Defense of the doctoral thesis ‘La dimensión social en el Proceso de Aprendizaje colaborativo virtual: el caso de la UOC’ (The social dimension in the virtual collaborative learning process: UOC case)

On July 13^th 2010, Maria Perez-Mateo, a member of Edul@b, defended the dissertation ‘La dimensión social en el Proceso de Aprendizaje colaborativo virtual: el caso de la UOC’ under the direction of another Edul@b‘s member, Dr. Montse Guitert.

The main objective of the thesis is to analyse how social dimension is manifested in the process of group learning in a virtual environment in order to provide strategies for students and teachers. The ultimate pursued goal is to improve educational processes that take place in the virtual environment through the transfer of the experience developed in the institution, that becomes the general scene analysis: the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.