Blog

• Recent Advances in EthicApp Development

  5/16/2026

  Over the past month, EthicApp has advanced in its technical modernization, production deployment readiness, security strengthening, teacher experience improvements, and a new architecture for integrating external AI-based services.

• Teacher Training Course at the University of Valladolid

  5/4/2026

  Researchers Claudio Álvarez and Gustavo Zurita participated as lecturers in the teacher training course "Design of Ethical Cases and Teaching Strategies with EthicApp", organized by the Teaching Innovation Laboratory of the University of Valladolid (LIDUva).

• IntelligentEthicApp: advancing toward a new generation of AI-supported ethics learning

  4/1/2026

  The IntelligentEthicApp project aims to enhance the pedagogical capabilities of EthicApp through generative artificial intelligence, incorporating agents such as an argumentation tutor and a devil’s advocate.

• Paper on IntelligentEthicApp accepted at TECH-EDU 2026

  2/20/2026

  The paper "Towards a multi-agent GenAI architecture to support ethics education" has been accepted at the international conference TECH-EDU 2026, to be held in Greece.

• Introduction to Ethical Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Panamericana

  1/20/2026

  Claudio Álvarez and Gustavo Zurita delivered a teacher training course on Ethical Artificial Intelligence for academics at Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, in collaboration with researcher Yurixhi Gallardo Martínez.

• Conference on Hybrid Intelligence at the 10th UNAB Teaching Innovation Conference

  1/9/2026

  Claudio Álvarez presented the talk "Hybrid Intelligence for Ethics Education in Engineering" at the 10th UNAB Teaching Innovation Conference, addressing the role of EthicApp and IntelligentEthicApp in ethics education.

• Article on AI-Based Automatic Content Selection for Teacher Support Published in J.UCS

  11/28/2025

  Claudio Álvarez, Gustavo Zurita, and Andrés Carvallo published a new article in the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) on automatic content selection for teacher support using large language models.

• Best Poster Award at ECTEL 2025 for Research on Teacher Agency and Orchestration

  9/18/2025

  The poster "Towards Capturing Teacher Agency Manifestations within Orchestration Activities: A Conceptual-Analytical Framework" received the Best Poster Award at ECTEL 2025.

• EthicApp Experience Presented at DECSA 2025 Conference

  8/8/2025

  Claudio Álvarez and María José Cornejo presented the paper "Teaching Ethical Deliberation: Reflective Implementation of EthicApp in Midwifery Education" at the XXV Conference on Health Sciences Education, organized by the Department of Health Sciences Education (DECSA) at the University of Chile.

• RITSI Award at JENUI 2025 for EthicApp Research

  7/10/2025

  The paper "Development of ethical reasoning in Computer Science using active methodologies supported by EthicApp" was presented at JENUI 2025 and received the RITSI Best Paper Award.

• Article on Teacher Orchestration Load Published in IEEE

  1/17/2025

  Claudio Álvarez, together with researchers from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), published an IEEE article proposing a framework to understand and measure teacher orchestration load in technology-supported collaborative learning scenarios.