Publications by Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

TRACE: A Conceptual Model to Guide the Design of Educational Chatbots

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne

Driven by the rising popularity of chatbots such as ChatGPT, there is a budding line of research proposing guidelines for chatbot design, both in general and specifically for digital education. Nevertheless, few researchers have focused on providing concep ...

Springer2023

Impersonating Chatbots in a Code Review Exercise to Teach Software Engineering Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Vandit Sharma

Over the past decade, the use of chatbots for educational purposes has gained considerable traction. A similar trend has been observed in social coding platforms, where automated agents support software developers with tasks such as performing code reviews ...

IEEE2022

Toward Code Review Notebooks

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

Peer code review has proven to be a valuable tool in software engineering. However, integrating code reviews into educational contexts is particularly challenging due to the complexity of both the process and popular code review tools. We propose to addres ...

IEEE2022

Integrated Model for Comprehensive Digital Education Platforms

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Kim Lan Phan Hoang, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

The trend towards generalized blended and active learning approaches in engineering education is redefining the requirements and the deployment schemes for digital education platforms. This paper presents a quadriptych techno- pedagogical model highlightin ...

IEEE2022

Integrating Code Reviews into Online Lessons to Support Software Engineering Education

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

The use of peer code review exercises is well established in software engineering education. Nevertheless, challenges involving students' ability to perform code reviews have been identified as barriers to successfully integrating code reviews in education ...

Springer2022

Understanding teacher design practices for digital inquiry-based science learning: the case of Go-Lab

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Designing and implementing online or digital learning material is a demanding task for teachers. This is even more the case when this material is used for more engaged forms of learning, such as inquiry learning. In this article, we give an informed accoun ...

2021

ADA for IBL: Lessons Learned in Aligning Learning Design and Analytics for Inquiry-Based Learning Orchestration

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Orchestrating technology-enhanced learning is a difficult task, especially in demanding pedagogical approaches like inquiry-based learning (IBL). To foster effective teacher adoption, both the complexity of designing IBL activities and the uncertainty abou ...

2021

Social practices in teacher knowledge creation and innovation adoption: a large-scale study in an online instructional design community for inquiry learning

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social practices are assumed to play an important role in the evolution of new teaching and learning methods. Teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities through interactions with peers and experts while solving problems or co-creating ma ...

2020

Instruction, Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes: A Case Study Using Anonymous Social Media in a Face-to-face Classroom

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

With the wide availability of mobile devices and the growing interest in social media, numerous applications have emerged to support student engagement in the classroom. There is conflicting evidence, however, on whether the engagement benefits of such app ...

2020

Combining the Knowledge Appropriation Model and epistemic networks to understand co-creation and adoption of learning designs using log data

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social practices are well-known mediators in the adoption of educational innovations during professional learning, as postulated by the Knowledge Appropriation Model (KAM). However, understanding how teachers adopt new pedagogical approaches at scale is of ...

2020

Using Educational Data From Teaching And Learning To Inform Teachers’ Reflective Educational Design In Inquiry-Based STEM Education

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognized as a top priority for school education worldwide and Inquiry-based teaching and learning is identified as one of the most dominant approaches. To effectively engage individual ...

2019

Analytics for learning design: A layered framework and tools

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

The field of learning design studies how to support teachers in devising suitable activities for their students to learn. The field of learning analytics explores how data about students' interactions can be used to increase the understanding of learning e ...

2019

Tracing Teacher Collaborative Learning and Innovation Adoption: a Case Study in an Inquiry Learning Platform

Denis Gillet, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social processes play an important role in teachers' ongoing professional learning: through interactions with peers and experts to solve problems or co-create materials, teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities. However, these social p ...

International Society of Learning Sciences2019

Towards Open Data in Digital Education Platforms

Denis Gillet, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

Despite the traction gained by the open data movement and the rise of big data and learning analytics in education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data using openly-available digital educat ...

IEEE2019

Orchestrating learning analytics (OrLA): Supporting inter-stakeholder communication about adoption of learning analytics at the classroom level

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Despite the recent surge of interest in learning analytics (LA), their adoption in everyday classroom practice is still slow. Knowledge gaps and lack of inter-stakeholder communication (particularly with educational practitioners) have been posited as crit ...

2019

Multimodal teaching analytics: Automated extraction of orchestration graphs from wearable sensor data

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Lukasz Kidzinski

2018

Monitoring for awareness and reflection in ubiquitous learning environments

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Despite the educational affordances that ubiquitous learning has shown, it is still hampered by several orchestration difficulties. One of these difficulties is that teachers lose awareness of what the students perform across the multiple technologies and ...

2018

A Blueprint for a Blockchain-Based Architecture to Power a Distributed Network of Tamper-Evident Learning Trace Repositories

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

The need to ensure privacy and data protection in educational contexts is driving a shift towards new ways of securing and managing learning records. Although there are platforms available to store educational activity traces outside of a central repositor ...

2018

Monitoring Collaborative Learning Activities: Exploring the Differential Value of Collaborative Flow Patterns for Learning Analytics

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Collaborative learning flow patterns (CLFPs) encode solutions to recurrent pedagogical problems, which have been successfully applied to the design of learning experiences. However, the pedagogical knowledge encoded in these patterns has seldom been exploi ...

2018

Toward Multimodal Analytics in Ubiquitous Learning Environments

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

While Ubiquitous Learning Environments (ULEs) have shown several benefits for learning, they pose challenges for orchestration. Teachers need to be aware of the learning process, which is difficult to achieve when it occurs across a heterogeneous set of sp ...

CEUR2017