Title: MOTIVATIC WEB: a collaborative work tool for higher education professors

Authors: Gabriela Ramírez Barajas; Rosa A. Sierra Torrecilla; Aura C. Pedraza-Avella; Martha L. Torres-Barreto

Addresses: School of Industrial and Business Studies, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia ' School of Industrial and Business Studies, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia ' School of Industrial and Business Studies, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia ' School of Industrial and Business Studies, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia

Abstract: The objective of this research is to present the development process of the educational tool MOTIVATIC WEB, which seeks to offer professors, regardless of their geographical location, the possibility of working collaboratively, leading to the transformation of classical educational paradigms, by improving competencies and skills of educators through informal training processes such as interaction, collaboration, collective decision-making, and exchange of experiences. For this, a methodology composed of four phases is executed: (i) an identification of characteristics in collaborative work tools offered on the web, (ii) a validation of them following a user-centred design process with a group of professors at national and international level linked as experts, (iii) a conceptual modelling for the determination of functional and non-functional specifications of the platform, and finally, (iv) the development of the software in its first version.

Keywords: conceptual model; higher education; collaborative work; ICT; virtual community.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2023.131849

International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2023 Vol.15 No.3, pp.234 - 249

Received: 16 Mar 2022
Accepted: 25 May 2022
Published online: 04 Jul 2023 *

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