Self-Regulated Learning in SmartArt (SmartArt) Project

19 Oct 2020

In the first of the sessions, the SME Bjaländ presented the advances in the development of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in which an intelligent learning classroom or Smart Tutoring has been implemented and four members of the University of Burgos detailed the development of this project.

Sandra Rodríguez Arribas, member of the SmartArt team of the University of Burgos, presented the development and management plan of the project through the Social Networks. This project can be followed through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. AIn addition, the scope of the project can be followed from its website.

PhD. Natalia Muñoz Rujas, a member of the SmartArt team from the University of Burgos, addressed the importance of the sustainability of the project, placing special emphasis on open access to the materials and the interactive VLE platform, both for the target population of this project, which are adults, and for other sectors of the population to which the intellectual products produced will be generalized, such as university students, secondary and high school students, and children and primary school students, for whom intellectual transfer products are being developed.  

For her part, Professor María José Zaparaín Yáñez, a member of the team at the University of Burgos, presented the methodology and development of the thematic units related to learning Art History, focusing on the application of serious games methodology and regulation through the figure of an avatar

In addition, PhD. María Consuelo Sáiz Manzanares, coordinator of the SmartArt project, addressed the advances in the first intellectual product to be offered in Spanish, English and Portuguese. 

Next, PhD. Juan Antonio Valdivieso Burón, who forms part of the SmartArt team of the University of Valladolid, presented the ethics and quality actions that are being implemented in the project, as well as those that will be dealt with in future phases and Iñaki Oyon Barrio , from the PYMES Parangon Europe (Malta), set out the dissemination and dissemination plan of the project, both within the members of the strategic association and the rest of the European Union partners.  

Finally, Professor José Alberto Lencastre, from the SmartArt group of the University of Minho (Portugal), presented the functionalities of the SmartArt project in relation to learning and its link to technological advances whose objective is to improve and increase access to learning for all citizens, throughout life, and to incorporate the latest technological advances to achieve effective learning within the current of Advanced Learning Technologies. 

About the Smartart project

The Smartart project is focused on the generation of new ways of teaching Art History in adult education through the use of new technologies with an eye-tracking software that will record the motivation and learning of the users and create different profiles customising the learning and needs of each person, which will allow adults to "look at" art with "other eyes". 

Its objectives focus on the design of a virtual classroom for learning these contents by generating a virtual environment that integrates self-regulated learning tools, a personalised context in which different hypermedia resources are used (avatars, automatic feedback, records of learning patterns, etc.), with the use of various data processing and analysis techniques, as well as artificial intelligence and data mining. 

In addition to the University of Burgos, the University of Oviedo, the Portuguese University of Minho and the University of Valladolid are participating in this strategic partnership, as well as the companies Bjäland Technologies (Spain) - in charge of technological development - and Paragon Limited (Malta) - responsible for the multi-sector transfer of results. 

The Conference took place in the Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Burgos and its content can be followed in the  SmartArt Project's YouTube'channel.

The next events of the project are related to the presentation of the first intellectual product and the interactive platform VLE and will take place in the Museum of Burgos, on November 6th, in the town of Aranda, in the House of Culture on November 18th; in the Museum of Sculpture of Valladolid, on November 19th, and in the Silos Foundation, in the Convent of San Francisco (Silos), on Saturday November 28th.