This chapter discusses the manifold ways in which the notion of ‘ecology’ and ‘learning ecology’ ... more This chapter discusses the manifold ways in which the notion of ‘ecology’ and ‘learning ecology’ are adopted to interpret digitally-mediated educational contexts, to account for e-learning in higher education and to refer to emergent forms of networked environments and related learning practices. Moreover, the chapter provides a brief discussion on a research case focusing on the investigation of PhD students adopting social media in their doctoral journey. Exploring concepts such as ‘resilience’,‘keystone species’, and an ecological view of agency enables the researcher to better understand and design learner experiences in a changing digital landscape and subsequentely to assist learners integrate their self-organized digital practices into the academic ecosystem. Thinking of doctoral students using social Web tools for academic purposes in ecological terms helps to consider the adoption of ICTs as a component in an ecology of resources. Focus is on personal ecologies, emerging fr...
Innovations in the Design and Application of Alternative Digital Credentials, 2022
Embedding employability skills into the core of higher education is a priority worldwide to reduc... more Embedding employability skills into the core of higher education is a priority worldwide to reduce the skills gap and better equip graduates for entering or progressing in the workplace. This chapter presents an innovative solution based on high impact e-portfolio practices developed within the H2020 EPICA project oriented towards making employability skills visible. It also reports on the implementation of a new methodology for assessing and micro-credentialing employability skills tested in three East African universities. The pilot carried out in a variety of study programs is described along with the measures taken to address the spread of COVID-19. Lessons learnt, transfer possibilities, and organizational implications are also reported as a final note on the experience. This high impact learning experience aims to inspire academic institutions to innovate by integrating e-portfolio and micro-credentials along with fresh pedagogical practices and strategies that better align th...
El elevado nivel de penetración del smartphone junto con su reducido coste de implementación en e... more El elevado nivel de penetración del smartphone junto con su reducido coste de implementación en el ámbito educativo hace que el m-learning sea una tendencia en crecimiento a nivel mundial. Este artículo presenta los hábitos de uso de aplicaciones para la comunicación y el aprendizaje móvil del alumnado de educación superior e identifica factores que pueden favorecer la intención de adoptar herramientas de m-learning basadas en el smartphone entre el alumnado universitario. Para ello se administró un cuestionario basado en el modelo UTAUT2 de adopción de tecnología a 176 estudiantes de distintos cursos del Grado en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas de la Universidad de Vigo. Los resultados muestran los principales usos que hacen los estudiantes del smartphone, sus preferencias en cuanto a la utilización del dispositivo para el aprendizaje y la importancia de la dimensión lúdica del m-learning en la intención de adoptar este modelo, un aspecto que no muchas investigaciones del campo de...
This project was undertaken to develop a telelearning knowledge base aimed at making specialized ... more This project was undertaken to develop a telelearning knowledge base aimed at making specialized telelearning knowledge accessible to non-specialized practitioners in the field. The challenge stems from a rationale related to a user-centered approach for the software design ...
Podéis consultar nuestro catálogo en www.editorialuoc.com La pandemia por COVID-19 ha sacudido lo... more Podéis consultar nuestro catálogo en www.editorialuoc.com La pandemia por COVID-19 ha sacudido los cimientos de nuestra educación. Nos hemos encontrado ante la imposibilidad de que nuestro alumnado pueda desplazarse a los centros educativos, que han sido cerrados a causa del confinamiento decretado en la mayoría de países. De forma imprevista, las instituciones educativas se han visto obligadas a adoptar soluciones de emergencia, migrando hacia modelos de docencia no presencial remota, que han permitido parar el golpe.
The progressive shift from a transmissive to a competence-based approach emphasises the need to d... more The progressive shift from a transmissive to a competence-based approach emphasises the need to design new models and tools for competence assessment. In order to address this need, this study, firstly, introduces the assessment model for digital competence in primary and secondary schools developed within the H2020 CRISS project. The Competence Assessment Model (CAM) (1) embraces the integration pedagogy approach in which competences are embedded within the curriculum and (2) provides competence assessment scenarios (CAS). Secondly, the study presents the results of the evaluation of its quality from the teachers’ perspective through an instrument designed on the basis of nine competence assessment quality criteria. The CAM was tested in a large-scale pilot study conducted in 535 primary and secondary schools across Europe. The outcomes show that the CAM mainly fulfills two out of the nine quality criteria: meaningfulness and authenticity. However, the exploratory factor analysis a...
The development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) is a growing trend in education, part... more The development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) is a growing trend in education, particularly, in higher education. The OERtest European project focuses in the development of a systematic and quality assurance framework for the evaluation and recognition of learning through the use of REA. Based on a qualitative methodological approach, the research project aims to provide guidelines and recommendations for the implementation of OER-based learning at a European HE institutions’ level.
1 Case method in VTLE: an effective tool for improving learning design Lourdes Guàrdia (lguardia@... more 1 Case method in VTLE: an effective tool for improving learning design Lourdes Guàrdia (lguardia@uoc.edu), Albert Sangrà (asangra@uoc.edu) & Marcelo Maina (mmaina@uoc.edu) ... Different types of case studies have been classified using different criteria. Hebert et al. ...
In the current ecology of learning, participation in massive and open learning environments confe... more In the current ecology of learning, participation in massive and open learning environments confers a new role to the learner as an individual who, connected with others and with the available resources, learns autonomously. In this research we rely on educational regulation as a necessary mechanism of self-directed learning processes in MOOC. Specifically, a metacognitive enrichment process of the design of a MOOC with contributions by its learners is analyzed. Self-regulation is used as a tool to personalize and make massive learning more flexible in a technified ecology. More specifically, a profiling tool for learners for their self-directed learning is proposed in relation to three skills axes: motivational, social and reflective. The qualitative analysis of the contributions in co-design workshops to a learner profile test and the results obtained in the implementation of this test in the MOOC provide the following results: a) the characteristics of the regulatory profiles and...
The paper presents the design of a self-regulated learning support layer which focuses on fosteri... more The paper presents the design of a self-regulated learning support layer which focuses on fostering learning agency awareness and student ownership in MOOC as quality deep learning indicators. Rooted in self-regulated learning ownership provides remarkable learning factors such as a sense of belongingness, increased commitment and perception of self-efficacy. These qualities are rather scarce in MOOC, as shown by the predominant techno-pedagogical design of these courses. The self-regulation support layer was developed in two phases: first, a literature review on the field and the analysis of several MOOC provided relevant insights for the theoretical approach of the layer and, second, different types of prompts in the form of self-questions were contextualized and placed throughout an existing MOOC with the involvement of researchers, teachers and MOOC content developers. Finally, in order to refine the design and include elements to enhance a more psychological-ownership-oriented ...
This chapter discusses the manifold ways in which the notion of ‘ecology’ and ‘learning ecology’ ... more This chapter discusses the manifold ways in which the notion of ‘ecology’ and ‘learning ecology’ are adopted to interpret digitally-mediated educational contexts, to account for e-learning in higher education and to refer to emergent forms of networked environments and related learning practices. Moreover, the chapter provides a brief discussion on a research case focusing on the investigation of PhD students adopting social media in their doctoral journey. Exploring concepts such as ‘resilience’,‘keystone species’, and an ecological view of agency enables the researcher to better understand and design learner experiences in a changing digital landscape and subsequentely to assist learners integrate their self-organized digital practices into the academic ecosystem. Thinking of doctoral students using social Web tools for academic purposes in ecological terms helps to consider the adoption of ICTs as a component in an ecology of resources. Focus is on personal ecologies, emerging fr...
Innovations in the Design and Application of Alternative Digital Credentials, 2022
Embedding employability skills into the core of higher education is a priority worldwide to reduc... more Embedding employability skills into the core of higher education is a priority worldwide to reduce the skills gap and better equip graduates for entering or progressing in the workplace. This chapter presents an innovative solution based on high impact e-portfolio practices developed within the H2020 EPICA project oriented towards making employability skills visible. It also reports on the implementation of a new methodology for assessing and micro-credentialing employability skills tested in three East African universities. The pilot carried out in a variety of study programs is described along with the measures taken to address the spread of COVID-19. Lessons learnt, transfer possibilities, and organizational implications are also reported as a final note on the experience. This high impact learning experience aims to inspire academic institutions to innovate by integrating e-portfolio and micro-credentials along with fresh pedagogical practices and strategies that better align th...
El elevado nivel de penetración del smartphone junto con su reducido coste de implementación en e... more El elevado nivel de penetración del smartphone junto con su reducido coste de implementación en el ámbito educativo hace que el m-learning sea una tendencia en crecimiento a nivel mundial. Este artículo presenta los hábitos de uso de aplicaciones para la comunicación y el aprendizaje móvil del alumnado de educación superior e identifica factores que pueden favorecer la intención de adoptar herramientas de m-learning basadas en el smartphone entre el alumnado universitario. Para ello se administró un cuestionario basado en el modelo UTAUT2 de adopción de tecnología a 176 estudiantes de distintos cursos del Grado en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas de la Universidad de Vigo. Los resultados muestran los principales usos que hacen los estudiantes del smartphone, sus preferencias en cuanto a la utilización del dispositivo para el aprendizaje y la importancia de la dimensión lúdica del m-learning en la intención de adoptar este modelo, un aspecto que no muchas investigaciones del campo de...
This project was undertaken to develop a telelearning knowledge base aimed at making specialized ... more This project was undertaken to develop a telelearning knowledge base aimed at making specialized telelearning knowledge accessible to non-specialized practitioners in the field. The challenge stems from a rationale related to a user-centered approach for the software design ...
Podéis consultar nuestro catálogo en www.editorialuoc.com La pandemia por COVID-19 ha sacudido lo... more Podéis consultar nuestro catálogo en www.editorialuoc.com La pandemia por COVID-19 ha sacudido los cimientos de nuestra educación. Nos hemos encontrado ante la imposibilidad de que nuestro alumnado pueda desplazarse a los centros educativos, que han sido cerrados a causa del confinamiento decretado en la mayoría de países. De forma imprevista, las instituciones educativas se han visto obligadas a adoptar soluciones de emergencia, migrando hacia modelos de docencia no presencial remota, que han permitido parar el golpe.
The progressive shift from a transmissive to a competence-based approach emphasises the need to d... more The progressive shift from a transmissive to a competence-based approach emphasises the need to design new models and tools for competence assessment. In order to address this need, this study, firstly, introduces the assessment model for digital competence in primary and secondary schools developed within the H2020 CRISS project. The Competence Assessment Model (CAM) (1) embraces the integration pedagogy approach in which competences are embedded within the curriculum and (2) provides competence assessment scenarios (CAS). Secondly, the study presents the results of the evaluation of its quality from the teachers’ perspective through an instrument designed on the basis of nine competence assessment quality criteria. The CAM was tested in a large-scale pilot study conducted in 535 primary and secondary schools across Europe. The outcomes show that the CAM mainly fulfills two out of the nine quality criteria: meaningfulness and authenticity. However, the exploratory factor analysis a...
The development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) is a growing trend in education, part... more The development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) is a growing trend in education, particularly, in higher education. The OERtest European project focuses in the development of a systematic and quality assurance framework for the evaluation and recognition of learning through the use of REA. Based on a qualitative methodological approach, the research project aims to provide guidelines and recommendations for the implementation of OER-based learning at a European HE institutions’ level.
1 Case method in VTLE: an effective tool for improving learning design Lourdes Guàrdia (lguardia@... more 1 Case method in VTLE: an effective tool for improving learning design Lourdes Guàrdia (lguardia@uoc.edu), Albert Sangrà (asangra@uoc.edu) & Marcelo Maina (mmaina@uoc.edu) ... Different types of case studies have been classified using different criteria. Hebert et al. ...
In the current ecology of learning, participation in massive and open learning environments confe... more In the current ecology of learning, participation in massive and open learning environments confers a new role to the learner as an individual who, connected with others and with the available resources, learns autonomously. In this research we rely on educational regulation as a necessary mechanism of self-directed learning processes in MOOC. Specifically, a metacognitive enrichment process of the design of a MOOC with contributions by its learners is analyzed. Self-regulation is used as a tool to personalize and make massive learning more flexible in a technified ecology. More specifically, a profiling tool for learners for their self-directed learning is proposed in relation to three skills axes: motivational, social and reflective. The qualitative analysis of the contributions in co-design workshops to a learner profile test and the results obtained in the implementation of this test in the MOOC provide the following results: a) the characteristics of the regulatory profiles and...
The paper presents the design of a self-regulated learning support layer which focuses on fosteri... more The paper presents the design of a self-regulated learning support layer which focuses on fostering learning agency awareness and student ownership in MOOC as quality deep learning indicators. Rooted in self-regulated learning ownership provides remarkable learning factors such as a sense of belongingness, increased commitment and perception of self-efficacy. These qualities are rather scarce in MOOC, as shown by the predominant techno-pedagogical design of these courses. The self-regulation support layer was developed in two phases: first, a literature review on the field and the analysis of several MOOC provided relevant insights for the theoretical approach of the layer and, second, different types of prompts in the form of self-questions were contextualized and placed throughout an existing MOOC with the involvement of researchers, teachers and MOOC content developers. Finally, in order to refine the design and include elements to enhance a more psychological-ownership-oriented ...
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