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Is my professional knowledge outdated? Do I have the skills needed for the new challenges of the society? What knowledge do I lack to qualify for a job I like? What universities can I address to get knowledge that improves my employment expectations? These are relevant questions that an employee has done in any moment of their life. In addition, when there are high rates of unemployment and job offers...
Nowadays, instructors have many different methodologies to assess students. Formative and summative models are mainly applied to multiple combinations independently of the learning environment (on-site, online or blended). When we move to an adaptive learning, students are assessed depending on the selected learning path and the scheduled assessment activities. The adaption tends to be in the learning...
The number of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has increased exponentially in the last years in all areas of knowledge. Some of these courses require that the learner has to acquire practical skills. This is a challenge for a MOOC since scalable new methodologies and tools have to be developed to teach and assess these skills. This paper presents an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) adapted for...
Nowadays, many MOOC platforms have arisen to provide free knowledge. These platforms have a large catalog of courses for different specializations that progressively demand more specific learning resources and assessment methods to evaluate the progression of students. Current MOOC platforms are gradually giving support to these new requirements but with a limited assistance. This paper presents the...
The monitoring process and evaluation of an official higher education degree or master is performed by an annual report based on a set of requirements defined by the quality agencies which are responsible to evaluate such quality. Taking into account that these reports are made up by a set of evidences that are gathered during the whole instructional process, we propose the use of a support tool....
Assessment is an important part of the learning process. The instructor should be able to evaluate whether a learner has acquired the knowledge and competences provided in the course. Moreover, assessment activities also help a learner to check his level of expertise. Typically, the assessment model and assessment activities of subjects in official programmes are the same for all the learners, since...
Today, the crisis has worsened the panorama for Universities, placing new constraints that require being more sustainable economically. In addition, universities will also have to improve their research and teaching in order to obtain more research funds and attract more students. In this panorama, analytics can be a very useful tool since it allows academics (and university managers) to get a more...
Practical skills such as Programming Languages or Digital Systems Design are learned by experience. Such skills are not mechanical processes, but rather a creative ones. For this reason, students should practice repeatedly and receive constant feedback in order to further progress in their learning process. Nevertheless, it is difficult for instructors to give constant and individual feedback in this...
Learning digital systems design is a difficult skill that students of Bachelors on Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or Telecommunications have to acquire in the initial courses. The problem aggravates when the student is learning in a virtual environment with no face-to-face interaction with the instructor. In this case, simulators or intelligent tutoring systems, such as Veril UOC [1], are...
Even though online education is a very important pillar of lifelong education, institutions are still reluctant to wager for a fully online educational model. At the end, they keep relying on on-site assessment systems, mainly because fully virtual alternatives do not have the deserved social recognition or credibility. Thus, the design of virtual assessment systems that are able to provide effective...
Adaptive e-learning systems are able to automatically generate personalized learning paths from the students' profile. Generally, the student profile is updated with information about courses the student has passed and previous work experience. Unfortunately, dealing with courses that students passed in other universities is very difficult, error prone and requires a lot of manual intervention. In...
The synthesis of digital circuits is a basic skill in all the bachelor programmes around the ICT area of knowledge, such as Computer Science, Telecommunication Engineering or Electrical Engineering. An important hindrance in the learning process of this skill is that the existing educational tools for the design of circuits do not allow the student to validate if his design satisfies the specification...
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