Ongoing projects
Ecologías de aprendizaje en la era digital: Nuevas oportunidades para la formación del profesorado de educación secundaria (ECO4LEARN-SE)
Período: 2019-2021
Entidad Financiadora: El proyecto está parcialmente financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
Referencia del proyecto: RTI2018-095690-B-I00
Subvención concedida: 32.065€.
Descripción: Este estudio propone indagar sobre las ecologías de aprendizaje de los docentes de la etapa de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria de manera que podamos seguir enriqueciendo a nivel conceptual el concepto de ecologías, ampliando esta línea de investigación al indagar en nuevos colectivos docentes y profundizando en las posibilidades de formación que pueden vehicularse a través de la tecnología para ampliar las perspectivas teóricas y prácticas de mejora de los procesos de capacitación docente. Este proyecto da continuidad a las investigaciones sobre ecologías de aprendizaje que se han llevado a cabo en el marco de dos proyectos anteriores subvencionados en sendas convocatorias de I+D+i, denominados respectivamente: “Ecologías de aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida: Contribuciones de las TIC al desarrollo profesional del profesorado” (ECO4LEARN, con referencia EDU2012-37334) y “Cómo aprenden los mejores docentes universitarios en la era digital: impacto de las ecologías de aprendizaje en la calidad de la enseñanza (ECO4LEARN-HE, con referencia EDU2015-67907-R).
Investigadora principal: Mercedes González Sanmamed (UNIVERSIDAD DE A CORUÑA).
Miembros de Edul@b participantes: Marc Romero Carbonell, Teresa Romeu Fontanillas y Albert Sangrà Morer.
Miembros de Edul@b participantes: https://eco4learn-se.udcinnova.com/
RYC: Professional Learning Ecologies for Digital Scholarship supporting professionalism in the data-driven university
Período: 2018-2023
Subvención concedida: 308.600€.
Descripción: Data-driven science and data-driven education cross the daily scenarios of academic practice, and are a key dimension of the modernisation of Higher Education. This project aims at exploring the emerging issues of data literacy within the context of digital scholarship, towards the development of a conceptual and interventionist apparatus supporting scholars’ critical awareness of data practices within the context of Open Science and Open Education frameworks. To this regard, the project will embrace the construct of “learning ecologies” as lens to explore how scholars make sense of the current data-practices, the perceived learning needs, the institutional opportunities, etc. in terms of professional learning. Moreover, the construct will also set the basis to generate spaces to deal with the evolving phenomenon of the data-driven university from a critical, non-tecnodeterminist and participatory perspective. The chosen methodological approach encompasses mixed methods including three phases of research development: a first phase of desk research (including methods of data-extraction from the web and a survey); a second phase consisting of an ethnographic study; and one phase of design based research (DBR).
Entidad Financiadora: Spanish Ministry of Innovation, Science and University
Investigadora principal: Juliana E. Raffaghelli.
Miembros de Edul@b participantes: Albert Sangrà and Montse Guitert.
Análisis de los efectos de la provisión de feedback soportado por tecnologías digitales de monitoreo sobre las competencias transversales (eFeedskills)
Period: 2020-2022
Funding body: Proyecto de I+D+i» de los Programas Estatales de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+i y de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad.
Project reference: PID2019-104285GB-I00
Grant amount: 32.670€
Descripción: The project presented aims to study the effects of the implementation of self-regulatory feedback strategies on cross-curricular competences development, as well as to analyse the role of technology as a monitoring and support system during the learning process to improve learning to learn competence, autonomous learning and initiative competences. Although previous studies on self-regulation demonstrate the need of developing the evaluative judgement, it is still difficult to encourage this capacity, which is basic for lifelong learning.Even though there are plenty studies on the role of Learning Analytics (LA), scarce attention has been driven to the critical problems related to the adoption of technological monitoring practices in learning contexts, such as the datas nature, the inferences that are made and the students use of these relevant data.The project intends to use a research approach to develop a technological support that combines information from the virtual campus activities together with the design of an application (Chatbot/tutor) elaborated with a co-design process. It is aimed to be studied whether the creation and application of a tool for competence monitoring has significant positive effects on competences development.
Project leader: Maria Elena Cano (Universitat de Barcelona).
Edul@b participants: Nati Cabrera, Lourdes Guàrdia & Marcelo Maina.
Completed projects (2005 – 2019)
El llegat mediàtic del Patrimoni Industrial: Aplicació de tècniques de mineria de dades sobre fons documentals històrics per reconstruir la història del patrimoni industrial català
Período: 2017-2019
Entidad Financiadora y referencia del proyecto: Recercaixa- Id. GREC: 002972.
Investigador principal: Dr. Jordi Martí Henneberg (Universitat de Lleida).
Miembros de Edul@b participantes: Teresa Romeu.
Web: https://patrimoniindustrial.cat/
Cómo aprenden los mejores docentes universitarios en la era digital: Impacto de las ecologías de aprendizaje en la calidad de la enseñanza (ECO4LEARN-HE)
Período: 2016-2019
Descripción: El proyecto ECO4LEARN-HE tiene como fin último mejorar la calidad de la enseñanza en la educación superior. A partir de la identificación de los procesos de actualización del profesorado universitario considerado excelente y las repercusiones en sus formas de enseñanza, se tratará de identificar modelos ejemplares de desarrollo profesional transferibles a otros docentes, así como pautas para optimizar las ofertas de formación y, gracias a ello, propiciar un incremento de la calidad en la universidad.
Investigador principal: Dra. Mercedes Gonzalez Sanmamed.
Miembros de Edul@b participantes: Albert Sangrà, Nati Cabrera y Lourdes Guàrdia
Entidad Financiadora y referencia del proyecto: Ministerio de Economia y Competitvidad, Gobierno de España I+D, EDU2015- 67907-R.
Subvención concedida: 27.830€
Miembros de Edul@b participantes: Nati Cabrera, Lourdes Guàrdia y Albert Sangrà.
Co-diseño de un modelo para la regulación social del aprendizaje en entornos abiertos masivos en red (REGINET)
Período: 2016-2019
Descripción: Analizar la regulación del aprendizaje poniendo el foco en su dimensión social, para estudiar cómo interactúan entre sí los procesos de autorregulación, de corregulación y de regulación social compartida del aprendizaje. Esto cobra un sentido especial en entornos como los MOOC, basados en el aprendizaje social y la colaboración en red.
Investigador principal: Dra. Iolanda García González.
Entidad Financiadora y referencia del proyecto: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (EDU2016-76434-P)
Subvención concedida: 17.300€
Miembros de Edul@b participantes: Marcelo Maina.
The impact of educational assessment for skills development in Higher Education. The first graduate promotions perspective
El impacto de la evaluación educativa en el desarrollo de competencias en la universidad. La perspectiva de las primeras promociones de graduado
Period: 2013-2015.
Description: The project led by the University of Barcelona aims to analyze the impact of educational evaluation for the skills development at the university from the perception of the graduates (first promotions) trained within the framework of the EHEA. The purpose is to gather information about the impact of the degrees implementation on the students skills acquirement. The study starts from students perception about their own skills acquisition as well as the opinion of teachers and employers about what skills are considered necessary for the professional practice.
Web site: https://revistes.urv.cat/index.php/ute/article/view/445
Lead researcher: Dr. Elena Cano, Universitat de Barcelona.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Economía y competitividad (EDU2012-32766).
Grant amount: 17.550€.
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera.
Competences for life long learning based on Personal Learning Environments: future Spanish workers analysis and strategies proposal for its improvement (CAPPLE)
Competencias para el aprendizaje permanente basado en el uso de PLEs (Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje): análisis de los futuros profesionales españoles y propuesta de estrategias de mejora (CAPPLE)
Period: 2013-2015.
Description: The CAPPLE project attempts to describe and analyse the prospects for the personal learning environments (PLEs) of future Spanish professionals. It includes the analysis of this in technical and functional terms. The project is looking for Spanish professionals with potentially an immediate incorporation into the labour market of every area of knowledge, in other words, senior students in Spanish universities.
Web site: http://www.um.es/ple/
Lead researcher: Dr. Mª Paz Prendes, Universidad de Murcia, UM.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Economía y competitividad (EDU2012-33256).
Grant amount: 34.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina.
Lifelong learning ecologies: contributions of ICT to teachers’ professional development (ECO4LEARN)
Ecologías de aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida: contribuciones de las TIC al desarrollo profesional del profesorado
Period: 2013-2015.
Description: The social changes in which we have been immersed for over a decade have also brought about changes in the needs of the workplace and the skills and knowledge required of individuals in order to succeed in today‟s society. Thus, there has been a shift in workers‟ needs in terms of lifelong learning. Informal and non-formal training models, which appear to allow for professional development opportunties that are better suited to recipients‟ needs, have become increasingly popular. The use of social networks and other means of bringing people together have grown in popularity, especially with the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), thereby expanding the horizons for lifelong and lifewide learning. Within this setting there emerge complex sets of contexts, comprised of activities, resources, and relationships, which provide new opportunities for learning in both physical and virtual spaces. These sets of contexts are referred to as ecologies of learning. With this in mind, and with the aim of focusing our research on one particular group of professionals, i.e., primary and secondary school teachers, we set out to provide answers to the following questions: What role do ecologies of lifelong learning play in teachers‟ training and professional development? What are the elements that make up teachers‟ lifelong and lifewide learning ecologies? What role do each of the elements play and how do ICTs contribute? What benefits do teachers find in the various components that make up learning ecologies beyond those of traditional development schemes? The aim of the project it has been to analyse and understand the ways in which learning ecologies contribute to the development and improvement of the professional activities of primary school teachers.
Web site: https://eco4learn.wordpress.com/difusion/
Lead researcher: Dr. Albert Sangrà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Economía y competitividad (EDU2012-37334).
Grant amount: 16.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: all.
REDICE: Design, implementation and evaluation of sustainable feedforward proposals
Period: 2014-2015.
Lead Researcher: Dra. Elena Cano Garcia (Universitat de Barcelona).
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera.
The policies of “one computer per child” in Spain. Teachers’ visions and practices in relation to the 2.0 school program. A comparative analysis between regions
Las políticas de un «ordenador por niño» en España. Visiones y prácticas del profesorado ante el programa escuela 2.0. Un análisis comparado entre comunidades autónomas (TICSE2.0)
Period: 2011-2014.
Description: At present, the Spanish school system, as happens in other countries of the Latin American environment as Portugal, Uruguay or Argentina), is immersed in the process of the massive arrival of digital technologies to schools through the educational policy represented by Program School 2.0 –it´s a project which gives each student and teacher a laptop and multimedia projector and whiteboards to every classroom-promoted by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with various governments of the Autonomous Communities. What effects and educational and organizational impact will this abundance of technology in mainstream classes? To what extent will change the teaching methodology developed in the classroom and student learning? What impact will have on textbooks and traditional teaching materials? What views and opinions have the teachers on this program? To what extent the Schools Program 2.0 has similarities with the endowment policies of “one computer per Child (1a1 model) under development in other Latin American countries? This projects tries to address these issues.
Web site: http://tecedu.webs.ull.es/ticse20/index.php?lang=es
Lead researcher: Dr. Manuel Area, Universidad de la Laguna, ULL.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de ciencia e innovación (EDU2010-17037).
Grant amount: 78.650 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu, Marc Romero, Azu Vázquez.
Competence Framework proposal for Higher Education teachers and adequacy of training plans based on teaching skills
Propuesta de un marco de referencia competencial del profesorado universitario y adecuación de los planes de formación basado en competencias docentes
Period: 2013-2014.
Description: The purpose of this project is to redesign, implement and evaluate training plans and actions for improvement based on the competence profile of university teachers in order to ensure the adaptation of university education to the European training model in higher education.
Web site: http://red-u.org/articulos/propuesta-de-un-marco-de-referencia-competencial-del-profesorado-universitario-y-adecuacion-de-los-planes-de-formacion-basados-en-competencias-docentes/
Lead researcher: Dr. Teresa Pagès Costas (ICE-UB).
Funding body and reference no.: REDU (Proyectos en red para la investigación/innovación).
Grant amount: 11.900 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Albert Sangrà.
Thematic network for collaborative learning in virtual environments
Red temática sobre aprendizaje colaborativo en entornos virtuales – RACEV
Period: 2011-2013.
Description: Taking into account that the networking itself promotes collaborative processes and the important role that they take in the context of the network society, its systematization through high pedagogical and research value practices becomes a key element. In this context, RACEV’s main objective is to create a thematic network in the field of e-learning and, specifically, about collaborative learning in virtual environments in higher education. This network aims to facilitate online collaborative learning among students through the analysis of the social interaction in order to provide teaching strategies for teachers.
Web site: http://blogs1.uoc.es/racev/
Lead researcher: Dr. Montse Guitert, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Acciones Complementarias (EDU2010-09535-E).
Grant amount: 23.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert (coord.), Teresa Romeu, Marc Romero, Maria Pérez-Mateo.
Competence Framework for designing training Programms for Higher Education Teachers
Marc de Referència Competencial pel disseny dels Programes de Formació Docent per al Professorat Universitari
Period: 2012-2013.
Description: This project aims to actively intervene in the definition of basic skills among university lecturers as well as the adequacy of the training programs to the model followed by the degrees. Therefore, despite the particularities of each university, it must be established a common framework for training plans based on teaching skills at two levels, initial and continuing, which will be consistent with the evalution criteria of teachers from the quality educational agencies and also that it will facilitate an homogeneous academic recognition to facilitate mobility among teaching staff.
Web site: http://gifd.upc.edu/?page_id=318&lang=ca
Lead researcher: Dr. Elena Valderrama, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB.
Funding body and reference no.: AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca), Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d’Economia i Coneixement (2010MQD00049).
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Albert Sangrà.
Practices to excellence of degree’s final work
Prácticas hacia la excelencia de los trabajos de fin de grado. Elaboración de un catálogo de prácticas basadas en el cotejo con el marco nacional e internacional y experimentadas en el campo de la Ingeniería. Análisis de la proyección y transferencia a otros contextos
Period: 2011-2012.
Description: its objective is to develop a catalog of practices based on excellence related to the Degree’s Final Work (DFW) starting from a compilation and comparison of formulations and proposals of several Spanish universities, implemented as an experiment in the field of engineering. An analysis about its projection and transferability to other contexts will be implemented within the project.
Lead researcher: Dr. Davinia Hernádez-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Programa de Estudios y Análisis) (EA2011-0088)
Grant amount: 22.565 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia.
PRESENT@: virtual multidisciplinary degrees room
PRESENT@: Sala de grados virtual multidisciplinar
Period: 2011-2012.
Description: It aims to to generalize the PRESENT@ for practicum (TFC) or any degree as well as to develop a more friendly interface which facilitates any user to upload videos and to edit features (such as labeling). The results will be test with real users. A user-centered design will be applied in order to analyze the needs of each program and to point out some general requirements for the tool. In this regard, it is important to mention that this project involves teachers from different degrees, both technical and humanistic. Therefore, the sample of users and teachers will be sufficiently significant and diverse. Once analyzed the users and obtained the general requirements, the necessary adjustments to suit the PRESENT@ tool to users types will be develop; in particular, a need expected is to develop a set of interfaces under this general approach in order to facilitate interaction when upload and manage videos.
Lead researcher: Dr. Antonio Pérez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Agencia de gestión de ayudas universitarias y de investigación –AGAUR (2010MQD 00015).
Grant amount: 7.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Nati Cabrera.
Practicum analysis in study plans for primary and secondary teachers: towards an innovative teachers’ training model
Análisis del Prácticum en los planes de estudio de Maestro y de Profesorado de Secundaria: Hacia un modelo innovador de formación docente
Period: 2011-2012.
Description: Based on analysis of the curricula of the 90 Spanish universities that offer primary school or High school Master degrees, the project examines the role of Practicum in those programmes as well as the detected strengths and weaknesses.
Lead researcher: Dr. Mercedes González Sanmamed, Universidad de A Coruña.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación, Programa de Estudios y Análisis (EA2011-0039).
Grant amount: 23.920 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà, Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina, Nati Cabrera.
Authorship model of OER for Versioning (RAO)
Model d’autoria de Recursos d’Aprenentatge Oberts for Versioning (RAO)
Period: 01/03/2011 – 01/03/2012.
Description: The traditional interpretation of educational materials understand learning resources developed by experts as closed, durable and created as a fragmented process. This approach is questioned from different perspectives: pedagogical, economic and technological.
Web site: http://edulab.uoc.edu/es/proyectos/proyectos-lead/rao/
Lead researcher: Dr. Marcelo Maina, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Projecte d’Innovació Docent (PIC), (IN-PID1103).
Grant amount: 4.000€.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Albert Sangrà, Marc Romero.
Formative assessment of competences through blogs
La evaluación formativa de competencias mediante blogs
Period: 2010-2012.
Description: it aims to design, implement and evaluate a project about competences evaluation through the production by students of blogs and, also, through using an ad hoc software for formative assessment by teachers.
Lead researcher: Dr. Elena Cano, Universitat de Barcelona, UB.
Funding body and reference no.: ICE Universidad de Barcelona (REDICE 2010 1002-04).
Grant amount: 6.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera, Marc Romero.
Competences development and assessment through the Master Thesis in virtual environments
Desarrollo y Evaluación de Competencias a través del Trabajo Final de Máster en entornos virtuales
Period: 2011-2012.
Description: The aim of the project is to identify key aspects of the Master Thesis (TFM) in order to facilitate students’ competences development as well as their transversal assessment during the development of work and in their defense. In our methodological context, providing clear guidelines on the process for students and teachers is the key. We want to go one step further by developing guidelines to facilitate the students’ work, the monitoring tasks and competences evaluation from the tutor.
Lead researcher: Dr. Nati Cabrera, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Agencia de gestión de ayudas universitarias y de investigación –AGAUR, (NC069300).
Grant amount: 11.618 €.
Web site: http://tfmuoc.blogspot.com.es/
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera (coord.), Montse Guitert, Albert Sangrà, Lourdes Guàrdia.
Competences for online teaching: evaluation of the training proposal for university teachers within the EHEA
Competencias para la docencia en línea: evaluación de la oferta formativa para profesorado universitario en el marco del EEES
Period: 2010-2011.
Description: It aims to analyze and evaluate the current training proposals for online teaching the the Spanish universities offer to their teachers. This proposals will be contrasted with those competences identified by the international organizations in order to excellently perform as a virtual teacher. It also aims to identify international experts in order to promote mobility actions and training stays.
Web site: http://w.uoc.edu/docenciaenlinea
Lead researcher: Dr. Albert Sangrà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC .
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación (Programa de Estudios y Análisis) (EA2010-0059).
Grant amount: 29.025 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà Morer (coord.), Monste Guitert, Lourdes Guàrdia, Maria Pérez-Mateo, Teresa Romeu.
Identification of teaching skills in the implementation of training plans for university teaching staff
Identificación, desarrollo y evaluación de competencias docentes en la aplicación de planes de formación dirigidos a profesorado universitario
Period: 2010-2011.
Description: The project is devised towards the quality improvement of the higher education system and of the activity undertaken by the faculty at the university. In order to achieve these objectives, it focuses on the identification of teaching skills, defined by the academic community through training programs specifically designed for this purpose. Taking the implementation of the European Higher Education as starting point, the project intends to analyze the skills considered to belong by nature to the teaching task, as well as to define the necessary procedures to acquire, develop and evaluate them through training. At the same time it seeks to identify models, strategies, tools and resources. To this identification process we will make the necessary bibliographical research, in which the criteria of teaching excellence will allow us to select a representative sample of teachers. The selection will be performed through a survey and its quality will be validated by experts. The primary objective of the project shown here is basically to contribute to the quality training of university teachers, allowing the acquisition, development and evaluation of the skills considered essential by the academic community, in order to properly undertake their professional tasks, defined as: interpersonal, methodology, communication, planning and management of teaching, teamwork and innovation.
Web site: http://gifd.upc.edu/?page_id=18
Lead researcher: Dr. Imma Torra, Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación (Programa de Estudios y Análisis) (EA2010-0099).
Grant amount: 28.675 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà, Montse Guitert, Lourdes Guàrdia, María Pérez-Mateo.
E-Portfolio network
RED E-Portfolio (RED Temática Nacional)
Period: 2006-2011.
Description: Thematic network on electronic portfolios that brings together different researchers nationwide.
Web site: http://www.redportfolio.org/
Lead researcher: Dr. Elena Barberà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Acciones Complementarias (SEJ2007-30284-E/EDUC).
Grant amount: 18.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia.
Competence Assessment of Higher Education Students at the EHEA: description of the current scenario, analysis of good practices and transfer proposals to different environments
Evaluación de competencias de los estudiantes universitarios ante el reto del EEES: descripción del escenario actual, análisis de buenas prácticas y propuestas de transferencia a diferentes entornos
Period: 2008-2010.
Description: Its objective is to analyze teachers’ evaluation practices and their students opinion. The methodology involves the application of a questionnaire to a sample of students in each classroom. The results underline the use of the test as the main evaluation tool, even taking into account that sometimes tests causes stress to students because they only value the final learning and not the entire teaching-learning process.
Lead researcher: Dr. Elena Cano, Universitat de Barcelona, UB.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de ciencia e innovación (CICYT)(SEJ2007-65786/EDUC).
Grant amount: 27.700 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera.
ICT Policies and practices in compulsory education: Implications for innovation and improvement
Políticas y prácticas en torno a las TIC en la enseñanza obligatoria: Implicaciones para la innovación y la mejora
Period: 2007-2010.
Description: The purpose of the project is to describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate the vision of technology and education underlying policies and practices related to ICT in schools; their degree of integration and synergy with other policy initiatives; and its ability to boost transformation, innovation and improvement of compulsory education,
Web site: http://esbrina.eu/es/portfolio/politicas-y-practicas-en-torno-a-las-tic-en-la-ensenanza-obligatoria-implicaciones-para-la-innovacion-y-la-mejora-2/
Lead researcher: Dr. Cristina Alonso, Universitat de Barcelona, UB.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (SEJ2007-67562).
Grant amount: 21.175 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu.
Competence assessment through asynchronous dialogic interaction tools: forums, blogs and wikis (EVALHIDA)
Evaluación de competencias con herramientas de interacción dialógica asíncronas: foros, blogs y wikis (EVALHIDA)
Period: 2008-2009.
Description: it addresses the challenge to study and analyze the use of Asynchronous Dialogic Interaction Tools to evaluate some generic competences of students when they are actively performing a task. It focuses on blogs, forums and Wikis.
Web site: http://ecompetentis.es/ecompetentis/proyecto/evalhida-evaluaci%C3%B3n-de-competencias-con-herramientas-de-interacci%C3%B3n-dial%C3%B3gica-as%C3%ADncronas-fo
Lead researcher: Dr. Gregorio Rodríguez, Universidad de Cádiz, UCA.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Programa de Estudios y Análisis)(EA2008-0237).
Grant amount: 22.275 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia (coord.), Nati Cabrera, Marcelo Maina, Albert Sangrà.
The systemic evaluation of the transversal competences through an electronic portfolio (E-Transfoli)
L’avaluació sistèmica de les competències transversals mitjançant un transfoli electrònic (E-Transfoli)
Period: 2008-2009.
Description: The project aims to facilitate the process of evaluation of students travel and reducing costs and saving efforts. It aims to create a fully integrated technology virtual halls operated from a coordinated surveillance and biometric identification camera continuously.
Web site: http://www.uoc.edu/portal/ca/estudis_arees/psicologia_ciencies_educacio/recerca/projectes/projecte2/index.html
Lead researcher: Dr. Elena Barberà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Agencia de gestión de ayudas universitarias y de investigación, AGAUR (2008MQD 00047).
Grant amount: 9.600 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina.
The use of audioconferences in working on oral communicative skills in foreign language subjects at the UOC
La utilització d’audioconferències per treballar les competències comunicatives orals en les assignatures de llengües estrangeres a la UOC
Period: 2007-2009.
Description: This project focused on the use of an online audio-conferencing tool for practicing oral skills in an online language course.
Web site: http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/eees2007/files/Audioconferencies_jhopkins.pps
Lead researcher: Joseph Hopkins, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body: The Office of the Vice President for Innovation and Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Grant amount: 8,000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Joseph Hopkins (coord.).
Customizing the learning process in virtual environments by Adaptive Training Itineraries based on Reusable Learning Objects and Ontologies (PERSONAL)
Personalización del Proceso de Aprendizaje en Entornos Virtuales mediante Itinerarios Formativos Adaptativos basados en Objetos de Aprendizaje Reutilizables y Ontologías (PERSONAL)
Period: 2006-2009.
Description: It addresses the personalization of the learning process in virtual environments through training itineraries based on Adaptive Reusable Learning Objects and Ontologies.
Lead researcher: Dr. Julià Minguillón, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Programa I+D, Acciones estratégicas y ERANETS (TIN2006-15107-C02-01).
Grant amount: 54.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia.
eLitigis: virtual teamwork space
eLitigis: Espacio de Trabajo en Equipo Virtual
Period: 2007-2008.
Description: The experience relative to this project comes from the need for appropriate methodologies to develop competency in the field of law through virtual learning environments. In this sense, the UOC’s educational model, focusing on the activities undertaken by the student to learn, makes extensive use of technology and is virtually fully developed. In this context, the experience we have undertaken includes the development of a methodology especially designed to achieve and asses the skills that a law student should have in relation to a normal judicial process and, specifically in relation to the different roles they can play: actor, defendant and judge. To develop this methodology, it was necessary to adapt a technological tool (wiki) and designing different cases and tutorials to performing the activity. However, the achievement of learning objectives by students was assessed as well as the achievement of the experience’s goals, from the student’s point of view (online survey) and from the professor’s opinion (interview). These results, which are described in the communication, show that these new methods, of teaching and learning of law, decisive influence on motivation and satisfaction of students during a particularly arduous educational process, but also evident, in the case of teachers, an excessive workload if they want to achieve an adequate monitoring of the evolution of teaching and learning. These results make us think about the feasibility of generalizing an experience as successfully as eLitigis.
Lead researcher: Dr. Mónica Vilasau, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Agencia de gestión de ayudas universitarias y de investigación –AGAUR (2007MQD00169).
Grant amount: 7.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera.
Thematic Network about Design and Evaluation of Learning Objects (REDAOPA)
Red Temática de Diseño y Evaluación de Objetos para el Aprendizaje (REDAOPA)
Period: 2004-2008.
Description: It is a Thematic Network about Design and Evaluation of Learning Objects that brings together different researchers and industry professionals nationwide.
Web site: http://www.cc.uah.es/ie/projects/redaopa
Lead researcher: Dr. Miguel Ángel Sicilia, Universidad de Alcalá, UAH.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Programa Acciones Complementarias (TSI2004-21263-E).
Grant amount: 18.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina, Albert Sangrà, Nati Cabrera.
Competences for professionals working in learning environments: A perspective from different actors
Period: 2008, March.
Description: Co–organized seminar with the International Board Standards Training and Performance –IBSTPI.
Lead researcher: Dr. Guillermo Bautista, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC) Programa Acciones Complementarias (EDU2008-01924-E/EDUC).
Grant amount: 5.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: M.
3W (Wikis, Weblog and Webquest): tools for communication and improvement of teaching processes
3W (Wikis, Weblog i Webquest): herramientas para la comunicación y la mejora en los procesos docentes
Period: 2006-2007.
Description: It addresses the educational potential of tools such as wikis, blogs i webquest.
Lead researcher: Dr. Albert Sangrà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Agencia de gestión de ayudas universitarias y de investigación –AGAUR (2006 MQD 00044)
Grant amount: 7.700 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera, Lourdes Guàrdia, Montse Guitert.
The Case Study in virtual teaching and learning; a methodological resource for the acquisition of competences
L‘estudi de cas en entorns virtuals d’ensenyament i d’aprenentatge; un recurs metodològic per a l’adquisició de competències
Period: 2005-2006.
Description: it aims to study the educational potential of the case study in a virtual teaching and learning environment.
Lead researcher: Lourdes Guàrdia, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.
Funding body and reference no.: Agencia de gestión de ayudas universitarias y de investigación –AGAUR (2005MQD 00041)
Grant amount: 6.000 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia (coord.), Marcelo Maina, Albert Sangrà.
