Marlon Felipe Burbano Fernández, seeks with his project to use a platform for open-source Open-Source Courses (MOOC) known as open Edx and extend its functionality.

 

The engineer Burbano Fernández is doing the doctoral stay at the Carlos III University of Madrid, a stay that is directed by Dr. Mario Muñoz Organero, within the GAST Research Group of the Department of Telematics Engineering of the aforementioned Spanish institution. Professor Muñoz Organero, is a researcher of recognized academic trajectory in the area of ubiquitous computing and Internet of Objects.

 

In turn, the research of Marlon Felipe Burbano Fernández, is under the direction of Dr. Gustavo Ramírez (professor of the Department of Telematics of the University of Cauca), in which they are developing an investigation as a doctoral dissertation that relates topics of MOOC (Open Massive Courses Online) and its integration with the Internet of Things (IoT).

 

In this sense it is observed that one of the challenges that can be thought from online education is given in the processes of physical training or teaching and learning of different movements.

 

Virtualization makes these kinds of actions through these educational scenarios complex and difficult to perform. In most cases they are done through videos, where they are projected with certain indications and the person who is learning is expected to replicate this movement; It should be noted that, in this case, it is not possible to provide feedback.

 

It is thus that this research aims to extend the range of services offered in a virtual educational platform in order that it can support the teaching and learning of motor skills. The main idea of the project is to use a platform for Open Masses (MOOC) courses known as open edx and extend its functionality so that it is able to receive information generated by the movement of people and in this sense provide pro and retro food In learning motor skills.

 

Finally, it is highlighted that this research is also associated with the international project MOOCMAKER, which is linked as a member of the University of Cauca, and whose objective is the creation of an intercontinental network between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Europe and Latin America to improve Quality, relevance and access of teaching-learning programs through the implementation of quality MOOCs that promote the development of skills and knowledge required in today's students.

 

Caption: Engineer Marlon Felipe Burbano, doctoral student, and PhD.

Mario Muñoz Organero, International advisor