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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…

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…

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 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…

The researchers of the research group Edul@b, Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu and Marc Romero, organise the event entitled “Competència Digital Docent a Debat“,  organised in the framework of the European project DECODE – DEvelop COmpetences in Digital Era (http://decode-net.eu/) in which they are participating. This event will be a space for reflection and debate around…

The PhD student, Ketia Kellen Araújo da Silva, from Brazil, who completed a doctoral stage with the EduL@b research group in 2017 under the tutelage of Teresa Romeu with the aim of deepening the studies in relation to the subject of Digital Competences, received the 2nd place in the ABED Prize for Research and Innovation…

The need to improve the quality and visibility of the skills of recent graduates of African universities is the origin of the European project EPICA Initiative. The objective of this initiative is to provide visibility to the competences developed at university through an innovative and scalable eportfolio system that, in this case, is developed by…

From June 17 to 20 has taken place the twenty-seventh edition of the annual conference EDEN 2018, on this occasion held in Genoa, Italy. The conference has been organised by the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN). This year, the theme of the conference has been “Exploring the micro, meso and macro: Navigating between dimensions…

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…