P. Martín‐Ramos, Mário S. M. N. F. Gomes, M. Silva
In this paper we discuss a simple and inexpensive method to study pendular movement and head-on elastic collisions, according to the Bring-Your-Own-Device philosophy. A popular toy, the Newton's cradle, can be used to provide a pendular or a collision system, and the movements of the spheres can be tracked by video analysis, using a smartphone. We show that the conservation of momentum and kinetic energy, upon collision of two or more spheres, can be easily confirmed and that the pendular movement can be studied in detail. A more complete analysis, appropriate for undergraduate students in STEM degrees, is also suggested.
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M. S. Rivetta, M. Rodríguez-Conde, S. Olmos-Migueláñez
Recently there is a lot of interest and emphasis on university teachers' training and their certification. This is mainly connected to the strong implication of professors' competences and to the quality of the higher education which, in turn, have a direct relationship with the changes that the universities have experienced since the Bologna Plan. This Plan has impacted the history of each institution of higher education. Indeed, in the current period, the worldwide educational systems are making efforts to change their structures and modifying didactic and pedagogical approaches. It is therefore essential to consider the changes and the challenges of the teaching staff. The aim of this research is to compare and evaluate the pedagogical training of university professors as well as to investigate the different models that each university developed to implement its version of pedagogical training.
{"title":"European higher education: a comparative analysis to evaluate the pedagogical training of professors and to investigate the different models developed by universities","authors":"M. S. Rivetta, M. Rodríguez-Conde, S. Olmos-Migueláñez","doi":"10.1145/3284179.3284349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3284179.3284349","url":null,"abstract":"Recently there is a lot of interest and emphasis on university teachers' training and their certification. This is mainly connected to the strong implication of professors' competences and to the quality of the higher education which, in turn, have a direct relationship with the changes that the universities have experienced since the Bologna Plan. This Plan has impacted the history of each institution of higher education. Indeed, in the current period, the worldwide educational systems are making efforts to change their structures and modifying didactic and pedagogical approaches. It is therefore essential to consider the changes and the challenges of the teaching staff. The aim of this research is to compare and evaluate the pedagogical training of university professors as well as to investigate the different models that each university developed to implement its version of pedagogical training.","PeriodicalId":370465,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117289888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Escudeiro, B. Marques, Piedade Carvalho, Ana Barata, Patrícia Queirós, Ana de Sousa, Carlos Dias, Emanuel Rocha, João Ulisses
Massive and Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide an opportunity to reach the target audience widely. To maximize its potential, a pedagogical model of MOOC in Educational Technologies was implemented at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) to satisfy deaf and blind communities. These communities face many communication barriers, not allowing them to integrate within the larger intellectual communities as most tools used for information dissemination remain inaccessible to them. The Blind/Deaf Communications API (BDC-API) proposed framework, translates digital educational content for the deaf and for the blind, who otherwise would be unable to get access to that content, leading to lack of information which may be essential for a more consistent and complete education.
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R. G. Arribas, Francisco-Javier Herrero-Gutiérrez, Cruz-Alberto Martínez-Arcos, S. Martín
Cadena SER and COPE are the two most played full-service radio stations in Spain. They are also the two stations that have bet the most on the production of podcasts, whose consumption is meant for the Internet, not traditional radio. This article discusses the activity generated around these types of programmes in the two social networks in which the aforementioned radio stations have more global presence: Facebook and Twitter. A purely quantitative method is used to analyze the presence of these programmes on the aforementioned social networks and, particularly, number of posts, formats and forms of interaction. The paper concludes that the use of social networks by the radio networks is very heterogeneous and does not reflect patterns of use: while some programmes have many followers, others have very few. In addition, the number of posts they make is also very diverse, and so it is their forms of interaction. As a reflection, it is important to emphasize that not all radio stations take advantage of social networks in the same way and to the same extent.
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M. Tascón, F. J. Castaño, Paula Castro, Camino Fernández, M. Conde, Vicente Matellán Olivera
EU-Bank is an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet project to provide basic knowledge on key issues about EU financial system. One of the basic components of the project, available from the web site financialculture.org, is the web application. The application offers the functionality of a financial calculator and a new service called the financial advisor. This service allows anyone to send a query that will be answered by senior students of a financial degree with the guidance of their teacher. This workshop aims to spread the use of the financial advisor inside EU-Bank and to provide basic financial culture for people with different backgrounds.
EU- bank是一个Erasmus+ Jean Monnet项目，旨在提供有关欧盟金融体系关键问题的基本知识。这个项目的一个基本组件是web应用程序，可以从financialculture.org网站上获得。该应用程序提供了财务计算器的功能和一项名为财务顾问的新服务。这项服务允许任何人发送问题，金融学位的高年级学生将在老师的指导下回答。本工作坊旨在推广金融顾问在欧银内部的应用，并为不同背景的人士提供基本的金融文化。
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Jaione Cubero-Ibáñez, María Soledad Ibarra-Sáiz, Gregorio Rodríguez-Gómez
Considering the importance of the digital aspects of our society, we must rely on the opportunities offered by technology for improving assessment. This paper presents a study that indicates the development and use of mobile technologies in participatory assessment processes, with the intention of encouraging students' critical and evaluative judgement. For this, design-based research [1] is used to follow a mixed intervention design, in which assessment as learning and empowerment (student participation and feedback) will be put into practice through the use of mobile technologies. The sample will be composed of 1,065 students on different Bachelor's and Master's degree courses at three public universities in Spain. The study sets out to demonstrate the value added by Technology-Enhanced Assessment (TEA) to the emerging field of mobile learning, as well as its contribution to the development of students' evaluative judgement.
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E. Martín-González, Rodrigo de Luis García, J. P. Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, J. R. Leiza, J. Andrés-de-Llano, C. Alberola-López
A method for mapping actimetry data between two platforms has been carried out; one platform is the CE and FDA approved ActiGraph wGT3X-BT, valid in clinical diagnosis, and the second one is Microsoft Band 2 Smartband, available for the general public. The method consists of a regression performed using machine learning technique, specifically, different configurations of neural networks have been tested. Access to the data has been achieved by means of an in-house mobile application.
提出了一种在两个平台之间映射活动测量数据的方法;一个平台是CE和FDA批准的ActiGraph wgt3g - bt，用于临床诊断;另一个平台是Microsoft Band 2 Smartband，面向公众。该方法包括使用机器学习技术进行回归，具体来说，已经测试了不同配置的神经网络。通过内部移动应用程序实现了对数据的访问。
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André Pacheco, A. Sousa, Angela Yanai, Susana M. M. Lopes, L. Machado
Citations count in reference databases has been consolidated as the traditional method of assessing the impact of a scientific work. However, the recent developments around the diversity of web communication channels triggered the scientific community to start questioning the legitimacy of these metrics as the sole indicators of impact. In this context, alternative metrics based on web indicators have begun to emerge. This study attempts to determine the existence of a correlation between traditional citations and altmetric mentions, while also considering if the type of access --- open or restricted --- has an influence in the impact of a publication. The study is based on a mixed methodology. The sample was composed by the most cited hot papers extracted from the Web of Science, and the most mentioned papers in Altmetrics, between 2016 and 2018, according to type of access. Their numbers in altmetrics and in reference databases (Web of Science and Scopus) was collected and the data was analyzed using Spearman's correlation coefficient. It is concluded that there is not a significant correlation between citations and altmetrics mentions, and that the type of access is not relevant for a paper's success.
参考数据库中的引文计数已被巩固为评估科学工作影响的传统方法。然而，最近围绕网络传播渠道多样性的发展引发了科学界开始质疑这些指标作为影响的唯一指标的合法性。在这种情况下，基于web指标的替代指标已经开始出现。本研究试图确定传统引文和替代计量提及之间是否存在相关性，同时也考虑访问类型(开放或限制)是否对出版物的影响有影响。这项研究基于一种混合方法。样本由2016年至2018年间从Web of Science中提取的被引用次数最多的热门论文和Altmetrics中被提及次数最多的论文组成，根据访问类型。收集其在altmetrics和参考数据库(Web of Science和Scopus)中的数量，并使用Spearman相关系数对数据进行分析。结果表明，论文被引用次数与论文被引用次数之间没有显著的相关性，论文被引用的类型与论文的成功与否无关。
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A. Dorn, E. Wandl-Vogt, Thomas Palfinger, J. L. P. Díaz, B. Piringer, Alexander Schatek, Rainer Zoubek
Uncertainties in data, e.g., incomplete data sets, data quality issues or inconsistencies in annotations, are a common phenomenon across disciplines. How to address these issues is context dependent. In this paper, we address uncertainties in the citizen-driven archive Topotheque as a concrete use-case in the Digital Humanities project exploreAT!, and demonstrate, how to deal with uncertainties by benchmarking a set of selected commercial computer vision (CV) tools. The approach aims to enrich Topotheque's data to enable better access, connectivity and analysis for both researchers and citizens. Results show that by applying CV, existing uncertainties are noticeably reduced, but new ones also introduced. Better grounds for semantic structuring are provided, enabling higher connectivity and linking within Topotheque, but also across other data sets. Ultimately, the enrichment of the archive is for the benefit of both researchers and citizens enabled by addressing and tackling apparent uncertainties.
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G. Chiazzese, M. Arrigo, Antonella Chifari, Violetta Lonati, C. Tosto
This paper presents preliminary findings from a project-based learning laboratory of robotics aimed at stimulating computational thinking processes in primary school students. The laboratory was carried out within the context of an ongoing project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. The aim of the project is to activate a national network for the enhancement of students' technological and scientific skills in school and extra-school settings. A group of 51 students, engaged in the robotics laboratory, were compared to a comparison group of 32 students in order to evaluate the impact of programming WeDo robotics artefacts on the development of computational thinking skills. Overall, the results showed that programming robotics artefacts may exert positive effects on children's acquisition of computational thinking skills.
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