Internacional
ADMIT (Leading partnership in Ai anD large language Models In higher educaTion)
Període: 2024-2026
Descripció: A ADMIT, som pioners en una nova era a l’educació superior en aprofitar el potencial de ChatGPT i els models de llenguatge a gran escala (LLM). La nostra missió és establir els marcs educatius i ètics necessaris per integrar la IA generativa a l’ensenyament i l’aprenentatge, alhora que abordem desafiaments crítics com la diversitat, la inclusió, la integritat acadèmica i l’alfabetització digital.
Consorci: European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), FernUniversitat in Hagen (FernUni), Open University of The Netherlands (OUNL), Open University of Cyprus (OUC), Universita telematica internazionale (UNINETTUNO), University of Jyvaskyla (JYU), Hellenic Open University (HOU), Anadolu University (AU), The Open University of the United Kingdom (OUUK) and Unidistance Switzerland.
IP UOC: Lourdes Guàrdia. Altres membres Edul@b: Marcelo Maina i Nati Cabrera.
Pàgina Web: https://admit.eadtu.eu
DIGITAsia: Digital Transformation of Asian Higher Education
Període: 2024-2027
Descripció: DIGITAsia es basa fonamentalment en els principis del Global Gateway a l’Orient Mitjà, Àsia i el Pacífic, l’objectiu del qual és ajudar els països socis a transformar els seus sistemes educatius, i en la creença bàsica que aquest projecte enfortirà encara més la resiliència als sectors educatius dels països involucrats: Maldives, Sri Lanka i Malàisia.
El projecte DIGITAsia se centra a promoure la innovació a l’educació superior mitjançant la implementació de mètodes innovadors d’aprenentatge i ensenyament que permetin la transformació digital contínua de les universitats. L’objectiu principal és empoderar les institucions d’educació superior a països molt dispersos geogràficament perquè participin en la seva transformació digital impulsant les habilitats dels educadors per poder aplicar l’Educació 5.0 a través de principis de disseny d’aprenentatge híbrid impulsats per l’anàlisi de laprenentatge i les característiques dels estudiants per tal de desenvolupar cursos efectius, inclusius, accessibles i de qualitat.
Membres Edul@b: Marcelo Maina, Lourdes Guardia i Nati Cabrera.
TRUELA (Trustworthy learning analytics and articial intelligence for sound learning design)
Período: 2023-2027
Descripció: Trustworthy Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Sound Learning Design (TRUELA) és un projecte de recerca finançat per la Fundació Croata de Ciències (IP-2022-10-2854), dirigit per la professora Blaženka Divjak, PhD. El projecte s’implementarà entre el 30 de desembre del 2023 i el 29 de desembre del 2027, amb un pressupost total de 119.344,35 EUR. El projecte té com a objectiu desenvolupar nous enfocaments i mètodes de LA i IA que utilitzin grans quantitats de dades generades (principalment) en sistemes de gestió de laprenentatge. Aquests mètodes i enfocaments generaran anàlisis daprenentatge que informin el disseny de laprenentatge i donen suport a la implementació de mètodes densenyament innovadors i estratègies davaluació electrònica. A més, el projecte té com a objectiu detectar i analitzar patrons daprenentatge en entorns daprenentatge en línia i combinats, i així avançar en la comprensió dels processos daprenentatge.
Consorci: FOI and International Experts: Prof. Bart Rienties, PhD, The Open University; Prof. Dragan Gašević, PhD, Monash University; Mladen Raković, PhD, Monash University; Yi-Shan Tsai, PhD, Monash University; Prof. Wim Van Petegem, PhD, KU Leuven; Prof. Hanni Muukkonen, PhD, Oulu University; Prof. Lourdes Guardia, PhD, Open University of Catalonia and Prof. Alexander Tillmann, PhD, Goethe University.
Membre Edul@b: Lourdes Guàrdia
Pàgina Web: https://lalab.foi.hr/truela
RESCCUE4COVID REcover Spaces for traumatized Children in CommUnity sEttings post COVID-19
Període: 2021-2025
Descripció: REcover Spaces for traumatized Children in CommUnity sEttings (RESCCUE) té com a objectiu recuperar i rescatar espais segurs per prevenir i detectar la violència domèstica i en línia contra nens, nenes i adolescents. Es tracta d’un model col·laboratiu que s’adreça al sector educatiu, al sistema d’atenció primària de salut i al sistema de salut mental i se centra en 1. Empoderar els nens, les nenes i els adolescents per reduir la seva exposició a situacions de violència i 2 – Empoderar els professionals de l’educació i les famílies per prevenir la violència i donar suport a les víctimes de violència.
Consorci: Fundación Sant Joan de Déu, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Ayuntamiento de Cornellà de Llobregat, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù y Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Pàgina Web: https://www.project-resccue.eu/
DIGITAL WBL: Digitalisation of experiential learning and WBL – Deal with Digital Work-Based Learning
Període: 2022-2025
Descripció: El projecte Digital WBL vol desenvolupar un enfocament metodològic innovador a través de la realitat virtual i anar més enllà dels estàndards de formació actuals en mètodes daprenentatge electrònic. Quan va començar la pandèmia ens vam enfrontar a una situació crítica a l’hora de dur a terme itineraris formatius a les empreses. Per continuar amb els cursos de formació professional a distància, vam haver de superar no només dificultats logístiques, sinó, sobretot, vam haver d’afrontar nous enfocaments digitals. Els professors de FP van haver de desenvolupar noves habilitats, competències i metodologies. Tot i això, en un moment de dificultat, ens vam adonar que la nostra comunitat estava plena de recursos i oportunitats. Comprenem que a través de la col·laboració amb diferents entitats locals, com l’Innovation Hub, les universitats i els centres de recerca, podríem dur a terme els nostres cursos de FP i, alhora, podríem enriquir la nostra experiència educativa i oferir una millor experiència formativa . La col·laboració amb altres realitats locals va permetre una continuïtat didàctica i va fer que la formació fos més heterogènia. A més, la cooperació va permetre que les activitats de formació s’apliquessin en diferents àrees i sectors, aconseguint un major impacte al territori. A més, identifiquem un gran potencial comercial relacionat amb la implementació del metavers i la realitat virtual a l’àmbit educatiu. El projecte pretén orientar els formadors i les institucions de FP perquè incloguin una ruta daprenentatge basada en el treball digital per tal de proporcionar una millor experiència de formació i capaç de crear noves oportunitats de negoci. A través del projecte Deal with Digital WBL volem desenvolupar un enfocament metodològic innovador a través de la realitat virtual i anar més enllà dels estàndards de formació actuals en mètodes daprenentatge electrònic.
Consorci: SFC, Sistemi Formativi Confindustria, Panevėžys University of Applied Sciences, IPOSZ, Dinamo 3d, CIS, Scuola per la gestione d’impresa, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, DHBW, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Hanse-Parlament
Pàgina Web: https://digitalwbl.com/
FLUENT
Període: 2022-2024
Descripció:
La pandèmia confirma les troballes que les universitats són organitzacions poc flexibles i amb poca capacitat de reaccionar amb flexibilitat davant de les incerteses. Des de la possibilitat que un mateix estudiant rebi part de la seva educació presencial i una altra part en línia, passant per diferents grups d’estudiants, alguns en una aula i altres connectats en remot, fins a models completament en línia, on s’alternen moments sincrònics daprenentatge, amb moments asincrònics.
No hi ha una visió única del que és híbrid o semipresencial, sinó que hi ha una àmplia diversitat de models educatius en línia, que depenen de la manera com activem o utilitzem els seus components potencials. Hi ha, però, una cosa determinant per al cas que ens ocupa, i és qui pot prendre la decisió d’aplicar un model o un altre.
Per motius personals i científics, el nostre consorci està motivat a compartir les experiències que hem realitzat durant els darrers anys als camps de l’ensenyament i l’aprenentatge sota incertesa. L’assumpció de les idees presentades en aquesta proposta ens pot permetre passar sense problemes entre moments presencials i en línia, sense que el procés d’aprenentatge se’n ressenti com a resultat. Un nou model educatiu híbrid (model NHE), des d’una perspectiva diferent, és del nostre costat.
Objectius:
El projecte té com a objectiu abordar la prioritat principal “ES: Estimular pràctiques innovadores d’aprenentatge i ensenyament”. En aquest context, l‟objectiu d‟aquest projecte és estimular pràctiques innovadores d‟ensenyament i aprenentatge a través del desenvolupament, implementació, avaluació i difusió d‟un nou model educatiu híbrid (model NHE) per al‟educació superior, amb especial consideració de la inclusió, la flexibilitat i la sostenibilitat. El resultat del projecte és un nou model educatiu híbrid (model NHE) que recolza una transició fluida entre diferents maneres d’ensenyament i aprenentatge, fomenta la inclusió, és flexible i sostenible, està escrit i es posa a disposició del públic en diferents idiomes per als docents de les institucions d’educació superior amb un programa de certificació modular de suport (programa MOC) que les institucions participants incorporaran a la feina habitual.
Consorci: Tallinn University, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversitätErlangen-Nürnberg, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Pàgina web: https://www.fluent-project.info/project
EXCIITE: Enabling eXtremely Creative, Inclusive, Inspiring Teachers for Europe
Període: 2021 – 2024
Descripció: El projecte EXCIITE (Enabling eXtremely Creative, Inclusive, Inspiring Teachers for Europe) té com a objectiu millorar la creativitat, la inclusió i l’equitat a les escoles europees. Els beneficiaris finals daquest projecte són els alumnes/estudiants de lescola, que es beneficiaran dentorns daprenentatge més inspiradors i inclusius. EXCIITE aborda aquest objectiu centrant-se en les competències dels docents: proposa un marc conceptual, vies concretes de requalificació per als docents en servei i un conjunt de recursos metodològics i organitzatius adequats per donar suport a la “transició creativa i significativa” dels sistemes escolars.
El projecte EXCIITE té un enfocament clar a donar suport als professors d’escola en el seu desenvolupament professional continu en aquestes àrees desafiadores de competència i preparar el terreny per a un pla d’estudis de formació inicial docent renovat. En particular, l‟ús significatiu, creatiu i interactiu de la tecnologia digital per fer que l‟aprenentatge estigui més centrat en l‟alumne, més inclusiu i més estimulant és un component important d‟aquest projecte, que utilitzarà i adaptarà la base de coneixements il‟experiència d’un dels principals actors europeus en aquest àmbit, però també utilitzen l’eina multilingüe SELFIE per abordar específicament les competències dels professors i les estratègies de digitalització escolar. L’enfocament del projecte cap a la inclusió social se centra més aviat a donar suport al progrés i els èxits de cada alumne basant-se en la identificació de fortaleses i motivacions específiques i, per tant, estimulant l’agència dels nens com a clau per a la inclusió social i l’èxit de l’aprenentatge.
Objectius:
Dissenyar una sèrie de mòduls de formació que es combinin en rutes daprenentatge flexibles i personalitzades basades en una eina dautoavaluació dissenyada per ajudar els professors a reconèixer les seves pròpies necessitats de formació.
Construir un Centre per a la formació de docents, que consisteixi en un repositori web de recursos d’aprenentatge multilingües per a docents (a partir del que ja està disponible a les agències nacionals de formació de docents ia nivell de la xarxa de la UE), per ajudar-los a desenvolupar i practicar habilitats de creativitat, innovació en l’aprenentatge, aprenentatge autoregulador, valoració de la diversitat i inclusió social.
Crear una aliança d’institucions de formació docent capaces de col·laborar a nivell transnacional i donar suport a l’intercanvi de recursos i de bones pràctiques en el camp de la formació docent en servei.
Pàgina web: https://www.exciite.unimore.it
The ONE Meeting Project
Període: 2021 – 2023
Descripció: L’objectiu del projecte ONE és augmentar el coneixement mediambiental i les competències de comunicació i col·laboració digital dels líders i el personal d’educació superior per dur a terme projectes multinacionals amb èxit amb una sola reunió de socis transnacionals.
Els primers resultats tangibles del projecte seran els productes intel·lectuals:
IO1 “The Business Case for ONE-meeting projects” (El cas de negoci per als projectes ONE-meeting): un informe (document) d’alt perfil amb materials de suport, com ara un resum executiu, vídeos explicatius animats i infografies que consciencien sobre la importància dintroduir més reunions virtuals/remotes i reduir limpacte ambiental de les reunions de socis transnacionals.
IO2 “ONE Virtual Collaboration Toolkit” (Kit d’eines de col·laboració virtual ONE): després d’una auditoria exhaustiva de programari i eines de reunions, planificació de projectes, creativitat i col·laboració, mostrem el millor del kit d’eines amb una guia pràctica sobre com integrar-los i aprofitar-los al màxim.
IO3 “All-you-need-to-know Guide to Running ONE-meeting projects” (Guia completa per executar projectes ONE-meeting): una guia pràctica que complementa el resultat un, en presentar una estratègia pas a pas per convertir els propers projectes en només una reunió. Analitza els canvis que necessita fer i la tecnologia que pot utilitzar en cada pas de la planificació, implementació, avaluació i seguiment del projecte.
Consorci: FernUniversität in Hagen, EUCEN, Università Degli Studi Milano Bicocca, Canice Consulting, University of Jyväskylä, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya i Momentum
Pàgina web: https://www.theprojectone.eu
DIGI-PROF Transparent Assessment for Online Learning by Digitally Competent Professors
Período: 2022 – 2024
Descripción:
El objetivo principal del proyecto DIGI-PROF es apoyar a los docentes e instituciones de educación superior en el diseño e implementación de evaluaciones transparentes para el aprendizaje en línea y el reconocimiento de los resultados del aprendizaje mediante la propuesta de metodología, pautas, herramientas prácticas y material de capacitación para desarrollar sus competencias digitales.
Los objetivos del proyecto DIGI-PROF son:
1) Elaborar guías metodológicas, herramientas y material de formación para docentes de enseñanza superior como referencias necesarias para: a) diseñar estrategias transparentes de evaluación del aprendizaje en línea en la enseñanza superior b) monitorear, apoyar e involucrar a los estudiantes con base en la evidencia generada por las tecnologías digitales, c) aplicar credenciales digitales y micro en el diseño del aprendizaje que conduzcan a una evaluación, validación y reconocimiento transparentes de los resultados del aprendizaje.
2) Desarrollar las competencias de evaluación digital de los docentes de educación superior.
3) Preparar las directrices para que las instituciones de educación superior implementen una evaluación transparente de los resultados del aprendizaje para el aprendizaje en línea y semipresencial, y que se reconozcan a partir de micro credenciales digitales.
4) Diseñar currículos de aprendizaje en línea y semipresencial para la cooperación virtual y semipresencial de las instituciones del consorcio que incorporen la evaluación transparente y el reconocimiento mutuo de los resultados del aprendizaje.
Importe de la subvención: Total: 295.944,00€
Entidad financiadora: Erasmus+.
Investigador Principal: Josep Maria Duart
Participantes de Edul@b: Marcelo Fabián Maina, Lourdes Guàrdia, Maria Luisa Malerba
Número de referencia: 2021-1-LT01-KA220-HED-000031154
Página web: https://eden-europe.eu/digi-prof/
Supporting Self Regulated Learning in Emergency Remote Education (Super RED)
Período: 2021-2024
Descripción: SuperRED tiene como objetivo aumentar la calidad general del sistema educativo, ofreciendo al mismo tiempo metodologías y herramientas que se adapten de manera efectiva a los contextos locales donde el conocimiento se diseña de manera conjunta mediante la estimulación de prácticas reflexivas. SuperRED tendrá como objetivo: aumentar los niveles de autonomía de los estudiantes en la gestión de los procesos de aprendizaje a través de herramientas digitales innovadoras para mejorar la motivación y la participación, y preservar la naturaleza inclusiva de las oportunidades de aprendizaje; proporcionar una formación educativa para los docentes sobre los temas de la enseñanza remota efectiva/aprendizaje combinado, con el fin de desarrollar competencias digitales en el diseño del aprendizaje y garantizar una educación digital inclusiva de alta calidad, empoderando así a los docentes para enfrentar nuevas emergencias que se lograrán a través de un enfoque basado en juegos serios. Estos objetivos contribuirán a aumentar la preparación digital del ecosistema de aprendizaje para gestionar un cambio efectivo hacia la educación digital y fomentar la resiliencia de los docentes y los estudiantes para enfrentar eventos no planificados.
Consorcio: National Research Council (CNR), Delft University of Technology, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, University of Florence, Bernardusscholen, Escola SOLC y ISA13
Página Web: https://www.superred.eu/
DigProTel Professional Development for Digital Teaching and Learning (DigProTel)
Period: 2021 – 2023
Description:
The aims of the DigiTeL Pro project are:
- Professional development for digital teaching and learning
- Design, developing and implementing CPD courses on respectively synchronous hybrid, blended and online teaching for anyone involved in digital course and curriculum development and for leaders steering this process.
- Optimize models, guidelines and pedagogies by top level research and innovation groups leading to mature and high quality education.
- This will accelerate the Modernization Agenda and the digital transformation of education systems across
Europe, supporting ultimately the Green Deal.
The objectives of the DigiTeL Pro project are:
- Explore and forecast educational needs of teaching staff and learners within and after the COVID+ era;
- Exchange expertise between researchers and innovators on synchronous hybrid, blended and online distance learning, optimizing models and guidelines for short-term and future CPD;
- Design, plan and develop continuing education courses enabling anyone involved in course and curriculum development in adapting to hybrid, blended and online distance learning;
- Organise three course cycles in a CPD programme for digital education;
- Empower student readiness for digital learning by an online course and integrating the “student voice’” in all learning scenarios;
- Reinforce the ability of universities to provide high quality, inclusive and scalable digital education.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert sangrà, Dr. Monste Guitert and Dr. Juliana Raffagelli
Reference no: EU_ERASMUS+_K2_Strategic_Partnerships_COVID_20
Website: https://digitelpro.eadtu.eu/
Empower Competences for Onlife Learning in HE – ECOLHE
Period: 1/09/2020 – 31/08/2023
Description: The ECOLHE project is an action research project that aims to create the best conditions for an exchange of best practices, at European level, in:
- Teaching digital skills in HE;
- Training course for teachers and tutors for improving online teaching in HE in the logic of LLL, inclusion and innovation recalled by High-Level Group on the Modernization HE;
- Recognition and validation of teaching competences in HE for teachers’ professional development;
- Recommendation for Academic Bodies.
The principal objective of ECOLHE is to understand the way in which national policies have translated the European policies, and how the universities have translated regulatory constraints in practice with the intent to intercept useful suggestion for policy-makers, decision-makers and Academic Bodies in order to built an EEHEA founded on the teacher’s professionalization and EQAS.
Grant amount: 416,430,00€
Lead Researcher: Dra. Montse Guitert
Participating Edul@b members: Dra. Teresa Romeu, Dr. Marc Romero
Website: http://ecolhe.eu/consortium/
DETECT: DEveloping TEachers’ Critical digital liTeracies
Period: 2019-2022.
Description: DETECT project aims to raise awareness amongst educators and support them in developing critical digital literacies in relation to the use of digital technologies and social media. This will involve reconceptualising the notion of digital literacies in order to look beyond functional ICT skills and e-safety and encompass instead a richer set of critical digital literacies that are tailored specifically to educators’ personal and professional needs within a school context.
Grant amount: Total: 429.906€
Funding body: Erasmus +.
Reference no: 2019-1-UK01-KA201-061508.
Participating Edul@b members: Teresa Romeu, Marc Romero, Juliana Raffaghelli.
AMED: Advancing higher education in Maldives through E-learning Development
Period: 2019-2021.
Description: This project has a goal to enable support of the modernization, approach and internationalization of higher education placed in Maldives through academic teacher competences and skills promotion, considering new innovative education programs in E- learning.
Grant amount: 720.592€
Funding body: Erasmus+ programme – KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practice, Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education
Partners: University of Zagreb (UZ), Maldives National University (MNU), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), CARnet
Participating Edul@b members: Marcelo Maina (IP UOC), Lourdes Guàrdia, Nati Cabrera and Albert Sangrà.
Website: https://amed-project.eu/index.php/en
SELFEE: Digital Literacy and Social Emotional Learning for Engagement and Employment
Period: 2017-2019.
Description: The SELFEE project is an European Erasmus + project, which aims to provide new tools to professionals working in the field of employment that enable the development of transversal skills focusing on Digital Literacy and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) with unemployed persons at risk of social exclusion. The program includes training for all those professionals, who will allow them to design and offer training and programs occupations where the final beneficiaries can apply all these skills in an integrated way in their work research processes and / or change of professional orientation.
Grant amount: 25.481€ (Total: 284.576€).
Funding body: Erasmus +.
Partners: UOC (Catalonia), La Xixa Teatre (Catalonia), Kepes (Hungary), DW-RS (Holland), Elan (France).
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeu.
Website: http://selfeeproject.eu
EPICA: Strategic partnership for the co-design of an innovative and scalable eportfolio ecosystem to improve the quality and visibility of skills
Period: 2018- 2020
Description: Technology is driving change in Africa and knowledge has become a key driver of growth and development. Moreover, education needs to meet the demands of the work place and provide the skills and competencies needed to foster local economies. However, a severe mismatch exists between the skills of young workers and the skills that employers need for the emerging economies. EPICA (Strategic Partnership for the Codesign of an Innovative and scalable ePortfolio ecosystem to improve the quality and visibility of skills) aims to contribute to address this skills-gap through a process of co-design, adaptation, implementation and validation of an innovative and scalable Competency-Based ePortfolio, with an international partnership that includes industries, leading educational organisations, four universities in three Sub-Saharan countries (Open University of Tanzania, Makerere University from Uganda, Maseno University from Kenya, and the African Virtual University) and one EU University (Open University of Catalonia).
Grant amount: 289.150€ (Total: 1,897,450.01€).
Funding body and reference no: H2020-ICT-2017-1 (Information and Communication Technologies Call) / ICT-39-2017-IA
Coordination: International Council for Open and Distance Education (NO)
Partners: Sub-Saharan countries (Open University of Tanzania, Makerere University from Uganda, Maseno University from Kenya, and the African Virtual University) and one EU University (Open University of Catalonia).
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia (IP UOC), Marcelo Maina and Albert Sangrà.
Website: https://www.epica-initiative.com/
eSLP: European SLP’s for continuous professional development and lifelong learning
Period: 2018-2020.
Description: European SLP’s for continuous professional development and lifelong learning
Grant amount: 666.294€
Funding body and reference no: European Commission. 590202-EPP-1-2017-1-NL-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD
Coordination: European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU).
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia and Marcelo Maina.
Website: https://e-slp.eadtu.eu/
Proyectos completados (2005-2019)
CODUR: Creating and Online Dimension for University Rankings
Period:2016-2018.
Description: This project aims to generate a set of European-led quality criteria and indicators for the measurement of world-wide online education dimension, and the guidelines for integrating these online education metrics in the current U-Multirank ranking, the European funded university ranking which intends to be a European contribution to the development of a multidimensional ranking. CODUR would like to impact on 15-20 European higher education online education institutions in an initial stage and on at least 50 non-European international universities later on.
Grant amount: 172.082€
Funding body and reference no: European Comission (SEPIE), 2016-1-ES01-KA203-025432
Lead researcher: Dr. Albert Sangrà, Edul@b Research Group, UOC.
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera and Montse Guitert
Partners: The Open University (UK), Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerca – Istituto delle Tecnologie Didattiche (Italy)
Website: http://codur.research.uoc.edu/
DECODE: DEvelop COmpetences in Digital Era. Expertise, best practices and teaching in the XXI century
Period:2016-2019.
Description: DECODE aims at highlighting experiences, practices and teachers competences activated in schools in digital fields, with the intent to favor the diffusion of best practises and the improvement of media and digital literacy. DECODE intend to experiment a new training model for teachers, which aims at contributing to the creation of digital competences to respond the new demands of knowledge and information society to education system.
Grant amount: 76.053 (Total: 317.271,00 €).
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission, Program: H2020, 2016-1-IT02-KA201-024234.
Lead researcher: Dr. Stefania Capogna, Fondazione Link Campus University.
Partners: Centro di ricerca CRES-IELPO, Università Roma Tre (Italy), Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain), OMNIA (Finland), Institutul de Stiinte ale Educatiei (Romania), Aspire International (U.K.), ANP (Italy).
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu, Marc Romero.
Website: http://decode-net.eu/
CRISS: Demonstration of a scalable and cost-effective cloud-based digital learning infrastructure through the Certification of digital competences in primary and secondary schools
Period:2016-2019.
Description: CRISS aims to provide an innovation infrastructure for personalized learning and teaching of digital competences to support and motivate teachers and students; work towards the implementation of digital competences acquisition, evaluation and certification in European primary and secondary schools; and provide open, interoperable components for a flexible, scalable and cost-effective cloud-based digital learning infrastructure.
Lead researcher: Dr. Dimitris Vassiliadis, EXUS Software LTD.
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission, H2020-ICT-2016-2017 – ICT-22-2016.
Grant amount: 478.452,00 (Total: 4.872.336,60€).
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia (IP UOC), Montse Guitert, Marcelo Maina, Teresa Romeu
Partners: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, University College of London, University of Zagreb, EXUS (UK), Education4sight, MyDocumenta, Diginext, Escoles Pies, Sandetel, Gobierno de Navarra, CARnet.
Website: http://www.crissh2020.eu/
CACTLE (Implementing a Central Asian Centre for Teaching, Learning and Entrepeneurship)
Period: 2015-2018
Funding body and reference no: European Comission, Programa: H2020, 561495-EPP-1-2015-1-AT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP.
Grant amount: 35.860€ (Total: 942.604 €).
Lead researcher: Joseph Af, Wirtschaftuniversität, Wien (Austria).
Partners: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universidade da Coruna, International University of Kyrgyzstan, Arabaev Kyrgyz State University, Turar Ryskulov New Economic University NEU, Karaganda Economic University of Kazpotrebsoyuz, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Bukhara State University, Ferghan State University, Westminster International University in Tashkent.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà.
Digital Learners in Higher Education
Period: 2010-present.
Description: New and emerging technologies are having a profound impact on how we communicate, interact, access and use information. They are affecting business, entertainment and social activity. Commentators and futurists suggest there are profound implications for education as well. They argue that because this “Net Generation” of learners is so immersed in a networked world of digital technology, they behave differently, have different social characteristics, different ways of using and making sense of information, different ways of learning, and different expectations about life and learning. But is this an accurate portrayal of our students? The answer to this question has potentially significant and costly implications for how we teach and how we use learning technologies. This international research project is investigating how postsecondary learners in different institutional contexts and cultures think about technology and how they use it in their social and educational lives. We will examine the issue in depth to gain an understanding of what the growing use of the new digital technologies means for teaching and learning in higher education.
Web site: http://digitallearners.wordpress.com/
Lead researcher: Dr. Mark Bullen, British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Albert Sangrà, Marc Romero.
ATM: Adaptive Teaching Model
Period: 2013
Description: The main aim of the project is to identify the expectations both the students and the teachers have regarding the online teaching behaviours and performance, considering the SDLS theoretical framework. The results will provide new insights on how to teach online and how to support the online teachers’ professional development.
Web site: under construction
Lead researcher: Dr. Lawrence C. Ragan, Penn State University.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà, Teresa Romeu, Montse Guitert, Lourdes Guàrdia.
OERup: OER uptake in adult education institutions
Period: 01-09-2014/31-08-2016.Description: OERup! takes up the need of promoting and fostering successful implementation of practices with OER in adult learning institutions in Europe, with the aim of raising awareness of the value to be derived from OER, as well as supporting an OER-friendly environment in education institutions to widen participation in Open Education. The core of OERup! will be the development and testing of a training package consisting of a blended-learning training concept and material on the topic of OER, addressing European AEI (its management, staff and teachers). This training package will inform about the general principles, and new developments of OER with a special focus on pedagogical concepts on how to integrate OER production and use in the lessons plan, take up necessary specific tools and skills needed to create OER, and explain on the basis of practice examples how OER can be successfully integrated in the business concept of an AEI.
Web site: http://www.oerup.eu
Lead researcher: Ines Kreitlein, Medien-Und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission, Erasmus+. Ref.: 2014-1-DE02-KA204-001432.
Grant amount: 222.016,00€.
Participating Edul@b members: Marc Romero, Nati Cabrera, Montse Guitert, Marcelo Maina, Maria Pérez-Mateo.
EMMA: European Multi MOOC Aggregator
Period: 2014-2016.
Description: The objective of this proposal is to pilot a number of trusted elements to put in place a unique platform to support ICT-based innovation in higher education and training approaches, thus scaling up existing trials and translation solutions. Validation and evaluation processes will also be tested during the pilot. Emma aims to showcase excellence in innovative teaching methodologies and learning approaches through the large-scale piloting of MOOCs, providing a system for the delivery of free, open, online courses from diverse European universities with the goal of preserving Europe’s rich cultural, educational and linguistic heritage and promoting cross-cultural and multi-lingual learning. MOOCs are a recent development, rapidly becoming a significant trend in higher education. The open nature of MOOCs provides opportunities for expanding access to higher education and creating a space for experimentation with online teaching and learning. This exploration of new approaches for higher education provision has generated significant interest from governments, institutions and others. Building on existing and proven technology, EMMA will provide an opportunity, even for smaller institutions, to share high-quality content. EMMA will provide a framework and infrastructure, while participating institutions will remain autonomous in their choice of design, methodology and tools. EMMA will operate in two main modes; as an aggregator and hosting system of courses produced by European universities; and as a system that enables learners to construct their own courses using units from MOOCs as building blocks. The EMMA Consortium aims at a multi-lingual, multi-cultural approach to learning by offering inbuilt translation and transcription services for courses hosted on the platform. The pilot will operate in 2 steps, first by making available a significant number of existing courses from project partners and/or MOOCs providers and then by bringing on board a second tier of universities keen to experiment with MOOCs. Pilots will run in 7 countries with a total of 16 MOOCs and will involve at least 60.000 users. Courses will be offered in the language of each country, in English, and the pilot will trial an embryo form of multi-lingual translation by offering courses in Italian and Spanish as well. Advances in learning analytics will feature in the analysis and evaluation work and a series of innovative approaches will be trialed to make the piloted service sustainable in the medium to long term.
Web site: http://project.europeanmoocs.eu/project/
Lead researcher: Dr. Rossana De Rosa, Universita Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy).
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission, CIP-Pilot actions. Ref.: CNECT-ICT-PSP-621030.
Grant amount: 160.362€.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà, Marcelo Maina, Lourdes Guàrdia, Marc Romero, Teresa Romeu, Nati Cabrera, Maria Pérez-Mateo.
D-TRANSFORM (Digital Resources as a New Strategical Factor for a Renovation of Modernisation in Higher Education)
Period: 2014-2017
Funding body and reference no: European Commission, 2014-1-FR-01-KA203-002425
Grant amount:: 449.822€
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà
Enhancing Quality of Technology-Enhanced Learning at Jordanian Universities (eQTel)
Period: 2013-2016.
Description: EQTeL aims to improve the quality and relevance of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) at Jordanian higher education institutions in order to decrease the level of unemployment of young people and to enable the country’s easier inclusion into European Higher Education Area. The main project objective is to improve, develop and implement accreditation standards, guidelines and procedures for quality assurance of TEL courses and study programs at a national level. The new standards will assimilate the quality of TEL courses offered by higher education institutions in Jordan, and would consequently be incorporated into existing legal acts and regulatory documents at both institutional and national levels.
Web site: under construction.
Lead researcher: Dr. Christine Appel, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission, Tempus. Ref.: 544491-TEMPUS-1-2013-ES-TEMPUS-SMGR (2013-4568/001-001).
Grant amount: 996.007,16€.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia.
EPNET: Europortfolio: a European Network of Eportfolio Experts and Practitioners
Period: 2013/2015.Description: The aim of Europortfolio is to contribute to the realisation of a European area for lifelong learning, using ePortfolios as a means to support reflective learning and practice as well as transparency and trust across all the actors involved in education and employment. This will be achieved by structuring the community of European ePortfolio experts and practitioners with a Learning Community Portal as a space to publish, share and review data and resources on ePortfolio practices and technologies. In co-operation with leading experts and practitioners in Europe and beyond (USA, Australia), the project will produce an inventory of ePortfolio practices, an ePortfolio Framework, a Maturity Matrix of ePortfolio projects, examples of innovative practices, implementation and exploitation guidelines and Open Educational Resources (OER). Europortfolio Portal will act as a gateway to prompt and support further ePortfolio initiatives in Europe and share the lessons learnt to improve the outcomes of further projects. The Network of ePortfolio experts and practitioners will ensure the most recent findings on ePortfolios in EU are shared and made accessible to all decision makers and education leaders of EU member states.
Web site: http://www.eportfolio.eu/
Lead researcher: Dr. Igor Balaban, University of Zagreb.
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission, Life long learning programme. Ref: 531312-LLP-1-2012-1-HR-KA3-KA3NW.
Grant amount: 426.434€
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina, Ivan Alsina.
Open educational practices: a bottom-up approach in Latin America and Europe to develop a common Higher Education Area (OportUnidad)
Period: 2012-2014.
Description: The project overall objective is contributing to strengthen and sustain the EU-LA Common Higher Education Area, through a bottom-up approach, by the increasing use of open educational practices and resources (OEP & OER).
Web site: https://twitter.com/oportunidadoer
Lead researcher: Dr. Cristina Stefanelli, Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” – Telematica (USGM).
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission – ALFA III programme (DCI-ALA/19.09.01/11/21526/279-705/ALFA III (2011)-218).
Grant amount: 864.302 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Marcelo Maina (coord.), Lourdes Guàrdia, Montse Guitert, Albert Sangrà, Marc Romero, Maria Pérez-Mateo.
Innovative methodologies in language learning and assessment
Period: 2013-2014.
Description: By promoting more efficient ways of teaching, learning and evaluating foreign languages the action will foster employability, mobility, and economic growth as well as social inclusion, intercultural dialogue and thus active democratic citizenship.
Web site: http://www.ecml.at/CooperationECECML/tabid/1461/Default.aspx
Lead researcher: Dr. Sarah Breslin (ECML).
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission and European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) (EAC-2013-0175).
Grant amount: 505.300 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Joseph Hopkins.
Testing an Open Education Resource Framework for Europe (OERtest)
Period: 2010-2012.
Description: OERtest aims to develop standards for the supply of open educational resources, with guidelines for evaluating the work done by the students through these resources, quality standards, management models, etc. The initiative aims to examine the feasibility of acting in this context only through a series of pilot programs and help address the challenges facing higher education. The project wishes to establish a unique site at European level, through a series of recommendations for the universities and the participating centers, and a network of semi-formal institutions.
Web site: http://www.oer-europe.net/
Lead researcher: Dr. Rosana Montes, Universidad de Granada (UGR).
Funding body and reference no.: European Commission (LLL-Erasmus programme)(510718-LLP-1-2010-1-ES-ERASMUS-EVC).
Grant amount: 299.496 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà (coord.), Marcelo Maina, Maria Pérez-Mateo.
CONCEDE (CONtent Creation Excellence through Dialogue in Education)
Period: 2009-2011.
Description: User generated content (UGC) poses a number of challenges to the current understanding of education and its institutions, very much due to its success. The concept of “authority” should be rethought. The “ivory tower” of higher education should be opened to the wider world. Knowledge management becomes even more fundamental than in the past. Moreover, the rapidly growing number of learning resources generated by users makes the issue of quality a pressing one. The CONCEDE-CONtent Creation Excellence through Dialogue in Education project intends to address such issues. The overall aim of CONCEDE is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by enhancing the quantity and quality of user generated content that can be incorporated into higher education learning provision.
Web site: https://www.researchgate.net/project/CONCEDE-CONtent-Creation-Excellence-through-Dialogue-in-Education
Lead researcher: Thomas Kretschmer (Erlangen-Nürnberg Institut für Lern-Innovation-FIM).
Funding body and reference no.: European Comission (503993-LLP-1-2009-1-DE-ERASMUS-EMHE).
Grant amount: 399.847 €
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Marc Romero, Marcelo Maina, Maria Pérez-Mateo
DOTS (Developing Online Teaching Skills): Bite-Size Training for Language Professionals
Period: 2008 – 2011.
Description: The project will develop an online platform for delivering teacher training at a distance and will encourage new forms of teaching and learning languages, thereby improving the quality of online language education. It will identify teachers’ ICT training needs, evaluate bite-size training materials by participants and experts, collect reflective activities on the project website, disseminate DOTS materials and cascade results and training materials.
Web site: http://dots.ecml.at/
Lead researcher: Dr. Ursula Stickler (Department of Modern Languages, Open University, UK).
Funder: European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML).
Grant amount: 18.000 €
Participating Edul@b members:Pauline Ernest, Joseph Hopkins.
Online Learning Global Snapshot Project
Period: 2010.
Description: This research project is designed to take a «snapshot» of the state of online learning at the global level.
Lead researcher: Dr. Larry Ragan, Penn State University (USA).
Funder: Penn State University (USA).
Participating Edul@b members:Pauline Ernest, Joseph Hopkins.
OU-UOC Tutor training project in online collaboration for language learning
Period: 2008-2010.
Description: This project brought together foreign language tutors from the Open University (UK) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya for an online training seminar focusing on the use of computer-supported collaborative tasks for language learning.
Lead researcher: Dr. Regine Hampel, Department Modern Languages, Open University (UK).
Funding body and reference no.: 6.000 GBP.
Participating Edul@b members:Pauline Ernest, Montse Guitert, Joseph Hopkins.
Training teachers to foster collaborative language learning online
Period: 2008-2009.
Lead researcher: Dr. Regine Hampel, Open University (UK).
Funder: Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (UKOU).
Grant amount: 6.000 €
Participating Edul@b members:Pauline Ernest, Joseph Hopkins.
Implementing e-learning 2.0 in everyday learning processes in higher and vocational education (e-JUMP 2.0)
Period: 2008-2009.
Description: The main objective of the project is to link up and connect various learning communities all over Europe and raise the role of communication in learning processes through implementation of 2nd generation e-learning (e-Learning 2.0) in higher and vocational education.
Web site: http://portaal.e-uni.ee/ejump
Lead researcher: Dr. Jüri Lössenko, Estonian Information Technology Foundation.
Funding body and reference no.: European Commission (LLL-Erasmus programme)(135249-LLP-1-2007-1-EE-KA3-KA3MP)
Grant amount: 588.115 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu, Albert Sangrà.
eLearning Network for the Development of a Teaching and Learning Service Centre (eLene-TLC)
Period: 2007-2008.
Description: The eLene Teaching and Learning Centre is an online repository of resources for technology-enhanced teaching and learning, categorised according to LOM attributes.
Web site: http://transfer.rdi.uoc.edu/ca/node/41632
Lead researcher: Dr. Deborah Arnold, .
Funding body and reference no.: European Commission (LLL-Erasmus programme)(2006-4536/001-001ELE ELEB14).
Grant amount: 1.249.780 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu, Albert Sangrà.
Learning Object Repository Network (LORNET)
Period: 2004-2008.
Description: The Learnng Object Repository Network Project provides a foundation to share resources within the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system through the establishment and embedding of agreed principles in the design and development of resources and resource repositories.
Web site: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/281
Lead researcher: Dr. Gilbert Paquette, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur le téléapprentissage (CIRTA-LICEF).
Funder: Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG).
Grant amount: 5.6 mill. €.
Participating Edul@b members: Marcelo Maina.
E-Learning network for Teacher Training (eLene TT)
Period: 2005-2007.
Description: The driving idea behind eLene-TT is to improve the ability of Higher Education teachers to make pedagogical use of ICT, through the development of a Virtual Learning Resource Centre providing guidelines and resources for both teacher trainers and teachers themselves and through student-driven teacher training actions, pooling and testing tools and approaches developed by each of the partners in the wider European context.
Web site: http://transfer.rdi.uoc.edu/es/project/e-learning-network-teacher-training
Lead researcher: Dr. Deborah Arnold, .
Funding body and reference no.: European Commission (LLL-Erasmus programme)(2005-3871/001-001)
Grant amount: 107.249 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu, Albert Sangrà.
SLOOP Project
Period: 2005-2007.
Description: The SLOOP Project aims at promoting and facilitating the integration of eLearning, work-based learning and face to face education in schools, colleges, universities, training centres and by teachers/trainers and, generally speaking, by everybody who is involved in planning and running pedagogical paths. The Sloop project objectives are the following: to define a methodology to produce Learning Objects after the up-and-coming international standards (with reference both to pedagogical and technical aspects).
Web site: http://www.sloopproject.eu/sloop; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOOP_Project
Lead researcher: Dr. Pierfranco Ravotto, ITSOS (Istituto Tecnico Statale Sperimentale ad Ordinamento Speciale) “Marie Curie” di Cernusco sul Naviglio.
Funding body and reference no.: European Commission (Leonardo) (I/05/B/F/PP-154194)
Grant amount: 40.407 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Lourdes Guàrdia, Marcelo Maina, Albert Sangrà.
MEGATRENDS in e-learning provision
Period: 2005-2007.
Description: The specific aim of the MegaTrend project is to seek to identify the MegaTrends: what are the rules for achieving critical mass in e-learning; what are the rules for moving from a small scale fragile e-learning provider to a large scale permanent and successful e-learning institution. The project’s aim is to enhance public knowledge on sustainable and cost-effective large-scale e-learning by analyzing the trends and contributions to large-scale success and to identify laws and recommendations for success and failure in e-learning.
Web site: https://towardsmaturity.org/2008/02/18/megatrends-in-e-learning-provision/
Lead researcher: Dr. Torstein Rekkedal, Professor and Director of Research and Development, NKI.
Funding body and reference no.: European Commission (NO/05/C/F/RF-83250)
Grant amount: 44.562 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Albert Sangrà.
E-xcellence Project. Creating a standard of excellence for e-learning
Period: 2005-2007.
Description: It aims to set a standard for Quality in e-learning. The project is a cooperation between 13 significant partners in the European scene of higher education e-learning and Quality assessment and accreditation and EADTU. The main objective of the E-xcellence project is to contribute to this process by creating standards of excellence in e-learning as: a) Assessment tool (programme and institutional level); b) Improvement tool (internal quality care system); and c) Tool for accreditation for excellence.
Web site: http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.eu/index.php/E-xcellence_-_creating_a_standard_of_excellence_for_e-learning
Lead researcher: Dr. George Ubachs (European Association for Distance teaching Universities, EADTU).
Funding body and reference no.: European Commission (2004-3536/001-001)
Grant amount: 16.449 €.
Participating Edul@b members: Nati Cabrera.
