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creators_name: Cedazo León, Raquel
creators_name: López, Diego
creators_name: Sanchez, F.M.
creators_name: Sebastian y Zuñiga, Jose Maria
title: The Montegancedo Astronomical Observatory. The first freee remote observatory for learning astronomy
ispublished: pub
subjects: telecomunicaciones
subjects: robotica
keywords: Informal collaborative e-learning; meritocracy; social networks; web 2,0: web laboratories
abstract: This paper describes the first open robotic observatory available to the public on the Internet (http://om.fi.upm.es), interactive and completely free access through a Web 2.0 application, which lets users manage professional astronomical devices and collaborate with other amateur users through a web browser. Its main goal is to open the astronomy to the society and that people learn informally about the cosmos by means of experimenting with real remote devices. Its architecture is made up by common collaborative Web 2.0 tools (such picture gallery, wiki, forum, chat, voting and discussing systems, etc.) and services and policies to offer meritocratically the observatory and its observing time. The paper presents an innovative approach which proposes a reputation system for sharing an online resource to encourage high-quality contributions, and the initial outcomes obtained since the observatory started in December 2008. This paper also describes the first experience using the observatory for carrying out online practical assignments in an Educational Innovation Project within the Technical University of Madrid during academic year 2008-2009 and using it for three subjects of these different degrees: Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, and Topography.
date: 2010
date_type: published
publisher: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
official_url: http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2010/
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
place_of_pub: New Jersey, EEUU
event_title: IEEE Education Engineering, EDUCON 2010
event_location: Madrid, España
event_dates: 14/04/2010 - 16/04/2010
event_type: conference
institution: Industriales
department: Automatica
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1-4244-6570-5
book_title: Proceedings of the IEEE Education Engineering, EDUCON 2010
rights: by-nc-nd
citation:   Cedazo León, Raquel and López, Diego and Sanchez, F.M. and Sebastian y Zuñiga, Jose Maria  (2010).  The Montegancedo Astronomical Observatory. The first freee remote observatory for learning astronomy.  In: "IEEE Education Engineering, EDUCON 2010", 14/04/2010 - 16/04/2010, Madrid, España. ISBN 978-1-4244-6570-5.    
document_url: https://oa.upm.es/8033/1/INVE_MEM_2010_80570.pdf