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The chapter “Visibility of Graduate Students’ Employability Skills: An ePortfolio Solution Addressing the Skills Gap” by Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina and Federica Mancini has been recently published by IGI Global. The chapter, which is featured in the book ‘Cases on Active Blended Learning in Higher Education’ edited by Brenda Cecilia Padilla Rodriguez and Alejandro Armellini,…

Overcoming the tension between technology and social criticism: closing the Webinar Series “Fair Data Cultures in Higher Education: emerging practices, professionalism and the challenge of social justice” On December 16, a work chapter related to the Ramón y Cajal UOC project “Professional Learning Ecologies for Digital Scholarship: Modernizing Higher Education by Supporting Professionalism” (Ministry of…

The article “Impact of using learning analytics in asynchronous online discussions in higher education” written by Edul@b researchers Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeu and Edul@b doctoral student Juan Pedro Cerro has been published in the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. Abstract of the article Following asynchronous online discussion activities as a complex…

(Read the synthesis of results) We keep on exploring the idea of Data Cultures. We did it now through this survey which uncovered data practices in teaching. Our initial assumption is that the institutions adopt  data practices (or get used to them) according not only to individual initiatives of research and innovation, but above all,…

The article “Key elements for a learning model based on online collaborative projects (ABPCL) in Higher Education” written by the researchers of Edul@b Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu and Marc Romero has been published in the American Journal of Distance Education. Abstract of the article Collaborative learning is a key approach to the development of teaching…

  Webinars’ cycle “Fair Data Cultures in Higher Education”  July 6th – 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (GMT + 1) / 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (GMT – 3) Subscribe here [The webinar space is protected by a password, which we send only to the people that register. This is the reason why we require registration]….

  Webinar Series: Data Cultures in HE: Emerging practices, professionalism and the challenge of social justice Rahul Bhargava – MIT Media Lab (US) – 20 May 2020 – REGISTRATION OPEN! By Juliana E. Raffaghelli So far so good, we are approaching to our fifth webinar in the Series. Las one was in the pre-COVID19 era in Spain, and a…

The article “Lifelong learning ecologies in online higher education: Students’ engagement in the continuum between formal and informal learning” written by the researchers of Edul@b Mitchell Peters and Marc Romero  has been published in the British Journal of Educational Technology. The article outlines ways in which students shape their learning ecologies in virtual contexts to support formal…

The researchers from the Edul@b research group Marcelo Maina, Nati Cabrera and Lourdes Guàrdia have participated in the official ceremony that marked the beginning of the Erasmus + project AMED. The ceremony took place in the Maldives National University on March 26. The event was also attended by national media, deans and university staff, all…

Research Stay Purpose After completing a 3 month research stay at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, I feel it is an important moment to reflect on how the stay has informed my work, including key research findings, implications and emerging questions.  My intention in working in Edinburgh as a visiting researcher was to…