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M-learning has enhanced the e-learning by making the learning process learner-centered. However, enforcing exam security in open environments where each student has his/her own mobile/tablet device connected to a Wi-Fi network through which it is further connected to the Internet can be one of the most challenging tasks. In such environments, students can easily exchange information over the network during exam time. This paper aims to identify various vulnerabilities that may violate exam security in m-learning environments and to design the appropriate security services and countermeasures that can be put in place to ensure exam security. It also aims to integrate the resulting secure exam system with an existing, open-source, and widely accepted Learning Management System (LMS) and its service extension to the m-learning environment, namely “the Moodbile Project”.

This paper presents the research work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of technologists and entertainment experts in collaboration with primary teachers to develop a serious game to work primary education-oriented competences. The serious game called “Ferran Alsina” is conceived as a tool to develop competences in the primary education program. To design this game, 25 primary school teachers helped the technical and investigative team in a co-creation activity executed with the methodology named Action-Research. This allowed the implementation of competences inside the game’s playability and narrative. This paper presents the research work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of technologists and entertainment experts in collaboration with primary teachers to develop a serious game to work primary education-oriented competences. The serious game called 'Ferran Alsina' is conceived as a tool to develop competences in the primary education program. To design this game, 25 primary school teachers helped the technical and investigative team in a co-creation activity executed with the methodology named Action-Research. This allowed the implementation of competences inside the game's playability and narrative.

In this article we present the planning and methodology followed in order to apply virtual tutoring sessions in different subjects and universities. The Second Life environment, together with the Voki speaking avatars will be employed. It is a multidisciplinary study that includes personal and collective tutoring sessions, answering key questions through animated avatars, virtual labs, and posters exhibition for peer-evaluation. From a survey run among the students it is concluded that most of them are willing to learn and try this kind of tutoring sessions, but at the same time some feel skeptical about its utility

El papel del profesor como calificador es fundamental en su tarea docente y, tradicionalmente, este rol ha estado basado en la preparación y corrección de exámenes. El examen tradicional, si bien cumple una función importante, presenta un gran inconveniente: aleja al estudiante del proceso calificativo. El proceso de la corrección entre iguales, en cambio, radica en que los estudiantes asuman los criterios de corrección y sepan aplicarlos correctamente. Mediante esa asunción, entenderá los pormenores de la tarea que está realizando y podrá valorar su trabajo y el de sus compañeros. A partir de ese punto, el profesor podrá definir la metodología de calificación más preferible: numérica, de existencia de elementos, por rúbrica… Y finalmente establecerá un calendario para entregas, correcciones cruzadas y publicación de calificaciones finales. En esta ponencia se exponen las experiencias sobre esta metodología a través de la plataforma ‘Moodle’ a lo largo de dos cursos académicos

Se expone la metodología seguida en el diseño de eactividades a efectuar por el alumnado fuera del espacio aulario, la utilización de diferentes herramientas de una plataforma LMS (Moodle) y de la web 2.0, así como las competencias a adquirir en cada caso y su evaluación

Modern on-line collaborative learning environments need to be continuously adapted, adjusted, and personalized to each specific target learning group. Moreover, these environments are to enable and scale the involvement of an increasing large number of single/group participants who can geographically be widely distributed, and who need transparently share a huge variety of both software and hardware distributed resources. As a result, collaborative learning applications need to be designed in a way that overcome important non-functional requirements arisen in distributed contexts, such as scalability, availability, interoperability, and integration of different, heterogeneous, and legacy collaborative learning systems. In this paper, an innovative distributed-based approach is presented for increasing the overall performance of collaborative learning systems that contributes to the effectiveness of the collaborative activities, such as online discussions. The experimental results show an outstanding effect on the learning processes and outcomes by enhancing and improving the learning experience a great deal.

Due to the opportunities provided by the Internet, people are taking advantage of e-learning courses and during the last few years enormous research efforts have been dedicated to the development of e-learning systems. So far, many e-learning systems are proposed and used practically. However, in these systems the e-learning completion rate is low. One of the reasons is the low study desire and motivation. In our previous work, we implemented a e-learning system that is able to increase the learning efficiency by stimulating learners motivation. In this work, we designed and implemented new functions to improve the system performance

Recogemos la experiencia obtenida a través de los dos últimos cursos en la implementación de diferentes actividades docentes, ejercicios/prácticas/controles (EPC), en asignaturas del área de la Ingeniería Gráfica, desde su planteamiento hasta la evaluación. Se fundamenta en la utilización de dos herramientas básicas: software paramétrico para su diseño y la plataforma Atenea, desarrollada en entorno Moodle, para su gestión