On May 12th, the Edul@b researchers Marcelo Maina, Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu and Pablo Baztán attended the “DIGCOMP and ENTRECOMP Stakeholders Event: Inspiring Use and Building Community” organised by the European Commission in Brussels. They have participated as members of the H2020 European project CRISS (Demonstration of a scalable and cost effective digital-based learning infrastructure through the Certification of digital competences in primary and secondary schools). The…

Lourdes Guàrdia, professor of Psychology and Education Sciences, and member of the Edul@b research group, participated on 12 May as guest speaker at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia-Italy, at the seminar Beyond E-Learning. New Media Classroom: modelli e pratiche. The conference she presented was entitled Learning ecologies: expanding scenarios, where she shared a session with…

On Wednesday 17th of May, World Internet Day, the researcher from the Edul@b research group Montse Guitert will participate in the plenary debate on “Digital Empowerment” organised by the Internet Day Impulse Committee in the Senate of Madrid. This plenary debate will analyse how technologies can help groups at risk of social exclusion to integrate…

On December 16, the professor of the Center for Modern Languages, and member of Edul@b in its stage of emerging research group, Pauline Ernest, was honored by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya for her outstanding trajectory in the entity. Pauline Ernest has been responsible for the courses in English Language and Introduction to English Literature…

On April 20th, Lourdes Guàrdia, professor of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences and member of Edul@b, participated as keynote at the 10th International cooperation Day, organised by the Faculty of Organization and Informatics of the University of Zagreb, in Varazdin, Croatia. In addition to the lecture given on the experience of an online…

The researchers from the research Edul@b group Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeu, together with the PhD student of the group Juan Pedro Cerro, have been selected by the ACUP and the Generalitat de Catalunya for the compilation of good teaching practices from Catalan public universities. The twenty-one selected experiences have been classified within the following…

On the 16th and 17th of march, the Edul@b research group hosted the meeting between the partners of the European H2020 CRISS project (Demonstration of a scalable and cost effective digital-based learning infrastructure through the Certification of digital competences in primary and secondary Schools) at the headquarters of the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona….

On 7 and 8 of March, the researchers Lourdes Guàrdia, Teresa Romeu, Marcelo Maina and Montse Guitert of the Edul@b research group have attended the congress ITworldEdu 9, organised by edutechcluster and held at the Palau de Congressos of Barcelona. The ITworldEdu focuses on the educational technology sector and aims to share technological developments, innovative educational experiences and ICT applications…

On the 26th and 27th of February, the Edul@b members Montse Guitert and Marc Romero traveled to Helsinki to attend the initial meeting of the Erasmus + European project DECODE (DEvelop COmpetences in Digital Era). In this project also participates the researcher of Edul@b Teresa Romeu. Once all the partners were presented, all the Intellectual Outputs were reviewed and…

Last February 3, 2017, Genny Villa defended her doctoral thesis entitled “E-Learning Culture: Operationalization of a Systemic Model to Support ICT-Integration in Pre-Service Teacher Trainers’ Practice”. The thesis was supervised by Dr. Jaques Viens from Université de Montréal (Canada) and Dr. Marcelo Maina from UOC and member of the Edulab research group. The research focused…