Mariluz Guenaga

About Me

Who am I

PhD in computer engineering, I am lecturer at the Engineering Faculty - University of Deusto, since 1998, and director of Deusto LearningLab group (http://learninglab.deusto.es/) since 2011. I obtained my PhD with the thesis “Integral Accessibility of Digital Resource Centres for People with Visual Disability”. My research interests focus on the innovative use of technology in STEAM* education, learning analytics and game-based learning. I teach subjects related to computer programming, human-computer interaction and information visualization. I participate in several European projects aiming at improving STEM education, developing computational thinking skills among primary and secondary school students, and raising their interest towards technology, especially among girls. I also participate and organize several dissemination and knowledge transference actions to reach the educational community and improve the STEAM education with the result of our work.

*STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths).

What I Do

I am lecturer at the Engineering Faculty and lead Deusto LearningLab group. This involes a lot of activity that I am passionate about:

Teach programming to first year undergraduate students.
Teach UX-User Experience and Visual Analytics subjects.
Teach about serious games and gamification to doctorate students.
Participate and organize events to disseminate the result of our work.
Coordinate projects at national and European level.
Networking from the local to the international level to design and develop innovative projects with the best partners.

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What I Did | non-university activities

[2019/07/1] Given the workshop "Leadership Competencies for Engineering" at the Federico Santa University María, Valparaíso (Chile)
[2019/07/8] Taught the "Mentoras Inspira STEAM" course to a STEAM women's group in the region of Valparaiso, Chile.
[2019/08/13] Taught workshop "Computational Thinking" to 6th grade students, at Máfil School, Chile.
[2019/08/21] Taught workshop "Quiero ser ingeniera ¿por qué no?" in the framework of the Ingenuity Week 2019 in Valdivia, Chile
[2019/08/26] Taught workshop "Unplugged Computing", organized by the University of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.
[2019/09/05] Taught the course "Competencies for Leadership, with emphasis on the 'Serious Games' Methodology, within the activities to support the teaching of the Universidad Austral de Chile
[2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 ed.] Volunteer in the role of team leader in the First Lego League - Euskadi.

What I Did

2019

Mondragon Unibertsitatea

Máster en Coaching de Personas y Equipos
2007

University of Deusto

PhD, Computer Engineering

Thesis title: "Integral accessibility of digital resource centres for people with visual disability"
1998
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1993

University of Deusto

Computer Engineering

Faculty of Engineering
1993
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1988

Juan Ignacio Zuloaga Institute

High school

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Name: Mariluz Guenaga
Office: Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto
Email: mlguenaga@deusto.es

Projects

INSPIRA

Inspire young girls in Science and Technology

The project INSPIRA “Inspire young girls in Science and Technology” aims to raise awareness of young people, boys and girls, about the reality of women in the scientific-technological field, especially support girls who have an interest or concern about these areas, and thereby increase the scientific and technological vocations among young people between 10 and 14 yr. For the development of INSPIRA, the University of Deusto and Elhuyar Fundazioa have formed a strong multidisciplinary team of professionals to integrate expertise and resources, and create a network of stakeholders involved in promoting female professionals in STEM areas. The methodological and innovative strategy proposed by the project is to organize awareness sessions around “Gender, Science and Technology” for groups of boys and girls in primary and secondary education. On the other hand, a group of female professionals will carry out mentoring dynamics with small groups of girls with interest in Research, Science and Technology.

Polar Star

Bring together state-of-the-art learning pedagogies

POLAR STAR aims to bring together state-of-the-art learning pedagogies and combine them with exciting activities that focus on contemporary science, thus helping teachers to introduce STEAM successfully in their class. At the same time, the project focuses on the development of students’ key skills and competencies as well as deepening their knowledge of fundamental scientific principles, increasing their appreciation of science and technology and their role in today’s’ societies.

Compus

The computer is us

ICT combined with Inquiry-Based Science Learning (IBSL), an education technique that always begins with questions and problems, will challenge students in discovering answers themselves. Through this innovative teaching method, students can focus on learning ICT by doing, with the teacher guiding the way, and plain lectures no longer driving concept mastery. The Teaching ICT with Inquiry (TIWI) project will help upper primary and secondary educators to: - Gain new skills and be in a position to teach coding efficiently to their students - Become comfortable in using the inquiry based approach in their teaching and see its direct connection to the coding logic - Provide them and their students with self-assessment instruments that will allow them to take control of their personal development and their students’ further learning The main goal of this project is to provide teachers with tools and skills in order to enable them, with the help of inquiry-based approach to teach coding - the digital language spoken by ICT tools. The main target group includes in-service upper primary (9-11 y.o. students) and secondary (12-19 y.o. students) school teachers coming from 20+ countries in Europe. We will also give various possibilities to future teachers (pre-service training) to participate in this project by taking an online course, use educational material produced within the proposed project, and participate in European-wide competition.

WASTE4THINK

Moving towards Life Cycle Thinking by integrating Advanced Waste Management Systems.

Sponsoring entity: European Commission H2020 coordinated by the University of Deusto.

Funding: 297.520,72€.

Starting year: 2016

Ending year: 2020

Annex number: 9.C.5

The main objective of this project is to move forward the current waste management practices into a circular economy motto, demonstrating the value of integrating and validating a set of 20 eco-innovative solutions that cover all the waste value chain. The benefits of these solutions will be enhanced by a holistic waste data management methodology, and will be demonstrated in 4 complementary urban areas in Europe. The eco-innovative solutions include technological and non-technological tools such as: a) IT tools to support the daily operation and long-term planning, b) Apps for citizens empowerment and engagement, c) Educational materials based on innovative teaching units and serious games, d) Tools for citizen science for the co-creation of novel solutions, e) Mechanisms to boost behavioral changes based on economic instruments and social actions, and f) Decentralized solutions for valorization and reuse of high value resources. The different solutions will be implemented in 4 complementary European areas: a) Zamudio (ES) is a highly industrialized area with a spread population that uses a separated kerbside collection; b) Halandri (GR) is a large suburban city with a wide range of business that has a very basic waste management system; c) Seveso (IT) is a residential town that uses a door-to-door system; d) and Cascais (PT) is an extensive and high touristic coastal town that implements an advanced collection system. The project includes a consortium of 19 partners with 4 public agencies and administrations, 3 research centers and universities, 8 SMEs, 2 LEs, 1 cluster and 1 NGO, that will work together during 36 months with an overall contribution from the EC of €9M.The most relevant expected impacts are: a 20% increase in waste sorting, 10% saving of management costs, and 10% reduction of GHG emissions. The experience gained, and the synergies among the partners describe the best possible scenario to launch new governance and business models.

SAILS

Safe & Autonomous Internet-based Learning Strategies

The main objective of SAILS project is to provide tools to students, families, teachers and school managers to appropriately face the new learning context created with the global COVID-19 pandemic. These tools will empower the whole educational community regarding their digital literacy from different approaches: digital identity, interpersonal relationships, learning processes, boundaries and technology uses (overconfidence vs. overprotection), and so on. Even though we do not diminish the potential threats and legal difficulties involved in the use of these online platforms, we want to stress their key role in terms of new opportunities and good practices.

SALL

Schools As Living Labs

The Schools As Living Labs project proposes a new framework based on open innovation methods for schools across Europe to approach their science education programmes in a new light. Our objective is to make STEM teaching more relevant, systemic, and inclusive and to do that for all of our students.

SALL adopts the concept of open schooling in science education where schools, become agents of community well-being by creating new partnerships with other local actors and addressing local issues relevant to them.

PIXEL & MEEPLES

The aim of this project is to develop several app-supported board games for the development of computer thinking in areas not exclusively related to algorithms, such as Blockchain or computer security. These games will be published under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their free use and will be provided with a guide for their use in the classroom to facilitate the work of teachers who are willing to use them in their classes.

ASSESS

Empowering Teachers to Design Innovative Assessment Tools in a Digital Era

ASSESS is a project that targets several questions about assessment with the goal of creating a powerful assessment framework for teachers and students. The project will offer teachers a toolkit of digital and analogue tools to assess students in an innovative way and a digital app that aggregates these tools. Teachers will also find an online course that will teach them not only how to use the ASSESS tools, but also how to design and create their own innovative assessment tools.

Make World

MakeWorld: Learning Science through Computational Thinking

This project has been funded by the European Comission with an Erasmus Plus grant, within the KA2-Strategic Partnership-School Education program. Lead by DeustoTech Learning-University of Deusto, the project aims at developing a powerful and high-quality set of resources and tools to develop and assess STEM and ICT competencies, as well as a dashboard to monitor student’s progress and behavior. Students, through their teacher, are final users of the open educational resources and platform. They will have a flexible, attractive and innovative educational tool to develop STEM and Computational competencies. Students will have resources ready to be used and learn with them, but the platform enables them to modify, even to create from scratch characters, worlds and stories. They can be authors of open educational resources, encouraging an active participation in their learning and promoting their creativity. Students, with available learning resources, will become protagonists of their learning, and will manage the resources at their disposal.

STEAM Decks

Learning STEAM through a playful online platform, social learning and content co-creation

STEAM Decks-Learning STEAM through a playful online platform, social learning and content co-creation provides a free access online platform where primary and secondary school students will be able to develop declarative knowledge in a contextualized and meaningful way through a multiplayer and online card game. To accomplish it, several objectives have to be addressed:

Analyze the attitudes and skills around STEM of teachers and students from primary and secondary schools.
Develop an open, free, open source and expandable platform where primary and secondary school students will be able to develop declarative knowledge in a contextualized and meaningful way through a multiplayer and online card game.
Create initial content and activities for the platform to facilitate its use with different levels of involvement.
Assess the quality and impact of the project after its implementation, both in terms of attitudes and skills about STEAM schools, and the quality of the methodology, platform, and initial materials developed.

Snola

Spanish Network of Learning Analytics

SNOLA (Spanish Network of Learning Analytics) is a network that integrates the major national researchers in the area of Learnign Analytics. Formed by 10 researchers from nine Spanish research groups, it has a primary focus on technology but aims at integrating other visions and disciplines from the educational sector that expands the scope of the network. The main objectives of SNOLA are:

to promote the collaboration among researchers from the network, also with stakeholders such as public and private educational institutions and industry, and with European and international networks
to disseminate and organize initiatives on a national scale
to provide public resources for the effective integration of LA systems in education
to train researchers and professionals to meet the challenges of the Digital Society derived from the integration of ICT in education

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The main goal of MissToHit:From Misconceptions To Learning Insights Through Inquiry With Playful Physical Objects project is to create a learning community where formal and informal learning initiatives can share STEM-related learning activities based on physical objects in an Inquiry-based learning (IBL) methodology.
The main target groups of the project’s activities and results are Educators and Learners, in formal (schools) and informal (e.g. science museum) learning scenarios. Within the MISStoHIT community, learners and educators can adopt several roles: a) consumers of previously created learning resources; b) producers of new learning materials (remixing models, experiments, guides, etc.); or c) providers of learning insights: misconceptions, experiments’ ideas, hints, or new approaches. Scientists and other stakeholders (industry, public bodies, etc.) are also invited to contribute to the creation of learning materials that match everyday practice in museums and classrooms.
The project will carry out preliminary studies to define and establish the fundamentals of the project, e.g. STEM and ICT curriculum, gender, legal and ethical issues will be analyzed. The new pedagogical methodology approach designed by educators will be the base to design and develop e-learning tools and resources, and an on-line collaborative platform where students and teachers will be able to learn, teach and co-create content for STEM courses.

GameHub

University-enterprises cooperation in game industry in Ukraine

The wider objective of the GameHub, University-enterprises cooperation in game industry in Ukraine is to ensure employability and self-sustainability of Higher Education Institution (HEI) graduates, unemployed engineers as well as veterans of Anti-Terror Operation (ATO) in Ukraine by equipping them with knowledge and skills demanded by digital game industry (GI) – a highly networked global impact economy. GI strongly based on online work approach allows one to develop a highly technological field and, therefore, gross domestic product without large investments.

The specific objectives of the project are:

o establish monitoring instruments of competence profiles and training necessary for employment in ICT market in Ukraine (UA) including international networking and business opportunities;
GameHub built in each UA HEI will contribute to the development of knowledge and competences for digital game production and entrepreneurship by developing learning materials, coaching, and consulting of HEI faculties and training service centers;
Mutually beneficial and viable cooperation between academia, employment and veterans associations, and GI strengthening the emerging Ukrainian ICT creative business sector.

Joventek

Joventek – Trastea

El programa JovenTek es una iniciativa de DeustoTech Learning/Fundación Deusto. Pretende ser un conjunto de actividades coordinadas, orientadas a fomentar en los adolescentes a medio plazo las vocaciones hacia la Ingeniería, de forma íntimamente ligada a la tecnología y a su importancia social. Las líneas temáticas del proyecto JovenTek serán herramientas, procesos y metodologías basadas en tecnología, que hemos identificado como especialmente interesantes dada su aplicabilidad, su accesibilidad, su bajo coste, y su fácil integración con procesos domésticos, familiares y escolares. Alrededor de estas áreas se desarrollarán las distintas acciones.

Las acciones que incluirá son de tipo:

Grupos de formación, trabajo, seguimiento y evaluación con profesores de secundaria/bachillerato.
Cursos online de acercamiento a la ingeniería para estudiantes de secundaria/bachillerato, accesibles en toda España.
Concursos y eventos de socialización, cooperación e integración de resultados.

Autogame

El proyecto AUTOGAME tiene como objetivo desarrollar un juego serio (serious game) para el diagnóstico y localización de averías en esquemas eléctricos, y se enmarca en el el área de la electricidad en automoción. Está dirigido a la Formación Profesional, pero es tan flexible que puede adaptarse a otros ámbitos educativos.

Hemos conseguido el editor para facilitarnos la vida a los profes de automoción que no sabemos programar. Con este editor podremos añadir actividades (circuitos con averías) a nuestro juego.Podremos compartir cientos de actividades en nuestra comunidad para enriquecer el juego.Puede ser usado también por profesores de otras especialidades para editar todo tipo de circuitos eléctricos. El juego está concebido como un material complementario a la formación presencial, en el que alumnos deben identificar averías en esquemas eléctricos, y la causa que ha producido dicha avería, el componente que ha fallado. Se presentan esquemas eléctricos al alumno y debe identificar una única avería en cada circuito, tras lo cual se pasa a la siguiente actividad.

Este es un proyecto Open Software. Vamos a crear una comunidad donde compartir todas las actividades que diseñemos los profesores para este juego

Teknologia Interaktiboa 3 : Robotika

Teknologia Interaktiboa 3

El proyecto Teknologia Interaktiboa 3: Robotika consiste en el diseño de una unidad didáctica sobre el bloque de contenidos de control y robótica del Diseño Curricular Base para 3º y 4º de la ESO en Tecnología. Se trata de un material educativo interactivo y motivador para el estudiante que le ayudará a conocer y explorar el funcionamiento y las aplicaciones de los robots. Con esta unidad se introduce al alumno en el mundo del control y la robótica. Se hará uso del ordenador como elemento de programación y control y se diseñarán, construirán y programarán robots.

El objetivo principal de este proyecto va más allá de adquirir unos conocimientos acerca de la arquitectura y el funcionamiento de los robots, pretende también trabajar sobre ambientes de aprendizaje multidisciplinares, reales y cercanos al alumno donde adquieran habilidades para investigar, para experimentar, para resolver problemas y para responder con éxito a los cambios de su entorno. Todo ello contribuye al desarrollo de la creatividad y del pensamiento de los estudiantes.

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Outreach

12 mar 2022

Mª Luz Guenaga Gómez asiste al encuentro de la Alianza STEAM como representante de Inspira STEAM

La Alianza STEAM por el talento femenino es una iniciativa del Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional que nace con el objetivo de fomentar las vocaciones STEAM en las niñas y jóvenes y reducir la brecha de género.

El pasado 11 de febrero, con motivo del Día de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, tuvo lugar el encuentro de la Alianza STEAM bajo el lema “Niñas en pie de Ciencia”.

El acto estuvo presidido por el presidente de Gobierno, Pedro Sanchez, y participaron también la ministra de Educación y Formación Profesional, Pilar Alegría; la ministra de Ciencia e Innovación, Diana Morant; y la ministra de Igualdad, Irene Montero; además de la presidenta del Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Rosa Menéndez y la investigadora y desarrolladora del primer exoesqueleto biónico para niñas y niños, Elena García Armada. Asimismo, han asistido unas 50 niñas de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Universidad.

About Me

Who am I

What I Do

What I Did | non-university activities

What I Did

2019

Mondragon Unibertsitatea

Máster en Coaching de Personas y Equipos

2007

University of Deusto

PhD, Computer Engineering

1998 - 1993

University of Deusto

Computer Engineering

1993 - 1988

Juan Ignacio Zuloaga Institute

High school

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Human Computer Interaction

Programming

Serious games

Visual analytics

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