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Title- Cooperative Development of a Building Automation System for practical teaching compatible with Arduino.

Abstract- This paper presents a cooperative project developed by a network of schools and a company of different regions of Spain. The project consisted of the development of a home and building automation system for practical teaching in vocational training. The system is based on the Arduino platform to allow the easy development of new applications and hardware modules. The paper also presents the first experiences of practical use at schools. The project has been granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Index Terms- Home Automation, Arduino, Vocational Training

Title- Simulating students performances and its application in the verification and validation of new approaches in distance education: an experimental analysis.

Abstract- The automatic detection of learning styles in adaptive and intelligent educational systems is a growing research area. In this context, computer simulation techniques are essential, since the implementation, deployment and test of new features in these systems requires substantial amounts of financial, human resources (tutors and students) and time. In this paper we present a novel approach for the evaluation of these systems, which relies on simulating the performance of real students based on their learning styles and on how the system attends to them. The result of the present research work has led to considerable enhancements to a component for automatic detection of learning styles, which has been tested, corrected and improved in a short time and without any cost.

Index Terms- simulated students, automatic detection learning styles, e-learning, adaptive educational systems

Title- A collaborative platform adapted for teaching integrated journalism.

Abstract- The teaching of journalism should consider the new professional contexts, where media convergence requires the editors to work following a collaboratively and integrated approach. The "Integrated Journalism Workshop" aims at responding to these needs by creating a simulated professional environment of an integrated editorial where students work in coordinated groups. This paper presents an extension of the LdShake platform to support the methodological needs of the Workshop. The evaluation of the initial implementation of the platform provides a set of preliminary results that show that the platform is useful for the targeted purposes, improving the approach previously used in the course.

Index Terms- Collaboration, Integration, Journalism, Platform, University

Title- Academic Analytics: mapping the genome of higher education institutions

Abstract- Higher education institutions (HEIs) have multiple technologic subsystems for administrative, pedagogical management and quality purposes, which gather an immense volume of data from various sources and which do not communicate with each other. The domain of the analytic performances in Education emerges from the need to aggregate multiple sources of data, which the complexity of treatment associated with the ease of mobilizing selected information will make it possible to understand reality and optimize management actions. In this article, we present the architecture and results achieved in the development of an Academic Analytics aggregator of multiple sources of data on the educational activity.

Index Terms- Academic Analytics, data-driven decision making, higher education, Learning Analytics, planning