Open Activities And Technologies During COVID-
19 From The IEEE Student Branch at UNED
Pedro Plaza
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
pplaza@ieec.uned.es
Félix García-Loro
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
fgarcialoro@ieec.uned.es
Manuel Blázquez
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
mblazquez@ieec.uned.es
Francisco Mur
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
fmur@ieec.uned.es
Manuel Carrasco
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
moncho@warningcorp.com
Clara Pérez
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
clarapm@ieec.uned.es
Manuel Castro
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
mcastro@ieec.uned.es
Rosario Gil
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
rgil@ieec.uned.es
Blanca Quintana
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
bquintana@ieec.uned.es
Alejandro Macho
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
amacho@ieec.uned.es
German Carro
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
gcarro@ieec.uned.es
Russ Meier
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Milwaukee, United States
meier@msoe.edu
Elio Sancristobal
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
elio@ieec.uned.es
Antonio Menacho
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
amenacho@ieec.uned.es
Sergio Martin
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
smartin@ieec.uned.es
Pablo Baizán
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
pbaizan@ieec.uned.es
África López-Rey
DIEECTQAI
UNED
Madrid, Spain
alopez@ieec.uned.es
Edmundo Tovar
Languages and Computer Systems and
Software Engineering
UPM
Madrid, Spain
edmundo.tovar@upm.es
I. INTRODUCTION
The confinement measures imposed by the Executive on
the Coronavirus pandemic have turned digitalization into a
necessity; and the development of applications that allow us
to do everything remotely, in essential. One of the sectors that
already had quite a long history is training, and its need to
adapt to the new situation has been urgent, but not as intense
as in other sectors. The arrival of the crisis has forced the
various training schools, universities and postgraduate centers
to put all their tools online, and those that did not have them
to make them available to students who could no longer come
to their centers to receive training of excellence [1].
Thus, the optimal format for continuing training activities
is to provide online access training. Currently there is a wide
variety of training activities that are carried out in online
format, such as those described in the papers [2]. It is also
important to identify the challenges involved in making a
Abstract— Firstly, the IEEE Student Branch at UNED
belongs to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE). The IEEE Student Branch at the UNED is an
association of students of the UNED based on volunteerism,
sharing knowledge and experiences, desire to improve and
interest in science and technology. The crisis of the coronavirus
has turned the online formation into a good of first necessity and
in a challenge so much for the students as for the companies of
formation. The former has had to get used to seeing their teacher
through a screen. The second, to adapt all content to the online
universe. For this reason, from the IEEE Student Branch at the
UNED we have developed several activities during the COVID-
19 to provide a series of training resources online and free.
Throughout this paper we describe the activities carried out, the
technological resources used, and the benefits obtained, both for
the Student Branch itself and for those attending the different
activities. In addition, we provide a series of lines of future work.
Keywords— Collaboration, Distance Education, Educational
Robotics, Learning technology
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