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This is the second occasion that Computational Thinking track is presented in TEEM Conference. Our Society is claiming for more technical professionals and future job will need workers know the computational principles to be applied in their daily tasks,...

Pedagogic Conversational Agents are interactive systems that teach by talking to the students. They have been used in several domains to develop competences such as storytelling or negotiation from University to Pre-Primary Education. However, in the ...

Computational Thinking can be defined as a set of skills for problem solving based on Computer Science. Computational Thinking skills are not only limited to the field of computing but also extensible to all areas of knowledge. Young people grow up ...

In recent years, several visual programming languages and tools are emerging, which allow young students to easily program applications. Particularly, the block-based language used by Scratch has been the standard in most school initiatives to introduce ...

Nowadays, the teaching-learning processes are constantly changing, one of the latest modifications promises to strengthen the development of digital skills and thinking in the participants, from an early age. In this sense, the present article shows the ...

This paper presents the preliminary results of the project "Computational Thinking for children education", aimed at promoting computational thinking, creativity and learning amongst primary school children. The didactic activities of the project focus ...

Nowadays students live in the digital age and they do not only should learn to speak, write or develop specific skills. Students needs to be successful in their context and a possible way to achieve this is by developing the computational thinking. In ...

Scratch is a "rich-media programming language" that has become very popular at high school because students may learn it very quickly and produce surprisingly animated programs. Consequently, some instructors have proposed using Scratch at the ...

The percentages of 1dropout, accreditation and average grade of students that study university courses of Methodology of programming and Programming of first and second semester of career of Information and Communication Technologies in the ...

Trastea.club (http://www.trastea.club/) is an initiative of the University of Deusto (Spain) aimed to develop STEM-related skills among young students (STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Science). We chose the name "trastea" because ...

The success of 21st century engineers1 depends on demanding challenges, involving a large scope of scientific and social competences. College education must help students to develop those competences in collaborative environments and better address ...

This paper provides an overview of the development of a self-oriented solar mirror (SOSM) project within the European Project Semester (EPS) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). While the main objective of the EPS@ISEP project-based ...

The professionalization of undergraduate students was one of the main objectives of the European Higher Education Area, which should have led Spanish University teaching process to a more specific training related with student real future in the labour ...

This paper presents the development process of a sustainable solution to grow aromatic plants in small houses. The solution is called The GreenHouse and is meant for people who live in small houses or city apartments and want fresh home grown aromatic ...

Laboratory experiments play a crucial role in engineering education as they strongly contribute to the development of important skills for the professional practice. This paper addresses a students' understanding gap between simulations and remote labs. ...

The more recent emergence of remote laboratories caused some discussions about their real educational value, when compared to traditional hands-on and virtual laboratories. This discussion is relevant because remote labs rely on computer-mediated access ...

This track, entitled Evaluation in Education and Guidance in previous editions, has changed its name in the fourth edition to cover all the new trends on Assessment & Evaluation. Educational Assessment & Evaluation is essential to improve quality of ...

The evaluation of a system is part of the development process that must be done preferably with potential users, since they can give new ideas and relevant feedback about the user experience of it, so a User-Centered Design approach could give better ...

The transition to university life implies adapting and facing new challenges for the integration of the university system. People who begin the transition as those who live with the structure of the institution require guidance for their along your ...

The changes that society is experimenting affect the educational system, including a wide range of educational agents. Teachers are required to adapt to these changes and to be involved a continuous learning process in order to offer a high-quality ...

Assessment is a key element in the teaching-learning process. Every formal education implies some kind of assessment, and the results of this assessment contribute to the quality improvement in that process. Currently, most assessment scenarios are very ...

One topic that is of great concern to secondary school teachers is the classroom climate and conflicting situations and behaviors that can affect the normal development of training actions. This exploratory work focuses on the study of the situation in ...

The methodological proposals arising from the European convergence area raise the need to promote higher levels of involvement and participation of students in their own evaluation process. Nevertheless, several authors indicate that there are still ...

The ability of working with others is a key generic competence. It is usually demanded by employers and is included in most of the Engineering Degree programme results. In addition, some decisions must be taken in order to integrate teamwork development ...

Digital competence1 should be an essential skill in the professional development of educators. The purpose of the research project presented in this paper is a diagnostic self- assessment of digital competence of students taking the Undergraduate ...

Assessment1 is a key element of the teaching-learning process, and it is necessary to innovate in this field in order to adjust it to the demands of the ever-changing educational landscape in which we live.

This paper presents an innovation project that ...

Mobile technologies occupy an increasingly important place within the catalogue of didactic resources available to teachers, who play a key role in the success of innovation processes in the field of education. The research presented in this paper ...

This paper focuses on analysing the influence of serious games on the assessment literacy of Higher Education students. The study is contextualised in a public call research project in which the DevalS course is developed and implemented -- How to ...

The scientific edition has undergone a profound transformation in the last years. The production of research results from big data techniques, the accessibility to them through open access systems and repositories, the appearance of digital tools for ...

The scientific monographs are a paradigmatic case of the changes that the electronic publishing and the digital environment have introduced over the last few years in the scientific communication circuit. On the one hand, its importance in the fields of ...