The City Council of Barcelona and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) will work on a project to improve the digital competences of citizens, with the aim also of reducing the digital gender divide. The project will be active until the end of 2019 and and will have the participation of the researchers of Edul@b…

Research Stay Purpose After completing a 3 month research stay at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, I feel it is an important moment to reflect on how the stay has informed my work, including key research findings, implications and emerging questions.  My intention in working in Edinburgh as a visiting researcher was to…

Professor Marcelo Maina from the Edul@b research group has participated in the 3rd EPICA Consortium Meeting that took place in Potsdam on December 10-11, 2018. The EPICA H2020 project is a strategic partnership for the co-design of an innovative and scalable ePortfolio ecosystem to improve the quality and visibility of skills.   EPICA aims to…

Dr. Meritxell Monguillot  recently gave an interview for the blog in education and ICT tiching. In the interview, he reflects, among other issues related to education and new technologies, on how ICT can contribute in an area such as Physical Education. You can read the complete interview with Dr. Monguillot in the following link: http://blog.tiching.com/meritxell-monguillot/. Doctoral thesis in the…

On November 12, the international seminar organized by the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change entitled “Aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida: ¿Cómo aprende nuestra sociedad?” took place, held at the Col·legi d’Agents Comercials of Barcelona. The objective of the seminar was to discuss the new forms of learning throughout the…

On 12, 13 and 14 of November, the partners participating in the SELFEE project, including the UOC, met in Paris. The meeting was also attended by professors Teresa Romeu and Gemma Abellán, from the studies of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the UOC. In different work sessions, the first workshops that have been implemented in…

From November 12 to 14 the international conference ICERI 2018 took place in the city of Seville. ICERI is one of the largest international conferences of education, and has the participation of many teachers, researchers, technologists and professionals in the education sector. The Edul@b research group has actively participated in the conference with three communications…

The Edul@b research group has participated actively in the EDEN Research Workshop 2018 held from 24 to 26 October in Barcelona.The congress, held every two years, has been co-organized by the Psychology and Educational Sciences Department of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and has focused, on this occasion, on personalized guidance and support for…

The EduL@b research group will be with several papers and activities at the EDEN Research Workshop 2018 (Barcelona, 24-26 October) which this year is hosted by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). In this case, we’d like to introduce the Round Table “From data use for guidance to guidance for data use. Developing data literacy to empower…

The paper “Teachers’ Perceptions on Digital Technologies: Identification of Patterns and Profiles in the Catalan Context” written by Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu, Marc Romero and Pedro Jacobetty of the Edul@b research group, has been listed as finalist for the competition of the BEST RESEARCH PAPER AWARD at the 10th EDEN 2018 Research Workshop that will…