Manuel Palomo Duarte

Wikis in Teaching: An Experiment with WikiHaskell and StatMediaWiki

This article presents WikiHaskell, a project based on wiki technologies developed on the Computer Engineering degree course at the University of Cadiz. WikiHaskell is a wiki for which students, organised into groups of three, create complementary materials on Haskell programming language libraries. The main objective of this project is to introduce open knowledge creation into the classroom, thus turning the students into the true protagonists of the course subject. To assess the wiki and, therefore, the work done by the students, StatMediaWiki was developed. This is a statistical analysis system for MediaWiki wikis that allows such assessments to be performed both easily and transparently. StatMediaWiki generates an overall report of the wiki and individual analyses of the work done by user, by page and by category. In the experiment described, StatMediaWiki’s analysis of the time distribution of the students’ contributions allowed a range of user profiles to be identified. Likewise, by-category analysis allowed certain situations within a group to be detected, such as the identification of the lead students or the less active ones. Both the wiki content and the StatMediaWiki code are open source and publicly accessible. En este articulo se presenta WikiHaskell, un proyecto basado en tecnologías wiki que se ha desarrollado en la titulación de Ingeniero en Informática de la Universidad de Cádiz. WikiHaskell es un wiki en el que los alumnos, organizados en grupos de tres, crean material complementario sobre bibliotecas del lenguaje de programación Haskell. El principal objetivo de este proyecto es incorporar al aula la creación de conocimiento libre, de manera que se consiga que los alumnos se conviertan en los verdaderos protagonistas de la asignatura. Para evaluar el wiki y, por tanto, el trabajo realizado por el alumnado se ha desarrollado StatMediaWiki, un sistema de análisis estadístico para wikis MediaWiki que permite hacerlo de manera sencilla y transparente. StatMediaWiki genera un informe general del wiki y análisis individuales del trabajo desarrollado por cada usuario, por cada página y por cada categoría. Gracias al análisis de contribuciones de esta herramienta se han podido identificar varios per files de usuario según su distribución temporal en el curso. Del mismo modo, el análisis por categorías facilita la detección de determinadas situaciones dentro de un grupo, como por ejemplo, la ubicación de los alumnos líderes o la de los menos activos. Tanto el contenido del wiki como el código de StatMediaWiki son libres y accesibles públicamente.This article presents WikiHaskell, a project based on wiki technologies developed on the Computer Engineering degree course at the University of Cadiz. WikiHaskell is a wiki for which students, organised into groups of three, create complementary materials on Haskell programming language libraries. The main objective of this project is to introduce open knowledge creation into the classroom, thus turning the students into the true protagonists of the course subject. To assess the wiki and, therefore, the work done by the students, StatMediaWiki was developed. This is a statistical analysis system for MediaWiki wikis that allows such assessments to be performed both easily and transparently. StatMediaWiki generates an overall report of the wiki and individual analyses of the work done by user, by page and by category. In the experiment described, StatMediaWiki’s analysis of the time distribution of the students’ contributions allowed a range of user profiles to be identified. Likewise, by-category analysis allowed certain situations within a group to be detected, such as the identification of the lead students or the less active ones. Both the wiki content and the StatMediaWiki code are open source and publicly accessible.ResumenEn este articulo se presenta WikiHaskell, un proyecto basado en tecnologías wiki que se ha desarrollado en la titulación de Ingeniero en Informática de la Universidad de Cádiz. WikiHaskell es un wiki en el que los alumnos, organizados en grupos de tres, crean material complementario sobre bibliotecas del lenguaje de programación Haskell. El principal objetivo de este proyecto es incorporar al aula la creación de conocimiento libre, de manera que se consiga que los alumnos se conviertan en los verdaderos protagonistas de la asignatura. Para evaluar el wiki y, por tanto, el trabajo realizado por el alumnado se ha desarrollado StatMediaWiki, un sistema de análisis estadístico para wikis MediaWiki que permite hacerlo de manera sencilla y transparente. StatMediaWiki genera un informe general del wiki y análisis individuales del trabajo desarrollado por cada usuario, por cada página y por cada categoría. Gracias al análisis de contribuciones de esta herramienta se han podido identificar varios per files de usuario según su distribución temporal en el curso. Del mismo modo, el análisis por categorías facilita la detección de determinadas situaciones dentro de un grupo, como por ejemplo, la ubicación de los alumnos líderes o la de los menos activos. Tanto el contenido del wiki como el código de StatMediaWiki son libres y accesibles públicamente.

An architecture for skill assessment in serious games based on Event Sequence Analysis

Serious games are video games with educational purposes. Players interact in many points during a gameplay. These interactions can be registered, producing data sets with sequence of events which provide relevant information about players skills. Unfortunately, traditional skill assessment methods present limitations to carry out a detailed analysis of large data sets. Sequence Analysis is a group of techniques which allow to analyze data sets consisting of sequence of events. These techniques have been successfully implemented in different fields, and we consider that they can help overcome these limitations. In this paper, we propose an architecture of skill assessment in learning experiences based on serious games using a set of Sequence Analysis techniques known as Process Mining. First, several in-game events are stored in a log. These events are produced by players interactions with Key Performance Indicators included in the game. Second, event log is used as input for a Process Mining tool. Discovery process is executed and a behavioural model is provided. Third, an assessment metric must be carried out over the model. Finally, a synthetic experiment is conducted and promising results are obtained.

Tendencias y tipos de aprendizaje en MALL: una revisión sistemática de la literatura (2012-2016) - [Trends and types of learning in MALL: a systematic literature review (2012-2016)]

The growing expansion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has not only given rise to new ways of communicating and interacting, but also of teaching and learning. In foreign language teaching this has led to the rise of new disciplines such as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and, more recently, Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL). Although the first MALL implementations appeared more than two decades ago, it is still a barely explored area, bearing in mind the possibilities offered by mobile devices such as smartphones. As the purpose of this study is, on the one hand, to identify current trends and, on the other hand, to contribute to future research, this article presents a systematic literature review (SLR), based on research studies published in journals, conferences and specialised books between 2012 and 2016. Special attention is given to the type of learning supported by the apps that can be found within the specialised literature. This study aims to add to previous SLR in order to gain insight into the state of the art of MALL, as well as to identify the challenges it still faces.