Entries tagged: EdTech

Revolutionizing the world and education All items

Revolutionizing the world and education

Technology has become the bedrock for developing the elements that make up our daily lives. Situations like the pandemic have tested the ability of businesses, organizations and education centres to strengthen their response to this[…]

La Reina Roja 2.0. Ch. 2. Online universities in Spain: 3 models All items

La Reina Roja 2.0. Ch. 2. Online universities in Spain: 3 models

Our society is becoming more and more demanding and having an accredited training is getting more necessary to get a job. Today, the opportunities to access education are varied and offer options to people who[…]

Educational videos may boost number of passing students All items

Educational videos may boost number of passing students

By Jordi Conesa, Victor García and Antoni Pérez-Navarro A study carried out by the UOC is analysing the acceptance and impact of different types of video in several university Introduction to Engineering Physics courses, both[…]

Artificial intelligence is here to stay All items

Artificial intelligence is here to stay

The Trends Observatory of the eLearn Center at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has entered into collaboration with observatories at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Observatorio de Innovación Educativa) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de[…]

The UOC coorganises the Next Generation by Design virtual symposium along with DXtera Institute to explore the future of educational technology All items

The UOC coorganises the Next Generation by Design virtual symposium along with DXtera Institute to explore the future of educational technology

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the DXtera Institute’s NGBD event is going online For three years now the DXtera Institute, of which the UOC has been a member since 2017, has organized its Next[…]

Triple Alliance for Educational Innovation in Latin America: La Tríada All items

Triple Alliance for Educational Innovation in Latin America: La Tríada

Innovation, digital transformation and collaboration are fundamental for the future of Higher Education. Latin America faces the challenges of the incessant change brought about by globalization, and the continent’s best universities have managed to unite[…]

The University of the Future. Artificial Intelligence in Education All items

The University of the Future. Artificial Intelligence in Education

A talk between Dr.Wayne Holmes and Guillem Garcia Brustenga 29/03/2019   Last March 29, 2019 at the UOC, during the meeting of the EADTU Artificial Intelligence Task Force, we took advantage of the presence of[…]

The eLearn Center at DXtera Academy in Chicago All items

The eLearn Center at DXtera Academy in Chicago

Francesc Santanach, from the eLearn Center, and Albert Ariza, from the Technology Area at UOC, together with Jeff Merriman, Dxtera’s CTO, presented the Next Generation Integration Scorecard (NGIS) project which is a methodology to help[…]

Envisioning the future of technology and education. A chronicle of the Next Generation by Design Symposium 2019 All items

Envisioning the future of technology and education. A chronicle of the Next Generation by Design Symposium 2019

The Next Generation By Design Symposium was held at the Palau Macaya in Barcelona from 21st to 23rd May. It was jointly organized by DXtera Institute, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the technology partners[…]

SWOT analysis of innovative technologies applied to the educational sector in 2018 All items

SWOT analysis of innovative technologies applied to the educational sector in 2018

In this post, we have highlighted three of the technologies that have had the greatest impact in 2018, being our will to focus on their strengths and weaknesses in relation to the world of learning.[…]