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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:…

The Edul@b research group has developed fifteen proposals to improve teacher training, which will be transferred to the Departament d’Ensenyament. The proposals are the product of one of the results of the R&D research project Eco4Learn, led by Albert Sangrà in which It have been studied the learning ecologies of “exemplary” primary teachers and the learning…

Learning ecologies could be defined as the set of context configurations composed of activities, materials, resources and relationships that are generated in physical or virtual spaces and that provide learning opportunities, and allow us to study the mechanisms of development and professional updating of different types of professionals. Following this concept, the Edul@b group participates…