Keynote presented at the Arab ICT 2024 conference in Bahrein from 27 to 28 of February, 2024, with title "Engineering Education in the time of the Internet of Things:
Ethics and Sustainability" showing technical and Industry 4.0 activities to be considered under the filter of the Ethical activity of engineering, Sustainability and Circular Economy, and showing information about ECoVEM project and IEEE/IEEE EdSoc - Bahrain Society of Engineers
1. Engineering Education in the time of the Internet of Things:
Ethics and Sustainability
Manuel Castro
Professor UNED / IEEE Life Fellow
IEEE Former Division Director & IEEE Education Society President Emeritus
SPAIN
https://es.slideshare.net/mmmcastro - mcastro@ieec.uned.es
2. ABSTRACT
The concept of Smart is gaining new areas and new topics as it is spreading around all actions in our daily life as part of the present
Internet of Things world. Smart Cities are one of the "oldest" terms, but the new vision of the Personal Smart Cities are increasing the
focus on the living aspects of the intelligence around us. Ubiquitous and smart intelligence are converging paradigms to feed machine
and deep learning algorithms bringing support and exploiting big data and analytics to improve the efficiency of our technological
systems and to have a better quality of life. Ambient Intelligence is one of the sources of the Smart Learning and Smart Education,
where methodology goes hand-to-hand with technology, sensors, equipments and new learning views where the open aspects (open
learning, LO, OCW, MOOCs, etc.) are having a more important role as well as are increasing the connection on our social networks and
the life-long learning paradigm that is converging with our future. All these engineering applications have an impact in our life that
should be always filtered through a prism of sustainability and ethics that will modulate the vision of the European Union Industry 5.0
declaration as well as the deployment of the Personal Smart Cities
This presentation will show the long way we were involved during more than thirty years around distance education and practical
competences, the convergence with online learning in the use of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Engineering and the new way
that we are facing after the main effects of the pandemic time where we should go a new era, more inclusive, diverse and
personalized adapted for all. The way we include the practical competences inside the engineering studies, problems, simulations,
remote and pocket labs open a new era in those applications, the incoming immersive environments involved in the education world,
showing example projects like ECoVEM including application of the practical competences and laboratories in the Vocational
Education Training arena to comply the European Chips Act and the ICT converge. We will finish the presentation with a short
introduction of the IEEE Education Society inside the area of educational activities, collaboration events and local chapters orientation
3. •Smart Industry/Technologies: Smart World
Since the instant that the mobile phone
named as “Smartphone”, the English
term of “Smart” is used to define the
tendencies associated to define new
aspects of the digitalisation and
Industry 4.0
Source: https://www.i-scoop.eu/industry-4-0/manufacturing-industry/
https://www.prevencionintegral.com/comunidad/blog/hacia-mundo-sostenible/2018/01/10/concepto-smart-economia-circular
4. •Smart Industry and Industry 4.0
Source: https://www.i-scoop.eu/industry-4-0/manufacturing-industry/
https://www.cic.es/scada-y-la-industria-4-0/
https://smart-lighting.es/industria-4-0-mejorar-eficiencia-equipos-industriales/
https://www.smartindustry.com/
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Industry 4.0 & Technology Enablers
Cloud Computing
IoT– IoE – IoE – IoB – IIoT – I4.0
Big Data & Analytics – ML – AI – LA
Cybersecurity
Digital Twins
Smart Cities/“World”
Robotics
Augmented Reality
Metaverse
8. From Internet of Things to Smart Cities and Smart “World”
http://www.globalsourcingblog.org/iot-for-the-smart-world/
• Smart City is a concept on the
city development through ICTs
(Information and
Communication Technologies)
to improve the infrastructures to
the citizens increasing the quality
and liveness. From public
transportation to energy savings,
sustainability or effienciency in all
the aspects. A new city concept to
live and enjoy
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11. •Internet of Things
Source: http://www.rfwireless-world.com/Tutorials/5G-network-architecture.html
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/es/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.pro.doc/q004870_.htm
https://www.mokosmart.com/lora/
Communications and applications
14. Digital Twin
Source: https://www.ibm.com/topics/what-is-a-digital-twin
https://www.tomorrow.city/a/singapore-experiments-with-its-digital-twin-to-improve-city-life
A digital twin is a virtual representation of an object or system that
spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data, and uses
simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making
A digital twin is a virtual model designed to accurately reflect a
physical object. The object being studied — for example, a wind
turbine — is outfitted with various sensors related to vital areas of
functionality. These sensors produce data about different aspects of
the physical object’s performance, such as energy output,
temperature, weather conditions and more. This data is then relayed
to a processing system and applied to the digital copy
Once informed with such data, the virtual model can be used to run
simulations, study performance issues and generate possible
improvements, all with the goal of generating valuable insights —
which can then be applied back to the original physical object
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Smart “World” and Circular Economy
The term of“Smart” is used to define the tendencies associated to define new
aspects of the digitalisation and Industry 4.0, and should be joined to aspects of the
application of the principles and basis of the Circular Economy, Sustainability and
Ethics
Source: https://www.prevencionintegral.com/comunidad/blog/hacia-mundo-sostenible/2018/01/10/concepto-smart-economia-circular
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Smart and Circular Economy
We use the English Word “Smart” as a linguistic tool adopting spontaneous and
realistic term to define concepts appliaing them to different áreas of our social
environment as well as in the industry and financial arenas. This is a common term
used to be aplied to a smart person, as a clever or expert person, and we extend it
to everything related to the advanced technologies use. This is associated to the
holistic approach of the Circular Economy, as a massive alternative to the present
economy (linear) to assure the planet sustainability and to put out our bad habits of
over production and over consuming to save our limited resources where the term
“Smart” have a big importance in our social behaviour
Source: https://www.prevencionintegral.com/comunidad/blog/hacia-mundo-sostenible/2018/01/10/concepto-smart-economia-circular
A large part of the foundations and principles of Circular Economy are based on the way and the intensity as
the technology is evolving mainly in the changing to a digitalized world as highly correlated to the data
processing. Increasing technology processes as “big data”, industrial process automation and
sensor/actuators availabity everywhere are some of the indicators of new operations/processes that can
control and be focused industry activity sectors
Back to the Circular Economy as well as to the “Smart” activities and their different approaches we must
remark the fact that today we have new tolos and applications as never we have in the mindkind history
improving the accelarate rythm of developying and deploying new uses inside our industry and personal life.
We can show Big Data, Digitalisation, IoT (“Internet of Things”), Robotics, Sensors, Geolocalization and
Industry 4.0/Connected Industry, as well as other principles as the Governance, as the best path to drive to
the Integral Sustainability
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Circular Economy
Source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/20151201STO05603/circular-economy-definition-importance-and-benefits
The circular economy is a model of production and
consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing,
repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials
and products as long as possible. In this way, the life
cycle of products is extended
In practice, it implies reducing waste to a minimum.
When a product reaches the end of its life, its materials
are kept within the economy wherever possible. These
can be productively used again and again, thereby
creating further value
This is a departure from the traditional, linear economic
model, which is based on a take-make-consume-throw
away pattern. This model relies on large quantities of
cheap, easily accessible materials and energy
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Source: https://www.lazardassetmanagement.com/at/en_uk/references/fundamental-focus/packaging-in-the-circular-economy
A general Circular Economy model should be extrapolated from
this one for Packaging. Circular Economy can be divided into five
stages with design and transportation being a common
interconnecting stage among all the individual stages. The five
stages are: sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, use, and recover
Each stage plays an important role in keeping the model circular;
“leakages” in any of the stages cause a discontinuity, defeating the
purpose of the circular paradigm
Over the past few years, the implementation of the Circular
Economy paradigm throughout industries has led to the
emergence of new supporting technologies that have eased the
adoption of sustainable manufacturing measures into the Circular
Economy cycle. This type of manufacturing is known as Circular
Manufacturing (CM)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40684-021-00398-5
Circular Economy Vision
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Source: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 interlinked
goals set by the United Nations in 2015 and are designed to
“promote prosperity while protecting the planet
SDGs recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand
with strategies that build economic growth and address a
range of social needs including education, health, social
protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate
change and environmental protection
Technologies applied to each of the different SDG may
contribute to develop a better and more sustainable
application of the Circular Economy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40684-021-00398-5#Sec28
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House of Sustainability
Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40684-021-00398-5
The shared goals of the confluence and integration of Circular
Economy and Industry 4.0 can be illustrated using the House of
Sustainability
People are considered the foundation of the sustainability house,
while the purpose is what drives people towards their goals. The
incorporation of different I4.0 tools within the CE builds a strong
support that different SDGs can lean on
These goals are the building blocks of Sustainable Development
(SD). Together, they achieve different attributes of the three pillars
of SD: environmental, economic, and social. The House of
Sustainability provides a clear picture of how I4.0 and CE
complement each other. Without the supporting I4.0 tools, CE is
not sufficient to achieve SD. Similarly, incorporating I4.0 tools into
a linear economy will not achieve Sustainable Development
23. Smart Cities
In general, a smart city is a city that uses technology to provide services and solve
city problems. A smart city does things like improve transportation and accessibility,
improve social services, promote sustainability, and give its citizens a voice
Though the term “smart cities” is new, the idea isn’t. Ancient Roman cities actually
used elements of the concept, such as using technology to make their citizens’ lives
easier. Aqueducts and water drainage systems are just two ways they did that, as
well as the “bath houses” with hot/cold areas and spas
Smart City is a city that uses ICTs to create better infrastructures and services (public
transportation, higher sustainability and energy savings or better efficiency in all the
aspects) for the citizens, being competitivity, collaborative, planificative, creative
and sustainable investing in Research / Development / Innovation (R + D + i)
Source: https://blog.bismart.com/en/what-is-a-smart-city
https://panelesach.com/blog/smart-cities-o-ciudades-inteligentes-que-son/
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From Smart Cities to Intelligent Personal Cities
2020 (7.800 millions of people)
2024 (8.100 millions of people)
• The cities are only using 2% of the world surface
• 50% of the people live there
• Now is 75% of the world energy consumption
• Emisions of 80% of world Co2
2050-2060 … (10.000 millions of people)
• Cities and Megacities will use 5% of the world Surface
• 70% of the people will live there
• Small savings and small increase in urban energy
efficiency will be very significant woldwide
https://personalcities.org/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/mundo-ng/grandes-reportajes/las-ciudades-del-futuro_5280/1/
https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-build-sustainable-megacities-of-the-future
https://www.worldometers.info/
25. Personal (Intelligent) Cities
• Aligned – From the understandin of collaborative effort and associations for more effective and
larger actions
• Local commitment and character – Having the local visión of culture, art, nature and community
but with worldwide perspective and conscience (glocal)
• Inclusive – With spacial commitment and investements, social and economics, integrating all
voices
• Technical oriented – Empowering to créate more efficient cities finding the talent as transforming
booster
• Interdependency – From physical, digital and human function integration in the cities, focusing on
adaptation and resilience, safety and sustainability
• Economically sparkly and vibrant – As talent and investement focusing attraction using the
rightest technolopy for each necesity
Source: https://blog.bismart.com/en/what-is-a-smart-city
https://panelesach.com/blog/smart-cities-o-ciudades-inteligentes-que-son/
26. Personal (Intelligent) Cities
• Live, dynamic and active redefinition
• Looking to the past but changing the future
• Not in a radical change >>> Le Corbusier in Paris
in 1925 >>> Paris 2021 all in 15 minutes concept
• Hopeful future
• Heritage
• Looking for new solutions and using the best
existing practices
• Looking for new possibilities that can not exist
Source: https://personalcities.org/
https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-build-sustainable-megacities-of-the-future
https://archive.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/explore/cities-and-the-circular-economy
27. Personal (Intelligent) Cities
• Santander – deploying technology and sensors
to improve the city
• Rotterdam – water as focus of the future
management
• Singapore – available big data and digital twin
to improve the mobility and harmony
• Dubai – increasing the investement to have a
better real world (10x / Minister of State for
Happiness)
• Tokyo – humanity over all
• Hamburg – leadership and identity
Source: https://personalcities.org/
https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-build-sustainable-megacities-of-the-future
28. Megacities
• Tokyo (Japan) is currently the largest 'megacity' in the world with 37.4 million inhabitants. In 2100
it will be Lagos (Nigeria) with 88 million
• The number of these urban centres are astounding and in a short period of time they will become
a great challenge for humanity at a demographic, migratory, socio-economic, political and
environmental level
• In 1900 just 13% of world population lived in cities
• In 2050, 70% of world population will be urban
• 7 of every 10 people will live in big urban, we need to organize them
• In 50 years urban population increased by 5 and in 2050 we expect a 60% more
• Number of Megacities (cities with more than 10 million people) increased by 15 in the last 65
years (in 1950 there was 2, in 2015 there are 29) and in 2030 we expect 41
Source: https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/megacities-urban-area
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•How is evolving our World ?
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WhatsApp
Google
Apps
YouTube
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India
WeChat
Instagram
LinkedIn
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Pakistan
Brasil
Nigeria
Bangladesh
Rusia
Mexico
Japan
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Digital Media
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•How is evolving our World ? And Education ?
ABET
Research
Teaching
Recovery $$$
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Smart Education
• Smart University
• … Smart Cities (Smarts – Car2Go, Smart Living, …)
• … Smart World (Smart Grids)
• … Internet of Things
• … Industry 4.0 / e-Health 4.0 >>> Industry 5.0 (European Union
orientation based on the People and Society)
• … Mobility – Usability
• … Sustainability and Respect to
Environment
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•Higher Education and Technology: New Actors
Administrators
Instructional designers
Contents designers
Curators
Tutors
Animators
Students
Family
Work
Teaching centerd on
the teacher – 10
hours/credit
Teaching centerd on
the student – 25-30
hours/credit (ECTS)
Teachers
Social
relations
Students (Peers)
Students (Seniors)
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Internet
Estudiante
Estudiante
Internet
Servidor
Data Base
?
?
Instrumentos
Controlador
Software Lab
LMS
M
I
D
D
L
E
W
A
R
E
Internet
Internet
?
?
Instrumentos
Controlador
Software Lab
Estudiante
Profesor
Profesor
Ubiquity
and Technology >>>
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Practical
competences:
Laboratories,
Virtual and Remote
• Internet
of Things
• Smart
Devices
• STE(A)M
education
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Traditional instructional remote laboratory: Laboratories
simulating or reflecting traditional hands-on laboratories.
Especially interesting for providing cognitive and
scientific skills
I4.0-based remote laboratory: These laboratories are
implemented relying on Industry 4.0 technologies. However,
they are not particularly intended for learning Industry 4.0
topics (Cyber Physical Systems, Digital Twins, Cloud based,
CyberSecurity, etc.)
Laboratories 4.0: This type of laboratory is mainly focused
on providing a closer experience to real environments. It
Laboratories in a 4.0 context
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Laboratories Evolution (I)
Real Labs
(traditionals/
Remote access)
Simulators (Spice)
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Laboratories Evolution (II)
New Simulators
(GUI)
Virtual Labs/SW
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Laboratories Evolution (III)
Remote
Labs
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Laboratories Evolution (IV)
50 years ago we developed at UNED a
portable lab in a briefcase managed by
post-mail
Pocket Labs
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Laboratories Evolution (V)
Farm Labs
https://www.labshare.edu.au/
http://www.ieec.uned.es/pilar-project/
Federated
Labs
Labs in the Cloud
Labs as a Service
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Laboratories Evolution (VI)
Industry – Remote/Recorded/Deferred Labs
https://labsland.com/
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•How is evolving our World ? Education ?
Laboratories Evolution (VII)
Repositories and Projects
Photovoltaic & Wind laboratories
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VET capable to
train people with
life-long capacity
to self- regulate
learning, in order
to adapt
continuously at
rapidly changing
environments
European Vocational Education Area with shared
OERs, improved virtual mobility of students and
academic staff and integrated programmes of
study, training and research
Efficient financial models for
VET including work-based
and apprenticeship and for
investment in VET and
applied research
Raised role of VET in
Smart Specialisation
Strategies
Implementation
of the advanced
countries’ best
practices and
approaches to
excellence in
VET into less
advanced
regions
More
responsive
VET to the fast
changing skills
need of the
labour market
Higher
employment of
graduates, better
opportunities for
research and
innovation of
enterprises
https://ecovem.eu/
European Centre
of Vocational
Excellence in
Microelectronics
Erasmus + KA3 -
Dedicated VET Tools,
Centres of Vocational
Excellence nº 620101-
EPP-1-2020-1-BG-
EPPKA3-VET-COVE
•European Projects and Social Impact
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•European Projects and Social Impact
European Centre of Vocational Excellence in Microelectronics
• Design and manufacture of PCB
• Design and fabrication of PCB, ROMIT (BG)
• Microelectronics packaging technologies
• Microelectronics Packaging Technologies, TUS (BG)
• Integrated circuits design
• Active Learning Module Lab Activities, Circuits I, ANCCP (& AD) (ES)
• System design
• Microprocessor systems, ROMIT (BG)
• Fundamentals of microelectronics manufacturing
• Foundations on Microelectronics, UNED (ES)
• Microelectronics for a greener economy
• Manufacturing standard silicon photovoltaic cells, INES (FR)
• Key competences and skills
• Artificial Intelligence and Student Career Development, SCAS (BG)
hours modules courses
ALL courses 5.201 227 42
online + hybrid
courses
2.393 166 30
onsite courses 2.808 61 12
PROPOSAL
Expected
1.250 40 20
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•Bahrain Society of Engineers
Mission
The national Society that embraces engineers of all disciplines and works to raise the
professional, technical, and scientific level of engineers and develop their efficiency by
promoting ethical, sound and creative values and practices of the engineering profession that
contribute to the social and economic development of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Vision
We will strive for excellence as a leading professional engineering body that seeks and works to
gain recognition and good reputation at the regional and global level through:
• Providing the highest level of services to the members to ensure the maximum benefit for the
engineers.
• Empowering the national engineer to be the first choice to support the national economy and
sustainable development.
• Supporting Bahraini engineer towards a global competitive engineering community.
• Gain respect and recognition in terms of commitment towards the profession, members, and
community.
• Participating in raising the level of engineering work in the public and private sectors.
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We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a
personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct
and agree:
I. To uphold the highest standards of integrity, responsible behavior, and ethical conduct in professional activities.
1. to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public, to strive to comply with ethical design and sustainable development practices, to protect
the privacy of others, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
2. to improve the understanding by individuals and society of the capabilities and societal implications of conventional and emerging technologies, including
intelligent systems;
3. to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist;
4. to avoid unlawful conduct in professional activities, and to reject bribery in all its forms;
5. to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates
based on available data, and to credit properly the contributions of others;
6. to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full
disclosure of pertinent limitations;
II. To treat all persons fairly and with respect, to not engage in harassment or discrimination, and to avoid injuring others.
7. to treat all persons fairly and with respect, and to not engage in discrimination based on characteristics such as race, religion, gender, disability, age,
national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression;
8. to not engage in harassment of any kind, including sexual harassment or bullying behavior;
9. to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious actions, rumors or any other verbal or physical abuses;
III. To strive to ensure this code is upheld by colleagues and co-workers.
10. to support colleagues and co-workers in following this code of ethics, to strive to ensure the code is upheld, and to not retaliate against individuals
reporting a violation.
•IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Code of Ethics
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•IEEE Education Society: Vision & Mission
VISION:
“The Society strives to be the global leader in engineering education”
MISSION:
“The Society is an international organization that promotes, advances, and
disseminates state-of-the-art information and resources related to the
Society’s field of interest and provides development opportunities for
academic, industry and government professionals”
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•Our Future World and Education ?
Open Education (OE):
Innovations for changing
& opening up education
to improve the quality
>>> MOOQ
>>> Inclussion
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The Learning Pyramid - William Glasser - 1990 – 1998
Face-to-face
Traditional
Education
MOOC
PBL - Laboratories
Blended Learning
•Our Future World and Education ?
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•Tribute: UNED (Friends)
UNED UNESCO Chair of Distance Education
• Present Chair, Angeles Sanchez-Elvira Paniagua
• Founder and past chair: Lorenzo Garcia Aretio
http://blogs.uned.es/cued/
https://aretio.hypotheses.org/5827/
(Garcia Aretio, 1989) Education is the process of
intentional and comprehensive optimization of wo/m@n
oriented to her/his complete self-realization and active
insertion in the nature, society and culture
Equality, Inequality and Equity in learning context must drive to:
1. improve
2. integral
3. intentional
4. autonomous
5. socialization
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•Tribute: Sir John Daniel (Vision Pioneer)
https://www.sirjohn.ca
We must reduce inequalities, and this has always been a
special focus of Open and Distance Learning
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•Tribute: Tony Bates (Digital Pioneer)
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
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•Our Future World and Education (to decide)
Conscience on Energy
effects
Renewable Energies
World Sustainability
SDGs and Circular
Economy application
Energy Efficiency
Ethical World
Engineering Education
and Technology
Smart …
... Live
... Grids
... Cities
... Manufacturing
... Education
with a Personal orientation
66. Engineering Education in the time of the Internet of Things:
Ethics and Sustainability
Manuel Castro
Professor UNED / IEEE Life Fellow
IEEE Former Division Director & IEEE Education Society President Emeritus
SPAIN
https://es.slideshare.net/mmmcastro - mcastro@ieec.uned.es