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The purpose of this paper is to understand the diverse rationales of the transformation of the University to respond to the challenges, evolutions and crises of the current global world, finding out what are the key aspects that articulate the discourses about its transformation. From a qualitative approach, the selected method was discourse analys...
Holocaust education, which refers to the teaching and learning of the Holocaust—the systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II—is an essential component of history and social studies education in many countries. Its primary aim is to raise awareness of the Holocaust, promote understanding of it...
This study adopts a conceptual research approach to examine recent developments in Digital Holocaust Memory regarding the use of digital technology for teaching and learning about the Holocaust. In order to promote heritage education, this paper proposes a conceptual framework that links the field of Digital Holocaust Memory with the approach of le...
This chapter introduces the book “Data Cultures in Higher Education: Emerging Practices and the Challenges Ahead”. It is based on four sections that frame several chapters’ work and present it. In the first section, we briefly explain the problem of data and datafication in our contemporary society. To offer conceptual lenses, the idea of complexit...
This chapter complements the introduction to the book “Data Cultures in Higher Education: Emerging Practices and the challenges ahead”. This chapter explores policy-making areas that impact higher education directly or indirectly. These areas are (a) transformation of higher education (from discourses of modernisation to the problem of managerialis...
This chapter presents the conclusions of the book Data Cultures in Higher Education: Current Practices and Emergent Challenges. It is divided in three parts. The first part introduces the contributions of the initial chapters in the book, highlighting the idea of complexity in the current landscape of data practices. It also reviews the cases intro...
This collection focuses on the role of higher education institutions concerning datafication as a complex phenomenon. It explores how the universities can develop data literac(ies) shaping tomorrow skills and “formae mentis” to face the most deleterious effects of datafication, but also to engage in creative and constructive ways with data. Notably...
Professional learning processes occur in many scenarios in which there are a variety of different elements that play key roles. The concept of learning ecologies is particularly useful for understanding how these complex processes happen, although it is still an embryonic line of research whose potential has not been fully explored. The objective o...
In the networked society, because of the possibilities provided by digitization, the expansion of learning contexts is being promoted lifelong but also life wide. Potential learning scenarios are expanded, either by considering the formal to informal continuum or by measuring up options for learning that move from face-to-face to online education,...
La pandemia ha dado un gran protagonismo a lo que llamamos la educación online o educación a distancia digital. La llamada Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento se ha encontrado ante un mayúsculo reto para el cual, como ya ha pasado en otros momentos de la historia, la educación a distancia ha sido una tabla de salvación. La imprevista situ...
This is the tenth report in a series of reports exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment. It proposes ten promising innovations for a post-pandemic world of education: hybrid models, dual learning scenarios, pedagogies of microcredentials, pedagogy of autonomy, watch parties, influencer-led education, pedagogies of the home, pedagog...
Comparing universities and courses is of interest to a variety of stakeholders including potential students, policy makers, news and media organisations, ranking providers, and universities themselves. There are a range of existing university ranking schemes that provide comparisons (e.g. Academic Ranking of World Universities) but typically these...
The university is facing, once again, a deep transformation process. On this occasion, the continuous increase in the digital dimension of society and its consequent impact on teaching and research plays a fundamental role. The effects of the pandemic, which have made digital education the only option to avoid the complete interruption of higher ed...
Learning is evolving, just as the world and society are. In this context, teachers are also experiencing new ways for updating their professional development. The metamorphosis of learning is currently being pushed by four main catalysts: the connectivity of networks, the empowerment of the students, the overcoming of space and time barriers, and t...
本文阐述高等教育背景下开放教育的内容。文章首先介绍开放教育的起源及其理论基础，随后根据远程开放学习研究的宏观、中观和微观层次框架讨论远程开放学习、开放教育实践、开放学术、开放教育资源、慕课、先前学习认定、学习者特征和开放教育国际化等主题的内容。最后从宏观、中观和微观层面提出今后的研究方向。
La inmersión de la sociedad en la era digital ha influido de manera decisiva en las formas de comportarse de las personas, en el ámbito del trabajo, de la economía, del entretenimiento y de la enseñanza. La educación superior está sufriendo una gran transformación debido al desarrollo tecnológico en el que estamos sumergidos, y esos continuos cambi...
La pandemia por el virus responsable de la COVID-19 ha puesto en jaque a los sistemas educativos de todo el mundo. Su carácter imprevisto hizo que se tuvieran que abrazar soluciones virtuales para poder superar los momentos de confinamiento total. Esta situación ha puesto en evidencia diversos problemas que acucian a la educación y que no pueden se...
This paper explores elements of open education within the context of higher education. After an introduction to the origins of open education and its theoretical foundations, the topics of open and distance learning, international education issues in open education, open educational practices and scholarship, open educational resources, MOOCs, prio...
This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project "Digital educational architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures-EduArc", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This study reviews the situation of digital educational resources (or (O)ER) framed...
This paper presents a study about Students Evaluation of Teaching (SET). Student surveys delivered at the end of the academic course is an approach currently applied in all Italian university courses. However, the quality of teaching is a multi-layered phenomenon whose evaluation might require additional methods. In this study, concerning a course...
This paper presents an exploratory study to examine the practices of outstanding primary school teachers in their professional development for ICT integration in teaching and learning, as a means of understanding how their learning ecologies develop and function. Outstanding teachers in the context of this study are teachers who innovate pedagogica...
University ranking systems are being implemented with the aim of assessing and comparing higher education institutions at a global level. Despite their being increasingly used, rankings are often strongly criticized for their social and economic implications, as well as for limitations in their technical implementation. One of these limitations is...
Vivimos en un mundo cambiante, en una sociedad en la que las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) posibilitan nuevas oportunidades de actualización. Este estudio pretende determinar cuáles son las preferencias de formación permanente del profesorado de Educación Primaria. Con ese objetivo, se ha llevado a cabo una investigación de...
This Special Section brings together original perspectives to the construct of Lifelong Learning Ecologies by collating a number of articles which have adopted the term to conduct empirical research in the field of educational technologies. Overall, the studies in this section encompass a perspective into which learning is understood not only in th...
The concept of learning ecologies emerged in a context of educational change. While the “learning ecologies” construct has offered a broad semantic space for characterizing innovative ways of learning, it is also true that its potential to promote innovative educational interventions may have been hindered by this same broadness. Based on this assu...
University ranking systems are being implemented with the aim of assessing and comparing higher education institutions at a global level. Despite their being increasingly used, rankings are often strongly criticized for their social and economic implications, as well as for limitations in their technical implementation. One of these limitations is...
The aim of this article is to establish the extent to which the concept of e-leadership has taken off as a lens through which to study leadership for technology-enhanced learning (TEL) in higher education. Building on a previous study conducted in 2013, this article thus covers an exploratory review of the literature for the period 2013-2017. It an...
This paper presents the results of a Delphi study conducted as part of a doctoral research project on e-leadership literacies for technology-enhanced learning (TEL-eLL) in higher education (HE). The aim of the Delphi study is to answer the research question: “What are TEL-eLL?” In other words, how can we define the novel concept of TEL-eLL and how...
At present, the need for lifelong learning has become an unavoidable requirement both personally and professionally to enable access to new knowledge generated in a vertiginous way in the information society. Thanks to technology, opportunities have been increased and forms and times to acquire the skills needed to function as a citizen and worker...
La inmersión de la sociedad en la era digital ha influido de manera decisiva en las formas de comportarse de las personas, en el ámbito del trabajo, de la economía, del entretenimiento y de la enseñanza. La educación superior está sufriendo una gran transformación debido al desarrollo tecnológico en el que estamos sumergidos, y esos continuos cambi...
Las políticas de educación nacionales e internacionales promueven desde hace años el desarrollo competencial en los centros escolares. El ámbito de las competencias transversales supone gestionar una problemática específica. Adicionalmente, en el caso de la competencia de Aprender a Aprender, todavía se constata la falta de concreciones para su des...
Teachers’ attitudes towards technology are crucial to foster its use in schools and to improve its educational affordances and this is still a topic for research. This article relates the attitudes school teachers have towards information and communication technologies (ICT) with the different levels of technology integration in schools. A multiple...
El propósito de este estudio ha sido identificar el estado de la formación
para la docencia en línea de las universidades españolas y cuáles son las
competencias cuya adquisición se pretende facilitar, con el fin de poder
orientar convenientemente actuaciones para su mejora.
This article describes a multi-case study embedded design (Yin, 2009) in an interpretative paradigm centered on the methodological changes within the classroom to develop students' new literacy skills. The study adopted a mixed-methodology design, surveying 252 teachers and interviewing 13 institution directors, ICT coordinators and a head teacher....
This work describes a participatory design process of a course about open educational resources aiming at university professors in Latin-America. The methodology involves the active participation of Higher Education stakeholders for the adoption and fostering of specific actions aligned with the principles of open education. This task is part of th...
MOOC. De la teoría a la evidencia
The first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was launched in 2008 in Canada. Since then these new model of online education has proliferated around the world and sparked many interesting and often heated discussions regarding their benefits and implications in the field of education. In order to understand and contribute to the debate surrounding MO...
El primer MOOC (Curso Masivo Abierto en Línea) se realiza en 2008 en Canadá. Desde entonces la proliferación de este tipo de iniciativas en diversos lugares del mundo ha suscitado interesantes controversias sobre sus aportaciones y significados en el ámbito del aprendizaje y la formación. Para superar los debates basados en opiniones, intuiciones o...
The first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was launched in 2008 in Canada. Ever since then the proliferation of these kinds of initiatives from all over the world have sparked interesting discussions regarding its benefits and implications in the field of education. In order to work through the debate surrounding MOOCs and their educational possib...
This chapter aims to show how the inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach can be successfully used in online education. To this purpose, we will present the experience of the Digital Competence Program at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, which is designed considering the principles of collaborative work, implemented with a wide range of education...
Online collaboration is a relevant teaching method and has become a priority in education and research. In addition, it is becoming an essential skill for teachers. Taking this fact into consideration, this study focuses on online collaboration from the teachers’ perspective. The participants of our research develop their training activity in a ful...
This chapter discusses the manifold ways in which the notion of 'ecology' and 'learning ecology' are adopted to interpret digitally-mediated educational contexts, to account for e-learning in higher education and to refer to emergent forms of networked environments and related learning practices. Moreover, the chapter provides a brief discussion on...
El primer MOOC (Curso Masivo Abierto en Línea) se realiza en 2008 en Canadá. Desde entonces la proliferación de este tipo de iniciativas en diversos lugares del mundo ha suscitado interesantes controversias sobre sus aportaciones y significados en el ámbito del aprendizaje y la formación. Para superar los debates basados en opiniones, intuiciones o...
Teaching in virtual environments demands mastery of several teaching competencies. Although the most accepted ones are pedagogical, in order to successfully teach online it becomes necessary to acquire and develop some other competencies, sometimes referred to as peripheral roles (Denis et al., 2004).
The aim of this study is to analyse perception...
The current European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is fostering the development and implementation of a teaching and learning model in which teaching roles are being challenged and shifted. Beyond the fact competence-based design for programs is the core issue concerning this new scenario, it is also true that the use of the Information and Communic...
O presente artigo insere-se num projeto de investigação mais abrangente que tem como propósito, identificar e sistematizar princípios orientadores para o delinear de estratégias para a implementação de programas de e-Learning no Ensino Superior, assumindo-se como foco particular o estudo da e-maturidade organizacional. A presente comunicação centra...
The last ten years or more have been a period of intense change, both on a structural and general level. We live in a time of confusion, common to moments in time where there is a historical transition between different types of society. This situation has led to a substantial change in the professional needs, competencies and skills required by in...
Some authors have stated that university students born after 1982 have been profoundly influenced by digital technologies, showing different characteristics when compared to previous generations. However, it is worth asking if that is a current observable phenomenon. Are those students born after the 80s really more familiar with ICT tools than tho...
This work is concerned with a reflection on the construct of “chronotope” (Bakhtin, 1981) as a conceptual tool suitable for illustrating the affordances of emerging Web 2.0 learning ecologies of doctoral researchers. For the purposes of this work, the chronotope is considered as an analytical lens suitable for illustrating the movements of PhD rese...
This work is concerned with a reflection on the construct of “chronotope” (Bakhtin, 1981) as a conceptual tool suitable for illustrating the affordances of emerging Web 2.0 learning ecologies of doctoral researchers. For the purposes of this work, the chronotope is considered as an analytical lens suitable for illustrating the movements of PhD rese...
Guía dirigida a aquellos docentes que quieren diseñar el trabajo final de una programa de máster que se desarrolle en un entorno virtual de aprendizaje.
A new understanding of knowledge production and learning challenges the core of learning design, demanding innovative and appropriate approaches to teaching and learning. We present a set of learning design principles drawn from the learner’s perspective. They focus on empowering learners in networked environments for fostering critical thinking an...
p>El Grupo Interuniversitario de Formación Docente (GIFD) está formado por las unidades y centros de formación (ICE-UB, IDES-UAB, ICE-UPC, CQUID-UPF, ICE-UdG, ICE-UdL, ICE-URV y eLC-UOC) de las ocho universidades públicas catalanas. Estas unidades actualmente se encuentran en un proceso de reformulación de las actividades y planes de formación que...
Informal learning is currently seen by some authors as a shift in current educational systems. Based on a trend instigated by connectivism, whereby informal networks are created between people who help each other to learn, it seems to be an alternative to traditional ways of teaching and learning. New technologies are key to the development of thes...
Final dissertation projects at UOC’s Master's Program in Education and ICT (eLearning), mainly developed by teachers and trainers, become an illustrative and fascinating collection of papers that aim to make proposals for introducing ICT in education. A thematic analysis, from the perspective of gender, provides interesting data that reveal trends...
Final dissertation projects at UOC's Master's Program in Education and ICT(eLearning), mainly developed by teachers and trainers, become an illustrative andfascinating collection of papers that aim to make proposals for introducing ICT ineducation. A thematic analysis, from the perspective of gender, provides interestingdata that reveal trends and...
Mención Especial ACUP-CIDUI a una de las tres mejores comunicaciones
This article present the project developed in 2011 by units and training centers from all public
universities in Catalonia. 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 t...
Este artículo presenta el proyecto desarrollado durante el año 2011 por las unidades y centros de
formación de las universidades públicas catalanas. El proyecto se orienta a la mejora de la calidad del
sistema de educación superior y de la actividad del profesorado universitario mediante planes de
formación específicamente diseñados con esta finali...
Some authors, most of them from the United States, have stated that university students born after 1982 have been profoundly influenced by the advent of digital technologies, showing different characteristics when compared to previous generations. These students, called the \\\\\\\"Net Generation\\\\\\\", are supposed to be digitally literate, cont...
p>E-learning is part of the new dynamic that characterises educational systems at the start of the 21st century. Like society, the concept of e-learning is subject to constant change. In addition, it is difficult to come up with a single definition of e-learning that would be accepted by the majority of the scientific community. The different under...
Some authors, most of them from the United States, have stated that university students born after 1982 have been profoundly influenced by the advent of digital technologies, showing different characteristics when compared to previous generations. These students, called the Net Generation, are supposed to have some particular characteristics relate...
Los proyectos finales del Máster universitario en Educación y TIC (eLearning) de la UOC, desarrollados básicamente por docentes y formadores, constituyen un repertorio interesante e ilustrativo de propuestas de introducción de las TIC en el ámbito educativo. Un análisis temático desde la perspectiva de género aporta datos que revelan tendencias y c...
This paper aims to present the most important findings of a study conducted in the context of a research project entitled "e-learning conceptual framework". The main objective of this research was to analyze perceptions of online university staff about e-learning and to create an inclusive definition of its concept, which could set the boundaries f...
The purpose of this study is to analyse what is happening at schools regarding the integration and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and to examine teachers’ perceptions about what teaching and learning processes can be improved through the use of ICT.
Purpose
The paper seeks to describe the Catalan corporate e‐learning providers from the perspective of quality perception, quality assessment and quality control.
Design/methodology/approach
A literature review reveals key aspects of the definition of quality in e‐learning. The results of the review constitute the basis for exploratory research in...
L'estudi té com a objectiu la construcció d'una definició actual i integradora del concepte d'e-learning, que sigui acceptada per la major part de la comunitat científica i que serveixi com a referent pels estudiosos i professionals d'aquesta temàtica.
