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Title- Social Cloud for hands-on Information Technology: An experience with Universities in Ecuador.

Abstract- The instruction in technical disciplines require hands-on labs, these laboratories are difficult to found and maintain for administration and costs reasons, the use of a new ecosystem of practical education being necessary. We present a model and the e-learning architecture for hands-on Information Technology. We use virtualization technology and cloud computing access from any computer or students owned device. The model has been tested experimentally. The results demonstrate the validity of the model allowing you to transmit practical skills as well as get through a face to face training, but with the advantage that only virtual resources are used.

Index Terms- Massive Open Online Courses, Social Cloud, Information Technology, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Bring your own device.

Title- Internet-based Performance Support Systems in Engineering Education.

Abstract- This paper is centered in 'Internet-based Performance Support Systems with Educational Elements' (IPSS_EE) model. The theoretical foundations and characteristicsare analyzed together to its application to check the model effectiveness by means of a mixed research approach with universities students; measuring instruments consisted of questionnaires on attitude to learn by computer and on the learning methods reflection, together achievement test on the practices. The results showed positive students’ attitudes and goodresults on achievement in performance. We recommend the use of educational platforms, performance learning centered, in universities studies and continuing training, necessary to answer the workplace demands.

Index Terms- Performance Support Systems, Internet-Based Learning, Innovation Evaluation, Informatics Systems.

Title- Study about Computational Thinking and Gender

Abstract- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have contributed to develop today's knowledge society. However, there are still some people who do not know what ICT is, what means that it becomes a big problem for our society. In order to make a correct and continuous use it is necessary to teach computational thinking at an early stage. As a good way of starting to use the ICT’s, this study uses the Scratch tool to find out those children’s skills which are linked to computational thinking, as the emotions in programming, and, above all, those gender differences which are emerging when using the computational thinking. Moreover, thanks to that they will be able to evaluate preferences and how they use this programming language with children of 7-14 years. This study has been developed in the event GDG Kids Spain in January 2016 on the island of Tenerife. The results indicate that when children know and experience programming languages, they are able to develop skills that motivate them to continue working on these activities. In turn, girls stand out more than the boys on variables related to computational thinking but they have a very negative self-perception about themselves which affects their self-esteem, perhaps caused by the existing stereotypes in society.

Index Terms- Educational Technology, Computational Thinking, Gender differences, Gender perspective, Scratch.

Title- Indicators for assessing the quality of a blended university course.

Abstract- The quality of university education has always been a major concern for all participants involved in the teaching-learning process. The ability to objectively analyze the quality of a subject and to diagnose those aspects that have to be improved has become a necessity, and even more, with the arrival of the European Higher Education Area. The subjects that have always been taught in classroom have suffered a substantial transformation, as new methodologies include online support. Besides, there is a major change in the teaching-learning concept, focusing the main role in the student. This entire situation requires new quality models.

Index Terms- Quality assessment, European Higher Education Area, Teaching-Learning process, B-Learning, Accessibility.

Title- Initiatives and strategies to bring women to engineering.

Abstract- This paper deals with the problem of a low number of women who perform technical studies or work in technological enterprises. Although we have focused on initiatives which have being taken in Spain, we have also included several studies around the world which try to give women closer to engineering. Once we have reviewed these proposals and confirm that they have not resulted in a growth of women in technologies, we propose other interventions and actions which could improve this situation and thus, provide the set of benefits linked to this fact, such as empathic co-creation from primary education.

Index Terms- Strategy, Gender, Engineering, Education.