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Students' and Instructors' Perspectives regarding E-Assessment: A Case Study in Introductory Digital Systems
Higher education institutions are increasingly offering opportunities for online learning, yet the issues of identifying students and verifying the authorship of their work limit the adoption of online assessment. Furthermore, ...
Error correction and repair moves in synchronous learning activities
Language teaching is a field in constant evolution, and the use of technology has boosted its development. However, there is a need to investigate the effects of technology on the evelopment of pedagogical practices and ...
Plagiarism, internet and academic success at the university
In this work, we determined, the level of incidence of the use of technologies on academic success and the incidence of interaction and experience on the level of plagiarism of university students. A sample of 10,952 ...
Catalogación y valoración de las webquests desde el área de educación física y el tratamiento de temáticas transversales
Gears of the current millennium have been activated by the hit entry into the information society that has generated a whole range of social and educational changes, it is difficult to stay out of their influence, such as: ...
Hacia el liaison librarian: transformación de servicios bibliotecarios para dar apoyo a la docencia en la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
The changes over the last two years in one of the two sections of the Virtual Library, the Library Services for Learning (LSL), at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) are described. The main role of the LSL is to ...
Análisis de la interacción en ambientes híbridos de aprendizaje
El análisis de la interacción en ambientes virtuales e híbridos es un tema complejo, puesto que es necesario superar la aproximación cuantitativa, número de mensajes, y lograr información sobre las dinámicas de interacción, ...
Does the type of feedback channel used in online learning environments matter? Students' perceptions and impact on learning
Dialogic feedback demands an active role by lecturers and students to become effective. However, sometimes students do not engage with the feedback received. The use of technology and different channels to provide feedback ...
Effects of applying the site map principle in an online learning environment in higher education
Web interfaces play a very important role in teaching-learning processes in virtual environments, since this is how students carry out their activity. This paper describes a web interface for online learning based on a ...
A model to identify urban traffic congestion hotspots in complex networks
The rapid growth of population in urban areas is jeopardizing the mobility and air quality worldwide. One of the most notable problems arising is that of traffic congestion. With the advent of technologies able to sense ...
La reactivació del Tribunal de Contrafaccions de Catalunya durant la guerra
El Tribunal de Contrafaccions fou una institució mixta i paritària, formada per tres jutges de part de la monarquia i tres de part dels braços de la Cort de Catalunya. La seva missió fou defensar a escala suprema, per sobre ...
A virtual mathematics learning environment for engineering students
Teachers of the course Introduction to Mathematics for Engineers at the UOC, an online distance-learning university, have designed,developed and tested an online study material. It includes basic pre-university mathematics, ...
Factores que influyen en la percepción de los profesores de los beneficios instruccionales de los medios educativos digitales
This study aims to identify the factors that affect primary and secondary school teachers' perceptions of the potential benefits of digital media for teaching and learning in schools. Various studies have shown that when ...
Determinants of Internet use for interactive learning: an exploratory study
The use of the Internet in higher education teaching can facilitate the interactive learning process and thus improve educational outcomes. The aim of the study presented here is to explore which variables are linked to ...
Beyond the Net Generation debate: A comparison between digital learners in face-to-face and virtual universities
This paper is based on the hypothesis that the use of technology to support learning is not related to whether a student belongs to the Net Generation, but that it is mainly influenced by the teaching model. The study ...
Examining MOOCs: A comparative study among educational technology experts in traditional and open universities
The proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in recent years has generated much debate. MOOCs have been presented as technology-based educational practices, but many researchers question if this kind of open ...
Meta-analysis of the research about MOOC during 2013-2014
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Metodología de Aprendizaje Automático para la Clasificación y Predicción de Usuarios en Ambientes Virtuales de Educación
A methodology to classify and predict users in virtual education environments, studying the interaction of students with the platform and their performance in exams is proposed. For this, the machine learning tools, main ...
La influencia del género en la cultura digital del estudiantado universitario.
The main goal of this paper is to analyse gender differences in the use of ICT among university students. We present the results of a study about the uses and the perception in relation to ICT in everyday life and in ...
Teachers' perceptions of factors affecting the educational use of ICT in technology-rich classrooms
Introduction. The purpose of this study is to identify the main factors that influence teachers' decision-making regarding the educational use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in technology-rich classrooms. ...
