Dolores Lerís

Knowledge management system for applying educational innovative experiences

This work describes obtaining indicators to meet two objectives: first, classifying and measuring the educational innovation degree in experiences and practices carried out at the University; and second, using them in order to manage new innovation experiences throughout a knowledge management system.

Design of adaptive experiences in higher education through a learning management system

In this paper, several experiences on adaptive learning at higher education are shown. Different contexts and methodologies such as Problems and Projects Based Learning, final works of Grade and Massive Open Online Courses, present different needs personalized attention by teachers. They require different techniques and all of them are based on Moodle, a learning contents management system that facilitates adaptive learning. The results of the presented experiences show that adaptive techniques improve final grades, motivation in students and also help teachers to personalize learning in their daily educational tasks.

Adaptive instructional design of engineering online courses

Online courses have been designed and experienced to support training in engineering mathematics through the generation of personalized itineraries. Adaptivity of these courses is based on prior knowledge of each student and his/her learning progress. We used the e-learning platform Moodle with Conditionals developed by the Innovation Centre for Information Society at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Here we present the design and results concerning the improvement in learning, users satisfaction and lessons learned.

Repository of good practices applied to higher education in engineering

The aim of the repository is to provide resources obtained from the analysis of good practices, to improve the processes of competency-based training in engineering degrees. To do this, we have analyzed over 800 cases and obtained methodologies, techniques, resources and tools applicable in the university training context. The project organizes, classifies and facilitates the searching of those good practices using the search engine 2.0.

Objetivos básicos del aprendizaje del Trabajo en Equipo en la Universidad - [Basic learning Teamwork objectives at the University]

This paper presents the procedure we have used to improve the teamwork learning activities in the first year of the bachelors degree. The focus was placed on the basic teamwork skills and attitudes that should be developed by students at the beginning of their university studies. We propose that the initial teamwork training is oriented towards solving two problems: the responsibility of teammates and the effective implementation of a work plan. We analyse the point of view of the student about factors and behaviours that teamwork competence definition suggests as more appropriate to address them. Moreover, we make a certain number of recommendations for the teamwork instructional design based on the findings of this study.