Tag Archives: polysemy
Category Archives: polysemy
FIND ME project: University Dual Career Opportunities
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 8 May 2024 In the last years, the interest in dual career topics increased enormously in Read more Project-Live
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 Slideshow News
Green Circle: Micro-credentials in Construction Sector
Environmental change is a key driver for labour demand and skills supply across all sectors, and the climate crisis has Read more Project-Live
Digital4Security
Digital4Security is an innovative European Master’s Programme in Cybersecurity Management & Data Sovereignty that will equip European SMEs and companies Read more Project-Live
WISER Project: Well-being in a Sustainable Economy Revisited
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 10 July 2023 The WISER Project, funded by Horizon Europe, aims to develop a new economic Read more Project-Live
GREAT project – Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation (societal and cultural domains)
The growth of games on computers and mobile platforms is a remarkable phenomenon of recent years, raising important questions about Read more Project-Live
Join the Learning Analytics Summer Institute Spain 2022 and learn about the new needs of the educational sector
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 9 June 2022 On 20 and 21 June 2022 the eleventh edition of the free event Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Call for applications for the 2022 UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in Basic Science
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. February 14, 2022 This prize is intended to recognize and reward the greatest achievements in development, Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
The Martin Wolpers 2021 award goes to Ahmed Tlili
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 22 November 2021. Ahmed Tlili has been awarded with the Martin Wolpers 2021 Prize by the Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Call for papers “Regulation of artificial intelligence in the educational field: discourse, devices, practices”
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 16 November 2021 New call for paper for a future issue of “Communication, Technologies et développement”: Read more Slideshow News
Participate in the first multiplier event of the Erasmus+ project DECriS
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 21 October 2021 The first multiplier event of the DECriS (Digital Education for Crisis Situations: Times Read more Slideshow News
UNE, with the collaboration of UNIR iTED, launches the game Norma and the mystery of the lost train
On 26 April 2021, the Spanish Association for Standardisation (UNE) launches the game Norma y el misterio del tren perdido Read more Project-Closed
The UNESCO-UNIR Chair in eLearning renews for a four-year period
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 28 September 2021 Daniel Burgos reappointed as Director of the UNESCO-UNIR Chair in eLearning. Since October Read more Slideshow News
Enrol in the free online courses for university teachers developed by the MOCAT project with a modern and up-to-date methodology
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 23 September 2021 The project MOCAT (Modern competences of academic teachers), coordinated by the WSB University Read more Slideshow News
Online High-level Side Event of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 24 September 2021 UNESCO invites you to the 76th session of the UN General Assembly under Read more Slideshow News
Participate in the Ethics by Design course and receive the same training as Horizon 2020 ethics reviewers
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, 10 September 2021. SHERPA (Shaping the ethical dimensions of smart information systems– a European perspective) is Read more Slideshow News
Radical Solutions for Education in Africa book published
La Rioja, Logroño, Spain. 05 August 2021 The book Radical Solutions for Education in Africa. Open Education and Self-directed Leaning Read more Slideshow News
A research led by SLI and UNIR iTED has been referenced by UNESCO
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 04 August 2021. The article “The evolution of sustainability models for Open Educational Resources: insights from Read more Slideshow News
Radical Solutions for Digital Transformation in Latin American Universities book published
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 28 July 2021 The book Radical Solutions for Digital Transformation in Latin American Universities. Artificial Intelligence Read more Slideshow News
UNESCO world virtual conference on education for sustainable development
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. 11 May 2021 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is organising the World Read more Slideshow News
Crue, CSIC and Elsevier join forces to promote the publication of open access articles by Spanish researchers
14 April 2021. The Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue), of which the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) Read more Slideshow News
Crue, CSIC and Wiley join forces to boost open access to publications for researchers in Spain
14 April 2021. The Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue, by its acronym in Spanish), of which the International University Read more Slideshow News
Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE), 2021-2027
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) has been granted with the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) valid from 2021 until 2027. The Read more Slideshow News
MEDICI project: final online conference
The online ‘Digital Inclusion For All Conference’ took place from January 26 to January 28, 2021. An estimated 58 million Read more Slideshow News
Final Conference of Comanity project in Brussels
The final Conference of the Comanity project took place on November 13, 2019 in Brussels. The results of the project Read more Slideshow News
A common understanding about open science, and the integration of formal and informal learning
UNIR and An-Najah National University (Nablus, Palestine) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, as of today, February, the 21st, 2019. Read more Slideshow News
International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements 2019
A yearlong initiative to raise awareness of chemistry and its applications for sustainable development The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements Read more Slideshow News
Workshop HELMeTO 2019
Online university courses are nowadays widespread, both at traditional and at full distance learning institutions. This phenomenon affects both European Read more Slideshow News
Comanity Project. Getting to know the Greek comunity
In September 20th-21st, 2018, UNIR participated in the second meeting of the Comanity Project. The meeting was hosted by our Read more Slideshow News
Final Project Partners’ Meeting of the European Project Virtual Tours for Business Culture
The project has obtained very ambitious results. The final meeting of Virtual Tours project, hosted by University of Padova, was Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Enhanced students participation in armenian universities quality assurance, thank to knowledge transference, in ESPAQ project
Four years ago the ESPAQ partners were wondering how we could involve the armenian universities students in quality assurance processes, Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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
The Award acknowledges the practical work to take research from scientific papers to the real world Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Just policy is not enough
We need to complement policy advocacy and well-founded good-willing concerns with specific actions and clear implementation plans In July, 10-11, Read more Slideshow News
Open Education practices can improve access to and efficiency of learning experience
One of the latest buzzwords when it comes to innovative developments in Higher Education is “unbundling”, which indicates a process Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Open Education is not free. Someone has to pay
Open Education is cool, trendy, fancy, even hipster. Free and open for everyone from everyone. It is a sort of Read more Slideshow News
Polysemy, Open Education and the glass ceiling
Open Education is a chameleon. While being the same on the core, it means different based on the context. We Read more Slideshow News
10 years & 10 seconds
There is no unique view, there is no right or wrong formula, there is no failure on the way but the inactivity. Because Open Education must be proactive, no matter how long it takes. Slideshow News
Key breakthrough issues in education that cannot wait
You never know where to find inspiration. The great master Picasso quoted that inspiration exists but it has to find Read more Slideshow News
Shaping European policies on Open Education: an important (and difficult) collaborative exercise
On the 16th and 17th of February 2017, I attended a workshop in Seville together with representatives of Ministries of Education Read more Slideshow News
Le bottom-up approche. La déclaration du Maroc
Durant les derniers jours, je suis allé à Marrakech, pour participer en la Marocaine conférence de l’éducation ouverte. La signification Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Innovative ICT in Education or ICT on innovative Education
ICT, Innovation and Education go usually hand to hand, nowadays. When politicians, teachers, policy makers, administrative staff and other facilitators Read more Slideshow News
Smart Specialization and Innovation platforms for digital students and entrepreneurs
OCDE meeting about the Knowledge Triangle has addressed different models to transfer knowledge to the society. Smart Specialization an Innovation Read more Slideshow News
The time to go ahead enhancing the Knowledge Triangle
Delegates from worldwide have highlighted the necessity to implement meassures as soon as possible to foster communication between universities and Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Join the ISE Eratosthenes Experiment on 22 September
Following last March’s great success with more than 1000 schools from around the world involved in the activity, we are Read more Slideshow News
Open video lessons and aditional materials in UNIR TV
At UNIR, we have developed UNIR TV (http://tv.unir.net), which provides videocast resources. For example: lessons, lectures, insights, presentations, and open Read more Slideshow News
Daniel Burgos: “We will develop the full potential of UNIR research projects”
After the first month running the new Vicechancellorship we interviewed Daniel Burgos in order to know first-hand what will be Read more Slideshow News
u2016, a successful Congress on Education Technology & Innovation with more than a hundred participants worldwide
UNESCO-UNIR ICT & Education Latam Congress 2016 has successfully been developed in terms of participation and scientific outcomes. The Congress Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
27 members have already joined the eLearning Latam Network
The International Network for Research in Educational Technology & Innovation (eLearning Latam Network) already has 27 members from 23 educational Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
Calling all Science Teachers Take part in an ISE competition and win a trip to Greece!
Now in its final year, the Inspiring Science Education (ISE) project is organising two major events; the Inspiring Science Education Read more Slideshow News
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 Slideshow News
“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 Slideshow News
The UNIR Chairs contribution to Society
Daniel Burgos, Vice-chancellor for Research & Technology (UNIR Research; //research.unir.net) and UNESCO Chair on eLearning, explains the contribution to Society Read more Slideshow News
UNIR researcher, Fabio Nascimbeni, renewed as a member of EDEN Executive Board
The announcement marks the international consolidation of UNIR as a member of one of the most important institutions on e-learning Read more Slideshow News
UNIR presents the Horizon Report 2015 Higher Education Edition translation into Spanish
According to the NMC Horizon Report 2015 Higher Education Edition the key trends in the education field will focus on Read more Slideshow News
Daniel Burgos appointed as new ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE, http://www.icde.org) has appointed Daniel Burgos as a new Chair in Open Read more Slideshow News