Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00020
Luis Carlos Guzmán-Arias, Jacqueline Solís-Céspedes, Agustín Francesa-Alfaro
In the information age it's natural for students to search Open Educational Resources (OER) for their own learning process from several sources, this searching must give the results with simplicity, speed and relevance, to make the information understandable in an environment free of data overload. However, although some universities make great efforts to create their own learning materials to provide the student with the resources they need, often the user's experience in repositories of OER is not suitable for the students, triggering disuse and unawareness of the generated resources. This study was conducted at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, which aims to help students to find reliable OER, in a simple, fast and relevant way, by means of a search engine proposal integrated to the LMS platform. To achieve this, quantitative studies were conducted with student samples, first, an email survey about the characteristics of a search engine, second, a usability test of an existing repository and then a search engine's GUI integrated with an LMS was designed and validated with users so the main result was that students may have a better UX when looking for OER than with the existing one developed with the open-source software DSpace.
在信息时代，学生很自然地从多个资源中搜索开放教育资源(OER)来获取自己的学习过程，这种搜索必须使结果简单、快速和相关，以便在没有数据过载的环境中使信息易于理解。然而，尽管一些大学努力创建自己的学习材料，为学生提供他们所需的资源，但用户在OER资源库中的体验往往不适合学生，从而引发对生成资源的废弃和不知情。这项研究是在研究所Tecnológico de Costa Rica进行的，旨在帮助学生找到可靠的OER，以一种简单，快速和相关的方式，通过搜索引擎提案集成到LMS平台。为了实现这一目标，对学生样本进行了定量研究，首先，对搜索引擎的特征进行了电子邮件调查，其次，对现有存储库进行了可用性测试，然后设计了与LMS集成的搜索引擎GUI，并与用户进行了验证，因此主要结果是学生在寻找OER时可能比使用开源软件DSpace开发的现有用户体验更好。
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Pub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00012
Armando Muñoz del Castillo, Mario Andrés Muñoz, Lydia Cruz Acosta Huertas, Edgar Herrera, Javier Alejandro Jiménez Toledo, Deixy Ximena Ramos
During training at the Complementary Formation Program (CFP), Colombian primary school teachers do not acquire Computational Thinking (CT) skills, which are considered fundamental for the knowledge economies of the 21st century. In this paper, we describe the early stages of a project aiming to reform the CFP curriculum, such that CT skills becomes an integral part. As a first step, we carried-out four introductory workshops with 64 first-and third-semester CFP students and then surveyed them to gather their perceptions on CT. The results show that the students have a limited understanding of CT and its associated skills, but they recognize their importance. Moreover, they agree that primary school should be the starting point to develop them. The project will continue gathering information from current CFP teachers, current primary school teachers, and university professors who are experts in curriculum development, to develop the curricular proposal.
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