Carlos de Castro Lozano
University of Cordoba, Spain
TIC-TOOC: "ICT tools for transmedialising a MOOC"
Summary: TIC-TOOC is a pioneering project that aims to revolutionise online education with the objective of improving efficiency and effectiveness in the production of educational multimedia content. TIC-TOOC relies on exponential technologies, especially Affective Virtual Intelligent Agents (AVIAs), the Internet of Emotions and Predicting Behaviour systems.
This innovative project aims to help teachers and authors turn their MOOCs into TOOCs (Transmedia Open Online Courses), giving them the opportunity to create online courses that offer a more complete and immersive experience for students. The transmedialisation of educational content provides a richer and more dynamic experience for users, allowing them to immerse themselves in a world of knowledge beyond the purely theoretical.
The TIC-TOOC project is led by a team of experts in the field, who will be responsible for carrying out a series of activities to give participants the opportunity to learn and share knowledge and experiences with other education professionals from around the world. In addition, follow-up programmes will be included to ensure that participants can continue to apply what they have learned in their daily work. To this end, an OTT/IPTV TELEDU platform will be used to allow constant interaction and monitoring of the learners' progress.
TIC-TOOC also seeks to foster collaboration between the different actors involved in the teaching-learning process. For example, teachers will be able to share their experiences and best practices with other colleagues from around the world, which will allow for a more holistic and enriching learning experience for all.
In short, TIC-TOOC is a unique initiative that seeks to improve the quality of online education and provide teachers and MOOC authors with the ability to easily transmedialise their educational content using advanced AI technologies.
Degree in Mathematics (1979), PhD in Biological Sciences and US Professor. I started my teaching activity in the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Cordoba and later moved to the E.U. of Technical Industrial Engineering as US Professor of the Area of Engineering and Automatics of the Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, a position I still hold today.
He has directed more than 100 final projects, tutored dozens of internships in companies, has taught doctoral courses in the Faculty of Sciences of the UCO, I have been director and professor for 7 courses of the Master and Expert Course on Social and Labour Integration of the Disabled at the University of Cordoba in agreement with the IMSERSO.
He has co-directed and taught, together with Dr. Carina González of the ULL, the Master's Degree in Video Game Creation. ULL, UCO, UOC and the Master in Human-Computer Interaction and Mobile Applications of the University of La Laguna and CITEC of the University of Cordoba. He has co-directed, together with Dr. Carlos Lazcano, the Master in Information Management of the UNESCO Chair in Management in Organisations.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
I have 3 Research Sections (Sexenios CNAI), the 4th and 5th in process.
The main line of research he has carried out is Ambient Assisted Living - AAL - Concepts such as accessibility, usability, adaptivity, proactivity, artificial intelligence, monitoring, recommendation, are strongly engraved in all his research and developments.
Expert in t-Learning Platforms, Authoring tools for the production of gamified interactive learning objects, Digital Content, Transmedia Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Web Usability and Accessibility, Interactive Systems, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Interactive Digital TV (IDT), smart, inclusive and interactive IPTV3D, adaptive u-Learning platforms, intelligent systems, serious-games, gamification, Smart Cities, social innovation, mentoring and acceleration of startups and technological entrepreneurship, Blockchain, ICOs.
He has been Principal Investigator of more than 50 international and national R&D projects and contracts (most of them have originated products that have been marketed by companies or used in public institutions. These R&D projects and contracts have been obtained in public (+20) and private (+30) calls.
Director since 1992 of the research group EATCO TIC 183, which has been for a long time one of the three research groups in Andalusia that has contributed most research projects to the university community.
Director for 10 years of the Industrial Technology Centre (CTI) of the University of Cordoba. Director of the Centre for Experimentation and Production of Digital Content of the UCO, Red.es and CRUE (CITEC).
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