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El estudio de la comunicación y diseminación científica en materia educativa en España. El proyecto Comscienciaeduspain
Abstract
En este capítulo se hace una aproximación general de todo el marco conceptual y metodológico aplicado en el proyecto Comscienciaeduspain (FCT-20-15761), ejecutado con la colaboración de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología - Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.
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Social media has infiltrated almost every sector of life, and medical education is no exception. As this technology becomes mainstream within society, an increasing number of health care students and professionals are using it for learning. Several important considerations for the risks of this technology are discussed here.
Se analizan las publicaciones sobre Ciencia Abierta de España y Portugal en la base de datos SCOPUS. A través de indicadores bibliométricos y altmétricos se estudia la repercusión de la producción en redes sociales. Entre 2000 y 2016 se detectaron 1273 documentos sobre el tema en ambos países, concentrados especialmente en el último quinquenio. Destacan las publicaciones sobre Open data y las temáticas de mayor producción han sido Computer Science y Social Science. Un tercio de las publicaciones con DOI ha tenido repercusión en las redes sociales siendo Twitter el medio que concentra mayor número de menciones. Si bien una tercera parte de los documentos se publicó en acceso abierto, no se detectó relación entre este indicador y la presencia en redes sociales.
En una sociedad donde las barreras parecen día a día más difusas, las Redes Sociales (RRSS) constituyen uno los principales vehículos de comunicación directa para acceder, compartir, usar y apropiarse de contenidos que hasta hace algún tiempo implicaba mayores labores. El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar la utilización de estos canales, como medios adecuados para la divulgación de conocimientos, en cada una de las áreas temáticas de las 90 revistas científicas de la Universidad de Los Andes (ULA). El mismo, se abordó desde una metodología de trabajo documental, descriptivo, en donde se determinó la presencia –y sus respectivas características– de los objetos de estudio en dos RRSS horizontales-generalistas, como Facebook y Twitter, y dos verticales, de contenido y de perfiles profesionales, a saber, Youtube y LinkedIn. Ello, dada sus capacidades de apertura y penetración en una sustancial parte de la población que tiene conexión a la Red. Sin embargo, se percibió que apenas el 28,57 % de las publicaciones periódicas analizadas es miembro en al menos una de estas RRSS. De estas, algunas no cuentan con constante actividad y, por tanto, la cifra de suscriptores es corta y su alcance, limitado. Se recomienda al personal que allí hace vida académica procurar esfuerzos para alcanzar mejores índices de visibilidad y difusión, así como el registro en más comunidades virtuales y el trabajo constante en el mantenimiento de ellas.
It is a real fact that mobile devices, specially smartphones, and Internet have substantially changed the customs of the population, the social habits, the communication media, and, ultimately, the way of life of people. Inevitably, although with different barriers and with more time that many studies and reports estimated, mobility has arrived to the educational context, with different intensity, penetration and usage in formal and non-formal education, and in a full way into the informal learning. Mobile device is called to revolutionize the educational practices due to it introduces some degrees of freedom that other previous technologies had not offered. The power of ubiquitous connectivity and the possibilities of having access to the knowledge sources in a pocket device, such as mobile phone, or with a size as a notebook, in the case of tablets, and also equipped with a processing capacity higher than that of personal computers a few years ago, pose disruptive scenarios in educational methodologies based on technology and support eLearning as a natural option both as a complement or as a main educational model. However, this idyllic vision has a different degree of acceptance according to the educational level, the disciplinary area and the formality of the formative action. Therefore, large-scale research studies are needed to convey the degree of advancement, effective use, acceptance and penetration of mobile technologies in education and learning. This is the reason for this special issue at the Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia (RIED), which consists of 13 articles selected after a rigorous peer review of the more than 35 proposals received.
With the excessive use of social media in the 21st century, attempts to integrate social media within higher education have also increased. In this area, research has been particularly focused on the aspects of students, rather than the instructors. This study puts the emphasis on the instructors with the aim to explore their use of social media in educational settings. Their respective teaching preferences were explored, from a pedagogical perspective, with the help of a Social Media Toolkit. The toolkit was developed to guide instructors that want to integrate social media in their teaching. This study was designed as a descriptive study and quantitative data was collected from 583 instructors from 39 countries. The participants responded to four main questions in an online environment. Results revealed that instructors mostly prefer to teach their subject at the applying and understanding levels. They frequently use text-based materials and design their courses as problem-based or on a presentation model. They mostly prefer to assess students using alternative methods based on their performance, like portfolios, group works, etc. whilst classical methods were also preferred. Overall findings indicated that any instructor from any discipline or culture can transform courses onto a social media platform thanks to many different and varied features provided by social media tools.
Almost everyone is enthusiastic that ‘open science’ is the wave of the future. Yet when one looks seriously at the flaws in modern science that the movement proposes to remedy, the prospect for improvement in at least four areas are unimpressive. This suggests that the agenda is effectively to re-engineer science along the lines of platform capitalism, under the misleading banner of opening up science to the masses.