Entries tagged: UOC

UOC’s GRAF project presented at Dxtera’s Next Generation by Design Symposium All items

UOC’s GRAF project presented at Dxtera’s Next Generation by Design Symposium

Tuesday 12 May marked the start of the three sessions scheduled to take place as part of Dxtera’s Next Generation by Design Symposium. This first session, entitled Comparative Taxonomy Management, included my presentation on the[…]

Three things we’ve learnt about chatbots in the classroom All items

Three things we’ve learnt about chatbots in the classroom

This semester we’ve introduced a chatbot on two UOC courses. It’s a pilot project in response to an ambitious long-term goal: to provide students with assistance 24/7, all year round. There’s a long way to[…]

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[…]

Use of text analytics models in the detection and analysis of trends in e-learning All items

Use of text analytics models in the detection and analysis of trends in e-learning

The review of scientific literature is a common task among researchers who wish to detect the trends that are influencing the evolution of a discipline or specific field of research. Obtaining such knowledge requires heavy[…]

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[…]

Intellectual philanthropy: quality learning funded by École 42 and TUMO All items

Intellectual philanthropy: quality learning funded by École 42 and TUMO

Chapter 5 of La Reina Roja gives us the scoop on two proposals for future education in which students take control of their learning and collaborate directly with technology firms. Student satisfaction rates and work[…]

We meet the international profile centres Buckingham University and Class Afloat. Time optimization and learning by doing All items

We meet the international profile centres Buckingham University and Class Afloat. Time optimization and learning by doing

In the 4th chapter of La Reina Roja, we introduce two centres that are developing new ways of optimising their training by adapting to the needs of our time. This is the case of Buckingham[…]

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[…]