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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…

On last November 12, 2015, took place in Barcelona the international seminar New contexts, multiple mechanisms: Learning Ecologies organised by the Edul@b research group and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). The seminar aimed to introduce the concept of learning ecologies and find commonalities in the research of national and international experts. In this sense,…

How a teacher is updated throughout his life? Which activities, materials, resources and physical or virtual relationships can provide a good learning opportunity for teachers? What are the contributions of ICT to the professional development of teachers? All these questions orbit around the concept of learning ecologies that could be defined as the set of…