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- Software Engineering, TIC, Elearning, Web 2.0, Mobile Learning, Mobile Computing, Online Learning, Virtual Learning, and 9 moreLearning Analytics, Informal Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Ecosystem Services, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, and Computer Engineeringedit
- Francisco José García-Peñalvo is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Univers... moreFrancisco José García-Peñalvo is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the University of Salamanca (USAL), with four six-year periods of research, one six-year period of transferring and innovation, and five five-year periods of recognized teaching. He received the Gloria Begué Award for teaching excellence in 2019 and the Maria de Maeztu Award for research excellence in 2023. He was also a Distinguished Professor at the School of Humanities and Education at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico (2016-2018) and is a Researcher of International Impact at the Universidad Nacional San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru. Since 2006 he has been the head of the Research Group Recognized by the USAL GRIAL (research GRoup on InterAction and eLearning). This group is a Consolidated Research Unit of the Junta de Castilla y León Government (UIC 81). Included in the University of de Stanford’s World's Top 2% Scientists list (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.4. He has supervised 29 Ph.D. theses. He has been Vice-Dean of Innovation and New Technologies of the Faculty of Sciences of the USAL between 2004 and 2007 and Vice-Rector of Technological Innovation of this University between 2007 and 2009. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Educational Sciences (IUCE), the Rector's Delegate for Digital Learning and Teaching, and the Coordinator of the Doctorate Programme in Education in the Knowledge Society at USAL. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journals Education in the Knowledge Society and Journal of the Information Technology Research and Associate Editor of many journals, with a special mention to the journals IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, IEEE Access, Computers in Human Behavior, and Computers in Human Behavior Reports. He has published over 100 research papers in JCR SCIE/SSCI-indexed journals (58 Q1). For more detailed information on the publications, these are the public links to the profiles in Google Scholar (http://goo.gl/sDwrr0), WoS (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/D-5445-2013), Scopus (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=16031087300), and ORCID (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9987-5584).edit
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Disruptive ideas and innovative business models take shape from observing and investigating the needs and demands of potential users and measuring their success based on the acceptance by users and their satisfaction. In an educational... more
Disruptive ideas and innovative business models take shape from observing and investigating the needs and demands of potential users and measuring their success based on the acceptance by users and their satisfaction. In an educational context, a new mission of the university has emerged, supported by the transfer of open access knowledge through Institutional Repositories (IR); it is important to know the motivations and needs of the academic community to promote scientific dissemination using these platforms. The present article uses the method of systematic literature review: using 29 studies from SCOPUS and WoS, involving the topics User-Centered Design (UCD) and repositories. The results show that two of the three UCD phases—evaluation and requirements—are closely linked and are the reiterative focus of UCD; thus, it is desirable to promote the design of custom-made prototypes according to the users' motivations. It is necessary to redefine methodologies for IR development ...
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Open science, as a common good, opens possibilities for the development of nations, through innovations and collaborative constructions, which help to democratize knowledge. Advances in this area are still emerging, and the open science,... more
Open science, as a common good, opens possibilities for the development of nations, through innovations and collaborative constructions, which help to democratize knowledge. Advances in this area are still emerging, and the open science, cocreation of knowledge and open innovation triangle, is presented as an opportunity to generate an original contribution from research to open educational theory and practices. The study analyzed the articles that addressed this triangle, in order to identify the contexts and challenges that arise in open innovation and the cocreation of knowledge to promote open science. The method was a systematic literature review (SLR) of 168 articles published in open access format, from January 2014 to May 2017 in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. In the validation process, the York University criteria were used: inclusion and exclusion, relevance of the pertinent studies, evaluation of the quality / validity of included studies and description of data...
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This work integrates two aspects whose positive impact on learning has been tested flip teaching and cooperation among students. In this proposal the faculty/students of a subject use, throughout the flip teaching technique, the resources... more
This work integrates two aspects whose positive impact on learning has been tested flip teaching and cooperation among students. In this proposal the faculty/students of a subject use, throughout the flip teaching technique, the resources created by students of a different degree. The theme of the resources is about teamwork competence, topic in which students create and later use the resources. The paper describes how to use and organize the generated and shared resources by the students, using the proposed teaching/learning methodology that is so called Micro Flip Teaching. Also, the results of the students’ usefulness perception are presented.
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MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) (Kay, Reimann, Diebold, & Kummerfeld, 2013; Liyanagunawardena, Adams, & Williams, 2013; Martínez Abad, Rodríguez Conde, & García-Peñalvo, 2014) paradigm has opened new possibilities in eLearning... more
MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) (Kay, Reimann, Diebold, & Kummerfeld, 2013; Liyanagunawardena, Adams, & Williams, 2013; Martínez Abad, Rodríguez Conde, & García-Peñalvo, 2014) paradigm has opened new possibilities in eLearning (García-Peñalvo, 2008; García-Peñalvo & SeoanePardo, 2015) since Stephen Downes and George Siemens created the first MOOC back in 2008, breaking some traditional limits and establishing new ways of interaction with knowledge and people involved in learning processes.
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This paper presents a mixed research developed at the Pontifical University of Salamanca with students of intermediate level of English. It examines the effectiveness of the application of interactive and collaborative resources to... more
This paper presents a mixed research developed at the Pontifical University of Salamanca with students of intermediate level of English. It examines the effectiveness of the application of interactive and collaborative resources to improve reading and writing in English. Based on the overall evaluation of the blended course, most students believe that online glossary, online questionnaire, wiki and forum are good tools to improve their written skills. They are strongly aware of the necessity of improving these skills, and consider that the activities designed through these technological tools have allowed them to foster effective written communication in a variety of situations. Students also emphasize the potential of collaborative tools to communicate and develop collaborative learning. However, some students consider that there is a lack of privacy and fluency in communication, and believe that interactions are impersonal and disorganized, so they have had problems to do the acti...
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Research Interests: Engineering, Educational Technology, Ingenieria del software, Gestión del Conocimiento, Informática educativa, and 9 moreTeoría de la Comunicación, Online tutoring, Web Semántica, Servicios Web, Elearning, E Learning, Interacción persona-ordenador, sistemas de gestión del aprendizaje, and Gestión de la Tecnología
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Garcia-Penalvo, F. J., Conde, M. A, Zangrando, V., Garcia-Holgado, A., Seoane, A. M., Alier, M., Galanis, N., Brouns, F., Vogten, H., Griffiths, D., Mykowska, A., Ribeiro-Alves, G., & Minovic, M. (2013). TRAILER project (Tagging,... more
Garcia-Penalvo, F. J., Conde, M. A, Zangrando, V., Garcia-Holgado, A., Seoane, A. M., Alier, M., Galanis, N., Brouns, F., Vogten, H., Griffiths, D., Mykowska, A., Ribeiro-Alves, G., & Minovic, M. (2013). TRAILER project (Tagging, recognition, acknowledgment of informal learning experiences). A Methodology to make visible learners’ informal learning activities to the institutions. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 19(11), 1661-1683. Available online http://www.jucs.org/jucs_19_11/trailer_project_tagging_recognition
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This chapter outlines the technological evolution experimented by the Observatory for University Employability and Employment's information system to become a data-driven technological ecosystem. This observatory collects data from... more
This chapter outlines the technological evolution experimented by the Observatory for University Employability and Employment's information system to become a data-driven technological ecosystem. This observatory collects data from more than 50 Spanish universities and their graduate students (bachelor's degree, master's degree) with the goal of measuring the factors that lead to students' employability and employment. The goals pursued by the observatory need a strong technological support to gather, process, and disseminate the related data. The system that supports these tasks has evolved from a standard (traditional) information system to a data-driven ecosystem, which provides remarkable benefits covering the observatory's requirements. The benefits, the foundations, and the way the data-driven ecosystem is built will be described throughout the chapter, as well as how the information obtained is exploited in order to provide insights about the employment an...
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Learning Analytics is one of the current trending topics within the research about digital learning or eLearning. This research field includes many other research topics related to both worlds: the world of learning and the world of... more
Learning Analytics is one of the current trending topics within the research about digital learning or eLearning. This research field includes many other research topics related to both worlds: the world of learning and the world of computers; for example it includes issues related to computers engineering as software architectures, data retrieval, knowledge discovery, etc. Related to the learning it includes issues related to motivation, the understanding process of each student about the learning content, the studies about the learning path of students, etc. This paper presents a PhD project related to Learning Analytics from the point of view of computers engineering; this is, focused on software processes and methodologies to achieve all the needs and phases in order to perform full Learning Analytics processes, even, applying the outcomes of the PhD project in real contexts. This paper describes the work done (and the work to be done) in this PhD project, the different goals posed, the research methodology used, the current results, and the main outcomes expected at the end of the PhD. Also the paper includes some provisional conclusions about the PhD project, identifying some potential problems, and how to avoid them.
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This proposes how to face up, from a technological point of view, the collection and storage of heterogeneous data coming from heterogeneous environments related to the Learning process in order to take advantage in tasks related to... more
This proposes how to face up, from a technological point of view, the collection and storage of heterogeneous data coming from heterogeneous environments related to the Learning process in order to take advantage in tasks related to Learning Analytics. It introduces the problem with the heterogeneous data over the time and deals how to resolve this issue giving up a theoretical approach and a proof of concept.
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This paper discusses how cloud-based architectures can extend and enhance the functionality of the training environments based on virtual worlds and how, from this cloud perspective, we can provide support to analysis of training... more
This paper discusses how cloud-based architectures can extend and enhance the functionality of the training environments based on virtual worlds and how, from this cloud perspective, we can provide support to analysis of training processes in the area of health, specifically in the field of training processes in quality assurance for pharmaceutical laboratories, presenting a tool for data retrieval and analysis that allows facing the knowledge discovery in the happenings inside the virtual worlds.
Research Interests: Medical Education, Health Education, Virtual Worlds, Cloud Computing, Medical Education & Training, and 12 moreQuality Control, Software Design, Education in Virtual Worlds, Humans, Computer Assisted Instruction, Three Dimensional Imaging, Computer User Interface Design, Cloud Computing in Education, Reproducibility of Results, Virtual Worlds and Educational Gaming, Scientific World View, and Internet
The MIH (Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook) project provides new tools for helping teachers and pupils plunge deeper into the culture and the language of another nation via its history and its landscape/geography. The Digital... more
The MIH (Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook) project provides new tools for helping teachers and pupils plunge deeper into the culture and the language of another nation via its history and its landscape/geography. The Digital Modules are the most innovative tool of the project. Throughout the chapter, the authors present all stages to develop MIH Digital Modules: (1) the definition of the Learning Object Model based on IEEE LOM; (2) the framework design in order to provide quality digital contents; (3) the Digital Modules production process both during the project and after the end of the project; (4) the tutorials that support all the creation process; and last, but not least, and (5) the multicultural perspective of the Digital Modules.
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VALS has the aims of establishing sustainable methods and processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher Education and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems through open innovation mediated by the use... more
VALS has the aims of establishing sustainable methods and processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher Education and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems through open innovation mediated by the use of Open Source Software. Open Source solutions provide the means whereby educational institutions, students, businesses and foundations can all collaborate to resolve authentic business problems. Not only Open Software provides the necessary shared infrastructure and collaborative practice, the foundations that manage the software are also hubs, which channel the operational challenges of their users through to the people who can solve them. This has great potential for enabling students and supervisors to collaborate in resolving the problems of businesses, but is constrained by the lack of support for managing and promoting collaboration across the two sectors. VALS should 1) provide the methods, practice, documentation and infrastructure to unlo...
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Barómetro de empleabilidad y empleo universitarios. Edición Máster 2017