Julio Ruiz-Palmero

Prof. Dr. Julio Ruiz-Palmero

Faculty of Education Sciences, Universidad de Málaga, Bulevar Louis Pasteur, 25, 29071 Málaga, Spain
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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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5 August 2021 in British Journal of Educational Technology
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JULIO CABERO-ALMENARAJULIO CABERO-ALMENARA
JULIO CABERO-ALMENARA
FGFrancisco David Gamez
Francisco David Gamez
JRJulio Ruiz-Palmero
Julio Ruiz-Palmero
Antonio Palacios-RodríguezAntonio Palacios-Rodríguez
Antonio Palacios-Rodríguez
We are experiencing a serious health crisis due to COVID‐19 that has a major impact on the field of education. The educational system therefore needs to be updated and innovated, with the addition of digital resources, to adapt the teaching and learning processes to students with disabilities. To meet the goal of high‐quality education, teachers must have adequate digital competence to face the educational demands that are placed on them. Therefore, the purposes of this study are: to know the teachers' knowledge about digital resources to support students with disabilities (O1); at each educational stage (O2), identify the variables that have a significant impact on the acquisition of teacher competence (O3); propose a selection of useful ICT resources for each type of disability (O4). An ex post facto design was used with 1194 teachers from Andalusia (Spain). The results showed the medium‐low level of the teaching staff, especially in the higher education stage. In addition, gender, motivation, attitude and having students with special needs are determining factors in the development of teacher knowledge. The results highlight the urgent need for teachers to be trained in digital resources. We hope that the range of resources proposed in this study will help teachers enhance their teaching practice. Practitioner notes: What we already know about this topic Teachers have to find and adapt educational technology to achieve a higher level of success in students with disabilities. The use of ICT resources by teachers acts as a bridge to promote learning in students with disabilities. What this paper adds Identification of those predictors that significantly influence the acquisition of digital competence in teaching staff at various stages of education: gender, educational stage, motivation, attitude towards technologies and having students with specific educational support needs. A proposal of didactic applications is provided to address the different types of functional diversity. Implications for practice and/or policy It is essential that training plans on digital competence are established to assist students with functional diversity in their different learning stages. In this sense, personalised training itineraries or TMOOCs can be of major assistance. Expansion of the study sample (macro level) to identify digital factors, which affect the acquisition of the digital competence of the teaching staff to support their students' disabilities. Change regarding the type of diagnosis through self‐perception tests, such as those presented by these models, and subsequent work in other fields such as e‐portfolios of evidence or instruments in the form of problem solving.


1 January 2019 in Pixel-Bit- Revista De Medios Y Educacion
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Antonio-Manuel Rodriguez-GarciaAntonio-Manuel Rodriguez-Garcia
Antonio-Manuel Rodriguez-Garcia
FSFrancisco Manuel Raso Sánchez
Francisco Manuel Raso Sánchez
JRJulio Ruiz-Palmero
Julio Ruiz-Palmero
Competencia digital, educación superior y formación del profesorado: un estudio de meta-análisis en la web of science

10 October 2020 in Education Sciences
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EMErnesto Colomo Magaña
Ernesto Colomo Magaña
Roberto Soto-VarelaRoberto Soto-Varela
Roberto Soto-Varela
JRJulio Ruiz-Palmero
Julio Ruiz-Palmero
Melchor GómezMelchor Gómez
Melchor Gómez
In a digital and interconnected context, where educational processes are in constant change, active methodologies take on a relevant role by making students the protagonists of their learning. Among the different possibilities, the flipped classroom stands out for its time optimization, the incorporation of technological resources, and the personalization of the processes. The aim of this research is to analyze the perception of higher education students about the usefulness of the flipped classroom as a methodology. The information was collected with a validated instrument, which was applied to a sample of 123 students from the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Málaga (Spain). A positive evaluation of the usefulness of the flipped classroom as a learning methodology was reflected in the results, highlighting its instrumental dimension. Significant differences were perceived regarding the usefulness of the flipped classroom for the promotion of autonomous learning, which had a superior valuation according to women. In conclusion, the flipped classroom stands as a methodological alternative to promote learning that has a positive evaluation from the students that made up the sample.

26 January 2025 in Education Sciences
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Sergio Ruiz ViruelSergio Ruiz Viruel
Sergio Ruiz Viruel
Enrique Sánchez-RivasEnrique Sánchez-Rivas
Enrique Sánchez-Rivas
JRJulio Ruiz-Palmero
Julio Ruiz-Palmero
This study is based on the development of a design focused on underlining what artificial intelligence can achieve to bring value to learning quality especially when implementing active methodologies, such as project-based learning (PBL). This study analyzed the perceptions of AI-integrated PBL versus non-AI-integrated PBL among teachers in primary, secondary, and higher education. Conducted with a sample of teachers (n = 300), this study investigated perceived effectiveness, the AI-powered personalization of learning, and motivation. A Student’s t-test, as well as normality, homogeneity of variance, and Cohen’s d tests, revealed that AI-enhanced PBL is rated significantly higher than regular PBL without AI, with a Cohen’s d effect size of 1.30, signifying a large impact. These findings underpin the development of an optimized AI-driven PBL model, particularly within both the prototype production and evaluation phases, providing greater autonomy, responsive feedback, and adaptive personalization, all towards advancing a more effective AI-supported pedagogical model of teaching.

15 May 2023 in Education and Information Technologies
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FGFrancisco David Gamez
Francisco David Gamez
JRJulio Ruiz-Palmero
Julio Ruiz-Palmero
Melchor GómezMelchor Gómez
Melchor Gómez
All spheres of our life are being affected using technology, particularly its integration in the research processes carried out by teachers. The success of the integration of specific digital resources in research work can be affected by several factors, such as: digital skills for finding information, managing it, analyzing it, and communicating results; digital flow; anxiety in the use of ICT; digital ethics; quality of digital resources; and finally, the behavioral intention to integrate ICT. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence the integration of ICT in the research process of the Higher Education teacher, and the relation between them. An online survey was used to collect data, and 1740 participants. This study used a causal model through partial least squares structural equations modeling (PLS-SEM). With this, the hypotheses established between the integration of ICT and its possible incident factors were verified. The findings revealed a significant influence path from factor integration to digital skills, ethics, flow digital, and behavior intention. Although, resource quality and ICT anxiety had significant effects on the causal model, they did not have a large impact on teachers’ integration of digital resources. The total of these factors corresponded to 48.20% of the variance in the integration of the researcher of the specific digital resources to be used in the research process. These results confirm that this model is effective in explaining the technological integration of teachers to use ICT in research work.