Paola Sarango-Lapo

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja | UTPL · Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación

En esta investigación se emplea la escala CD-REA para medir la competencia digital de información y uso de REA y determinar cuáles son los factores asociados a ésta por parte de una muestra de 271 docentes universitarios bimodales (que imparten docencia presencial y a distancia). Un estudio psicométrico previo mostró una excelente consistencia inte...

Currently the use and appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in higher education has led to the emergence of new learning trends that encourage students to practice and experiment thus confronting theory with practice. In the present work, the methodology that was used for the implementation of a Remote Laboratory (LR) in...

This article describes the methodology for the development of Learning Object (OA) in 3D for the application (app) of Augmented Reality (AR) “Virtopsia” in Legal Medicine, and shows the results of the level of acceptance of Law students. The implementation of the app in the classroom was part of Kolb’s experiential learning cycle, taking into accou...

Innovation-based evidence methodology is a newly teaching approach that promotes the use of peer-reviewed information as grounds to design teaching projects. For this to occur three designing stages are needed 1: choosing the object to be studied, 2: searching for evidence in the literature, 3: write the innovative teaching project and two implemen...

In this paper we show the selection process of a platform for the implementation of MOOCs; and the way of designing virtual courses with elements of gamification and motivation. We describes some gamified activities for individual and collaborative tasks; and finally we presents some results of the survey that allowed to evaluate the interaction, s...

“Nuevos modelos de educación abierta” es un proyecto de investigación circunscrito a un tema más amplio que se denomina “Megauniversidades y educación no formal” que tiene como metas la elaboración de propuestas de programas educativos para atender cantidades significativas de estudiantes, ya sea en esquemas formales o no formales de educación, en...

This paper shows an approach to build communities of students working collaboratively to create educational content. We present an evaluation of the usability of a customized semantic environment and show how it interacts with a semantic wiki-based approach. Additionally, a proposal for a manageable hybrid methodology for the creation of ontologies...

This paper proposes an agent-based adaptive Architecture to extend Moodle in order to support instructional decisions and adaptive behaviour in engineering education. The paper describes the characteristics, functions, and interactions of the agents which take part in each module of the adaptive architecture. In addition, we describe the origin and...

Resumen Aunque existen avances significativos en relación a las investigaciones sobre Web Semántica (WS), se hace aun notoria que la cantidad de contenido alojada en ella es inferior al que se encuentra en la web tradicional y esto se debe a la dificultad que tiene el usuario final para crearlo, ya que las aplicaciones que integran tecnología de la...