The SmartArt project, co-financed by the European Union, participated in the ERASMUS DAYS Conference. Two sessions were held: one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. In the first, with four interventions, SME Bjaländ has presented the advances in the development of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in which an intelligent learning classroom or Smart Tutoring has been implemented. Likewise, Sandra Rodríguez Arribas, member of the SmartArt team of the University of Burgos, has presented the development and management plan of the project through Social Networks. This project can be followed via Twitter https://www.twitter.com/srlsmartart, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/smartartproject and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/srlsmartart/. In turn, the scope of the project can be followed from its website https://srlsmartart.eu/ . Also, PhD. Natalia Muñoz Rujas, member of the SmartArt team at the University of Burgos, has also addressed the importance of the project’s sustainability, placing special emphasis on the open access of materials and the interactive VLE platform, both for the target population of this project, which are adults, as well as for other types of population to whom the intellectual products produced will be made more widespread, such as university students, high school and baccalaureate students and children and primary school students, for whom intellectual transfer products are being produced. Finally, Professor María José Zaparaín Yáñez, a member of the team of the University of Burgos, has presented the methodology and development of the project’s thematic units relating to the learning of Art History focusing on the application of serious games methodology and regulation through the figure of an avatar.
The afternoon session, which also had four other interventions, was initiated by PhD. María Consuelo Sáiz Manzanares, coordinator of the SmartArt project, who has addressed the advances in the first intellectual product to be offered in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Likewise, PhD. Juan Antonio Valdivieso Burón, who is part of the SmartArt team of the University of Valladolid, presented the ethics and quality actions which are being implemented in the project, as well as those that will be addressed in future phases of the project. Also, Iñaki Oyon Barrio, of SME Parangon Europe (Malta), has proposed the dissemination plan of the project, both within the members of the strategic partnerships and the rest of the partners of the European Union. Finally, Professor José Alberto Lencastre, from the SmartArt group of the University of Minho (Portugal), presented the functionalities of the SmartArt project in relation to learning and its link to technological advances, the aim of which is to improve and increase the access to learning for all citizens, throughout life, and to incorporate the latest technological advances to achieve effective learning within the current of Advanced Learning Technologies.
The Conference was held in the Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Burgos and its content can be followed on the SmartArt Project YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96l8DILDKxf2z3TPZnof4A
The next events of the project are related to the presentation of the first intellectual product and the interactive platform VLE and will take place in the Museum of Burgos, on November 6th, in Aranda de Duero (Burgos), in the House of Culture, on November 18th, in the Sculpture Museum of Valladolid on November 19th, and in the Silos Foundation , at the Convent of San Francisco (Silos), on Saturday, November 28th.