory as a research method, we studied an e-assessm...

This article presents one of the studies from the European project IRNET, a network that pursues the development of new tools and methods for advanced pedagogical science in the field of ICT instruments, e-learning and intercultural competences. We intend to explore the application of international and national policies of innovative, digital Educa...

This article presents a number of results of research conducted within the European IRNet Project: International Research Network for study and development of new tools and methods for advanced pedagogical science in the field of ICT instruments, e-learning and intercultural competences. In the research described a tool which was used to retrieve d...

Th e presented paper describes the characteristics of a study conducted on Synchronous Virtual Classrooms (SVCs), virtual spaces which harbour such resources as videoconferences, shared desk-tops, etc. Th e main objective of the research was to assess teaching and methodological, communication and technological aspects of SVCs in e-learning process...

In this paper we present the design of the research project “Virtual platforms and synchronous virtual classrooms: development of an integrated training model for innovation and educational excellence” which aims to answer the need for promotion of innovation and the use of ICT in education and employment. Our research proposals are to design, impl...

In this paper the current situation of the Spanish Vocational Training is presented from the perspective of Lifelong Education, and its two subsystems are explained, that of initial, formal, technical and specific vocational training and that of the subsystem of professional training for employment (including in-service training and occupational or...

The advancement of Synchronous Virtual Classrooms (SVC) offers teachers and students the opportunity of working in virtual learning environments and overcoming limitations generated by the Learning Management Systems. This lead us to reconsider teaching skills and tasks appropriate to these virtual spaces, related to collaborative learning, e-asses...

La sociedad actual crece en edad y en tecnología, requiriendo de investigaciones en las que la educación permanente se convierta en su principal objeto de estudio. En este contexto comienzan a surgir tendencias en las que se promueve el uso de tecnologías lúdicas con objetivos pedagógicos y formativos a través de los videojuegos, pero los esfuerzos...

This research studies an assessment system of distance learning that combines an innovative virtual assessment tool and the use of synchronous virtual classrooms with videoconferencing, which could become a reliable and guaranteed model for the evaluation of university e-learning activities. This model has been tested in an online course for Second...

Today Education is characterized by the use of Information and Communication Technologies, as well as the adaptation to the European Higher Education Space. In this environment, the social software turns up as a tool that, strategically used, can lead to interesting pedagogical innovations. This article shows an innovative experience developed duri...

Today Education is characterized by the use of Information and Communication Technologies, as well as the adaptation to the European Higher Education Space. In this environment, the social software turns up as a tool that, strategically used, can lead to interesting pedagogical innovations. This article shows an innovative experience developed duri...

This paper presents the development and a summary of the results of a Training Experience implemented in the University of Extremadura. This experience is the innovative design of an online Postgraduate Course for Secondary School Teachers. The research team, which has been committed to online teaching for longer than a decade, began an innovative...

En un mundo en el que se imponen las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, la Universidad española tiene el reto de la adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior con la demanda de importantes cambios estructurales y especialmente metodológicos en los procesos de enseñanza/aprendizaje. En este contexto, el software social aparece...

This study is based on an eminently socio-constructivist and investigational paradigm. By making pedagogical use of blogs in the classroom, we aimed to determine whether students appreciate the usefulness both of this new social tool and of technology in general applied to education. Based on the use of blogs in several university subjects we desig...

Las universidades actuales se enfrentan al reto de actualizar no sólo sus recursos tecnológicos, sino también, y quizá más profundamente, el conocimiento de los docentes y su práctica pedagógica. Creemos que sólo así se logrará una verdadera innovación en los procesos de enseñanza/aprendizaje en este nuevo Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior. Una...

The main purpose of this study is not to compare online and traditional face-to-face instruction merely to prove which one is better, but rather it aims to highlight some of the possible risks and strengths which may help to improve the role of teachers in both methods. The scene consisted of various thematic blocks from a training programme, with...

Con la pretensión de contribuir al estudio de la labor profesional de los docentes de enseñanza virtual o e-learning, hemos diseñado una investigación donde describir los rasgos genéricos que, en forma de tareas, debe desempeñar un e-tutor. Utilizando una metodología de corte cualitativo, triangulamos técnicas y fuentes, participando un total de 51...

Este artículo es un extracto de un estudio más amplio donde pretendíamos extraer líneas formativas para los docentes de e-learning. Desarrollado en el curso académico 2006/07 tratamos de descubrir cuáles son las funciones propias del docente de e-formación. Partiendo de una metodología de corte cualitativo, triangulamos fuentes y técnicas mediante...

This report summarizes the efforts of the working group coordinated by the authors titled "Learning Communities around Virtual Forums," linked to the II Online Congress for the Observatory of the Cybersociety: Towards what Knowledge Society? First we analyze the gestation process of the congress and of the previously mentioned working group. Next,...

RESUMEN: A partir de una cierta experiencia en actividades de e-learning, tratamos de encontrar las tareas específicas del e-formador frente al docente presencial y sugerir criterios de formación para el primero. Sobre la estructuración del contenido, las actividades prácticas, los procesos de interacción y las herramientas de comunicación como pat...

Debe ser la formación del docente virtual diferente?, ¿Qué aspectos deben determinan su currículo? Desde la evaluación de la experiencia de docencia virtual del un curso desarrollado por el Instituto de Educación de la Universidad de Extremadura durante el periodo 2002-03, pretendemos esbozar algunos de los rasgos diferenciales en la formación del...

Current universities face the challenge of updating not only the technological resources, but also, and more intensely, teachers' knowledge and teachers' pedagogical practice. We believe that only in such a way a real innovation of the teaching and learning processes can be achieved in the new European Space of Higher Education. One of these innova...

This article shows the results of a research that analyzed the grouped and individual learning generated in an on-line community of students. As a methodological innovation, the study combines strategies proceeding from two different approaches that seem to be adequate for the analysis of social processes in the cyberspace. On the one hand, from a...

In order to study an on-line course experience, we are developing qualitative research using a triangulation of techniques, sources and moments. We look for the proper profile that defines the main features that a virtual teacher should develop. Such a profile includes different areas, and a basic one is that focusing on teacher-student interaction...

The overall objective of this research was to find similarities and differences of a training programme delivered through two different methods: face to face and e-learning. This paper focuses on three variables of the learning process: theoretical content, the activities and the teacher/student interaction. A combination of qualitative and quantit...

In Memoriam Andanzas propias del ámbito universitario de otros tiempos promovieron un afecto que Vicente siempre refrescaba con el envío de su último artículo, un correo amistoso, una felicitación a punto… Solícito a cualquier demanda, anteponía la amistad a cualquier otra cosa para atender al amigo. La distancia geográfica nunca disipó los lazos f...

RESUMEN La aparición en los currículos de una nueva asignatura denominada "Educación para la Ciu-dadanía" ha suscitado, entre la población española, un gran debate y controversia. El profe-sorado de secundaria, y en especial el novel, se siente inquieto ante el panorama que se les presenta: impartir una asignatura para la que no se han preparado, y...