Tag Archives: Francisco Segado

Category Archives: Francisco Segado

International launch of new pan-European cybersecurity master’s programme, Digital4Security

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, 13th November, 2023 A new innovative pan-European master’s programme will help companies in all sectors tackle Read more
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Workshop: Inclusive model of hybrid and remote work

Logroño, La Rioja, 30th May 2023 The workshop “Inclusive model of hybrid and remote work” will be held on the Read more
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ENCORE+. Interview with Deborah Arnold

The ENCORE+ project supports the uptake and innovation of Open Educational Resources (OER) for education and business. An improved understanding and strategy Read more
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E-Ducation: Transforming teaching and learning with technology-based tools and resources

The Erasmus+ project “E-DUCATION: TEACHING AND LEARNING AFTER 2020“, ending in February 2023, aims to offer the European educational community Read more
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EU project ARISA to fast-track the AI upskilling and reskilling in Europe

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 19 January 2023 Twenty leading organisations drive the Artificial Intelligence Skills Alliance (ARISA) project to accelerate Read more
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HELMeTO 2022 call for papers

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 26 May 2022 The 4th International Conference on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online, HELMeTO Read more
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Call for papers for HELMeTO 2022

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 26 April 2022 From September 21 to September 23 will be held the 4th International Conference Read more
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Call for the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for Tolerance and Non-Violence 2022 is now open

ogroño, La Rioja, Spain. 27 April 2022 The UNESCO-Mandanjeet Singh Prize for Tolerance and Non-Violence was established in 1995 on Read more
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ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021 proceedings and resources are now openly available

Logroño, La Rioja, España. 11 April 2022 The “ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021: Upskilling and upscaling for quality Open, Read more
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UNIR iTED organises a series of online seminars that will be part of the “UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022”

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 3 May 2022 From 18 to 20 May, the “UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022” will Read more
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“With optimism in the heart” an initiative for the distance education of Ukrainian children

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. March 22, 2022 Given the current situation in Ukraine, where many children have become refugees and Read more
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The book “Radical Solutions in Palestinian Higher Education. Research from An-Najah National University” is published

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. March 21, 2022 The book Radical Solutions in Palestinian Higher Education. Research from An-Najah National University, Read more
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Permanent seminar on research culture. How to put together a winning international project proposal

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. March 17, 2022 This online seminar will take place on March 31 at 11:00 am CEST. Read more
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UNIR joins the #ScienceForUkraine initiative

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. March 16, 2022 Volunteer students, research scientists and different academic institutions in Europe and around the Read more
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Professor Dai Griffiths will participate in EDUCON2022

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. March 15, 2022. The “EDUCON2022- IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference” will be held in Tunis from Read more
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A global study on open education and open science, in which UNIR iTED participates, receives the UNESCO OER Implementation Award for Excellence 2021

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. January 20, 2022 The “Global study on Open Education and Open Science: Practices, use cases and Read more
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Call for papers “Good practices on the engagement of youth in Education for sustainable development in the UNECE region”

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 11 January 2022 The UNECE ESD Youth Platform and UNECE Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Read more
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Special issue in Educational Technology & Society. Call for papers on Computational Thinking

Special Issue “Integration of Technology to Advance Computational Thinking Education” at Educational Technology & Society (JCR-indexed, highly ranked journal) This Read more
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Call for contributions for CIIP 2022 conference

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 21 December 2021 Next year a new edition of the International Conference on Pedagogical Innovation (CIIP) Read more
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The Martin Wolpers 2020 award goes to Carina Soledad González

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 22 November 2021. Carina Soledad González has been awarded with the Martin Wolpers 2020 prize, granted Read more
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Learn more about UNIR iTED and its extensive experience in innovation and educational technology

Logroño, La Rioja, España. October, 19th, 2021 UNIR iTED is the Research Institute for Innovation and Technology in Education at Read more
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Looking for contributors in the research topic Emerging Technologies and Digitalization in Education for Sustainable Development

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 26 October 2021 Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is the key driver for achieving Sustainable Development Read more
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Contribute to quality education participating in “Call for code. Education Innovation case competition”

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 16 September 2021 Call for Code. Education Innovation case competition goes under the slogan “Bringing students Read more
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UNESCO Webinar on OER policies development

Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. July 27th, 2021 The Unit for Technology and AI in Education organises a webinar on the Read more
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The paradox of too much support

13 years ago, a colleague from Utrecht University (in the Netherlands) and I wrote the article The paradox of the Read more
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Daniele Di Mitri, PhD at Open University of The Netherland, has won the Martin Wolpers’ Award to the most young promising research

In the frame of the Martin Wolpers’ Award, funded by Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED) Read more
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UNIR iTED publishes a compendium about MOOCs in developing countries

The compilation, that is now available for downloading in three formats, is an edited version of “Making Sense of MOOCs, Read more
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The call for nominations for the 2018 UNESCO-King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize is now open

The deadline for applications is set on 31 October 2018 The increasingly powerful capacities and lower costs of ICTs, as Read more
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UNIR iTED contributes to the Open Education Global Conference

In April 24-26 took place the Open Education Global Conference 2018, in Delft, The Netherlands, a diverse conference focused on Read more
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The attainment gap or how on Earth we fight for achieving goals and against a dramatic drop-out

A couple of weeks ago I run a workshop, at Coventry University (thanks for the invitation!), with the pompous title: Read more
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ICT in Education: the missing link in the innovation cycle

Usually, the cycle of innovation is sold as a great progress in education. However, in education, the cycle of innovation Read more
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Last week UNIR iTED participated in the second partners meeting of EduHack project at Coventry University

Daniel Burgos, director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED), and Fabio Nascimbeni, researcher at Read more
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COMANITY kicks off: social inclusion through community animators

Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) took part in the kick-off meeting of the newly-awarded Erasmus+ KA3 “Support for Policy Read more
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Two innovative and holistic approaches to Education win the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize

The ceremony, that took place in Paris on March 7th, gathered over 500 participants –including high government representatives, private companies Read more
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The first-ever report on Open Education policies in the 28 EU Member States is available

Back in 2013, following the momentum brought by the first World OER Congress organized by UNESCO in 2012, the European Read more
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The life-vest of fuzzy learning against the binary learning wave

There are many binary things in the World. On and off, red and blue, elephant or donkey, donkey or bull, Read more
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The revolution of teachers in action through ICT

Teachers are in revolution. They claim an active role in new ways of learning and teaching. Usually, through the use Read more
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Flipped meeting. No need to waste your time

Uncountable discussion meetings, all around the clock, from sunrise to sunset: this is the typical scenario in many institutions every Read more
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UNIR iTED Congress 2017: eLearning and Open Education in practice

During two days, 35 experts from 14 countries have been able to share their knowledge and their experiences. Research Institute for Read more
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Teachers, open education and the right question to ask

Not for obvious, it brings less interest. The middle maker is the key in any negotiation. Or the producer in Read more
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The ESPAQ Students’ Handbook is out!

As from the publication Preface: “This handbook explores what is meant by quality, provides an overview of quality assurance and enhancement Read more
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Campaigning Armenian students’ engagement in Quality Assurance

UNIR has participated as part of the Evaluation Committe in the contest STUDENTS CREATIVE POSTER: Armenian students of partner HEIs Read more
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Last Project meeting and Advisory Board meeting

The last project meeting of the ESPAQ project took place in Brussels on October 9, 2017. All partners discussed about Read more
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2 against 200. When the minority hijacks the reason

At the 39th UNESCO Conference General, Education Commission, we have been through a bizarre situation. 2 countries were blocking the Read more
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The Martin Wolpers Award at JTEL 2017 goes to Zacharoula Papamitsiou

Last week, 9-13 October, 2017, the 13th Joint European Summer School on Technology-enhanced Learning took place in Aveiro, Portugal (JTEL). Read more
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Tomorrow starts the first of the five Webinars as part of the OpenMed course

Under the umbrella and overall coordination of the project OpenMed, the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR Read more
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Facebook toy advertisements are less sexist than TV advertisements

Christmas toy campaigns usually strengthen gender roles. Acording to an investigation by Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), this kind of Read more
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Open Education NOW: From commitment to action. From action to accountability

In a bunch of a few months Open Education is becoming a remarkable movement. Not that it was not before, Read more
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Revolving learning. Both sides of the table

The body has many muscles. Over 600 to be specific, although when you are leading into your 50’ the 8 Read more
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Open Educators Factory participates in 2nd World OER Congress

The Congress aimed at moving from commitment to action, and resulted in the production of the Ljubljana OER Action Plan Slideshow News

UNIR iTED contributes to #HackForGood BIGDAY, the place for hackers who try to build a better world

17 teams from all over Spain have moved to Madrid to transfer their results in HackForGood Big Day Slideshow News

UNIR & ECTEL select Inge Molenaar’s team for the Martin Wolpers Award for the best eLearning paper 2017

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UNIR iTED contributes to the annual appoinment of International Day of Universal Access of Information

IDUAI will gather in Maurituis, in September 27th-30th, some of the best experts on Educational Technology and Innovation, Open Education and Educational Policies Slideshow News

QAREER project is coming to an end after 2 years

The last QAREER project meeting took place in Padua last Sept 18 and 19, 2017. Partners discussed mainly about dissemination Read more
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The 2nd World Open Educational Resources Congress will be held in Ljubljana

The Congress will follow the theme «OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action» Research Institute for Read more
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Software is culture

Roberto di Cosmo, Director of Software Heritage, who I shared with a round table this morning at the World Summit Read more
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The effectiveness of serious gaming with Social Seducement

Social Seducement, EU funded project, are holding a seminar in Madrid on Wednesday, March 15th, from 4 pm to 6 Read more
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50 shades of openness

It hits me so often and so hard how different the same word can elicit so many assorted meanings depending Read more
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ABED Congress. Post #2: Integration of the daily life with LMSs

Current Learning Management Systems (in fact, since the beginning of these tools) try to build a meeting place to provide Read more
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ABED Congress. Post #3: Is peer-review the best evaluation process?

Furthermore, if a publication is thoroughly written and honestly written, and it is accurate, the end-users will validate the usefulness Read more
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ABED Congress. Post #1: Public funding, public resources. Private funding, an agreement to make

Yesterday afternoon, and in line with the opening ceremony of the 22nd International Congress of Distance Education CIAED (ABED), organized Read more
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UNIR Research R&D Management System certified by AENOR

7th September 2016.  With this certificate, one of the main missions of Vice-chancellorship for Knowledge Transfer & Technology, which is Read more
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ICDE launches the first global consortium to support doctoral students in OER

ICDE together with founding partners launches the first and unique global consortium to support doctoral students in the research field Read more
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UNIR and Beijing Normal University join forces to work with learning analytics

Through the project PERFORM, both institutions analyze the learning process and the interaction patterns to develop an automatized recommendation system Read more
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Using video on education with a pedagogical approach | Media & Learning Conference 2016 Post 2

Carlos Fernández-Alameda, Brussels, March 2016. In the framework of the Media & Learning Congress, we have discussed the role of Read more
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Media literacy for a better learning, and to foster tolerance | Post 1

Carlos Fernández-Alameda, Brussels.- We have lived an intense debate in the Media & Learning Congress around three main ideas: how Read more
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Integration of informal learning and OER at Mobile Learning Week Symposium

This week, Prof. Daniel Burgos, Vice-Chancellor for Research & Technology (UNIR Research, //research.unir.net), UNESCO Chair on Elearning (//research.unir.net/unesco) and ICDE Read more
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Open Med and UNIR Research participation in Open Education Week

OpenMed project will celebrate Open Education Week with scheduled events including webinars, guest speakers, and online conversations. OpenMed – Opening Read more
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UNIR contributes to the 2016 Horizon Report on Higher Education expert panel seeking for the future of education

 The expert panel has selected the key trends, challenges, and developments in educational technology that will have a decisive impact Read more
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Telspain 2015: Building not only a system for eLearning, but an ecosystem to customize

The Spanish Network of Technology Enhanced Learning (Telspain, http://www.telspain.es) has gathered national and international experts in order to analyze the Read more
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UNIR takes part at the 38th UNESCO General Conference

The Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) has participated at the 38th UNESCO General Conference and the Leader´s Forum (16-17 Read more
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High Level Policy Forum ICDE-UNESCO. Nowadays, learning is what happens off-classroom

Right today, Saturday 17th, 2015, over 120 experts from Worldwide gather together at the University of SouthAfrica, in Pretoria. My Read more
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ICDE World Conf. 2015 #1: UNIR amongst the top-level educational experts, worldwide

Once a year, the International Conference for Open and Distance Education organizes an international conference where educational experts, politics, rectors, Read more
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UNIR implements a software application to enhance the learner progress tracking

UNIR Research’s project A4Learning (http://bit.ly/A4LearningEN), became the first innovation and knowledge transfer project at the institution. The software application has Read more
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“The art & science of Learning Design”, UNIR co-authored the most influential book in the field

A reference for Learning Designers worldwide. The TELS-Craftmor book “The Art & Science of Learning Design” has gathered the analysis Read more
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Dynamics of Evaluation: Incoming series of Open-classes at the UNIR-Tavistock Chair

When you think about evaluation, what comes to your mind? If you think about systems, conversations, clients, stakeholders, complexity, negotiations, Read more
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Marcel J. Veenman: “Even brighter students have to keep developing metacognition skills”

Marcel J. Veenman, founder of the Institute for Metacognition Research and Chief Editor of an Springer Journal, Metacognition and Learning, Read more
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First UNIR-Tavistock Chair Openclass: ‘Reflective practice bridges the gap between theory, skills, values and methods’

Evaluation, not only as a business tool, but as a useful practice in education. This is one of the ideas Read more
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Post #1 Network of UNESCO Chairs in ICT and Education: Basics pillars for Lifelong Learning

These days UNIR contributes to the V International Conference of UNESCO IITE and the Network of UNESCO Chairs on ICT Read more
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UNIR supports the Qingdao Declaration for the use of TICS towards a more inclusive educational system

UNIR (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, http://www.unir.net), through UNIR Research (//research.unir.net) participated in the International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Read more
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Francisco Segado: “El interés por la ciencia no está acompasado a su ritmo de avance”

La divulgación científica se convertirá en el eje central del II Congreso Internacional Comunicación y Sociedad Digital, organizado por el Read more
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