EDU REVIEW. International Education and Learning Review / Revista Internacional de Educación y Aprendizaje

Interdisciplinary Teams: the Best Option for the Problem-Solving Method

Leonor Rosales — 2022-08-01

This article shows a didactic sequence carried out in the course Estructuras Simbólicas en la Imagen, la Literatura y la Música, in which students solve a challenge about current needs. To organize the interdisciplinary teams, a poll was applied. As a result, students with different competencies were formed in teams. To determine if this practice was successful, we applied a poll with the aim of gathering students’ opinions. Most of the students expressed the benefits of working in interdisciplinary teams since they were able to develop creative Open Educational Resources.

Communication Analysis of the Music Interface Between Playlist and YouTube

Eliane M. Soares Raslan — 2022-09-09

This study is the result of the PROLIC Study Group that seeks to verify the media influences on the digital market from Brazilian country music. Understanding how artists use new technologies to promote their work and market their images, in this way, we start from the concept that PP uses the interface between playlists, YouTube, and entertainment as a media strategy. Involves educational learning for the area of Social Communication in this specific communicational interrelationship of the media, the PROLIC team makes a visual and relational reading around the interfaces and how the advertising discourses generate meanings in social media.

The Entrepreneurship of Hispanic Edutubers and their Contribution to Learning

Emiliano Cervantes González — 2022-09-20

Entrepreneurs most often direct their intentions towards digital information technologies, this is an economic and social phenomenon based on internet services. Companies like YouTubeä have allowed millions of people to continuously transmit videos with various themes. Through a classification of educational videos from YouTube, the comments of 20 videos of "teachers" were coded to analyze the learning of those who consult the videos. It was discovered that more than 20% of the comments establish the pedagogical consultation as something practical and useful in their academic training and that the reproductions increased during COVID-19.

Perceptions of University Students about their Communicative Competence

Elena Mª Díaz Pareja — 2022-09-27

In today's society, knowledge is generated and broadcast using multiple channels and codes that university students do not always master. The carried out research aims to know the shortcomings that these students present in the performance of communicative competence. In this article we present the starting situation in which future teachers of two Spanish universities, Jaén (149 students) and Oviedo (125 students), find themselves with respect to communicative competence. To do this, a questionnaire was developed and its results show significant differences between the students of both universities, especially in the socio-linguistic dimension.

Competences of Use and Appropriation of ICT in Virtual Postgraduate Students.

Lilian Rocío Castañeda Meza — 2022-09-30

This systematic review of literature on ICT use and appropriation skills in virtual postgraduate students answers the questions: What are the strategies and/or programs that have been developed to achieve improvements in ICT use and appropriation skills? And, Are there interventions that demonstrate improvement in the skills of use and appropriation of ICTs? The selection criteria established for the selection were research carried out between 2015 and 2020, in Spanish and peer reviewed. 24 documents were selected and included in the review. The results show that the ICT skills of postgraduate students are mostly related to perception studies and not performance evaluations or skills measurement.

Review of "Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Educational Assessment" by M.S. Khine (Ed.)

Abdul Hasib — 2022-08-05