Search results for " e-Learning"

Herramienta e-learning para la programación de robots mediante entorno web

2008

Este artículo describe los trabajos realizados para permitir a los estudiantes de diversas titulaciones de ingeniería la realización de prácticas a distancia en un laboratorio remoto desde un navegador web. Este hecho posibilita utilizar aparatos y maquinaria a distancia (inicialmente un robot industrial), pudiendo programarlos y visualizar el resultado de la programación realizada en tiempo real así como interactuar con la máquina. Adicionalmente, se propone al estudiante la realización de un curso de programación mediante diversas prácticas que debe realizar y el sistema web autoevalúa. Este trabajo ha requerido la integración de diversos elementos hardware y software

How to build an e-learning product: factors for student/customer satisfaction

2013

Abstract The increasing use of web technologies has changed the way business is done, including in the field of education. In the last decade, the development of electronic learning ( e-learning ) systems became crucial to meet students’ demand. In this study, we adopt a relationship marketing perspective and apply the Kano Model to propose a way to build a non-academic e-learning course that can achieve student satisfaction. We measure the relevance of e-learning requirements from university students’ perspective to identify their expectations about e-learning courses and obtain relevant characteristics that can help to plan an e-learning product capable of achieving high customer satisfac…

Tutor-Sky: A web environment for multimedia on-line education

2005

Computer Science and Telecommunication technologies are being more and more integrated in teaching and learning systems. The subsequent modification of the educational world becomes a natural event towards a student who is immersed in a multimedia technological society and expects to find a similar learning environment. At present, multimedia is widely used in education to improve and integrate the learning processes and is ever more used in on-line education where the different media help in re-creating the “natural” interaction between teachers and students. There are many tools that allow creation and publication on web of learning contents, but none of them allows teachers to easily and…

DISTANCE LEARNING FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS – CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND SOLUTIONS

2017

The research was done in the framework of internal scientific project grant of Riga Medical College of the University of Latvia. The study took place between 01.04.2016.- 01.11.2016. Aim of the research. To evaluate feasibility and necessity for further education courses for medical personnel in form of distance learning and to assess the newly developed distance learning course methodological material for continuing education. Methodology: quantitative – 2 surveys, where the results apply to the focus group only. Results. There is a low supply of vocational further education in medicine in form of distance learning and the majority - 61% of nurses and physician assistants have never used s…

Supporting Learning Activities in the Health Sector through Open Data

2015

The growing availability of Open Data for educational purposes is playing a key role in shaping and influencing the development of the learning processes. At the same time, Open Data have a particular potential in the health sector so that the major healthcare organizations, universities, colleges, and medical schools are in the process of creating high quality 'Open' education & training resources and tools. However, in this growing world of open health resources for educational purposes, the task of finding the right material can become very difficult mainly when using a general purpose search engine like google. Thus, to overcome this problem and facilitate the search and learning ac…

Aula Virtual. Evolució del maquinari i millora de resultats

2009

Las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) han contribuido al desarrollo de plataformas e.learning de apoyo a los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Actualmente, la mayoría de universidades cuentan con algún tipo de sistema de gestión del aprendizaje (en inglés, LMS). El óptimo uso de estas plataformas requiere que integren las aplicaciones preexistentes de forma transparente. Esto se consigue con el uso de una arquitectura robusta. En este artículo expondremos la implementación y arquitectura del LMS integrado de la Universitat de València y la evolución de su hardware para adecuarse de manera óptima a las necesidades de la universidad.

Percepción del alumnado sobre evaluación formativa y compartida: conectando dos universidades a través de la Blogosfera

2017

The aim of this study was to evaluate differences in physical education students’ perception on an educational innovation based on formative and peer assessment through the blogosphere. The sample was made up of 253 students from two Spanish universities. Data was collected using a self-reported questionnaire and t tests were employed in order to find differences among students’ groups. Results show significant differences in almost all of the items on which the students were questioned. Basque students were more satisfied with the assessment tool used than the Valencian students. Students found the blogosphere more active, meaningful, functional and motivating and that it made for collabor…

Distance Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Resources, Obstacles, and Emotional Implications for Italian Students in Higher Education

2022

The study examined how 807 undergraduate Italian students coped with synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengths and weaknesses of online learning were collected via an electronic platform (SurveyMonkey) and then categorized by grounded theory analysis using ATLAS.ti 8.0 software. The results showed technical, practical, relational, organizational, and transformative features of online learning emerged, differentiated in synchronous, asynchronous, and blended modes. Emotional aspects also affected the evaluation of distance learning because depression and fear were more frequent among the students who found distance learning to be an …

L’e-learning per la didattica della psicologia sociale

2007

Finding the best web medical content for different learner categories

2015

In the age of Internet where any kind of information can be easily found online, it is becoming increasingly evident that more and more people use the World Wide Web to seek health and medical information for understanding and learning. Different users have diverse needs, even when searching for the same topic. This is certainly true in healthcare, where a patient, a physician or a health executive might look for information on the same topic but have different necessities and bring different levels of reading ability and prior knowledge together with a different vocabulary. Generic search engines (like Google, Bing or Yahoo) work on the whole web but make generic searches often overloading…