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KNOW: developing large-scale multilingual technologies for language understanding
The KNOW project aims to add meaning, knowledge and reasoning to current natural language processing technologies.
La calidad pedagógica de los MOOC a partir de la revisión sistemática de las publicaciones JCR y Scopus (2013-2015)
MOOCs are seen as the latest development in online learning and since their launch in 2008 they have become an integral part of university course curricula. We are currently at an early stage in the development of MOOCs; ...
Factors affecting school teachers' perceptions of the instructional benefits of digital technology
The potential benefits of digital technology for teaching and learning in schools have been extensively characterized in the academic literature. However, little is known about the factors that ...
Learning ecologies through a lens: Ontological, methodological and applicative issues. A systematic review of the literature
The concept of learning ecologies emerged in a context of educational change. While the "learning ecologies" construct has offered a broad semantic space for characterizing innovative ways of learning, it is also true that ...
Economic efficiency of e-learning in higher education: an industrial approach
Little work has been yet done to analyse if e-learning is an efficiency way in economic terms to produce higher education, especially because there are not available data in official statistics. Despite of these important ...
El Efecto de las condenas largas en prisión en Cataluña : Prisonización y Riscanvi
Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2012-2013
The coming of MOOCs
A MOOC is a Massively Online Open Course. It is massive because there are many students (sometimes hundreds of thousands). It is online because it uses the Internet for course delivery. It is open because it is publically ...
Estudi sobre assetjament sexual a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2012-2013
Las competencias de los graduados y su evaluación desde la perspectiva de los empleadores
The purpose of this article is to show the employer's perspective regarding the competences required of college graduates, from different professional sectors and the contribution of evaluation systems to its development ...
Revolution in education? Computer support for collaborative learning (CSCL)
The issue of learning has been one of the great debates in Education for the past two centuries. Educational institutions start by questioning how to deal with the teaching process, 'educational model', 'ideology', 'method'... ...
Formal lifelong e-learning for employability and job stability during turbulent times in Spain
In recent decades, international organizations have developed initiatives that incorporate lifelong learning as a tool to increase the employability of citizens. In this context, the goal of this research is to test the ...
Improving peer grading reliability with graph mining techniques
Peer grading is an approach increasingly adopted for assessing students in massive on-line courses, especially for complex assignments where automatic assessment is impossible and the ability of tutors to evaluate and ...
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Dawn or dusk of the 5th age of research in educational technology? A literature review on (e-)leadership for technology-enhanced learning in higher education (2013-2017)
The aim of this article is to establish the extent to which the concept of e-leadership has taken off as a lens through which to study leadership for technology-enhanced learning (TEL) in higher education. Building on a ...
Is there a social life in open data? The case of open data practices in educational technology research
In the landscape of Open Science, Open Data (OD) plays a crucial role as data are one of the most basic components of research, despite their diverse formats across scientific disciplines. Opening up data is a recent concern ...
Internet use and academic success in university students
The use of technology is changing the way things are done, including the work in universities where the teaching and learning process are changing, and it is required to know the effect of technology on student achievement. ...
eLearning to Promote Quality Education for All at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is an innovative university, based in Catalonia and open to the world, which was created in 1995. The mission of the UOC is to train people throughout their lives, contributing to ...
Guía metodológica para el desarrollo de ambientes educativos virtuales accesibles: Una visión desde un enfoque sistémico
El desarrollo tecnológico asociado a los procesos educativos ha generado nuevos espacios académicos que podrían facilitar la inclusión educativa a la población vulnerable, en especial a las personas en condición de ...
Returning after taking a break in online higher education: from intention to effective re-enrolment
Dropout is a major concern in higher education, especially in distance education, which experiences higher dropout rates. Taking into account that the flexibility of online higher education allows students to opt for periods ...
