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Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia

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1976-03-17

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0000-0002-0027-439X

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57204395481

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Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Ciencias de la Educación, Cuenca, Ecuador
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
Departamento de Educación
Grupo de Investigación: Innovación Tecnológica (GIIT)

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Ecuador

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Illescas Peña

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Lourdes Eugenia

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Assessing the impact of learning objects in an induction process applied to students of the University of Cuenca
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016-10-03) Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Gonzales, N; Sánchez, M
The induction to new college students is part of the training process that provides higher education, it represents a support service and a guidance. The test results applied to students of higher cycles, showed that they did not have enough knowledge about the mission, vision, campus, faculties, services, and regulations of the university. The information and communication technologies can produce and disseminate learning objects, which are educational mediators designed to be used, re-used or referenced in learning purposes. Therefore, a methodology was designed and implemented by the project through learning objects for university induction. This paper describes the experiences in the instructional design and implementation of learning objects, and finally describes the results of the impact evaluation that caused the learning objects in students after application.
Learning analytics, dashboard for academic trajectory
(CEUR-WSceurws@sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de, 2019) Peña Ortega, Mario Patricio; Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Bravo Guerrero, Fabián Eugenio
© 2019 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved. In the context of university academic management, several proposals have been developed for the study of analysis and visualization of learning trajectories. Bearing in mind that the educational trajectory is the trajectory of the student traveled at a given time from entry to the end of the stay, it can be considered that the use of technology could extract or highlight relevant information that is not seen directly with the tools traditional The visualization of data in educational environments has become a challenge due to the large amounts of information available. The responsibilities of educational administrators require a clear visual proposal adapted to queries based on an academic context. Therefore, it was proposed to generate a tool that generates dashboard based on relevant variables of the students. To do this, the proposal began with a review of the literature that helped analyze the different ways of visualizing the data of academic trajectories. Subsequently, a dynamic visualization was formulated to explain the teachers and authorities through the learning analysis panel, based on the use of parallel coordinates that present multidimensional data over time. The sample was constituted by records of 1975 students of an Ecuadorian university, of the cohort that began in March 2013, distributed by faculties and careers. The technique used allowed us to discover trends and relationships between dimensions, improving the understanding of the trajectory patterns of students, the trends of school dropout, either increase or decrease performance, among other relationships. The consultations allowed to filter data by variables such as: faculties, careers, students and intervals of scores. Finally, the validation of the proposal was made based on the relevance of the dashboard, in response to the inquiries of the academic manager.
Metodological proposal for trajectory analysis. Case study
(Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, 2018) Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Peña Ortega, Mario Patricio; Bravo Guerrero, Fabián Eugenio; Larriva González, Silvana Fabiola
For university academic management in general, it is always important to clear-ly know the average time a student needs to complete the credits established in the curriculum. There are several methods to capture academic information and most of them are based on qualification records, access to virtual platforms, as-sistance, etc. Based on the architecture of learning analysis proposed by the au-thors, we specifically worked on a methodology that would allow measuring the academic trajectory using variables such as: number of credits per semester, grades, approvals and number of enrollments. Information from a 2013 cohort of two university careers was used as a reference. The result of the methodolo-gy allowed graphing the behavior and generating a detailed analysis of the aca-demic trajectory. The methodological proposal can be generalized for other ca-reers provided that the analysis of the results is contextualized to the behavior of the nature of the training area.
Causas de deserción en el ingreso a la universidad; un estudio de caso
(2017) Peña Ortega, Mario Patricio; Bravo Guerrero, Fabián Eugenio; Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Larriva Gonzalez, Silvana Fabiola
This research analyzes the causes of desertion that are generated in the development of the leveling course prior to the entry into the first year of the faculties of the technical area of University of Cuenca. Studies show that dropout is a global problem that occurs especially in university admission, cause of waste of time and resources to student and institution. It is important to identify main causes of desertion so that decisions can be taken and actions implemented to reduce dropout rates. For this, the student’s socioeconomic records were analyzed; math tests were applied at the beginning and end of the course; a survey at the beginning of the leveling course and another at the end of the course; also, a survey was carried out on a sample of students who dropped out of leveling, and desertion rates were analyzed for students in the technical area. Results suggest some causes of desertion, such as lack of bases in mathematics, not to enter the career of their preference, high academic requirements in technical careers, a complex evaluation system, lack of economic resources, among other reasons for the desertion. It emphasizes the coincidence of the causes of desertion with other studies, and the concern of the institutions to reduce the rates of desertion.
Gráficas de trayectorias escolares de estudiantes de bachillerato
(2021) Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Bravo Guerrero, Fabián Eugenio; Peña Ortega, Mario Patricio; Bojorque Pazmiño, Miriam Eliana
For school authorities it is important to know how the students of the institution are progressing in their studies, because in this way they can detect any type of difficulties that arise, however, that information is not always known in time. The objective of this research is to propose a methodology that allows to visualize school trajectories of the students and in this way identify the difficulties that students have in mathematics. To show the potential of the methodology, high school students from an Ecuadorian educational institution were investigated between 2015 and 2019, their grades were processed and graphs of school trajectories were generated, which present the evolution of their grades during the school period. Through this methodology, the identification of individual trajectories of low performance is facilitated, in addition, it was found that collaborative activities have higher scores than individual ones, performance differences between courses were also evidenced. The presentation of grades through graphs is a powerful tool for academic management since it facilitates the detection of difficulties and the making of timely decisions.
Trayectoria académica de estudiantes universitarios
(2020) Bravo Guerrero, Fabián Eugenio; Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Peña Ortega, Mario Patricio
Although the careers have a curriculum planning, in practice the student takes some additional time to complete his program. In some careers, this delay can be excessive, implying delays and the loss of resources for the student and the institution. This research was carried out with a cohort that began in March 2013 and ended in July 2018, with the aim of longitudinally analyzing the academic progress of the students, and evidencing the gap between the ideal progress and the real progress in each period, and Thus, to define optimization policies for educational management. A faculty was found where its students took 46.6% more than the ideal term; Additionally, those students, whose parents are professionals or who hold high positions, have academic progress that is statistically superior to others.
Reprobación y abandono de estudiantes universitarios
(2020) Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Bravo Guerrero, Fabián Eugenio; Peña Ortega, Mario Patricio
Studies show that in higher education institutions, students experience difficulties during the course of their studies, failing some subjects and in other cases, withdrawing from university. Knowing this reality can lead the authorities to make academic decisions to face this problem and improve terminal efficiency, which is an important indicator for institutional accreditation. The objective of this study was to determine the failure and dropout rates of the students of the different faculties, and at what point in the studies these rates are higher. The research was carried out on 1900 students from the University of Cuenca, Ecuador, a cohort that began their studies in March 2013, and a longitudinal follow-up was carried out until July 2018, using the documentary research technique, for which the academic databases owned by the university. It was found that both repetition and dropout rates are higher in the first semesters of study in all faculties, and that Medical Sciences and Architecture have low rates of loss of subjects and dropout of their students, while some faculties from the Social Sciences area they have high rates of failure and desertion. It is important to know these indicators for each faculty and at all times in the students' trajectory, so that the authorities make decisions that allow improving the academic offer.
Building an escape room to raise awareness of bullying and cyberbullying
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Jadan Guerrero, Janio Lincon; Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Chacón Castro, Marcos; Chacón, José
Aggressive conflicts are part of the natural social behavior of students in schools, which can lead to bullying when there is a form of discrimination or abuse of power, either because of their characteristics or their way of life (sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, immigration status, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, health, disability, religious beliefs, pregnancy, among others). In the face-to-face mode, the aggressors could be identified and in some way the conflicts were mediated by teachers or authorities of the institution. However, since education changed to a virtual modality caused by the global coronavirus pandemic, new forms of aggressive behavior have emerged with cyberbullying. In this new scenario teachers, parents and law enforcement should take an active role in raising awareness about bullying and cyberbullying. The main objective of this paper is to describe a proposal based on gamification strategy to prevent and raise awareness of aggressive behaviors among students in a virtual environment. The study focuses on three objectives: a) to study the use of visual methods based on microlearning and the techniques to engage students; b) to identify game scenarios and strategies to design an interactive Escape Room; and c) to evaluate the design and content with three experts in psychology. The results indicate that the Escape Room is a different alternative to understand the problems derived from Bullying and cyberbullying. In the future, we are planning to carry out an intervention with students from Ecuador and Colombia to evaluate the impact
Aplicación e impacto de las tics en la enseñanza de las matemáticas: una revisión sistemática
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2018) Guachún Lucero, Freddy Patricio; Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia
This research sought, collected and systematized information on empirical studies of the Tics applied to the teaching of mathematics. The systematic review method was used; the units of study were the master thesis published nationwide, which could be accessed through the COBUEC digital repository; Of the 765 studies found, based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 28 were selected for study where the state of the art, impact, contributions and limitations were determined. The research allowed to demonstrate the scarce information on this subject, most of the master's thesis are methodological proposals or didactic guides but do not perform empirical intervention. Geogebra software is the most used and the most addressed topics are linear function and linear equations in higher education. All the studies analyzed generate contributions helping to improve motivational, attitudinal and academic aspects.
Implementation of a basic risk guide for interactive digital terrestrial television using learning objects
(Springer Nature, 2021) Morocho Zurita, Carlos Villie; Cárdenas, Paola; Illescas Peña, Lourdes Eugenia; Maza Cordova, Jorge; Achig Balarezo, Rosario
The application “Disaster Risk Management Guide” for interactive Digital Terrestrial Television (iDTT), has been implemented based on the design that considers Learning Objects (LO) adapted to iDTT, where the receiving medium is the television and the main element of interaction is the remote control. The contents were worked on in coordination with the National Service for Risk and Emergency Management (SNGRE by its acronym in Spanish) of Ecuador, an organization that was also in charge of the validation. The implementation process, tests and improvements of the application are detailed, which includes three Learning Objects (LO) and a section with geographic information on emergency alerts in real time, obtained from a map server. Each LO addresses informational and educational topics, as well as a self-assessment for the viewer. The methodology for software development has been incremental, based on constant deliveries and progressive advances. The application has been developed in the Ginga NCL (Nested Context Language)-LUA programming language, and the tests have been carried out in two environments: 1) simulation with Ginga-NCL emulators and 2) using the Set Top Box (STB) EiTV Smartbox receiver equipment. The tests mainly detail the processes carried out to identify the audio and video formats supported in the two environments, the most appropriate options for integrating text in the interfaces, and the solution of problems encountered during the process. Finally, a usability analysis of the application is included with tests carried out in different age groups