Mission
Directed by Prof.
Miguel Ángel Marzal, the DOTEINE research group is dedicated to advancing in
the development of Library & Information Science principles, instruments and
techniques applied to the educational domain as one of the contributing means to
transform Information Society into the Knowledge Society.
Our main research areas are:
- Information literacy.
- Learning objects and educational documents in e-learning environments.
- Representation of educational content (educational metadata and controlled
vocabularies).
- Semantic organization and visualization of educational content for
improved retrieval (ontologies, concept maps and Topic Maps).
- Educational digital libraries.
The DOTEINE group has recently joined the Information Policy
SOCTEP research group to constitute the ACROPOLIS group, coordinated by Prof. Mercedes
Caridad Sebastián. Most of our members work at the Library & Information
Science Department of the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain.
Principles and values
The principles and values that support the formulated mission
are:
- The commitment with the strategic research policy of our University,
Department and the Agustín Millares Carlo Institute, in their pursue of
continuous improvement and innovation in research.
- The excellence in educating doctoral students in our group's research
areas.
- The cooperative, interdisciplinary and international vocation of our
research action.
- The commitment with the social projection of our research results.
Objectives
- To develop conceptual models, from the paradigms of Content Analysis,
capable of conceiving new ways of improving the present means available for
representing, organizing and retrieving educational digital contents, that
could lead to a meaningful educational use of the Web and advance towards the
Semantic Web.
- To develop and design models, applications and instruments to support
Information Literacy, in its dimension of "co-operative or constellation" of
competencies, to guarantee meaningful and lifelong learning.
- To develop ICT instruments for the visualization and treatment of digital
contents, capable of articulating an effective information system for
knowledge construction in virtual interactive environments and virtual
educational communities.
- To develop and implement descriptive models and vocabularies, for a
semantic labelling of educational contents in digital repositories.
- To design and implement models and instruments for the organization of
virtual and interactive digital information resources, to support the
transformation of school and academic libraries into Learning Resources
Centers (LRC) and Learning & Research Resources Centers (LRRC)
respectively , as well as for the development of suitable platforms for
Information Literacy, as vehicles of transverse competencies in the new
educational model.
- To design and to develop instruments for the edition and application of
learning objects, as main digital educational documents in the digital
collections of LRCs and LRRCs.
Research projects and activities
The DOTEINE group is developing, has developed or has been a
partner in a number of funded projects, including:
- Documentación y Tecnologías
de la información para educación: herramientas para la alfabetización
informacional y organización de recursos didácticos (DOTEINE). 2003-2006.
Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Ref.
BSO2003-04895.
- Instrumentos de Análisis de
Contenido para la organización de recursos informativos en Educación: CRA para
la sociedad del conocimiento (IACORIE). 2005. Funded by the Autonomous
Government of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid). Ref. 06/HSE/0165/2004.
- Proyecto BUCRAI: De
la Biblioteca universitaria al Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje y la
Investigación. 2004. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Culture. Ref. EA2000-0072.
Teaching experience
Our research group members are teaching faculty, associate or
assistants in several courses of the Library & Information Science Diploma,
the Documentation Degree and Tourism Diploma of the Carlos III University of
Madrid. They also participate in several Doctorate Programs, as the
Documentation Doctorate of the Carlos III University of Madrid, the Computer
Engineering, Information and Knowledge Society Doctorate of the Pontifical
University of Salamanca (Madrid campus), Chihuahua University (México) or Zulia
University (Venezuela), as well as in the Audiovisual Documentation Master of
the Carlos III University of Madrid, and different expert courses of the
Instituto Agustín Millares Carlo and other proffesional institutions.
Updated - 10.06.06
