Open University of Catalonia

About: Open University of Catalonia is a education organization based out in Barcelona, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Collaborative learning & Educational technology. The organization has 1943 authors who have published 4646 publications receiving 64200 citations. The organization is also known as: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya & UOC.

Revistas científicas digitales: características e indicadores

Abstract: Es presenten els antecedents i les caracteristiques principals de les revistes cientifiques digitals. A continuacio es repassen els principals indicadors que es tenen en compte per avaluar revistes digitals, agrupats en tres grans apartats: aspectes formals, adequacio al mitja digital, difusio i impacte. Per acabar, es presenten unes reflexions sobre la credibilitat d'aquest tipus de publicacions.

Providing emotion awareness and affective feedback to virtualised collaborative learning scenarios

Abstract: The enrichment of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) systems with emotion awareness features (detect emotion patterns and respond affectively) opens a window towards an authentic social interaction and learning experience. In the current paper, we first review prominent emotion theories and models with respect to learning, detection techniques and affective feedback strategies, and then we present a system’s design and implementation that provides collaborators with a usable, web tool for self-reporting of emotions. In response to the user’s emotions, the system activates an animated, virtual assistant that employs expressive faces and synthesised speech to provide affective and task-based feedback. The specific tool was customised and adapted to the virtualised collaborative session (VCS) system for the needs of an experiment that we run in the Open University of Catalonia. The respective results and findings are presented and discussed.

Diseño instruccional y objetos de aprendizaje; hacia un modelo para el diseño de actividades de evaluación del aprendizaje online

Abstract: This article presents some conclusions and proposals regarding the field of the instructional design and the learning objects as a strategy for the improvement of the design of evaluation activities in online learning contexts. These conclusions and proposals were reached thanks to recent studies that have been carried out in the frame of our university, which have been observed from the activities typology of continuous assessment to the different processes followed up to conceptualize and plan. Likewise, some reflections are presented which derive from the experience in the development of tools and the methodological guides that have been used at our university from the start until nowadays. Furthermore, with this article, we pretend to show the opportunity that the use of instructional design and learning objects offers if it is conceived from a pedagogical perspective. Some ideas that will allow us to keep on investigating and improving are also suggested.

Who else are they? Conceptualizing intersectionality for childhood and youth research

Abstract: Intersectionality has been seen as a useful and relevant concept for the study of childhood and youth geographies, as it allows research that takes into account who else children and young people are. However, there is a lack of proposals on how to deal with intersectionality theoretically, methodologically and practically. The ways gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, religion or nationality condition children’s and young people’s spatial experiences might be as relevant as their age, but there are no systematic proposals on how to investigate their interrelation. Based on my research with young people in Catalonia, I show how intersectional frameworks can be used to collect data on children and youth; what an intersectional framework could look like; and some of the conceptual implications of conducting an intersectional analysis. Trying to establish links between feminist debates on intersectionality and research on youth and children, I present some conceptual tools to approach both the nature of ...