Héctor R. Amado-Salvatierra

Coordinator of GES Department Research Area, Galileo University, Guatemala

Héctor R. Amado-Salvatierra is Ph.D. from Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) and Computer Sciences Engineer from Universidad Galileo (Galileo). Currently, he is part of the GES Department at Universidad Galileo, Guatemala. He has been involved in international projects related to MOOCs, e-learning and accessibility, among the projects are the following: ESVI-AL (ALFA III); RedAUTI, SOLITE (CYTED) and IDEAL-IST (Horizon 2020). His current research focuses on accessibility in e-learning, MOOCs and curriculum development methodologies.

ORCID: 0000-0002-3028-234X

ResearcherID: H-3371-2018

Scopus AuthorID: 52663094800

Mail: hr_amado@galileo.edu Linkedin: hramado

Google Scholar Profile: hramado Research Gate: Hector_Amado-Salvatierra

Research Interests: Web Technologies for Education, Web Accessibility and E-Learning, Cloud Education Environments, Open Educational Resources, Instructional Design

Research Experience:

ALFA III – ESVI-AL Project (2012-2014) www.esvial.org: ALFA III – ESVI-AL Project “Inclusive Virtual Higher Education – Latin America: Improving Accessibility to Virtual Higher Education in Latin America” (DCI-ALA/19.09.01/11/21526/279-146/ALFA 111(2011)-11), Subject areas: Technology-Enhanced Learning, Accessibility; E-Learning, E-Inclusion. Project Coordinator is Jośe Ramón Hilera, Universidad de Alcalá: Partners (3 Europe, 7 Latinamerica).

RED AUTI Project (2012-2015) www.redauti.net: 2012-2015 Research project in CYTED programme: REDAUTI: Thematic Network on applications and usability of interactive digital television, Subject areas: TVDI, Technology-Enhanced Learning, Accessibility, Usability: Coordinator: María José Abasolo Guerrero. Universidad Nacional de la Plata: Project ID: 512RT0461

SOLITE Project (2008-2011): 2008-2011 Research project in CYTED programme: SOLITE: Software Libre para Teleformación (Open Source for E-Learning), Subject areas: Technology-Enhanced Learning, collaborative learning Coordinator: Dr. Martin Llamas, Universidad Vigo, España Project ID: 508AC0341

Main Publications:

Books diagramation:

Bengochea Martínez L, Hernández Rizzardini R, Hilera González JR. “Actas del V Congreso Internacional sobre Calidad y Accesibilidad de la Formación Virtual (CAFVIR 2014) ISBN: 978-9929-40-497-7, Universidad Galileo 2014
M.E. Auer, R. Hernández, A. Pester, “Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Blended Learning”, ISBN: 978-3-89958-556-8, Kassel University Press 2011

Books chapters:

Amado-Salvatierra H.R. “Requisitos de accesibilidad de un campus virtual” In: José Ramón Hilera, Rocael Hernández Rizzardini, et. al., “Guía Metodológica para la implantación de desarrollos curriculares virtuales accesibles” (2013), Universidad de Alcalá, ISBN: 978-84-15834-07-6

Publications in CORE Conferences:

Amado-Salvatierra, H. R., Hernández, R., García-Cabot, A., García-López, E., Batanero, C., & Otón, S. (2014). Towards a Methodology for Curriculum Development within an Accessible Virtual Campus. In Computers Helping People with Special Needs (pp. 338-341). Springer International Publishing.
Amado-Salvatierra, H. R., Hernández, R., Batanero, C., & Otón, S. (2014) “Towards an approch for a massive web accessibility training” IADIS AC Conference.
Amado-Salvatierra, H. R., Hernández, R., Hilera, J.R. (2014). Teaching and Promoting Web Accessibility in Virtual Learning Environments A staff training experience in Latin-America. IEEE FIE 2014 Conference Proceedings. Madrid, Oct. 2014
Batanero, C., Karhu, M., Holvikivi, J., Oton, S., & Amado-Salvatierra, H. R. (2014, July). A Method to Evaluate Accessibility in E-learning Education Systems. In Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on (pp. 556-560). IEEE.
Amado-Salvatierra, H. R., Hernández, R. (2014). Towards a methodology to Inclusive Curriculum Design An experience presented within an Accessible Virtual Learning Environment. IEEE FIE 2014 Conference Proceedings. Madrid, Oct. 2014
Oton, S., Garcia, A., Garcia, E., Barchino, R., & Amado-Salvatierra, H. R. (2014, July). Transforming LOMPad to Support IMS Access for All v3. 0. In Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on (pp. 599-600). IEEE.
Rocael Hernández, Hector R. Amado-Salvatierra, “Facebook for CSCL, Latin-American experience for professors”, Proceedings for the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies iCalt2012, 4-6 July 2012, pages 327-328 doi: 10.1109/ICALT.2012.129 ISBN: 978-1-4673-1642-2

Publications:

Hernández, R., Gütl, C., & Amado-Salvatierra, H. R. (2014). Cloud Learning Activities Orchestration for MOOC Environments. In Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. MOOC and Big Data (pp. 25-36). Springer International Publishing.
Hernández, R., Gütl, C., & Amado-Salvatierra, H. R. (2014). Using JSON-LD and Hydra for Cloud-Based Tool Interoperability: A Prototype Based on a Vocabulary and Communication Process Handler for Mind Map Tools. In Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities (pp. 428-433). Springer International Publishing.
Rizzardini, R. H., Gütl, C., & Amado-Salvatierra, H. R. (2014, September). Interoperability for cloud-based applications for education settings based on JSON-LD and Hydra: ontology and a generic vocabulary for mind map tools. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business (p. 20). ACM.
Rocael Hernández Rizzardini, Vanessa Chang, Christian Gütl, and Hector Amado-Salvatierra. “An Open Online Course with Accessibility Features.” In World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, vol. 2013, no. 1, pp. 635-643. 2013. ISBN 978-1-939797-03-2
Rocael Hernández Rizzardini, Hector Amado-Salvatierra, Christian Guetl “Cloud-based Learning Environments: Investigating learning activities experiences from Motivation, Usability and Emotional Perspective”. Owen Foley, Maria Teresa Restivo, James Uhomoibhi, Markus Helfert (Eds.): CSEDU 2013 – Proceedings, Aachen, Germany, 6-8 May, 2013. SciTePress 2013, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2
Gudrun Wesiak, Rocael Hernández Rizzardini, Hector Amado-Salvatierra, Christian Guetl and Mohammed Smadi, “Automatic Test Item Creation in Self-Regulated Learning. Evaluating quality of questions in a Latin American experience”: CSEDU 2013, Aachen, Germany, 6-8 May, 2013. SciTePress 2013, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2
Rocael Hernández Rizzardini, Hector R. Amado-Salvatierra “Measuring emotional responses to experiences with Cloud-based learning activities”. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments (WCLOUD 2012), Antigua Guatemala, 15-16 november 2012. ISSN http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-945/ ISSN: 1613-0073
Hector R. Amado-Salvatierra, Rocael Hernández, José R. Hilera, “Implementation of accessibility standards in the process of course design in virtual learning environments”, Proceedings for the 4th International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion, DSAI 2012 19-21 July 2012, Portugal, Procedia Computer Science, Elservier, 2012 ISSN: 1877-0509, 2012
Rocael Hernández Rizzardini y Hector R. Amado-Salvatierra, “Evaluación de la accesibilidad de portales Web en instituciones educativas en el área de Centroamérica”, Actas del III Congreso Iberoamericano sobre Calidad y Accesibilidad de la Formación Virtual, Universidad de Alcalá, 2012, ISBN: 978-84-8138-367-6
Rocael Hernández, Hector R. Amado-Salvatierra, José R. Hilera “Inclusión de la accesibilidad en el proceso de diseño de cursos en ambiente de aprendizaje virtual a través de la implementación de estándares”, Revista Computación y Tecnología, Número 3, 2012, Universidad Autónoma del Carmen, México, ISSN: 2007-2554.
Héctor Amado, Byron Linares, Isabel García, Luis Sánchez y Luis Ríos “Análisis de Accesibilidad Web y Diseño Web Accesible para instituciones socias del proyecto ESVI-AL” Actas del IV Congreso Internacional sobre Aplicación de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ATICA 2012), Pag 54.ISBN: 978-9942-08-386-9
Héctor Amado, Rocael Hernández, “Recomendaciones para la creación de documentos de contenido docente accesible.” Actas del IV Congreso Internacional sobre Aplicación de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ATICA 2012), Pag 109. ISBN: 978-9942-08-386-9
Hernández R, Guetl C, Amado H “Facebook for e-moderation: a Latin-American experience”, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, ACM 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0732-1 doi: 10.1145/2024288.2024332

Last update: Aug, 2018

Coordinator of GES Department Research Area