On 21th and 22th of September took place in Brussels the EADTU-ENQA Peer Learning Activity (PLA) on quality assurance in blended and online education. Dr. Nati Cabrera, member of the Edul@b Research Group and Director of the University Master’s Degree in Quality Management and Evaluation in Higher Education at the Faculty of Psychology and Education…

The Cluster Meeting of the CRISS project has been held the past 14th of September in the UOC Rectoral building at Tibidabo. The event brought together the academic, technical and the piloting partners with the aim to plan the piloting activities and coordinate the actions required for its fulfilment. The pilots of the Criss project…

On September 13th, the research group Edul@b have organised a meeting with the doctoral student of the group Juvy Lizette M. Gervacio on the occasion of her visit to Barcelona. In this meeting, in which other Edul@b doctoral students have participated, Lizzete presented her thesis proposal, co-directed by Dr. Albert Sangrà and Dr. Teresa Romeu,…

From the 13th to the 16th of June, the XVI Encuentro Internacional Virtual Educa took place in Bogotá, Colombia, with the objective of knowing, discussing and showing experiences regarding education and digital resources in the classroom, promoting research on those technological resources and mechanisms that allow the incorporation of ICT in the educational systems of…

On the 21th an 22th of July 21, Albert Sangrà, professor of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, academic director of the UNESCO Chair in Technology and Education for Social Change and member of the Edul@b research group, participated in the “III Encuentro Internacional de Maestros Investigadores” organised by the Universidad del Norte of Barranquilla,…

On the 3th, 4th and 5th of July a new plenary meeting with the 15 partners of the CRISS H2020 consortium was held at the University College of London (UCL). On this occasion, the first results of the project were presented, mainly developed by Edul @ b’s researchers, the professors Lourdes Guàrdia, Montse Guitert, Teresa…

On June 21th, the Edul@b research group organised a meeting in Barcelona between the researchers from the group Nati Cabrera, Lourdes Guàrdia and Marcelo Maina, the UOC researcher Maite Fernández, and the researcher and professor Curtis Bonk from the University of Indiana. Professor Bonk, as an expert in Open Education and especially in MOOCs, initially became…

On June 21-23, Edul@b PhD student, Nicole Johnson, participated in the Gender and Education Association (GEA) conference at the University of Middlesex in London. She gave a presentation titled, “Capacity development though informal learning online: Opportunities for addressing the motherhood wage gap” which relates to her PhD research project on the exploration of the digital…

On 31 May, CosmoCaixa Barcelona hosted a new edition of the UOC Research Showcase. The event aimed to foster collaboration among the University’s R&I professionals by improving the visibility of the research and projects that they are currently engaged in. For this event, the UOC’s Scientific and Research Committee selected 21 research and innovation projects…

On the 8th and 9th June, the members of Edul@b Marc Romero and Carles Bruguera travelled to Bradford to attend the second meeting between partners of the European project Erasmus + DECODE (DEvelop CoMPetences in Digital Era). This project also involves the researchers of Edul@b Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeu. The encounter was distributed in…