ECOSISTEMA DE INNOVACIÓN EDUCATIVA, ECOLAB. LABORATORIO Y PROCESOS DE FORMACIÓN DIFERENCIAL - Ecosystem of innovation education, ECOLAB. Laboratory and differential training processes

ECoLab: A Cooperative System to Improve Training Processes

The goal of the qualitative research is to achieve information regarding the attitudes and opinions of a group of individuals with similar habits, needs and interests. The selection of the participants is a key element in the qualitative research. This paper presents a new model, ECoLab (Experiencial Cooperative Laboratory), of qualitative research that integrates the following methods: Focus G...

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Cellular Ecolab

In the original speciication of the Ecolab model, spatial variation of the system's variables was included, with an additional migration operator introduced proportional to the divergence of the species density. Suitably discretized, the model then consists of a number of cells, each running the non-spatial Ecolab model, linked together by the migration operator. This paper reports on the imple...

Revista ELectrónica de Investigación y EValuación Educativa

In the last decade, the results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have raised the debate about the quality of the Spanish education system, influencing public opinion and policy decisions. This study aims to analyze the impact the results PISA have had in Spanish society through the articles that appeared in El País (the non-sport newspaper with the biggest circulation ...

Going Stupid with EcoLab

In 2005, Railsback et al. proposed a very simple model (Stupid Model) that could be implemented within a couple of hours, and later extended to demonstrate the use of common ABM platform functionality. They provided implementations of the model in several agent based modelling platforms, and compared the platforms for ease of implementation of this simple model, and performance. In this paper, ...