vol. 1 núm. 1 (2020)

Today, the circumstances given by the health emergency around the world has led to the transformation of educational institutions at all levels, preschool and higher education institutions were forced to integrate into different learning methods mediated through the web, thus incorporating technology to support the different study plans in order to reach each one of the students with the same efficiency and effectiveness, guaranteeing that the academic levels do not decline compared to the ones ofphysical environments or classrooms in the past. Therefore, the web tool for motivation and interaction of students in web conferences using gamification used in this research, can be considered as an initial version since it will only be applied in the Acrobat Web-Conference Tool, also known as Adobe Connect. The purpose isto scale the project to other web conference tools and solve any functionality limitations in different fixed or mobile technological devices. This article is oriented towards the analysis and design, also the implementation of a prototype to be used in educational web conferences for virtual courses at the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD.

The low participation of families in schools shows the need to integrate them using tools for face-to-face or virtual education. When the child has special educational needs, due to the extra time required for specific attention, the teacher’s academic support is not enough, and family support is also required for learning. Newtechnologies could increase this participation since it is free of schedules and travel distances. An initial study is presented regarding the preferences for using traditional media (paper and pencil), versus technological ones (email, internet, WhatsApp), to fill in questionnaires about family life quality. It works with 124 families,61 of them from special education schools and 63 from general education schools. The results suggest that families prefer to choose the media according to uses of the educational institution. The participation percentage is significantly higher when digital alternatives are chosen. This result opens new relationships betweenfamilies and schools by having a better learningexperience and more social inclusion.

The relevance of the basic, general and transversal competences within the communication degrees, is the starting point of this research that shows the proposal of teaching planning and evaluation that combines the Project Based Learning (PBL) method with an assessment of these projects and another kind of practices inwhich competence in communication and oral expression is integrated as the main character. The diversity of possibilities in presenting ideas and projects (pitching , elevator pitch , pecha kucha , an exhibition supported by a poster, debates, etc.) is included in the evaluation proposal regarding the topics of advertising and publicrelations strategies for audiovisual products; a main subject of the Audiovisual Communication Degree at the University of Vigo; ensuring that students improve their communication skills enhancing their professional future within the audiovisual and cinematographic sector.

The incorporation of information and communication technologies into the educational processes have caused changes in the way we acquire knowledge, which hasgenerated new initiatives for the interaction and socialization of knowledge, creating experiences that contribute to the formation of human beings. This is possible, due to the existence of different technological platforms, which allow the development of educational content for carrying out academic activities. Thus, this article addresses the topic of virtual education as a new reliable study alternative, where active participation, communication, dialogic relationships, and presence of values in each one of the participants within the virtual educational process, make this a feasible and reliable process for their personal and professional development. Thus, the virtual educational process is possible given the conjunction of elements such as: The Internet, virtual environments and the willingness of speakers and participants to exchange knowledge by trusting each other, all this using the virtual educational process as a learning tool.

This theoretical review addresses the bases and limitations of the prevailing Western paradigm in educational processes, and an approach to the features of complexthought, its ethics, aesthetics and epistemological tools, to incorporate them into higher educational processes through pedagogical mediations as a significantpathway to essential changes. Educational institutions and teachers are challenged to seek innovative educational models that allow the multidimensional development of their students accordingto the needs and demands of today’s societies, where network logics and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) are predominant.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the many processes that affect the development of multipleintelligences by describing their different kinds and types of thinking that are present in online educationstudents that have a virtual mediation, this is the case of the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia - Colombia. The study at the methodological level was approached from a qualitative standpoint, with the support of some quantitative instruments. We worked on the Action Research (IA) type, the realities of the students were identified regarding the type of intelligence and its relationship with the type of thought; and later some guidelines were designed for the courses: Intelligence and Creativity of the Psychology and Pedagogy Program that is part of the Philosophy program. We took as a basis the multiple intelligence test ofUgas, G. (2013), then a test was designed for the different types of convergent and divergent thinking,and a form with open questions about their feelings regarding the results of the intelligence test. It issubsequently intended that the teacher networks of the pedagogy courses of the Educational SciencesSchool, the bachelor’s degree program in Philosophy and of Intelligence and creativity belonging to theSchool of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, shall program the activities of these courses consideringthe characteristics, factors and processes of students according to their type of intelligence basedon the results presented in this research.