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    <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16605</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:33:16 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2013-06-20T11:33:16Z</dc:date>
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      <itunes:email>webmaster.bupc@upc.edu</itunes:email>
      <itunes:name>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació</itunes:name>
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      <title>TRAILER project overview: tagging, recognition and acknowledgment of informal learning experiences</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19402</link>
      <description>Title: TRAILER project overview: tagging, recognition and acknowledgment of informal learning experiences
Authors: García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Zangrando, Valentina; García Holgado, Alicia; Conde García, Miguel Ángel; Seoane Pardo, Antonio M.; Alier Forment, Marc; Janssen, José; Griffiths, Dai; Mykowska, Aleksandra; Ribeiro Alves, Gustavo; Minovic, Miroslav
Abstract: The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, have for some years been making the existence of informal learning more and more transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education and workplace contexts. However, the nature of formal and non-formal, coursebased, approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal processes satisfactorily, and although technology bring us near to the solution, it has not yet achieved. TRAILER project aims to address this problem by developing a tool for the management of competences and skills acquired through informal learning experiences, both from the perspective of the&#xD;
user and the institution or company. This paper describes the research and development main lines of this project.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 09:48:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19402</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-27T09:48:51Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Zangrando, Valentina; García Holgado, Alicia; Conde García, Miguel Ángel; Seoane Pardo, Antonio M.; Alier Forment, Marc; Janssen, José; Griffiths, Dai; Mykowska, Aleksandra; Ribeiro Alves, Gustavo; Minovic, Miroslav</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Informal learning, Tagging, Recognition, Acknowledgment, Competences, Skills, Education, ICT, Multilateral project</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, have for some years been making the existence of informal learning more and more transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education and workplace contexts. However, the nature of formal and non-formal, coursebased, approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal processes satisfactorily, and although technology bring us near to the solution, it has not yet achieved. TRAILER project aims to address this problem by developing a tool for the management of competences and skills acquired through informal learning experiences, both from the perspective of the&#xD;
user and the institution or company. This paper describes the research and development main lines of this project.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>TRAILER project overview: tagging, recognition and acknowledgment of informal learning experiences</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19400</link>
      <description>Title: TRAILER project overview: tagging, recognition and acknowledgment of informal learning experiences
Authors: García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Zangrando, Valentina; García Holgado, Alicia; Conde García, Miguel Ángel; Seoane Pardo, Antonio M.; Alier Forment, Marc; Janssen, José; Griffiths, Dai; Mykowska, Aleksandra; Ribeiro Alves, Gustavo; Minovic, Miroslav
Abstract: The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, have for some years been making the existence of informal learning more and more transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education and workplace contexts. However, the nature of formal and non-formal, course-based, approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal processes satisfactorily, and although technology bring us near to the solution, it has not yet achieved. TRAILER project aims to address this problem by developing a tool for the management of competences and skills acquired through informal learning experiences, both from the perspective of the&#xD;
user and the institution or company. This paper describes the research and development&#xD;
main lines of this project.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 09:25:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19400</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-27T09:25:04Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Zangrando, Valentina; García Holgado, Alicia; Conde García, Miguel Ángel; Seoane Pardo, Antonio M.; Alier Forment, Marc; Janssen, José; Griffiths, Dai; Mykowska, Aleksandra; Ribeiro Alves, Gustavo; Minovic, Miroslav</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Component, Informal learning, Tagging, Recognition, Acknowledgment, Competences, Skills, Education, ICT, Multilateral project</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, have for some years been making the existence of informal learning more and more transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education and workplace contexts. However, the nature of formal and non-formal, course-based, approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal processes satisfactorily, and although technology bring us near to the solution, it has not yet achieved. TRAILER project aims to address this problem by developing a tool for the management of competences and skills acquired through informal learning experiences, both from the perspective of the&#xD;
user and the institution or company. This paper describes the research and development&#xD;
main lines of this project.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Framework de servicios para facilitar la interoperabilidad entre entornos personalizados e institucionales de aprendizaje</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19399</link>
      <description>Title: Framework de servicios para facilitar la interoperabilidad entre entornos personalizados e institucionales de aprendizaje
Authors: Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Alier Forment, Marc; Mayol Sarroca, Enric
Abstract: La aplicación de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación al aprendizaje proporciona una revolución en el soporte que se utiliza para aprender y enseñar. En especial una de las herramientas más significativas son las plataformas de aprendizaje, que facilitan servicios tanto a profesores como estudiantes para realizar esta tarea. Sin embargo estas plataformas están muy centradas en el curso y la institución y no en las necesidades específicas del usuario y en el aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida. Esto supone que sean necesarios otro tipo de entornos, los entornos personalizados de aprendizaje. Plataformas institucionales y entornos personalizados van a coexistir y eso supone que tengan que interoperar entre sí. En&#xD;
este trabajo se propone la definición e implementación de una arquitectura que, mediante el uso de servicios web y especificaciones de interoperabilidad facilite esa integración. Dicha arquitectura facilita que las funcionalidades de los&#xD;
entornos instituciones sean exportados a entornos personalizados y que la actividad que en ellos se lleva a cabo se refleje en el&#xD;
entorno institucional. De esta forma se va a poder demostrar que la interoperabilidad entre ambos contextos es posible y favorece&#xD;
los procesos de enseñanza/aprendizaje.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 09:02:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19399</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-27T09:02:56Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Alier Forment, Marc; Mayol Sarroca, Enric</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Plataforma de aprendizaje, Entorno personalizado de aprendizaje, Interoperabilidad, Servicios web</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>La aplicación de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación al aprendizaje proporciona una revolución en el soporte que se utiliza para aprender y enseñar. En especial una de las herramientas más significativas son las plataformas de aprendizaje, que facilitan servicios tanto a profesores como estudiantes para realizar esta tarea. Sin embargo estas plataformas están muy centradas en el curso y la institución y no en las necesidades específicas del usuario y en el aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida. Esto supone que sean necesarios otro tipo de entornos, los entornos personalizados de aprendizaje. Plataformas institucionales y entornos personalizados van a coexistir y eso supone que tengan que interoperar entre sí. En&#xD;
este trabajo se propone la definición e implementación de una arquitectura que, mediante el uso de servicios web y especificaciones de interoperabilidad facilite esa integración. Dicha arquitectura facilita que las funcionalidades de los&#xD;
entornos instituciones sean exportados a entornos personalizados y que la actividad que en ellos se lleva a cabo se refleje en el&#xD;
entorno institucional. De esta forma se va a poder demostrar que la interoperabilidad entre ambos contextos es posible y favorece&#xD;
los procesos de enseñanza/aprendizaje.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>A service-based framework to facilitate the interoperability between personal and institutional learning environments</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19396</link>
      <description>Title: A service-based framework to facilitate the interoperability between personal and institutional learning environments
Authors: Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Alier Forment, Marc; Mayol Sarroca, Enric
Abstract: The application of the Information and Communications Technology to teaching and learning processes implies a revolution in the tools employed to carry out learning activities. Especially the learning platforms are one of most relevant tools; they provide services both for teachers and students to facilitate their work. However, such platforms are mostly focused on the course and the institution and no so much in the specific needs of the user. This means  that other kind of environments are needed, the personal learning environments. Institutional learning platforms and personal learning environments coexist, so they should interoperate between them. In this work a framework approach is proposed. It uses using web services and interoperability specifications facilitate such integration. The architecture provides the functionalities to make possible that institutional functionalities were exported to personalized environments and the activity that is carried out in them can be tracked from the institutional environment. With this approach it is possible to show that interoperability between this two contexts is possible and it can improve the learning and teaching processes.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 08:47:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19396</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-27T08:47:31Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Alier Forment, Marc; Mayol Sarroca, Enric</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Learning platform, Personal learning environment, Interoperability</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>The application of the Information and Communications Technology to teaching and learning processes implies a revolution in the tools employed to carry out learning activities. Especially the learning platforms are one of most relevant tools; they provide services both for teachers and students to facilitate their work. However, such platforms are mostly focused on the course and the institution and no so much in the specific needs of the user. This means  that other kind of environments are needed, the personal learning environments. Institutional learning platforms and personal learning environments coexist, so they should interoperate between them. In this work a framework approach is proposed. It uses using web services and interoperability specifications facilitate such integration. The architecture provides the functionalities to make possible that institutional functionalities were exported to personalized environments and the activity that is carried out in them can be tracked from the institutional environment. With this approach it is possible to show that interoperability between this two contexts is possible and it can improve the learning and teaching processes.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Percepción de la apertura de los LMS en las ramas educativas y tecnológicas</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19393</link>
      <description>Title: Percepción de la apertura de los LMS en las ramas educativas y tecnológicas
Authors: Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Rodríguez Conde, María José; Alier Forment, Marc
Abstract: La aplicación de las tecnologías de información y la comunicación al aprendizaje supone cambios en los medios que soportan el aprendizaje, dando lugar a multitud de herramientas que pretenden mejorar el aprendizaje del estudiante. Una de las más destacadas son las plataformas de aprendizaje. Sin embargo estas herramientas por un lado se centran demasiado en la institución y el curso, y no tanto el estudiante; y por otro son entornos muy cerrados y monolíticos. Es necesario facilitar la evolución y apertura de estas plataformas y su adaptación a necesidades personales de los estudiantes para lo que se plantea un framework basado en servicios. Dicho framework se ha validado a través de experiencias en áreas de la educación y la&#xD;
tecnología y se han comparado entre sí. Lo que permite comprobar que la apertura de las plataformas de aprendizaje es posible y que eso facilita aprender a los estudiantes, no solo en contextos tecnológicos sino en otras áreas como la de la educación.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:15:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19393</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-24T10:15:11Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Rodríguez Conde, María José; Alier Forment, Marc</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>LMS, PLE, Interoperabilidad, Servicios, Aprendizaje, Exportación</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>La aplicación de las tecnologías de información y la comunicación al aprendizaje supone cambios en los medios que soportan el aprendizaje, dando lugar a multitud de herramientas que pretenden mejorar el aprendizaje del estudiante. Una de las más destacadas son las plataformas de aprendizaje. Sin embargo estas herramientas por un lado se centran demasiado en la institución y el curso, y no tanto el estudiante; y por otro son entornos muy cerrados y monolíticos. Es necesario facilitar la evolución y apertura de estas plataformas y su adaptación a necesidades personales de los estudiantes para lo que se plantea un framework basado en servicios. Dicho framework se ha validado a través de experiencias en áreas de la educación y la&#xD;
tecnología y se han comparado entre sí. Lo que permite comprobar que la apertura de las plataformas de aprendizaje es posible y que eso facilita aprender a los estudiantes, no solo en contextos tecnológicos sino en otras áreas como la de la educación.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>LMS openness perception in educational and technological areas</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19392</link>
      <description>Title: LMS openness perception in educational and technological areas
Authors: Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Rodríguez Conde, María José; Alier Forment, Marc
Abstract: The application of the Information and Communications Technology implies changes in the means that support learning. This leads to the emergence of lot of tools that aim to improve students’ learning. One of the most relevant tools are learning management systems. However these tools are on the one hand, mostly focused on the institution and the course and not too much on the learner, and on the other they are very monolithic and closed environments. It is necessary to facilitate the evolution and openness of these platforms in a way they can fulfil&#xD;
students’ needs, and to do this a service-based framework is proposed. It has been validated through experiences in&#xD;
educational and technological areas and they were compared with each other. This allow to check that opening learning platforms is possible and not only in technological context but in other areas.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19392</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-24T09:22:06Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Conde García, Miguel Ángel; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Rodríguez Conde, María José; Alier Forment, Marc</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>LMS, Learning Management Systems, PLE, Interoperability, Services, Learning, Exportation</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>The application of the Information and Communications Technology implies changes in the means that support learning. This leads to the emergence of lot of tools that aim to improve students’ learning. One of the most relevant tools are learning management systems. However these tools are on the one hand, mostly focused on the institution and the course and not too much on the learner, and on the other they are very monolithic and closed environments. It is necessary to facilitate the evolution and openness of these platforms in a way they can fulfil&#xD;
students’ needs, and to do this a service-based framework is proposed. It has been validated through experiences in&#xD;
educational and technological areas and they were compared with each other. This allow to check that opening learning platforms is possible and not only in technological context but in other areas.</itunes:summary>
    </item>
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      <title>Integration of M-learning and LMS: a sustainability approach</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19391</link>
      <description>Title: Integration of M-learning and LMS: a sustainability approach
Authors: Casany Guerrero, María José; Alier Forment, Marc; Barceló García, Miquel
Abstract: Mobile phones are widely used in both rich and poor countries, unlike what happens with other ICTs. The expansion of mobile telephony in poor countries presents an opportunity to fight against digital divide. In the latter countries, mobile phones are used to get information and services about agriculture, health, and education among other areas. Specifically in the area of education there are many who think that mobile phones are a useful tool to help achieve universal primary education, one of&#xD;
the Millennium Development Goals proposed by the United Nations. There are many educational experiences with mobile phones for development. But most of these experiences have serious limitations that affect their long-term sustainability. In&#xD;
this line, the current paper provides a set of guidelines to define more sustainable and long-term viable mobile-learning projects and presents its applications to a m-learning project: the Moodbile project.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 08:35:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19391</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-24T08:35:43Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Casany Guerrero, María José; Alier Forment, Marc; Barceló García, Miquel</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Learning management systems, Moodle, Sustainability, Information and comunications technologies for development</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>Mobile phones are widely used in both rich and poor countries, unlike what happens with other ICTs. The expansion of mobile telephony in poor countries presents an opportunity to fight against digital divide. In the latter countries, mobile phones are used to get information and services about agriculture, health, and education among other areas. Specifically in the area of education there are many who think that mobile phones are a useful tool to help achieve universal primary education, one of&#xD;
the Millennium Development Goals proposed by the United Nations. There are many educational experiences with mobile phones for development. But most of these experiences have serious limitations that affect their long-term sustainability. In&#xD;
this line, the current paper provides a set of guidelines to define more sustainable and long-term viable mobile-learning projects and presents its applications to a m-learning project: the Moodbile project.</itunes:summary>
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    <item>
      <title>Moodbile: a Moodle web services extension for mobile applications</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19367</link>
      <description>Title: Moodbile: a Moodle web services extension for mobile applications
Authors: Piguillem Poch, Jordi; Alier Forment, Marc; Casany Guerrero, María José; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Galanis, Nikolaos; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Conde García, Miguel Ángel
Abstract: The Moodle 2.0 Web Services architecture has been designed to optimize bulk operations or&#xD;
administrative tasks. Therefore, it does not support external applications accessing activity modules. For this reason, the Moodbile project aims to provide an extension of the Moodle 2.0 Web Services architecture in order to provide access to external applications such as m-learning applications, from within Moodle. To validate&#xD;
this extension, three m-learning applications&#xD;
have been developed: an HTML5 client that may be used from most mobile browsers, an Android-native app and an iOS-native app.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:05:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19367</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-22T08:05:12Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Piguillem Poch, Jordi; Alier Forment, Marc; Casany Guerrero, María José; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Galanis, Nikolaos; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Conde García, Miguel Ángel</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>E-learning, M-learning, Web services, Integration, Moodle, Mobile applications</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>The Moodle 2.0 Web Services architecture has been designed to optimize bulk operations or&#xD;
administrative tasks. Therefore, it does not support external applications accessing activity modules. For this reason, the Moodbile project aims to provide an extension of the Moodle 2.0 Web Services architecture in order to provide access to external applications such as m-learning applications, from within Moodle. To validate&#xD;
this extension, three m-learning applications&#xD;
have been developed: an HTML5 client that may be used from most mobile browsers, an Android-native app and an iOS-native app.</itunes:summary>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>IT or not to be: the impact of Moodle in the education of developing countries</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19366</link>
      <description>Title: IT or not to be: the impact of Moodle in the education of developing countries
Authors: García Almiñana, Jordi; Somé, Michel; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Cabré Garcia, José M.; Casany Guerrero, María José; Frigola Bourlon, Manel; Galanis, Nikolaos; García-Cervigon Gutiérrez, Manuel; Guerrero Zapata, Manel; Muñoz Gracia, María del Pilar
Abstract: E-learning environments, such as Moodle, provide a technology that fosters the improvement of the educational system in developed countries, where education is traditionally performed with relatively high standards of quality. A large number of case studies and research have been conducted to demonstrate how e-learning technologies can be applied to improve both training and learning processes. However, these technologies have not been proved efficient when applied to developing countries. The challenges that must be addressed in developing countries, both technological and societal, are much more complex and the possible solution margins are more constrained than those existing in the context where these technologies have been created. In this paper we show how Moodle can be used to improve the quality of education in developing countries and, even more important, how can be used to turn the educational system more sustainable and effective in the long-term. We describe our experience in implementing a programming course in Moodle for the Higher School of Informatics at the Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso (West Africa), joining efforts with local professors in designing and implementing the&#xD;
learning system. The case example has been designed having in mind a number of contextual problems: lack of lecturers, excessive teaching hours per lecturer, massive classes, and curricula organization and stability, among others. We finally discuss how the teaching effort is reduced, the students’ knowledge and capacity improves, and the institutional academic model can be guaranteed with the proposal. For this reason, we claim that information technologies in developing countries are a cost-effective way to guarantee the objectives originally defined in the academic curricula and, therefore, deal with the problem of the education.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:16:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19366</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-22T07:16:25Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>García Almiñana, Jordi; Somé, Michel; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Cabré Garcia, José M.; Casany Guerrero, María José; Frigola Bourlon, Manel; Galanis, Nikolaos; García-Cervigon Gutiérrez, Manuel; Guerrero Zapata, Manel; Muñoz Gracia, María del Pilar</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>Moodle, e-Learning, Education in developing countries, Programming course</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>E-learning environments, such as Moodle, provide a technology that fosters the improvement of the educational system in developed countries, where education is traditionally performed with relatively high standards of quality. A large number of case studies and research have been conducted to demonstrate how e-learning technologies can be applied to improve both training and learning processes. However, these technologies have not been proved efficient when applied to developing countries. The challenges that must be addressed in developing countries, both technological and societal, are much more complex and the possible solution margins are more constrained than those existing in the context where these technologies have been created. In this paper we show how Moodle can be used to improve the quality of education in developing countries and, even more important, how can be used to turn the educational system more sustainable and effective in the long-term. We describe our experience in implementing a programming course in Moodle for the Higher School of Informatics at the Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso (West Africa), joining efforts with local professors in designing and implementing the&#xD;
learning system. The case example has been designed having in mind a number of contextual problems: lack of lecturers, excessive teaching hours per lecturer, massive classes, and curricula organization and stability, among others. We finally discuss how the teaching effort is reduced, the students’ knowledge and capacity improves, and the institutional academic model can be guaranteed with the proposal. For this reason, we claim that information technologies in developing countries are a cost-effective way to guarantee the objectives originally defined in the academic curricula and, therefore, deal with the problem of the education.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Analyzing Moodle/LMS logs to measure mobile access</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19058</link>
      <description>Title: Analyzing Moodle/LMS logs to measure mobile access
Authors: Casany Guerrero, María José; Alier Forment, Marc; Galanis, Nikolaos; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Piguillem Poch, Jordi
Abstract: Most Educational Institutions worldwide have&#xD;
deployed web based Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a means to provide support for their presence-based lectures and offer online-exclusive learning. These LMSs were designed and developed for users accessing the system through web browsers on desktop computers or laptops. However, over the&#xD;
last years, an increasing percentage of the registered accesses to various LMS platforms have been from mobile devices such as smartphones. While tackling the problems arising through the design of a mobile client for the Open Source LMS Moodle called Moodbile, the question of how to decide which services of Moodle could be accessed from smartphones became very relevant. This paper presents a data analysis study conducted on the Moodle server logs of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC) virtual campus, Atenea, and the insight gained regarding the particular characteristics of the accesses from mobile devices. The main achievement of&#xD;
this study is that it provides insight of the use of the university LMS from mobile devices.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:51:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19058</guid>
      <dc:date>2013-05-02T08:51:08Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Casany Guerrero, María José; Alier Forment, Marc; Galanis, Nikolaos; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Piguillem Poch, Jordi</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>M-Learning, LMS, Moodle, Web analysis, Activity logs</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>Most Educational Institutions worldwide have&#xD;
deployed web based Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a means to provide support for their presence-based lectures and offer online-exclusive learning. These LMSs were designed and developed for users accessing the system through web browsers on desktop computers or laptops. However, over the&#xD;
last years, an increasing percentage of the registered accesses to various LMS platforms have been from mobile devices such as smartphones. While tackling the problems arising through the design of a mobile client for the Open Source LMS Moodle called Moodbile, the question of how to decide which services of Moodle could be accessed from smartphones became very relevant. This paper presents a data analysis study conducted on the Moodle server logs of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC) virtual campus, Atenea, and the insight gained regarding the particular characteristics of the accesses from mobile devices. The main achievement of&#xD;
this study is that it provides insight of the use of the university LMS from mobile devices.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Extending Moodle services to mobile devices: The Moodbile Project</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/18845</link>
      <description>Title: Extending Moodle services to mobile devices: The Moodbile Project
Authors: Casany Guerrero, María José; Alier Forment, Marc; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Piguillem Poch, Jordi; Galanis, Nikolaos; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Conde González, Miguel Ángel
Abstract: Learning Management Systems (LMS) are widespread among most education and training&#xD;
institutions. Even though LMS are a mature technology, they have left the vanguard of innovation in e-learning to mobile devices and tablets. Mobile Learning (M-learning)may enhance e-learning by increasing communication and conversation opportunities&#xD;
to convents the learning process more collaborative and learner-centred. This paper&#xD;
describes a way to integrate mobile devices and educational applications with a LMS as&#xD;
Moodle through web services: The Moodbile Project. Rather than just creating mobile apps that replicates LMS functionalities on a mobile device, Moodbile provides to m-learning developers with the necessary tools to allow mobile devices to interact with the LMS. In this paper, we describe&#xD;
our proposal of an open specification of web&#xD;
services to support the integration of&#xD;
mobile external applications with Moodle.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2013-04-17T09:29:00Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Casany Guerrero, María José; Alier Forment, Marc; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Piguillem Poch, Jordi; Galanis, Nikolaos; García Peñalvo, Francisco Javier; Conde González, Miguel Ángel</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:keywords>e-Learning, m-Learning, Moodle, LMS</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:summary>Learning Management Systems (LMS) are widespread among most education and training&#xD;
institutions. Even though LMS are a mature technology, they have left the vanguard of innovation in e-learning to mobile devices and tablets. Mobile Learning (M-learning)may enhance e-learning by increasing communication and conversation opportunities&#xD;
to convents the learning process more collaborative and learner-centred. This paper&#xD;
describes a way to integrate mobile devices and educational applications with a LMS as&#xD;
Moodle through web services: The Moodbile Project. Rather than just creating mobile apps that replicates LMS functionalities on a mobile device, Moodbile provides to m-learning developers with the necessary tools to allow mobile devices to interact with the LMS. In this paper, we describe&#xD;
our proposal of an open specification of web&#xD;
services to support the integration of&#xD;
mobile external applications with Moodle.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Avaluació de la incorporació d'activitats d'aprenentatge actiu i cooperatiu a les assignatures de bases de dades de la Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona.</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16878</link>
      <description>Title: Avaluació de la incorporació d'activitats d'aprenentatge actiu i cooperatiu a les assignatures de bases de dades de la Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona.
Authors: Martín Escofet, Carme; Urpí Tubella, Antoni; Abelló Gamazo, Alberto; Burgués Illa, Xavier; Casany Guerrero, María José; Quer Bosor, Maria Carme; Rodríguez González, María Elena</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:22:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16878</guid>
      <dc:date>2012-11-12T09:22:19Z</dc:date>
      <itunes:author>Martín Escofet, Carme; Urpí Tubella, Antoni; Abelló Gamazo, Alberto; Burgués Illa, Xavier; Casany Guerrero, María José; Quer Bosor, Maria Carme; Rodríguez González, María Elena</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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