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Title- How do we use Moodle in our subjects adapted to the European Higher Education Area

Abstract- This paper describes how do we use our digital campus based on Moodle as a key tool in our subjects. These subjects belong to a first course in an engineering degree and have been adapted to the requirements of the European Higher Education Area in accordance with an educational model whose essential elements are the detailed planning of student work, both in class and out of class, and the evaluation of student work with frequent feedback. Our experience indicates that the digital campus has become an essential tool that allows us to be very productive in implementing the educational model, in a scenario with several groups of class and several teachers teaching the same program. This paper describes our educational model and how few resources our Moodle based digital campus are used to support key elements of this model.

Index Terms- European Higher Education Area, Moodle, feedback, student centered learning

Title- Editorial CAFVIR 2010

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Title- AVIP Internet Audio Visual tool meets quality standards at a blended learning environment.

Abstract- Online (virtual) courses, consisting of essentially textual materials, discussion forums, limited (auto)evaluation, etc., have represented the state of the art in eLearning for some time. Recent technological innovation in the UNED (the only national public distance university in Spain) has enabled to go beyond the concept of “virtual courses” (implicit in eLearning) to give rise to a new term: “virtual attendance”, whereby the transactional distance present in eLearning is greatly reduced by application of specialized ICT which permits the same types of interaction in distance learning context that are possible in traditional face-to-face learning scenarios. This is achieved by the integration of synchronous communication and learning resource generation and management capabilities into UNED’s open source educational platform. In this article, the ICT architecture underling virtual attendance, namely AVIP (Audio Video over IP) tool, is described along with designing rules, implantation plan and pilot experiences. The tool combines high end video- conferencing with low end web-conferencing, together with smart board-based learning resource manipulation and digital content repositories in a way that allows virtual attendance to be used within the European Higher Education Space in a blended learning environment.

Index Terms- sistemas de videoconferencia, plataformas eLearning, colaboración en línea, repositorios de contenidos digitales, estándares abiertos e interoperabilidad

Title- An Assessment Process for Virtual Modalities in Higher Education Curricula.

Abstract- The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) represent relevant challenges in Spanish universities. Nowadays, Universities are involved in the adaptation of current tittles to this new framework with the support of the Spanish Agency ANECA for quality assurance. This paper reviews the procedure to evaluate curricula in virtual modalities, and propose new issues to check in case of virtual or ICT-enhanced modalities.

Index Terms- EHEA, Quality management, e-Learning, ICT, virtual mobility, virtual campus.

Title- Editorial JENUI 2009

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Title- Outcome-based assessment in Final Year Projects

Abstract- This paper presents an efficient and objective procedure for the outcome-based assessment of engineering final year projects, both at graduate (FYP-G) and postgraduate levels (FYP-P). The procedure consists of 6 steps: (1) Definition of the FYP-G and FYP-P outcomes and observable descriptors; (2) set-up of the assessment milestones, the specific assessment actions to be carried out and the assessment agents; (3) assignment of descriptors to assessment actions; (4) definition of the level that the student must reach for every descriptor; (5) design of the assessment reports to be fulfill by the assessment agents, and, (6) establishment of the procedure to setting the student final mark from the assessment reports. Aids for the six steps implementation, as polls, learning outcomes files and practical examples, are shown along this paper.

Index Terms- Assessment, learning outcomes, final year projects, graduate and postgraduate level.

Title- A guide for researchers in education

Abstract- Engineering is evolving very fast, and we must prepare our students to not become obsolete when still in their youth. Without a steady improvement in quality the teaching levels in our universities’ will decline due to the more complex context of today’s universities. Unfortunately, professors who work hard to improve and innovate in engineering education find their work to be unappreciated by their colleagues and superiors. Engineering education is considered as something that over-enthusiastic professors do ‘on the side’ and instead of ‘real’ research. In this paper we analyze the professional associations related with engineering education, as well as the conferences, symposia and journals on the field, and show that by the typical measurable standards, Engineering Education is at the same level as any other technical engineering field.

Index Terms- Engineering Technology, Education Research