The SELFEE project (Digital Literacy and Social Emotional Learning for Engagement and Employement), started in 2017, will end during this September. It will end with two events that will take place in Barcelona: A training of trainers, from September 16 to 20. A final conference, on the 26th and 27th of September. THE SELFEE PROJECT…

On July 10 and 11, UOC hosted the fourth international meeting of the EPICA project. The first day of the meeting, held at the Tibidabo headquarters, was attended by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (the project leader), the UOC team involved in the initiative: Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina, Albert Sangrà, and Federica…

The researchers Teresa Romeu and Marc Romero of the research group Edul@b will participate next Thursday (May 30) and Friday (May 31) in the Final Conference of the European Project DECODE to be held in the city of Rome. The main topic of the conference will be the Digital Competence for Education and during the…

The article “Lifelong learning ecologies in online higher education: Students’ engagement in the continuum between formal and informal learning” written by the researchers of Edul@b Mitchell Peters and Marc Romero  has been published in the British Journal of Educational Technology. The article outlines ways in which students shape their learning ecologies in virtual contexts to support formal…

The article “Learning ecologies through a lens: Ontological, methodological and applicative issues. A systematic review of the literature” written by the researchers of Edul@b Albert Sangrá, Juliana Raffaghelli and Montse Guitert  has been published in the British Journal of Eduational Technology. The objective of this work has been to try to frame a concept on…

The researchers from the Edul@b research group Marcelo Maina, Nati Cabrera and Lourdes Guàrdia have participated in the official ceremony that marked the beginning of the Erasmus + project AMED. The ceremony took place in the Maldives National University on March 26. The event was also attended by national media, deans and university staff, all…

The Edul@b research group and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) are the organizers of this year’s edition of the Fòrum Internacional d’Educació i Tecnologia (FIETxs2019) that will take place on May 30 at the Colegio Oficial de Agentes Comerciales de Barcelona (COACB). With the title “Artificial Intelligence in Education“, this edition of FIETxs2019 aims…

Can we assess digital Competence in primary and secondary education? The CRISS project is dealing with this challenge. After two years devoted to the creation of a Digital Competence framework and the development of an adaptive learning environment, the CRISS ecosystem is currently piloted by around 2000 teachers and 13000 students in 400 centers across…

The research on online training Form@TIC, coordinated by the researchers of the research group Edul@b Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu and Marc Romero, together with the UOC professor Gemma Abellán, has been one of the educational experiences selected by the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) and the Government of Catalonia for the compilation of good…

The members of Edul@b involved in the CRISS project (Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina, Federica Mancini, and Pablo Baztán) participated in the project meeting held in Athens from 6 to 8 of February. The meeting was an opportunity to present the development of the work packages and to discuss crucial issues foreseen in this third year…