Technology and Higher Education: challenges and opportunities for coming years

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Technology and Higher Education: challenges and opportunities for coming years

Last month the New Media Consortium (NMC) released its annual Horizon Report which identifies six key trends accelerating technology adoption in higher education and six challenges hindering its adoption. The NMC is a not-for-profit organization[…]

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Six challenges and drivers of technology in higher education

Last month the New Media Consortium (NMC) published its annual Horizon Report which identifies 6 key trends accelerating technology adoption in higher education and 6 challenges hindering its progress. The NMC is a not-for-profit group[…]

Teacher Development

Nomination call for UNESCO-Hamdan Prize 2015-2016

The fourth edition of the UNESCO-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers has opened the call for nominations. The prize is awarded every two years and[…]

Gender & ICTs

On the lack of interest of women in ICT studies and occupations

Gest post by Milagros Sáinz, Director of the “Gender and ICT” research group of IN3-UOC, in occasion of the International Women’s Day Women embody a great share of enrollments in university studies in most western[…]

International Seminars

X International Seminar videos now available

Videos of the X International Seminar have been published on UOC’s youtube page. The 2-day seminar led to several discussions on the challenges and opportunities of education regarding to curricula. Our speakers discussed on what[…]

Misc.

Lifelong learning may help tackle the ageing challenge, a study suggests

This UNESCO Chair made a presentation on ageing policy in the Congress of the Social Policy Network of Spain, held on February 5-6. The research analyzed the policies for the elderly enabled by the City[…]

International Seminars

What are the top three things our students need to learn in order to thrive in the world we live in?

Cathy Davidson, from City University of New York and The Futures Initiative, gave the first keynote talk of our X International Seminar. During her speech she asked the participants to write down on a card the[…]

International Seminars

X International Seminar tweet by tweet, debate by debate

Danica Savonick, from the Futures Initiative, has created a detailed Storify page with a representative selection of the conversations and moments that took place during the Seminar. It is a good summary of the debates[…]

International Seminars

Highlights from Day 1 of X International Seminar

This post was written by Tom Caswell Day 1 of the X International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change was lively and thought provoking. After a warm welcome from Josep[…]

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UNESCO Chair International Seminar 2014

‘Revisiting the Fundamentals of Traditional Curricula. R/Evolution: what “R” would Mean for Education’ The X International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair, which took place the 1st and 2nd December 2014, considered the topic of the[…]