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Last Thursday the UOC team for the «DETECT» project (Developing Teachers Critical Digital Literacies, https://www.detectproject.eu/) took part at the Labs held within the context of the Digital Competence programme “ACTIC” (https://actic.gencat.cat/ca/congres/programa/tallers/ ). The workshop aimed at raising awareness among educators about the critical perspective in relation to the use of technologies digital and social media….

Members of the research group Edul@b participated on February 18 in the II Digital Competences Congress which this year is titled “Digital Citizenship in Pandemic Time” and will be held in virtual format. The event is organized by the UOC, the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona Activa and the Ramon Llull – Blanquerna University. The conference…

It has already published, online and in open access modality in the journal Cogent Education, the article Basic Digital competencies for unemployed citizens: conceptual Framework and training model co-written by Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu and Jean-François Colas. Abstract of the article Digital competence is a transversal key competence increasingly required by the labour market as…

Edul@b at work! So far, this is the starting point of a three years long journey for Edul@b (represented by Teresa, Marc and Juliana) into a highly necessary discussion: to address the critical dimension of digital competence. The kick-off meeting was held at the University of Hull, coordinator of the project. In past years we…

The researchers Teresa Romeu and Marc Romero of the research group Edul@b will participate next Thursday (May 30) and Friday (May 31) in the Final Conference of the European Project DECODE to be held in the city of Rome. The main topic of the conference will be the Digital Competence for Education and during the…

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…