Virt@l-ApSsoporte tecnológico para el Aprendizaje-Servicio Virtual

Abstract

COETIC, "UNED Teaching Innovation Group for the Development of Ethical and Civic Competence and Community-Based Methodologies in Higher Education", includes among its strategic objectives the development of not only methodological, but also technological, tools for the support of Virtual Service Learning (VSL). This pedagogical resource requires the mediation of ICT, both for the provision of the services and for the learning support, as well as for the monitoring and evaluation of the learning by the teachers. In this article we present COETIC's advances in this field, embodied in a web application for the support of VSL, Virtu@l-VSL. The application has been developed in the context of two UNED collaborative and interdisciplinary final undergraduate-degree projects, in Social Education and Computer benefitted from Engineering, respectively. The specification of the functionalities feedback from the pilot experiences in VSL that COETIC has promoted and implemented in the last three academic years in different UNED degrees. In particular, the implementation of VSL in the Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI): fundamentals, fethods and applications; has helped to clarify the technological needs of VSL that involves computer engineering processes.