Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Qualitative Research Methodology Applied to Studies in Administrative Sciences

   • Romel Ramón González-Díaz

   Pages 1-16

3. Cybersecurity in Smart Cities: Technology and Data Security in Intelligent Transport Systems

   • Nuno Miguel Carvalho Galego, Rui Miguesl Pascoal

   Pages 17-33

4. Youth Associations in Academia: Their Implications for the Creation and Development of an Entrepreneurial Profile

   • Adalmiro Pereira, Carlos Mota, Ângela Vaz, Andreia Cunha

   Pages 35-45

5. Modular Educational Ecosystem as Academic Support During COVID-19 Emergency at Mexico City-IPN in 2020

   • Vladimir Avalos-Bravo, Chadwick Carreto Arellano, Jorge Toro González

   Pages 47-58

6. The Incidence of Abuse and School Harassment Among Foreign and Spanish Students in Extremadura

   • Ana Isabel González-Contreras, David Pérez-Jorge, María del Carmen Rodríguez-Jiménez, Eva Ariño-Mateo

   Pages 59-71

7. Tití App, an Interactive Psycho-Pedagogical Recovery Tool: A Pilot Study

   • Jacqueline Gordón, Andrés Caicedo, Andrés Subía

   Pages 73-82

8. Accessibility and Usability in Learning Objects

   • Carlos Luís, Maria José Marcelino

   Pages 83-92

9. Museum, School and Augmented Reality, a Way to Preserve the Ethnic Identity of an Ancestral Culture

   • Garcia Medina Maria Angélica, Lengua Cantero Claudia Cristina, Acosta Meza David de Jesús

   Pages 93-108

10. Multinomial Logistic Regression Model for Prioritization of COVID-19 Vaccination in Portoviejo—Ecuador

    • Cedeño Jennifer, Sánchez Luis

    Pages 109-118

11. Visual Metrics for Educational Videogames Linked to Socially Assistive Robots in an Inclusive Education Framework

    • Nayeth I. Solorzano Alcivar, Luis C. Herrera Paltan, Leslie R. Lima Palacios, Dennys F. Paillacho Chiluiza, Jonathan S. Paillacho Corredores

    Pages 119-132

12. How Teams Learn Agility, a Beginner’s Guide for Software Development

    • Giannina Costa, Oscar Pinto, Diego Fuentealba, Rubén Baeza, Paulina Lagos, Lilian San Martin et al.

    Pages 133-143

13. Didactics Strategy Using ICT, for Kids with Trisomy of Pair 21

    • Rubén Jerónimo Yedra, María Alejandrina Almeida Aguilar, Eric Ramos Méndez, Gerardo Arceo Moheno, Arturo Corona Ferreira, Ricardo Avila Alexander

    Pages 145-152

14. Can We Assess Creativity? The Use of Rubrics for Evaluating Transcreation in the Undergraduate Program of Translation and Interpreting

    • Mar Díaz-Millón, Irene Rivera-Trigueros

    Pages 153-162

15. The Place of Latin American Universities in International University Rankings. A Multivariate Statistical Analysis

    • Marcelo Ruiz-Toledo, Claudio Ruff-Escobar, Luis Benites, Joe Alexis González, María-Purificación Galindo-Villardón

    Pages 163-181

16. Technology’s Impacts in the Students of Higher Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic Period

    • Osvaldo Silva, Áurea Sousa, Jerónimo Nunes

    Pages 183-194

17. Escape Rooms: Mathematical Challenges Available to Educators

    • Marcos Chacón-Castro, Luis Aimacaña-Espinosa, Janio Jadán-Guerrero

    Pages 195-205

18. Kriging Prediction for Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Portoviejo—Ecuador

    • Cedeño Omar, Sánchez Luis

    Pages 207-217

19. Learning the Role of Museums as Drivers of Development

    • Sara Pascoal, Laura Tallone, Marco Furtado

    Pages 219-228

20. Charting a Path for Industry 4.0. An Industry and University Experience

    • Vitor Manuel de Lemos Dinis, Francisco Joaquim Madeira Esteves, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação

    Pages 229-239

This book presents high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference in Information Technology & Education (ICITED 2021), to be held at the ESPM – Higher School of Advertising and Marketing, Sao Paulo, Brazil, between the 15th and the 17th of July 2021. The book covers a specific field of knowledge. This intends to cover not only two fields of knowledge – Education and Technology – but also the interaction among them and the impact/result in the job market and organizations. It covers the research and pedagogic component of Education and Information Technologies but also the connection with society, addressing the three pillars of higher education. The book addresses impact of pandemic on education and use of technology in education. Finally, it also encourages companies to present their professional cases which is discussed. These can constitute real examples of how companies are overcoming their challenges with the uncertainty of the market.

• Educational Software
• Technologies in Education
• Higher Education
• Virtual Learning
• Curriculum Design and Innovation
• Online Courses
• Pedagogical & Didactical Innovations
• Gamification
• ICITED 2021

• Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  Anabela Mesquita, António Abreu, João Vidal Carvalho

Anabela Mesquita is Professor at the Porto Accounting and Business School / Polytechnic of Porto since 1990, Vice Dean between 2007–2018, President of the SPACE European network, Member of the Algoritmi Research Centre (Minho University), and the former Director of CICE (Research Centre for Communication and Education). She is Member of MAERA and President of the External Evaluation Committee for the A3ES (Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation in Higher Education) in the area of Executive Management. She has been (and is) involved in many European and National research projects both as Researcher and as Coordinator. She has published numerous papers in various international journals and conference proceedings. She is Member of the Programme Committee and Scientific Committee of several national and International conferences. She serves as Member of the Editorial Board and referee for IGI Global. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Information Resources Management Journal and is co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction and Associate Editor of Helyion. She has also been Evaluator and Reviewer for Erasmus+ National Agency and European Commission projects. Her interests include education, e-learning, technologies and information systems, knowledge management, innovation, and intellectual capital.


António José Abreu Da Silva is Adjunct Professor at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto. He completed his Post-Doctorate in Information Technologies and Systems, University of Coimbra, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Ph.D. in Software Engineering based on reusable components with Human–Machine Interface applications, by the University of Vigo, and Master in Management Informatics by the University of Minho and Degree in Applied Mathematics Informatics by the Lusíada University. He currently works as Lecturer, in the scientific area of Information Systems, at Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto/Politécnico do Porto, ISCAP/PPorto. He is Full Member of the CEOS.PP - Centro de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociais do Politécnico do Porto (Oporto Polytechnic Centre for Organizational and Social Studies) and Associate Researcher at Centro de Investigação CISUC - Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra. Between 2015 and 2018, he was Coordinator of the Professional Higher Technical Courses (CTeSP) of Instituto Superior e Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP) and Market Development Coordinator of Centro de Formação e Serviços ao Exterior do ISCAP. He is currently responsible for the Information Systems disciplinary group of CTeSP. He is Member of the scientific commission of several national and international conferences and initiatives in the area of Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI - Conferencia Ibérica de Sistemas y Tecnologías de Información; WORLDCIST - World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies; CAPSI - Conference of the Portuguese Association of Information Systems; COMETEL - Congresso Internacional de Computación y Telecomunicaciones; RISTI - Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação); MICRADS - Conferência Internacional Multidisciplinar de Pesquisa Aplicada à Defesa e Segurança.  He is General Chair of ICOTTS - International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems and Author of several books published in the area of Information Systems.


João Vidal de Carvalho is Adjunct Professor at Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal) and has completed Post-Doctorate in Technologies and Information Systems from University of Coimbra (Portugal), Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technology from University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and M.Sc. in Information Technology Management from University of Minho (Portugal), and Bachelor in Computer Science. He is Vice Director of the CEOS.PP Research Center - Center for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Oporto and Member of LIACC Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory – FEUP. He is Member of the Iberian Systems and Information Technology Association (AISTI) and Effective Member of the ISCAP/Polytechnic of Porto Skills Recognition/Certification committee. He is Conference General Chair of the ICOTTS - The International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems and published some books in computer science/Database Management. He is Scientific Committee Member of several conferences in the area of Information Systems and Technologies. He is currently involved in an international quality assurance research project for Higher Education Institutions' information systems.