Perspectives of Media Competence in Communication and Journalism Careers in the Andean Area

The purpose of the research is to analyze the higher academic offerings in communication and related fields in the Andean Community to determine if there is a relationship with the potential demands of adolescents who developed competencies to generate and exchange audiovisual content since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The research question is: should the academic curricula related to audiovisual and media competence of Andean universities change or be updated to meet a new profile of young people who know the audiovisual language? The methodology is qualitative and descriptive through content analysis of the academic curricula of the leading universities in the international rankings that classify Latin American universities, as well as semi-structured interviews with experts in higher education in communication in the region. In the case of communication studies and related areas, it happens that young people, before entering university, learn autonomously many of the techniques, processes and audiovisual languages that feed the contents of the current offer, but it is an instruction acquired without the corresponding social contexts, deontological senses and responsibilities. The denominations of the titles of the careers are classic, the formation of media competence is not alluded to or implicitly assumed, the same happens with the names of the courses taught, they respond to common or generic programs of professional formation with emphasis on journalistic production and audiovisual contents. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Creating Audio-Visual Content for a Personalized Prevention Programme in Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease (CHD) remains the leading cause of premature death worldwide. Better risk stratification tools and personalized care of patients are needed for reducing the morbidity and mortality of CHD and the associated economic burden. However, contemporary e-learning solutions lack personalization and shared decision making and as a result, overwhelm patients with large amounts of information. CoroPrevention is a multiyear, EU-funded Horizon 2020 research project aiming to shape and implement a personalized secondary prevention strategy for patients with established CHD. As a part of the project, new digital tools will also be validated. In this paper, we discuss the process of creating audio-visual content for the CoroPrevention mobile application during the challenging COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022 IEEE.

Use of Audiovisual Strategies as a Complementary Resource for Practical Courses in Biomedical Engineering

In recent years, the education has been influenced by the implementation of new learning strategies due to the confinement caused by the spread of COVID-19. Teachers adopted audiovisual resources that allow them to teach their classes remotely. However, the transition to this modality has been sudden, forced, and evolving “on the fly" in response to the pedagogical adaptations. A structured implementation of audiovisual media in education is required, since it represents an important part of access to information in our times. For this goal, we propose strategies for the development of complementary offline and online audiovisual content to help teach practical courses in a Biomedical Engineering bachelor program. In particular, we present content created for a Medical Imaging Systems course. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.