
Linda CastañedaUniversity of Murcia | UM · Department of Didactics and School Organization
Linda Castañeda
Phd Educational Technology
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Linda Castañeda is Associate Professor (Tenured) at the Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of Murcia. Linda does research Educational Technology, Pedagogy, and curriculum.
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December 2006 - present
December 2006 - October 2018
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El objetivo de este número especial de RIED es contribuir a promover procesos críticos de transformación en el ámbito de la Tecnología Educativa, a través de una colección de nueve artículos que consiguen hacer, a la vez, un estado de la cuestión y un análisis de algunos de los debates que toman fuerza en el campo en los últimos tiempos. Esta intro...
El concepto de Entorno Personal de Aprendizaje (PLE) es uno de los conceptos que ha recibido una mayor atención en los últimos años en el ámbito de la tecnología educativa. Los que estudiamos el tema asumimos —hay quien dice que de forma ingenua o acrítica— que se trata de un concepto realmente disruptivo, fundamental y que está en la base de los e...
Personalization is one of the recurring themes in education and has occupied a large amount of specialised literature, since its appearance in the 1960s. A systematic exploration of the literature of the last 55 years (1960 – 2015) is presented and is intended to analyse which educational perspective underlies the customized environments or experie...
En este trabajo se presenta un modelo de competencia docente para el mundo digital que pretende superar algunas de las principales limitaciones de modelos previos, especialmente un concepto de competencia restrictivo, una visión de la acción docente reducida al aula y una perspectiva instrumentalista de la tecnología. El modelo, pensado para la ens...
En un contexto en que la transformación digital ya lleva casi una década posicionándose como prioritaria para las instituciones de Educación Superior y en el que la reciente pandemia y sus condiciones no ha hecho más que azuzar y generalizar más si cabe esta apuesta por lo digital, es tiempo de contribuir a propuestas de análisis que propongan otra...
This paper presents a process of development and validation of a methodological tool for supporting the co-design of strategic actions to enhance the digital competencies of educators in higher education. Considering that organisational strategy and change are often imperfectly reflected in structural arrangements in higher education institutions,...
Decision processes to improve pedagogical designs have been commonly based on the superficial comparison between learning design and students' results. This article focuses on proposing other ways of analysing the learning experience in higher education by exploring the (1) "participant's declared performance" (PDP) as a collection of complex data,...
Digital literacy has moved away from its traditional instrumental conception, to be nourished by critical perspectives that have been increasingly adopted in all areas of the analysis of technology and education. The importance of generating educational models that contribute to the emancipation of people in a post-digital and highly complex world...
Personal Learning Environment (PLE) – as an idea, approach and concept – has demonstrated the potential to support a learner-centred digital learning ecosystem that is diverse, individualised, adaptive, integrated, transparent and skill-based. In a PLE, the locus of control shifts away from the institution to individuals, to the agency of individua...
The concept of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is considered as a possible lens to understand and analyse learning conditions in different educational contexts from an ecological perspective, connecting with student's agency in their learning. Previous literature shows partial approaches on how it is implemented in higher education practice and...
Digital literacy is a critical competence for empowering citizenship in a digital world. It has become a key element in teaching and learning across the different educational stages that has been addressed since the last decade of the twentieth century within the field of open, distance, and digital education. The literature so far has not agreed o...
Many studies are related to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in the scientific literature. However, there are hardly any global approaches to experiences extended over time that provide a broader picture of the functioning of these initiatives, especially lacking large-scale analysis and outside the Anglo-Saxon sphere. This case study analyses t...
Surveys in mobile learning developed so far have analysed in a global way the effects on the usage of mobile devices by means of general apps or apps already developed. However, more and more teachers are developing their own apps to address issues not covered by existing m-learning apps. In this article, by means of a systematic literature review...
The global success of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) makes its analysis crucial to guarantee the quality, engagement, and best results in their implementation. Much research has been dedicated to understanding learner’s experience and institutional results, but few papers have studied the instructor’s perspective, which is essential to making M...
This article analyzes the relationship between self-regulated learning (SRL) and personal learning environments (PLE) in light of the educational academic literature of the decade 2010–2020. This study uses a systematized literature review followed by a qualitative analysis of the most cited literature to establish a narrative that highlights and d...
By the end of 2020, over 16,300 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from 950 universities worldwide had enrolled over 180 million students. Interest in MOOCs has been matched by significant research on the topic, including a considerable number of reviews. This study uses Machine Learning techniques and human expert supervision to generate a compre...
Implementation of digital tools and processes in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as an emergent activity depends on the sociomaterial relationships between institutional factors that dynamically interact with each other. This article systematically explores through a literature review some of the most relevant and up-to-date published studies...
Digital literacy is a critical competence for empowering citizenship in a digital world. It has become a key element in teaching and learning across the different educational stages that has been addressed since the last decade of the twentieth century within the field of open, distance, and digital education. The literature so far has not agreed o...
During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, edX launched an initiative, called the Remote Access Program, to give access to free certificates for its Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to the communities of its partners. This paper describes the experience of a Higher Education (HE) institution in Europe participating in this initiative as a strategic acti...
Los entornos personales de aprendizaje (PLE) son un concepto, una idea y un enfoque educativo que plantea una forma disruptiva de entender la forma en que aprende las personas en un ecosistema tecnológico enriquecido como el actual. Tras casi 20 años de historia y de interés académico, el alcance de los PLE –como tema y como práctica– sigue siendo...
Resumen Este trabajo identifica cinco grandes retos que enfrentan los modelos emergentes de construcción y creación de conocimiento en contextos digitales: la democratización de la educación y la toma en consideración de las cuestiones relacionadas con la diversidad en un sentido amplio; el impacto de la pandemia de la COVID-19 y sus implicaciones...
Universitat Politècnica de València’s students can take in-company internships during their bachelor’s degrees, and, with the COVID-19 lockdown, 224 students had their internships cancelled. EdX launched a free certificate initiative for its partners, and UPV gave the possibility of using MOOCs to cover for the credit needed to graduate. We have tr...
Almost 15 years after the start of the debate over Personal Learning Environments (PLE), the concept would still appear to be influential and even intrinsic to discussion over the future of educational technology and education in general. This paper aims to establish a clear thematic link between the concept of PLEs and educational academic literat...
This paper qualitative examines a holistic framework for teaching in the digital era. The examination is based on teachers’ perspectives of their career, that is, what core features can be said to characterise teacher’s practice, across contexts, cultures and subjects. Semi-structured interviews of expert teachers, specifically from Australia, Euro...
La importancia de llevar a cabo procesos de evaluación formativa y sumativa que se complementen y enriquezcan la experiencia de aprendizaje del estudiantado, es una de las premisas de los modelos de evaluación de aprendizajes de los últimos 40 años. Sin embargo, la mayoría de los esfuerzos en investigación se han centrado en potenciar la evaluación...
This article presents the experience of designing, implementing and evaluating a teacher professional development action focused on improving the teacher’s assessment skills, carried out -in this first edition - with 24 secondary school teachers from seven European countries. The course has been carried out in an in-campus-base mode. The objective...
Desde la perspectiva de la innovación educativa, el diseño didáctico es una de las tareas docentes más importantes y complejas a las que se enfrentan habitualmente y en todos los niveles educativos personas con y sin formación pedagógica previa. El marco y el toolkit ACAD (por sus siglas en inglés Activity-Centred Analysis and Design) fueron creado...
In this paper, we lay the foundations of the personal learning environment or PLE, its conception, cognitive and theoretical underpinnings, and implications for the design of pedagogical processes and learning ecosystems. We characterize the PLE as a technosocial reality that embodies the sociomaterial entanglement with which people learn as well a...
Personal Learning Environments as a learning approach are strongly connected to idea of the development of the conditions and resources for fostering the learners' enacting of agency. In this study, some PLE-related pedagogical designs have been analysed in light of how they implement resources and opportunities for students to practise/enact their...
El objetivo de este trabajo es someter a debate algunos de los temas clave que definen la
investigación y la práctica de la Tecnología Educativa académica (TE) en la actualidad y que
explican, en parte, su crisis de identidad. El análisis teórico que se presenta centra su
atención en cuatro temas: (1) la necesidad de un concepto más actual y matiza...
Design for learning involves the delicate interweaving of knowledge about learning and knowledge about design. This work is often carried out by heterogenous design teams in which members speak of and value different aspects of design, and different methods for evaluating these designs in use. The challenge of reconciling these often-competing dema...
This paper presents the first part of a wider sociomaterial research, which aims at exploring alternative ways to look at and analyse the learning activity in a university course, which would lead to an understanding of what learning activity emerges from a learning design, and therefore, to the improvement of the own learning design by promoting d...
La universidad es una institución con una larga historia, que ha propiciado y sobrevivido a múltiples cambios a lo largo de los siglos. En las últimas décadas, los cambios parecen acelerarse, ligados en parte a la tecnología. La digitalización está teniendo un gran impacto en cómo desarrolla sus funciones la universidad. Pero dichos procesos no son...
En este artículo se analizan los modelos institucionales de competencia digital docente con mayor impacto en los últimos tiempos y se abordan críticamente tres características comunes a todos ellos, entendidas como deficiencias en su planteamiento. En primer lugar, que no parten explícitamente de un modelo de acción docente y de manera implícita re...
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) was the European institution with more MOOC course runs done by December 2016. This paper describes and analyses the decision-making process, and rationale of the development of this low budget real MOOC institutional initiative carried out by a traditional higher educational medium sized institution. This...
La tecnología de las cadenas de bloques (blockchain) abandonan el terreno de la moneda digital para invadir otros campos. También en Educación, aunque muy tímidamente, aparecen aplicaciones todavía con un carácter piloto. Pero las expectativas que están levantando llevan a plantearse qué es esa tecnología, para qué se usa, cómo podría aprovecharse...
Completion rates have been a controversial topic since Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) became mainstream in 2012. In January 2016, based in previous trials, edx.org discontinued the free honor code certificate for new courses, trying to increase the number of verified certificates sold. After one year we have studied the effects of this measure...
Personal Learning Environments (PLE), as a concept as well as an emerging practice, is not just one of the most innovative dimensions of technology-enabled student-centered learning, but also one of the most challenging disruptions to the institutional traditional conception of knowledge. In their article, "Multimedia and Textual Reading Comprehens...
This work is a brief view of an exploratory research about Personal Learning Environments developed during these last three years with a Spanish sample. Understanding of PLE can help us to improve our learning designs in order to better development of professional competences of students. Thus, we have implemented a questionnaire with 2.054 final a...
This article describes the entire process of validating the data collection instrument of the
CAPPLE project.
The validation of the instrument (an online survey) aims to ensure the reliability, validity,
relevance and functionality of the collection process. Hence, a validation method based on
three complementary procedures has been chosen: expert...
The Blockchain is spreading its influence beyond the field of digital currency to other areas. Also in education, although shyly, appear some applications of it, even if the majority of them have a pilot character. Nevertheless, those piloting and-some big-expectations around them, are raising the lead to some questions regarding what exactly is th...
En este artículo se presentan los resultados preliminares del Proyecto EDUMOBSPITALARIOS, una iniciativa de investigación-acción desarrollada por el Grupo de Investigación de Tecnología Educativa de la Universidad de Murcia (GITE) y el Equipo de Atención Educativa Hospitalaria y Domiciliaria (EAEHD) de la Región de Murcia. Este estudio tuvo como pr...
Hasta el momento actual, los cambios en las prácticas didácticas atribuibles a la integración de las TIC en el aula son escasos. No obstante, en las experiencias que hacen un uso innovador y creativo de la tecnología, subyacen una serie de ideas y enfoques pedagógicos comunes que pretenden aprovechar todo el potencial de las TIC, enmarcadas en una...
This article presents a case study with the goal of becoming familiar with and understanding the incorporation of one virtual learning world –Espurnik- in a curricular diversification classroom with students in a situation of educational exclusion or academic failure. This investigation was carried out from an interpretive paradigm with a qualitati...
Se describe la utilizacion y resultados de los medios tecnologicos puestos por la UPVa disposicion de los profesores para transformar al modelo “flipped” la asignaturaIngenieria Aeroportuaria, de tercer curso del grado de Ingenieria Aeroespacial, queha contado en el curso 2015-16 con un total de 120 alumnos divididos en 2 grupos. Se ha utilizado de...
Las herramientas telemáticas se han convertido en parte de nuestra cotidianidad y esta afirmación se hace aún más patente si nos centramos en la población de jóvenes. Sin embargo las posibilidades que estas herramientas permiten desde un punto de vista profesional -más allá de los aspectos meramente lúdicos- siguen sin ser aprovechadas del todo, ta...
This paper identifies trends in the emerging models of knowledge production available in our society. We suggest it is crucial not only to be aware of these emerging models but also to be open to opportunities and possibilities that may still develop. We consider how people may express different levels of solidarity and commitment to these trends a...
El proyecto EDUMOBSPITALARIOS que presentamos en este trabajo, pretende implementar un proceso de desarrollo profesional docente en torno al uso de Apps móviles en el contexto de la educación hospitalaria y hacer propuestas referidas a los básicos de implementación del Mobile Learning en las aulas hospitalarias. Gracias a este proyecto se ha creado...
In this paper we present the results of a naturalistic study carried out with higher education students which describes their learning environ- ments when working on academic tasks in groups and individually. In this study we want to analyse how they organize their learning activities and knowledge processes (reading, reflecting and sharing) and ho...
En aquest article presentem una experiència d'innovació educativa duta a terme amb estudiants de 1r de Grau en Educació Social en el marc de l'assignatura TIC en Educació Social. Presentem a continuació una descripció detallada de la tasca duta a terme, a més dels principals resultats que hem obtingut. Entenem que aquests resultats incideixen en la...
El proyecto de investigación CAPPLE pretende realizar la descripción y el análisis prospectivo, tanto en términos técnicos como en términos funcionales, de los entornos personales de aprendizaje (PLEs) de los futuros profesionales españoles de todas las áreas de conocimiento (estudiantes de último año de carrera universitaria) de toda España. En es...
En este primer capítulo explicaremos el concepto de Entorno Personal de Aprendizaje
(PLE, en adelante). Para ello, en primer lugar analizaremos el contexto en el que surge dicho
concepto, cómo ha evolucionado en el tiempo y propondremos una definición comprensiva.
Finalmente relacionaremos el concepto de PLE con algunas ideas clave sobre la ense...
caPítulo 2 introducción En el primer capítulo hemos propuesto la idea de que el PLE no es tanto una tecnología como un enfoque sobre cómo podemos emplear la tecnología actual para enseñar y, sobre todo, aprender. Es posible que, como destaca Graham Attwell en este mismo libro algunas páginas más adelante, el creciente interés por los PLEs (y los MO...
In this first chapter, the concept of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) will be explained. This can be done by analyzing the context in which this concept arose, as well as how it has evolved over time and a comprehensive definition will be proposed. Finally, the concept of PLE will be related to some key ideas about teaching and learning in the...
We critique the concept of digital identity and try to deal with all its complexity. In addition, we present findings from a first approach to this object of analysis, a study that explores higher education students’ perceptions and concerns about their digital identity. Thus, this study focuses on digital identity as it is projected mainly on soci...
In this paper we present the experience of students exploring some possibilities of the Augmented Realty in the context of the first year of the degree on Social Education at the University of Murcia, in Spain.
A total of 98 Students between 18 and 48 years old, from two different classes, have participated in a project based learning course dedic...
En el presente capítulo intentamos hacer una primera aproximación al actual concepto de pedagogías emergentes y hacer explícitas algunas de sus características –algunas análogas a las de las tecnologías emergentes–, así como delimitar algunos de los principios que actualmente las definen en el entorno educativo.
This paper aims to analyse the meanings of the stories submitted to the project through the concepts of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), as both notions seem to be present, and often intertwine, in the collected narratives. This paper will start by providing an overview of the concepts of Personal Learnin...
En este capítulo se hace una aproximación al desarrollo profesional docente entendido, más que como un proceso de adquisición de información, como un proceso de aprendizaje socio-cultural basado en la participación y en la reflexión práctica. En esta línea, se explora cómo dicho proceso se ha enriquecido con la existencia y utilización de las TIC,...
Se han hecho aproximaciones bastante interesantes sobre la naturaleza de las redes sociales, algunas discusiones más o menos recientes sobre la misma, mantienen algunas inquietudes que empañan hasta cierto punto este campo de trabajo. Y creemos que tales inquietudes, lejos de ser una mera discusión semántica, tienen consecuencias directas en lo que...
En este trabajo presentamos el desarrollo de un modelo para el análisis del desarrollo curricular en procesos de teleenseñanza. El objetivo de este modelo es ofrecer un mapa actual del curriculum, de manera que pueda servir como hoja de ruta para aquellos que se aproximan por primera vez a la complejidad de un proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, como...
This paper reports on a teaching experience of the introduction of ICT to higher education students in a complementary professional approach and a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) development approach, as well as a naturalistic study based on this experience. The central focus of this methodology was the use of hands-on sessions to introduce stu...
ICT competences are an essential part of teachers’ curriculums in Spain. This paper presents an analysis of the technical skills in the use of ICT of future primary school teachers in the final year of teacher training at the University of Murcia (period 2008- 2009). This analysis adopts a three dimensional approach. Firstly, it aims to explore stu...
Las competencias tecnológicas de los maestros son un elemento básico de sus planes de formación en España. En este artículo se
presenta un análisis de las competencias para el uso de TIC por parte de estudiantes de último curso de la titulación de Magisterio
de la Universidad de Murcia en el curso 2008-09. El objetivo ha sido describir el grado de...
En este trabajo presentamos el desarrollo de un modelo para el análisis del desarrollo curricular en procesos de teleenseñanza. El objetivo de este modelo es ofrecer un mapa actual del curriculum, de manera que pueda servir como hoja de ruta para aquellos que se aproximan por primera vez a la complejidad de un proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, como...
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