1. PULSO: Research and innovation in
eLearning
Mª del Puerto Paule, Juan Ramón Pérez, Victor Álvarez
Department of Computer Science
University of Oviedo

2. Research lines @ PULSO
I. eLearning content and adaptation
II. Voice interactive learning environments
III. Augmented reality: Mobile devices + eLearning
IV. Social eLearning

3. I. eLearning content and adaptation
Software reflection makes learning objects adaptable
to different repositories
Current specifications
Proposal of a new specification
Learning Object
Learning Object
Content
SALO
<organization> Content
Behaviour
<item>
<item>
<item> SALO SALO
<item> Content Content
Behaviour Behaviour
Sequencing

4. II. Voice interactive learning environments
Multi­channel access to internet­based learning
Audio RSS­based learning
Voice Interactive Classroom
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5. II. Voice interactive learning environments
Dialog design
+ Prototiping
+Evaluation
nIter
T max  DTMF = ∑ T max i
i=1
T max  ASR =T max  DTMF nIter∗tEspASR
60
f(x) = 0.59x + 12.29
50 R² = 0.86
40
- Time accuracy
30 - Download rate
20 - Recognition accuracy
10 - Student satisfaction
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6. III. Augmented reality:
Mobile devices + eLearning
Context awareness for mobile learning
UniDroid:
Augmented reality at University
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7. IV. Social Learning
● How to support virtual communities
to build content / knowledge
Virtual
● New assessment methods
community
Learning PLE
Environment
Result
analysis
Automatic
content Collaborative Process
generation knowledge analysis
base
Content generation Assessment

8. Thanks a lot!
Web: http://www.pulso.uniovi.es/
Mª del Puerto Paule
paule@uniovi.es
Juan Ramón Pérez
jrpp@uniovi.es
Víctor Álvarez
victoralvarez@uniovi.es