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Abelardo Pardo Associate Professor Phone: +34 91 624 8779 Fax: +34 91 624 8749 Email: abelardo.pardo@uc3m.es Address: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Avenida Universidad 30 E-28911, Leganés, (Madrid) Office: Torres Quevedo Building 4.1.F.16 |
Teaching Duties
I am currently teaching the following courses.
Platforms for Networked Communities. Interuniversitary Master in Telematic Engineering.
Scientific Reasoning and Writing. Master in E-learning and social networks. International University of La Rioja.
Office hours
Fall Semester: Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00-11:00.
Spring Semester: Tuesdays 10:00-11:00.
During this hour, I will be in the office even if no appointment has been previously set. For appointments at other times, send me an email.
Research interests
My research activity is in the area of computer assisted learning (CAL). The learning process offers countless opportunities to improve its efficiency by means of information technology.
In this area, I am interested in learning analytics and technology enhanced tutoring. The tools in this areas supervise the learning process of a person or a group of people and makes decisions to improve their experience. I am also interested in techniques to improve group based learning a technique with an increasing presence in many contexts, some of them in which technology may improve it significantly.
In my (scarce) spare time, I try to maintain active the blog T2T. Techies meet Teachers where I comment on issues related to the technology and learning.
Most recent presentations
Video of “Let me see... Analytics in Learning Environments” (Slides). Invited talk at the eMadrid Seminar, March 2012.
Adagio: Agile and Distributed Authoring of Generic Learning Objects. Gradient Seminar, March 2011.
Stepping out of the box. Toward Learning Analytics outside of the LMS. Presented at the First International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, February 2011. Link to the video of the presentation.
Most recent publications in this area
Raquel Crespo García, Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Katja Niemann, Maren Scheffel, Martin Wolpers. Peeking into the black box: visualising learning activities. International Journal on Technology Enhanced Learning. To appear.
Luis de-la-Fuente-Valentín, Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Patricia Santos, Davinia Hernández-Leo, Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Josep Blat. "System orchestration support for a collaborative blended learning flow". Intelligent Adaptation and Personalization Techniques in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", pp 29-46. Springer, 2012 ISBN: 978-3-642-28585-1.
Davinia Hernández-Leo, Verónica Moreno, Juan Manuel Dodero, Abelardo Pardo, M.C. Romero-Ternero, Yannis Dimitriadis, Juan I. Asensio-Pérez. "Aplicación de Recomendaciones para la Alineación de Competencias, Metodología y Evaluación en Asignaturas de Ingeniería Telemática, Informática y Electrónica". Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje, Vol. 7, Num. 1, pages 13-30, Feb. 2012. ISBN: 1932-8540
Vicente A. Romero Zaldívar, Abelardo Pardo, Daniel Burgos, Carlos Delgado Kloos "Monitoring Student Progress Using Virtual Appliances: A Case Study". Computers & Education, Vol. 58, Issue 4, May 2012, pages 1058–1067.
Vicente Arturo Romero Zaldívar, Daniel Burgos, Abelardo Pardo. "Meta-rule based Recommender Systems for Educational Applications". In "Educational Recommender Systems and Technologies: Practices and Challenges". IGI-Global Group. Chapter 9, pages 211-231. ISBN: 9781613504895
Abelardo Pardo, Iria Estévez-Ayres, Pablo Basanta-Val, and Damaris Fuentes-Lorenzo. "Course Quality Improvement using Mid-semester Feedback". International Journal on Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp 366-376, 2011. Inderscience Publishers. DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2011.041280
Israel Gutiérrez Rojas, Raquel García Crespo, Derick Leony, Abelardo Pardo, and Carlos Delgado Kloos. "Course Evaluation for Technology Enhanced Learning: current status in Europe". International Journal on Technology Enhanced Learning. , Vol. 3, No. 4, pp 389-402, 2011. Inderscience Publishers. DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2011.041282
Luis de la Fuente Valentín, Abelardo Pardo, and Carlos Delgado Kloos. "Generic Service Integration in Adaptive Learning Experiences using IMS Learning Design". Computers & Education, Volume 57, Issue 1, August 2011, Pages 1160-1170, doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2010.12.007.
Abelardo Pardo and Carlos Delgado Kloos. "SubCollaboration: large-scale group management in collaborative learning". Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 41, Issue 4, pages 339–465. doi: 10.1002/spe.1023
Luis de la Fuente Valentín, Derick Leony, Abelardo Pardo and Carlos Delgado Kloos. "User Identity Issues in Mashups for Learning Experiences using IMS Learning Design. International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning. Volume 3, Number 1, pages 80-92, ISSN: 1753-5255.
Recent conference papers
Derick Leony, Raquel M. Crespo, Mar Perez-Sanagustín, Hugo A. Parada G., Luis de la Fuente Valentín, Abelardo Pardo. Coverage metrics for learning-event datasets based on client-side monitoring. 1st Workshop on Bootstrapping Learning Analytics (BLA’12) held at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), July 2012.
Sten Govaerts, Katrien Verbert, Erik Duval, Abelardo Pardo. "The Student Activity Meter for Awareness and Self-reflection". ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), May 2012, Austin, TX, USA (To appear).
Derick Leony, Abelardo Pardo, Luis de la Fuente Valentín, David Sánchez de Castro, Carlos Delgado Kloos. "GLASS: A Learning Analytics Visualization Tool". Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK 2012, ACM Press, May 2012.
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carmen Fernández-Panadero, Mª Blanca Ibáñez, Mario Muñoz, Abelardo Pardo. "m-Learning will Disrupt Educational Practices". EDUCON Global Engineering Education Conference. Marrakesh, Morocco, April 2012.
Luis de la Fuente Valentín, Derick Leony, Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos, "Towards Flexibility on IMS Learning Design Scripts". Frontiers in Education, pages T1E-1 -- T1E-6, October 2011
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Abelardo Pardo, Maren Scheffel, Katja Niemann, Martin Wolpers, Derick Leony, Carlos Delgado Kloos. "An Ontological Framework for Adaptive Feedback to Support Students while Programming". International Semantic Web Conference, 2011.
Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos. "Stepping out of the box. Towards analytics outside the Learning Management System". Proceedings of the First International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, February/March 2011, pages 163-167, Association for Computing Machinery, 2011.
Vicente Arturo Romero Zaldivar, Raquel Crespo García, Daniel Burgos, Carlos Delgado Kloos and Abelardo Pardo, "Automatic Discovery of Complementary Learning Resources". European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6964, pp. 327-340, ISBN: 978-3-642-23984-7.
Maren Scheffel, Katja Niemann, Abelardo Pardo, Derick Leony, Martin Friedrich, Kerstin Schmidt, Martin Wolpers and Carlos Delgado Kloos, "Usage Pattern Recognition in Student Activities". European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6964, pp. 341-355, ISBN: 978-3-642-23984-7.
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Abelardo Pardo, Mario Muñoz-Organero and Carlos Delgado Kloos, "Towards the Prediction of User Actions on Exercises with Hints based on Survey Results". European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6964, pp. 525-530, ISBN: 978-3-642-23984-7.
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carmen Fernández-Panadero, Mª Blanca Ibáñez, Mario Muñoz, Abelardo Pardo. "Towards Parallel Educational Worlds". EDUCON Global Engineering Education Conference. Amman, Jordan, April 2011.
Hugo A. Parada G., Abelardo Pardo, Carlos Delgado Kloos. Towards combining individual and collaborative work spaces under a unified e-portfolio. International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, pages 488-501. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6785, Springer Verlag, 2011.
Susan Webster, Abelardo Pardo. Towards DIY OCW: A sustainable model for producing OpenCourseWare at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. OpenCourseware Consortium Global Meeting, 2011.
Final Degree Projects/Technology Studies
Most of the final projects that I supervise are developed in the learning management system called .LRN. This platform is open source and it is based on the OpenACS web development toolkit (also open source).
The projects have usually two phases. The first one includes studying the structure of the platform, become familiar with its internal structure to the point of writing a simple and limited functionality application. This phase is suitable to do “technology studies”.
In the second phase, the objective is to develope an application to be included in the official releases of the platform. The main advantage of this platform is its industrial level, to the point that there exist several companies that use it as their basic platform to develop web applications.
If you are interested on doing any type of work in this context, look at the web pages of these tools and get in touch with me to explore possible ideas to pursue.
If you are looking for funding for your final project, consider the possibility of applying for a Beca de excelencia GAST.
Titles of some final degree projects done to date (in Spanish only).
Research projects
I currently participate in the following research projects:
Educational Reflected Spaces: Nowadays education does not happen exclusively face-to-face, in the physical space. Neither does it happen exclusively through online tools in the virtual space. There is a continuous transfer from one space to another: certain activities are done in the classroom, some are accessed on a web virtual learning environment or a 3D world, then the students collaborate either physically or digitally, etc. Recent technological advances open broad opportunities to link these spaces, thus enabling the realization of an “extended ubiquitous learning” settings that incorporate and coordinate objects and activities from them all. That is the underlying basis of Educational Reflected Spaces. Three kinds of spaces are considered by this project: the web space, the 3D virtual space, and the augmented physical space.
Adaptation of learning scenarios in the .LRN platform based on Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAM). This project aims to combine semantic web technologies with Contextual Attention Metadata (CAM) to enable personalization and adaptation in Learning Management Systems (LMSs). CAM allows to capture and analyze observations that describe the learner's activities. The semantic web allows the use of extended data from the web, integration with other business processes, rule and data reuse, etc. Using the .LRN as a testbed, which is supported by a very active community of users world-wide, we will conduct several experiments to make improvements in personalization by combining CAM based analysis and recommendation with learning resource descriptions. .LRN enables us to observe learner activities regarding learning resource acquisition, appointment managements, blog and wiki activity, assessment, assignments and evaluation of and within courses. Integrating technology developed at Fraunhofer FIT and Univ. Carlos III, the .LRN environment will be extended with new personalization and adaptation features.
eMadrid: Research and development network about e-learning technologies in the Madrid Region. The eMadrid Network is a project funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid, which promotes research and development of technologies to support learning (Technology-Enhanced Learning). Coordinated by the University Carlos III of Madrid, it has as partners the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and UNED, having other universities and companies as associated entities.
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