Xavier Mas Garcia

About the author
He is a specialist in digital education and training design at the eLearning Innovation Center, a centre for educational innovation and learning transformation at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He holds a PhD in Education and Society from the University of Barcelona and is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the same university. He has been working as a pedagogical consultant, instructional designer and manager of educational innovation since 1997, publishing works and articles related to these areas. He has also been involved in the editorial activity, creating and directing the OuterEDU collection (Editorial UOC). His interests focus on the phenomenon of online learning, the role of education in the Digital Society and the emergence of new training modalities based on AI and edTech in general.
ChatGPT: “Universities must teach students the skills needed to tackle the challenges posed by artificial intelligence” All items

ChatGPT: “Universities must teach students the skills needed to tackle the challenges posed by artificial intelligence”

We had an online meeting with two experts from the eLearning Innovation Center (eLinC) to ask the ChatGPT chatbot a number of questions. While the chatbot gave its answers, the experts watched, commented and gave[…]

Digital transformation and pandemic: seven educational trends for the post-COVID-19 era All items

Digital transformation and pandemic: seven educational trends for the post-COVID-19 era

Since the dawn of mass access to the Internet in the mid-1990s, the digital transformation phenomenon has affected all areas of human activity. In the early stages, the process consisted merely of digitizing the analogue,[…]

Future scenarios for digital learners All items

Future scenarios for digital learners

4 min   Interpolating digital education at EADTU 2016 During the first two decades of the 21st century, the winds of change have never ceased to blow over the dominions of education. However, it seems that[…]