Madrid, June 9, 2026. – As part of the 2nd Meeting of Innovative Faculties in Quality and Improvement of Education, held at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) during the educational innovation conference organized by the DIM-EDU Educational Network, JustShare was presented. JustShare is a serious game designed to raise awareness among young people about […]
The e-UCM research group participated in the 4th International Playful by Design Symposium, held on May 28 and 29, 2026. For this fourth edition, the in-person event was hosted by Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid) and organized as a hybrid event involving Rey Juan Carlos University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lusófona University (Portugal), […]
On May 25, our research group e-UCM visited high school IES Carpe Diem to hold a workshop aimed at engaging and raising awareness among students, using educational video games as a key tool for addressing current digital challenges. The activity focused on raising awareness about grooming and managing the digital footprint—two critical challenges that young […]
Last May, the e-UCM group participated in the 20th edition of the EATEL Summer School on Technology-Enhanced Learning (jTELSS 2026), held from May 16 to 24 in Sunny Beach (Burgas, Bulgaria). This annual event is one of Europe’s leading gatherings for advancing technologies applied to education and training researchers in this field. As part of […]
This past May, the e-UCM group participated in the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) Spain 2026 conference, which is part of the global LASI network and is organized by SNOLA (Spanish Network of Learning Analytics). The group’s director, Baltasar Fernández Manjón, researchers and professors Manuel Freire, Antonio Calvo Morata, and Cristina Alonso Fernández, and doctoral […]
This April, the e-UCM research group participated in the conference IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2026. The head of the group Baltasar Fernández Manjón and researcher Cristina Alonso Fernández attended the event online. During the event, Cristina Alonso Fernández presented the full paper Detecting player emotions in serious games using AI-based recognition models that […]
Professor Baltasar Fernández Manjón participated as a guest speaker at the ieTIC2026 conference: Emerging Technological Trends in Educational Use, held at the Faculty of Education of the Complutense University of Madrid. He gave a plenary talk entitled “Serious games in school: Articoding as a tool to improve programming learning and support teachers.” During his presentation, […]
The director of the e-UCM research group, Baltasar Fernández Manjón, has participated in the Conference on Best Practices in Educational Innovation in Madrid 2025: Very pleased with the presentation, together with Carlos Tribaldo, of our educational games and their use at CES Carpe Diem (Fuenlabrada) at the Conference on Good Practices in Educational Innovation in […]
This August of 2025, the e-UCM research group has participated in the conference 24th International Federation for Information Processing – International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2025). Researchers Antonio Calvo Morata and Cristina Alonso Fernández attended the event held during 27, 28, 29 and 30 of August, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. During the event, Cristina […]
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