This plenary will show a trip during the last thirty years around Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Engineering and my personal vision of their evolution on my hands and on the three close woman around my academy framework in different areas, activities, geographical areas but maintaining a new approach of gender and diversity that accompanied all my professional life devoted to engineering and education, international activities and associations. Years of evolution, changes, new personal best surfing in a hostile environment but with the help and support of a lot of colleagues around the world with a similar vision, change and go ahead.

1. WOMEN IN TEL ENGINEERING,
A SYNERGY LIFE
Manuel Castro
IEEE Education Society President Emeritus
IEEE Division VI Past Director
IEEE Women in Engineering member
Fellow IEEE, IEEE HKN Professional member
Professor, Electronics, UNED, Spain

2. Keynote 1 Sabine
Herlitschka CEO and CTO
of Infineon Technologies
Austria
Keynote 2 Janina
Loh University of
Vienna, Austria
Keynote 3 María Isabel
Pozzo National University
of Rosario, Argentina
Keynote 4 Olga Viberg KTH
Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden
Keynote 5 Manuel
Castro UNED,
Madrid, Spain
Invited Speech Lisa
Bosman Purdue
University, West
Lafayette, IN, USA
Conference Chairs
Thomas Klinger,
Carinthia University
of Applied Sciences
(CUAS), Austria
Christian Kollmitzer,
University of Applied
Sciences Technikum
Wien, AT
Andreas Pester,
British University in
Egypt

3. http://educon-conference.org/clearinghouse/

4. 2011
2018
2019
2013

5. 2011
2018
2013
EDUCON
2019 Dubai
Sirin Tekinay
Aruquia
Peixoto
Carina
González

6.  Freshmen Electronics Engineering (1975) 600
men / 120 women
 6 years (BSc+MSc) (1982) new Electronics
Engineering 20 men / 4 women
 Parallel Young lecturer (1983):
 Face-to-face classical electronics teaching
 Distance teaching
 Doctorate (1983-1988)
 Extraordinary Award
BACKGROUND
 Baby boomer (1958)
 Men's K-12 Caracas (Venezuela) / Vigo (Spain)
 Last French studying generation (Spain)
 First contact with Young girls (@public High School) in the
last year before University

7.  Baby boomer (1958)
 Men's K-12 Caracas (Venezuela) / Vigo (Spain)
 Last French studying generation (Spain)
 First contact with Young girls (@public High School) in the
last year before University
BACKGROUND
 Freshmen Electronics Engineering (1975) 600
men / 120 women
 6 years (BSc+MSc) (1982) new Electronics
Engineering 20 men / 4 women
 Parallel Young lecturer (1983):
 Face-to-face classical electronics teaching
(UPM)
 Distance teaching (UNED)
 Doctorate (1983-1988)
 Extraordinary Award UPM

8. BACKGROUND
 Two daughters (millennials, Y generation)
 One grandson (Alpha generation)
 Research / Lecturer / Manager with high International exposure
 Private industry exposure (1987-1993)
 First boss woman
 Research Projects
 Teaching and Innovation Projects
 IEEE as International Organization and
Mobility
 IEEE Industrial Electronics
 IEEE Education Society
 Networking / Conferences / Leadership
 Multidisciplinary
 Technology Enhanced Education
 Management (Dept Director / Vicerrector)

9. • Face-to-face Education
• Distance Education
– Mixed models
• Online Education
• Technology Enhanced Learning
– Mixed and face-to-face
– Distance and online
– Synchronous
– Asynchronous
– Formal
– Life long learning
– Unformal
– Technology oriented but based on
contents/educational actors
» Blended Learning
1983
2000
Technology
Enhanced
Learning
HIGHER EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Mixed
Distance
Face-to-face
Blended
Distance/
Online
Face-to-face

10. 1983
2020
PRE
COVID-19
Mixed
Distance
Face-to-face
Blended
Distance/Online
Face-to-face
HIGHER EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
• Technology Enhanced Learning
– Learning Management Systems
– Virtual/SW/Simulation
– Remote Laboratories
– Flipped classroms
– Project/Problem base learning
– Active learning
– Social media collaboration
– Playroles
– Gamification
– Multimedia/hipermedia
– Inmersive environments
» Blended Learning
2000
Technology
Enhanced
Learning
Blended
Distance/
Online
Face-to-face

11. • Remote education and back-forward ?
• Credibility
• Quality
• Evaluation
• Costs
• Cutt-offs
OVERWORK
» Adapted (Blended+) Learning
2020
COVID-19
Online
Distance/Online
Face-to-face/Online
2021 POST
COVID-19
https://shutterstock.com/
HIGHER EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY

12. https://ined21.com/una-forma-de-entender-la-educacion/
Administrators
Instructional designers
Contents designers
Curators
Tutors
Animators
Students (Peers)
Students (Seniors)
Students
Family
Work
Teaching centerd
on the teacher – 10
hours/credit
Teaching centerd on
the student – 25-30
hours/credit (ECTS)
Happy Projects – PBL for Young students
Teachers
Social
relations
HIGHER EDUCATION AND “NEW” ACTORS IN ONLINE

13. Labs evolution (I)
Real Labs
(traditionals/
Remote access)
Simulators (Spice)
HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRACTICE/LABORATORIES

14. New Simulators
(GUI)
Virtual Labs/SW
Labs evolution (II)
HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRACTICE/LABORATORIES

15. Remote
Labs
Labs evolution (III)
HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRACTICE/LABORATORIES

16. Pocket Labs
50 years ago we developed at UNED
a portable lab in a briefcase
managed by post-mail
Labs evolution (IV)
HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRACTICE/LABORATORIES

17. Farm Labs
https://www.labshare.edu.au/
http://www.ieec.uned.es/pilar-project/
Federated
Labs
Labs in the cloud Recorded Labs
Proveedores
de laboratorios
https://labsland.com/
Labs evolution (V)
Labs as a
Service
HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRACTICE/LABORATORIES

18. HIGHER
EDUCATION
AND
TECHNOLOGY
http://elcorreo.com/
NEW EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT

19. HIGHER
EDUCATION
AND
TECHNOLOGY
NEW CONFERENCE
AND NETWORKING
ENVIRONMENT
IEEE EDUCON 2020 first virtual online conference inside IEEE Education Society

20. IEEE EDUCON 2019 last full face-to-face conference

21. 1994 2021
2016 2021
2004
2014 2021
2004
2014
Carina González
Associate Professor in
Computer
Engineering (Tenerife,
Canary Islands, Spain)
2011
WOMEN, SYNERGY
AND TEL !
Inma Plaza
Electronics
Lecturer in
Electronics
Engineering
Teruel (Spain)
Paloma Díaz
Researcher in
Multimedia
Computer
Engineering Madrid
(Spain)

22. 1994 2021
2004 2014
Paloma Díaz
Multimedia VR/AR
E-Learning
Full Professor CE
Dean Engineering
WOMEN, SYNERGY
AND TEL !

23. 2014 2021
2004 2011
WOMEN, SYNERGY
AND TEL !
Inma Plaza
Electronics
Support Systems
E-Learning
Full Professor
Dean EE

24. 2016 2021
Carina González
Innovation / MOOC
Childhood
Serious Games
E-Learning
Full Professor CE
WOMEN, SYNERGY
AND TEL !

25. 1994 2021
2016 2021
2004
2014 2021
2004
2014
Carina González
Innovation / MOOC
Childhood
Serious Games
E-Learning
Full Professor CE
2011
WOMEN, SYNERGY
AND TEL !
Inma Plaza
Electronics
Support Systems
E-Learning
Full Professor
Dean EE
Paloma Díaz
Multimedia VR/AR
E-Learning
Full Professor CE
Dean Engineering

26. Good teaching may overcome a poor choice of technology
but technology will never save bad teaching
https://www.tonybates.ca/
Learning online requires students with self-discipline and
able to work to a self-managed schedule. This takes
training and practice. And are times for online and for
traditional and face-to-face
Personal priorities in online learning:
1. increasing access and flexibility
2. developing 21st century skills
3. reducing inequalities in the education system
4. increasing the cost-effectiveness of education
CONCLUSIONS
Relations between Education (online) and Technology (from
Tony Bates)

27. WOMEN IN TEL ENGINEERING,
A SYNERGY LIFE
Manuel Castro
IEEE Education Society President Emeritus
IEEE Division VI Past Director
IEEE Women in Engineering member
Fellow IEEE, IEEE HKN Professional member
Professor, Electronics, UNED, Spain
Paloma
Díaz
Inma
Plaza
Carina
González