Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal

Critical thinking of young citizens towards news headlines in Chile

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Strengthening critical thinking abilities of citizens in the face of news published on the web represents a key challenge for education. Young citizens appear to be vulnerable in the face of poor quality news or those containing nonexplicit ideologies. In the field of data science, [...]

Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal

Plagiarism and Academic Integrity in Germany

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Since the 18th century, Germany is perhaps one of the European countries that has had the most intense public debate on dishonest scientific and academic practices, particularly in relation to doctoral theses. This debate was particularly productive in the late 19th century, giving [...]
Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal

Usability and Satisfaction in Multimedia Annotation Tools for MOOCs

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The worldwide boom in digital video may be one of the reasons behind the exponential growth of MOOCs. The evaluation of a MOOC requires a great degree of multimedia and collaborative interaction. Given that videos are one of the main elements in these courses, it would be interesting [...]
Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal

Use of teaching resources for reading and writing in preschoolers in Venezuela

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This investigation allowed us to learn about the reality of educational centers and preschool teachers who work in the metropolitan area of Caracas, specifically in reference to the methods used by the teachers to promote literacy development and the use of different teaching practices [...]
Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal

Educational software and education for health

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This paper reflects on interdisciplinary descriptive research -although by no means lacking in valuable judgement- which tries to analyse education in values and attitudes regarding health education, carried out through educational software geared towards
Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal

Software for Teaching Emotions to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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This paper reports the results of a research project in which educational software was used to teach social and emotional skills to primary and secondary school students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The participants with difficulties in recognizing emotional states were nine [...]