The UOC is promoting a new educational model for subscription
"We want to provide a new educational experience that empowers students and helps them to assume joint responsibility for their education", commented Jordi Conesa, researcher with the SmartLearn group at the UOC and coordinator of the iLearn project. The University is opening up a call to select students and faculty members to take part in this project as paid volunteers, to help construct a more personalized educational model which adapts to new training needs.
iLearn explores the characteristics of a new lifelong learning scenario. The project team will be organizing co-creation workshops with volunteers, both students and professors, to find out what this model should be like and to adapt it to the concerns, expectations and needs of the University community. The University is specifically looking for participants falling into one of the following categories:
- UOC students
- UOC alumni
- Students from another university
- Graduates from another university
- Coordinating professors at the UOC
- Course instructors at the UOC
Would you like to help define this project? Register here by 7 October.
The workshops will last two hours and will be held at the UOC centre at Rambla del Poblenou, 156, in Barcelona, or at a nearby site.
The team
Along with Jordi Conesa, the project coordinator, the following UOC teaching staff will also take part in iLearn: David Bañeres, Enric Mor and Tona Monjo, from the Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications; Montserrat Garcia, from the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences; Josep Maria Batalla and María Jesús Martínez, from the Faculty of Economics and Business; Beni Gómez-Zúñiga, from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences; Carme Carrión, professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences; eLearn Center specialist Xavier Mas, and Israel Conejero from Strategic Planning and Research.
iLearn is a project funded by the Xtrem internal call, promoted by the eLearn Center, the UOC research centre, with the aim of strengthening disruptive projects that contribute to a significant step forward in the University's educational model and e-learning as a whole.