IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje

This paper presents an experience based on the use of m-learning in higher education. The application developed aims at learning control sentences in structured programming languages. The objective of this experience is to determine the degree of acceptance and use of Educational Apps for mobile devices among our students, and the perception they have of how this kind of tools helps them to reach ... View full abstract»

Mobile learning is a reality. However, ubiquitous learning approaches are not at a full level of maturity, much of these approaches lacking proposals aiming to provide its practical use. This paper presents an architecture for ubiquitous learning, which employs the paradigm of ontology-based data access (OBDA) for solving problems related to data integration and access of data sources in complex s... View full abstract»

This editorial introduces the first selection of papers in IEEE-RITA from the LACCEI annual conference held in 2014. It publishes a view of the LACCEI coverage of issues and topics inside their engineering coverage of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and of the solutions and vision they provide worldwide and for the Region. View full abstract»

For many years, the Latin American university model was aimed at training technicians and professionals. These universities are now trying to develop a pertinent environment for scientific innovation that could contribute to the development of the region. Maybe, interdisciplinary projects are a key part of this environment, if we can agree on the meaning of interdisciplinarity and how to achieve i... View full abstract»

Engineers have the responsibility to identify and develop sustainable, culturally relevant solutions to global problems. Consequently, an engineering education must develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to find viable, desirable, and feasible sustainable solutions. One of the main challenges in engineering education, however, is the identification of an appropriate model to educat... View full abstract»

This paper presents the results of applying an educational data mining approach to model academic attrition (loss of academic status) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Two data mining models were defined to analyze the academic and nonacademic data; the models use two classification techniques, naïve Bayes and a decision tree classifier, in order to acquire a better understanding of the att... View full abstract»

This paper reports on two noticeable approaches to digitalizing and globalizing engineering by applying information and communication technologies (ICTs) to engineering education. In the first approach, a new European and interinstitutional online master's degree program was developed and prepared among five different institutions from four different European countries via an online-distributed pl... View full abstract»

In order to properly address the issues of today's global world, the importance of engineering students acquiring leadership and professional skills has increased tremendously. In fact, leadership is one of the basic pillars for global economic development. By immersing oneself in an engineering organization or honor society, one learns to cultivate a team-work mentality that will be invaluable in... View full abstract»

Video games can be considered constructivist instructional materials because of their potential to promote student-centered opportunities in the classroom. Since the emergence of this educational trend, called digital game-based learning, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the effect that learning or recreational video games have had on learners and on their mastery of learning object... View full abstract»

The current edition of the IEEE Journal of Latin-American Learning Technologies (IEEE-RITA) contains a selection of research papers previously presented in the special track on Experimental Teaching based on Remote and Virtual Labs that covered research experiences in the use of remote and virtual laboratories within primary and secondary education. This special track was part of the 11th Internat... View full abstract»

Learning how to program in early age helps children to develop some capabilities as logical thinking, problem solving, and creativity. Incorporating robotics in programming children can help to learn in a concrete and funny way, collaborating with each other. The research project presented in this paper describes the first prototype that implements a programming environment for robots using mobile... View full abstract»

Experimental training is essential in developing the whole set of skills that an engineer must acquire. Therefore, any resource that involves an improvement in their practical training is an issue of interest to the academia. eLab3D is an electronics remote laboratory based on a configurable hardware and 3-D virtual world, that allows students to carry out real experiments with analog electronic c... View full abstract»

Literacy development is an essential process for special education needs children. Otherwise, they will have additional difficulties in their daily life activities and hence their social inclusion. It is a big challenge for parents and teachers, but it is easier if the process begins since childhood. In this paper, we present Tic@ula, a virtual repository for creating, centralizing, and sharing le... View full abstract»

Engineering labs are an essential part in engineering education, since they provide practical knowledge for students, illustrate concepts and principles, and improve technical skills. Remote labs allow devices, equipment, and instrumentations to be shared with other universities. In addition, they relax time and space constraints, and are capable of being adapted to the pace of each student; in th... View full abstract»

This paper describes both the construction of a system to remotely access and control a didactic and real experiment to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of the electron, and the development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) in which the remote experiment is inserted. The experimental apparatus is similar to that used by Joseph John Thomson in 1897, which resulted in the discovery of the el... View full abstract»