Researchers Marcelo Fabián and Sandra Sanz read their doctoral theses
In the last semester, researchers Marcelo Fabián Maina and Sandra Sanz Martos, who are on the doctorate programme on the Information and Communication Society, took their viva voces for their doctoral theses, with which the total number of viva voces for doctoral theses at the UOC has risen to thirty-three. In addition, this period saw the Doctoral Commission of the Programme approve 48 thesis projects.
Entitled Design of pedagogical scenarios: adapting the MISA method to the IMS LD specification, Marcelo Fabián Maina's theses was supervised by Olga Marino.
This research contributes to increasing the knowledge base of educational design and provides a method based on theory and even educationally for designing reusable educational scenarios.
Practice communities under study
Entitled Comunidades de práctica: fundamentos, caracterización y comportamientos, researcher Sandra Sanz Martos' thesis was supervised by Mario Pérez-Montoro Gutiérrez.
With her research, Martos is pursuing two aims: on the one hand, to define the concept of practice community, and on the other, to identify the elements that enable these communities to work well on the basis of success stories.