Xabier Basogain

• PhD
• University of the Basque Country

Περίληψη Με την παρούσα εργασία επιχειρείται να αναδειχθούν οι στάσεις και οι πεποιθήσεις των εκπαιδευτικών αναφορικά με την εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση (εξΑΕ) και τις συμπεριληπτικές τεχνικές που αναλήφθηκαν την περίοδο της πανδημίας. Οι ερευνητές επέλεξαν 6 εκπαιδευτικούς από τους 1070 που είχαν συμμετάσχει στη προηγούμενη ποσοτική τους μελέτη για τ...

Στη συγκεκριμένη μελέτη διερευνάται πώς η χρήση και η αξιοποίησης της Υποστηρικτικής Τεχνολογίας (ΥΤ) σε μαθητές με Νοητική Καθυστέρηση ή/ και Μαθησιακές Δυσκολίες θα μπορούσε να συμβάλλει στη διευκόλυνση της διδακτικής ή της μαθησιακής διαδικασίας. Το πλήθος των ερευνητικών μελετών μέσα από τη βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση, αναδεικνύει τη σπουδαιότητα...

This article, research review, focuses on STEM and STEAM in contemporary education as research literature review and viewed by experts from different countries: Austria, Poland, Russia, Spain and Ukraine. The article aims to provide opinions, views and reflections by an international team of experts from 6 universities from West, Central and East E...

In the present work, the common genetic basis and the similar behavioral phenotype of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ND) and Special Developmental Speech Disorders (SDSD) are investigated. In the light of the common genetic predisposition and the multidimensional role of behavioral characteristics, the hypothesis of a clinical continuum of SDSD and...

This paper comprises an attempt to create a scientific basis on the inclusion processes for children with functional autism (ASD) and Special Educational Needs (SENDs) in the formal Greek education system of the 21st century as well as teachers' perceptions and attitudes. At the same time, for a better understanding of Greek educational policies, t...

Los países del mundo han incluido en sus agendas educativas la incorporación del Pensamiento Computacional (PC) en la Educación Básica. A pesar de los esfuerzos de las autoridades escolares, los sistemas escolares tienen dificultades en desarrollar esta propuesta en las aulas tradicionales. En este artículo presentamos dos experiencias basadas en e...

The field of research in educational methodologies has been offering during the last decade a series of innovative and promising new initiatives. These initiatives have tried to apply to the educational environment the fruits of current psychology research. Ideas such as student motivation, gaming, multiple intelligences, project-based learning, fl...

STEM education was created as a unifying curricular paradigm in which students were educated in four distinct disciplines: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, in an interdisciplinary and integrated way. First developed in USA, STEM education has been attempted in several countries, both in the public and the private education systems...

This article describes how an educational digital material supports the improvement of skills in the development of algorithms within math problems, which belong to a part of an operative computational thinking, in students of the subject Logic Programming. This study reflects how students lack the fundamentals of math and the algorithmic thinking...

All around the world, governments are using international benchmarking of education systems as the method to identify the top performing countries. After the world best education systems have been identified, they are used as models for the rest of the countries. This procedure has an obvious limitation: if the rankings are obtained assessing conte...

Resumen — El artículo describe un proyecto de innovación educativa realizado con la colaboración internacional de dos instituciones académicas al servicio de la sociedad. En este proyecto RENATA y UPV/EHU colaboran en la introducción del Pensamiento Computacional en las escuelas de Colombia. Para ello ambas instituciones, con el apoyo del MINTIC y...

This article describes the implementation of various core elements of Computational Thinking (CT) in the classrooms of schools of Latin America and USA in two specific courses: PC-01 and ECE130. These courses were designed for students of primary and secondary education, as well as for students of high school as part of a dual enrollment program wi...

Objetivo. Describir el desarrollo e implementación de un sistema de vigilancia epidemiológica simplificada basado en un modelo mhealth diseñado para el Chaco Paraguayo. Material y método . El sistema consiste en una central telefónica por software, aplicaciones de tipo WEB y base de datos, todos ellos de código libre. La cantidad de casos objeto d...

Abstract—The world of higher education is being transformed by three forces addressing three fundamental aspects of education: access to high quality education; models for how the mind works, and what its capabilities and limitations are; and the use of technology for the implementation of pedagogical strategies that will lead to optimal learning e...

This article presents a new paradigm for the study of Math and Sciences curriculum during primary and secondary education. A workshop for Education undergraduates at four different campuses (n=242) was designed to introduce participants to the new paradigm. In order to make a qualitative analysis of the current school methodologies in mathematics,...

OBJETIVO: Exponer los resultados preliminares de la aplicación del sistema Bonis en la televigilancia epidemiológica comunitaria en Paraguay. MÉTODOS: Estudio de viabilidad y puesta en marcha realizado en una Unidad de Salud Familiar (USF) ubicada en el Bañado Sur de la ciudad de Asunción, a orillas del río Paraguay. En el sistema se registran auto...

Objective: Report preliminary results of the application of the BONIS system in community tele-epidemiological surveillance in Paraguay. Methods: A study of viability and implementation carried out in the Family Health Unit located in Bañado Sur in the city of Asunción by the Paraguay River. The system automatically records personal data and sym...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict, on the basis of clinical variables, the response of persons with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) to a standard, 4-week interdisciplinary pain program. The design of this study is retrospective longitudinal. Fibromyalgia outpatient clinic in a tertia...

In low income countries like Paraguay, broad segments of the population have only limited access to health services and lack sufficient human and financial resources as well as infrastructure for an appropriate health service delivery. At the same time, access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) varies across countries and populati...

The Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare in conjunction with the National University of Asuncion, under the technical support of the University of the Basque Country of Spain, have developed a system of community surveillance for acute febrile syndrome called BONIS, established as a pilot project in the area of Bañado Sur in Asuncion, Parag...

The objective of syndromic surveillance is to identify illness clusters early and to mobilise a rapid response, thereby reducing morbidity and mortality. Objective To describe the system named Bonis, which uses Information and Communication Technology to prevent, warn, monitor and control the spread of febrile syndromes and influenza like illness...

Offshore telecommunications are possible in virtually all parts of the world via satellite. Satellite communications are increasing the bandwidth and lowering the cost, but are still far from levels that are in earth. Principal components analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique that has found application in fields such as biometrics or compressio...

The current system of epidemiologic surveillance in the area of Mutual Aid Centre and Health for All (CAMSAT in Spanish) in the "Bañado Sur" in Asuncion is based on routine screening of possible febrile cases through home visits made by community agents from the Primary Health Care Unit (USF in Spanish). Each of the ten community agents are assigne...

The new services of ICTs applied to the health sector in developing countries are opening new horizons in the field of epidemiological surveillance. Moreover, if these services are proactive they may be more effective in the prevention, facilitating the work of primary care units and optimizing the policies of the agencies responsible for public he...

This article presents the early work on a project in Paraguay for epidemiological surveillance using information technologies. This project is a response of our university to a governmental request to establish links of cooperation and development between academic public sectors of Spain and Paraguay. The overall project objective is the promotion...

Our research group of education through ICTs has initiated a project on inclusive learning environment for deaf people. Since the beginning of the project the group is aware of the need to integrate new methodologies and technologies for distance education. The set of these new methodologies and technologies has been adjusted for the specific targe...

This paper presents a work related to context-awareness developed by Multimedia-EHU research group at the University of the Basque Country. The proposed context-awareness is oriented to acquire and utilize information about the physical position of the users through their wireless mobile devices in order to provide services that support users in th...

One of the main tasks facing the manager of a historical centre is to avoid degradation while retaining the historical value. For this reason, any intervention which takes place on the environment, should be carefully managed. Only when performing a proper diagnosis of the environment and its reality is possible to follow a high quality interventio...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology which is progressively being introduced in new areas of application including the construction sector, reconstruction of historic legacy, training of workers in industrial processes, marketing tasks, interior design, multimedia museum guides, and others. The academic world has not remained unaffected by these...

This article describes a pipeline sequential fuzzy controller endowed with great flexibility and high performance. Its design allows for the possibility to implement it on programmable devices at low cost. To optimise the design and performance of the circuit, a number of simplifications over traditional fuzzy algorithms are pointed out. For the ma...

This paper describes a general methodology for constructing probabilistic source models of long sequences (full length movies) of full-motion compressed VBR (variable bit rate) video. This methodology is illustrated with empirical data and applied to a series of simulation studies. The empirical data used in the modeling process as well as in the s...

La Realidad Aumentada es una tecnología que complementa la percepción e interacción con el mundo real y permite al usuario estar en un entorno real aumentado con información adicional generada por el ordenador. Esta tecnología está introduciéndose en nuevas áreas de aplicación como son entre otras la reconstrucción del patrimonio histórico, el entr...

This article describes the goals and the first developments of the RASMAP research project. The aim of this project is to advance in the knowledge of the technology, building a platform that makes possible to extend the use of Wearable Personal Assistant in applications based on Augmented Reality for open environments. The development of this platf...

The Grupo Multimedia of EHU has been working in the area of on line higher education during the last ten years, focusing its efforts in the creation of video/multimedia as an integral element of the teaching process. The academic success of on line courses depends not only on the quality of the lectures, but also very importantly on the support of...

The aim of this paper is to present the possibilities offered by Internet and current multimedia tools to delivery high quality courses with cost effectiveness and a low complexity infrastructures. It covers topics of interest relative to the streaming multimedia content from different points of view, such as the hardware/software infrastructure re...

One of the main tasks facing the manager of a historical centre is to avoid degradation while retaining the historical value. For this reason, any intervention which takes place on the environment, should be carefully managed. Only when performing a proper diagnosis of the environment and its reality is possible to follow a high quality interventio...

Augmented reality is nowadays a novel technology that is acquiring great relevancy as a research area. This technology complements the perception and interaction with the real world and allows placing the user in a real environment augmented with additional information generated by computer. Throughout last years it is increasing the interest and t...

The aim of this tutorial is to present the challenges and opportunities that online education offers our Universities today, and to illustrate them with the description of the design and implementation of an online course in neural networks. There are many issues involved in the process of providing traditional courses from different disciplines us...

The chapter includes a description via examples of the: objectives of integrating programming and robotics in elementary school; the pedagogical infrastructure, including a description of constructionism and computational thinking; the hardware-software support of the projects with Scratch and WeDo; and the academic support to teachers and students...

La tecnología streaming aplicada a la educación y formación superior ofrece un conjunto de servicios que mejoran el rendimiento académico de los cursos on-line que nuestras universidades ofrecen en la actualidad. La mayoría de los cursos se basan en textos (html y pdf) y presentan un resultado académico limitado. No obstante, las nuevas tecnologías...