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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…

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 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 last Tuesday 16th of May a meeting was held in La Coruña in order to start the activity on the R&D project: “How the best university teachers learn in the digital age: the impact of learning ecologies on the quality of teaching” (ECO4LEARN-HE), coordinated by Dra. Mercedes González Sanmamed (University of Coruña), with 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 November 17 and 18 took place the the Conference School learning and education in the XXI Century, held at the Meier Auditorium of MACBA in Barcelona, with the theme Connections between learning experiences inside and outside the school. This conference was aimed at teachers, researchers and other education professionals, with the purpose of providing…

Albert Sangrà and Montse Guitert, of the Edul@b research group, have explained in an article in the Ara newspaper what the learning ecologies are and which are the best practices for optimising them and improve teacher training. Learning ecologies For learning ecologies we are referring to the set of context configurations composed of activities, materials,…

On October 27 took place the “I Jornadas de Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje” in Murcia, Spain. The meeting was organized by the Research Group on Educational Technology (GITE) of the University of Murcia. In the conference were presented the results of the CAPPLE project  “Competencias para el aprendizaje permanente basado en el uso de PLEs:…