Entries tagged: IX International Seminar (2012)

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IX International Seminar – Edited Videos Released

We are releasing the final edited version of the video sessions of the last IX International Seminar: Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach, which was held last November in Barcelona at the Media-TIC building. You[…]

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Yong Zhao: World Class Education: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students

Notes from ‘Yong Zhao: World Class Education: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps Yong Zhao is currently Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon.[…]

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Kurt Fischer: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education

Notes from ‘Kurt Fischer: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps   Kurt Fischer leads an international movement to connect biology and cognitive science to education, and is founding editor of the journal Mind,[…]

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Azra Naseem: Changing Pedagogy Through Faculty Professional Development in Blended Learning

Notes from ‘Azra Naseem: Changing Pedagogy Through Faculty Professional Development in Blended Learning‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps Azra Naseem is a faculty member at the Aga Khan University (AKU) Pakistan. She also holds a management portfolio[…]

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Manuel Castells: Creative education for the Information Age: Mission Impossible?

Notes from ‘Manuel Castells: Creative education for the Information Age: Mission Impossible?‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps ‘I’m going to talk about the Obstacles and let we will find the solutions’ Manuel Castells who understood very[…]

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Demo presentations have been selected

We are happy to announce the winners of the call for demos for the upcoming Seminar Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide-approach. As you know, we had two rounds of the call for demos and the Comittee[…]

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IX International Seminar – Call for Demos OPEN

The UNESCO Chair in e-Learning at UOC is pleased to host its ninth annual International Seminar. It will take place on November 26-27, 2012 in Barcelona, at the MediaTIC Building. The theme of this year[…]

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Readings for the IX International Seminar

Here we will share some interesting readings related to the topic of the IX International Seminar. Some of the readings will be suggestions of the keynote speakers and demo presenters of the seminar. We encourage[…]

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IX International Seminar – 1st Conference Call

     Provisional Banner The 2012 International Seminar of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning will be focused on the much needed reforms of the education system. The previous, VIII Seminar gave evidence of many actual[…]