After about half a year of life, the SELFEE project had its participating partners meet in a week-long joint staff training organized in Budapest (from March 26th to 31st, 2018) where Edul@b delivered two training sessions on ‘digital literacy for job search’. SELFEE (Digital literacy & Social Emotional Learning For Engagement and Employment) is a…

On July 26th will take place the International Forum for Education and Technology (FIET 2018), organised by the Catalan universities, including the UOC, and that will be held in Barcelona at the headquarters of the Universitat Ramon Llull. With the slogan “FIETxs2018: ethical education and digital citizenship” this edition of the congress will aim to…

Following the invitation of the Executive Board of the African Council for Distance Education, the coordinator, Prof. Albert Sangrà, of the European Erasmus + project CODUR, coordinated by the Edul@b research group, has attended the Steering Committee and Executive Board meetings of the ACDE held in Beira, Mozambique, 22-23 March, 2018. In these meetings, the…

Once the call to support the activities of the research groups SGR 2017-2019, coordinated by the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), has been resolved, the Edul@b research group of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has obtained the consolidation as a Research Group Recognised and Funded by the Government of Catalonia with the…

EPICA “Strategic partnership for the co-design of an innovative and scalable ePortfolio ecosystem to improve the quality and visibility of skills” H2020 project has started on January with an international partnership and a contribution by the European Commission of 1.897.450 €. The consortium, coordinated by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), includes…

On the 21st November, the CODUR team gathered in Barcelona for an extraordinary Meeting. The UOC team, taking advantage of the International seminar on Evidence-based research: methodological approaches and practical outcomes. Insights for Online Education, invited the  Open University (UK) and the  Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerca – Istituto delle Tecnologie Didattiche (Italy) partners to discuss the preliminary CODUR indicators elaborated during the…

During four months from September to December 2017, PhD student Ketia Kellen Araújo da Silva from the Postgraduate Program in Information Technology in Education (PGIE) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) of Brazil completed a PhD stage together with the EduL@b research group with the aim of deepening the studies in…

On 16th, 17th and 18t of November took place in Seville the present edition of the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2017), organised annually by the International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED). ICERI is one of the largest international education conferences for lecturers, researchers, technologists and professionals from the educational sector.  On this occasion, the Edul@b research group, represented by Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu and Marc…

The CRISS project has now almost reached the end of the first year and the last meeting in Zagreb was a good opportunity to share project progresses, present what has been done up to now and define next steps. This project meeting has been held in Zagreb the 29th and 30th of November 2017. During the…

The CODUR workshop took place at the EMEMITALIA 2017 Conference in Bolzano (Italy) on August 31th. As part of the activities of the CODUR project, the main purpose of the workshop was to share with a wider audience the intellectual outputs elaborated so far within the project. In particular, the workshop aimed to promote debate…