The GSIC-EMIC research group has participated in the Aporta Challenge, organized by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. This challenge seeks to promote the use of Open Data to respond to key challenges in the society, such as the efficient use of digital technologies in education, to address the digital divide and to cope with data security and privacy, to improve understanding of the current context to ensure appropriate decision-making by education authorities, and the need to acquire new skills related to data analysis, among others.
The first project presented in the challenge is EducaWood, developed in collaboration with the Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Gestión Forestal Sostenible (iuFOR) by Jimena Andrade, Guillermo Vega, Miguel L. Bote, Juan I. Asensio, Irene Ruano, Felipe Bravo and Cristóbal Ordóñez. EducaWood is a socio-semantic web portal that allows to explore forestry information with the Spanish territory and to enrich it with additional annotations. Teachers can propose environmental learning activities that are contextualized with their surroundings. These activities can be performed by learners during field trips with annotations related to the trees (location, species, measurements, etc.) with their mobile devices. Beyond that, Educawood lets learners perform virtual trips and perform activities remotely with the available information and the annotations provided by the community.
As well, the research group has participated with the LocalizARTE project, developed by Pablo García, Adolfo Ruiz, Miguel L. Bote, Guillermo Vega, Sergio Serrano, Eduardo Gómez, Yannis Dimitriadis, Alejandra Martínez and Juan I. Asensio. LocalizARTE is a web application that facilitates learning activities related to History of Art across learning contexts. Students can visualize and perform different geo-positioned activities on a map, while teachers can provide new activities. As well, teachers can choose which activities can be more suitable for their learners and check their answers.
