Panel Presentation Session DAT02
The Power of Data in Education
Pedro Muñoz Merino
Visiting Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In 2009 he received his PhD in Telematics Engineering from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He obtained his acreditation in May 2012 as Associate Professor. He has made two long research stays: one in Ireland for more than 3 months at the Intel company in 2005, and another in Germany for more than 6 months at the Fraunhofer Institute of Technology in 2009-2010. He is author of more than 80 scientific publications and has participated in more than 20 research projects. He has been invited as a speaker in different events in topics related to learning analytics and educational data mining. He is also an IEEE Senior Member since 2015. His skills and experience include research and development in learning analytics, educational data mining, evaluation of learning experiences, user studies, gamification or Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Links
http://www.it.uc3m.es/~pedmume/index.ht…
Ruth Cobos
Assistant Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Ruth Cobos received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, in 2003. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the UAM. She has been as post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University Munich (Germany) and at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). She is author of more than 80 scientific publications and has participated in more than 15 research projects related to CSCW, CSCL and Educational Technologies. During 2008 and 2009 she coordinated a project funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation. She was designated as Rector’s Delegate for Educational Technologies from 2014 to 2016 at the UAM. During this period, she was the director of the UAMx Office (the technological department for generating MOOCs by UAM Faculty) at the UAM. She has been invited as a speaker in different events related to on-line courses management, learning analytics and collaborative learning. Her main research areas include Social learning, Blended learning, Learning Analytics, MOOCs and Educational Technologies.
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Michael Moore
Senior Advisory Consultant - Analytics, D2L, Canada
Michael Moore holds a master’s degree in Computer Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting. He has worked extensively in the software industry with over 20+ years of experience managing and manipulating data and customizing software. Mike has created a variety of data analysis tools from simple, straight-forward tables to complex, automated financial models, work-flow automation systems, scientific analysis models, as well as web-based applications to front-end SQL databases.
Mike was a Desire2Learn higher education client for three years and managed the Analytics implementation at Daytona State College during that time. He also served as the project manager for a co-development project that the client was pursuing with Desire2Learn to develop institutional outcome reporting, competency assessment and learning evidence tools to support accreditation, re-affirmation and the continuous program improvement cycle. Mike is particularly interested in the effective integration of educational technology tools into the online teaching environment and the classroom. His experience is both in learning analytics to examine the presentation of information to students to help them learn as well as the academic analytics to evaluate the learning achievement metrics and help improve the process. He was also a system administrator for the Desire2Learn implementation and is fluent in all aspects of the learning environment and system administration elements.
Prior to working with Daytona State College, Mike has a rich consulting history spanning the past 15 years. He has been an independent consultant developing custom web-based software and database integrations as well as developing custom database and reporting applications.
Links
https://www.d2l.com/blog/author/mmoore/
Manuel Freire
Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Manuel Freire has a PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). His research interests are centered on Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Online Learning and Serious Games. In 2008, he enjoyed a a postdoctoral Fulbright grant at the University of Maryland's HCIL. In 2010, he became a member of the e-
UCM research group at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is an Associate Professor since 2013.
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https://www.ucm.es/directorio?id=25338
Edmundo Tovar
Executive Director Open Education Office, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Edmundo Tovar, Computer Engineering educator, has a Ph. D. (1994) and a Bachelor’s degree (1986) in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He is Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) from the IEEE Computer Society. He has been Associate Dean for Quality and Strategic Planning in the Computing School of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. From this last position he was in charge of the training for academic staff, the introduction of innovative solutions including new pedagogies; new approaches that improve student learning of technical skills and cultural skills, improved methods of blended learning and others.
He works in the open educational resources area. Leader of an Innovation Group in Education in the UPM, he has been Executive Director of Open Education UPM Office and member elected of the Board of Directors of the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
Author of many papers in Engineering Education, he is member of the Steering Committee of and cochair for Europe of Frontiers Education Conference (FIE) , co general chair of the next FIE 2014 at Madrid. Member of the Board of Governors Committee of the IEEE Education Society, he is currently VicePresident of Educational Activities of the IEEE Education Society.
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http://www.upm.eshttp://www.vai.dia.fi.upm.es/ing/cv/eto…
Moderator
Inge de Waard
Researcher and Explorer, The Open University, UK
My professional journey (Institute of Tropical Medicine - Belgium, Athabasca University - Canada, The Open University – UK, and Women's gender equality movement - Belgium) immersed me in online and mobile learning from 1999 onward. I have set-up, coordinated and developed several online and mobile learning projects, always with a focus on participation and durability. These projects involved partners and individuals from both the Northern (Canada, United States, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Germany, UK) and Southern regions (South-Africa, India, Peru, Morocco). As an avid enthusiast of open science, I am an active international speaker giving keynotes and guest lectures, as well as providing knowledge input (and consequently receiving lots of input) at seminars, SIGs and workshops.
Enlightened by the first connectivist MOOCs, I have set up one of the first MOOCs on mobile learning, called MobiMOOC (2011 & 2012), enabling learners to realize their own project. In 2013 I decided to investigate FutureLearn MOOCs and specifically how individual learners with online learning experience self-direct their learning, which resulted in obtaining a PhD at the Open University in UK.
I have come to realize that there is no single solution for all. The diversity which is at the core of nature’s success, seems to be replicated by the diversity in learning preferences and ways to achieve learning success in humans. But above all, I am a social learner, so feel free to talk to me.