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The lack of tracking and storing capabilities for the results of web-based learning activities is an issue that remains unsolved. Transitions or interactions defined by teachers through a set of conditions still require programming skills that stay far beyond the desired final results. In addition to this, authoring tools should be powerful enough to let lecturers generate contents which are high-quality,...
The acquisition of practical competences is an essential point of any engineering curricula, being more challenging than the acquisition of theoretical competences. For this, the use of laboratories is totally essential, and, in the case of distance education, this becomes even more challenging since students are located physically distant from the laboratories that they should use to obtain such...
Remote laboratories are a good alternative to traditional laboratories in distance learning, due to students can carry out experiment from anywhere and at anytime. This possibility of providing students with online experiment across Internet has done that professors from electrical and computer engineering department of Spanish University for Distance Learning start to design, develop and implement...
Merging a Learning Management System (LMS) and a social network has social advantages for students. Among others, students can show off their achievements among their acquaintances, which in turn improves their social leadership and self-esteem. This is specially true in the case of distance learning, where there are no physical interactions between students, so their student life is totally isolated...
The current project is the practical, constructive and didactical implementation of a wind tunnel in the Physics and Technology lab at the Institute of Secondary Education "Ramiro de Maeztu" in Madrid intended for practical use for high school students.
This paper addresses the issue of the creation of context-aware applications inside the Mobile-Learning approach. It tries to clarify aspects like the most suitable environments of application; how new features of mobile devices, such as GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers, motion sensors, etc., must be taken into account. It also addresses why most of the m-Learning applications do not make...
The way people learn out of university has much more in common with self-learning and problems-guided learning than with the classical way of teaching, with a teacher speaking in a class and all the students listening with a passive attitude. This paper proposes an exercise to motivate students to learn and use some advanced programming concepts such as the use of well-formed and valid XML documents;...
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