UNIR iTED contributes to a selected number of research projects which are carried out with public and private fundings.

In this section you will find all related information to European and National Research projects, international projects outside Europe, company contracts, 1-1 research and innovation projects and UNIR-funded initiatives.

All these project are the base for innovative ways to work with technology and education, active publishing engagement and lively networks, worldwide.

Projects

Project Social Seducement (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships)

The Social Seducement project aims to develop the key competences and skills of adults with disadvantages, and in particular those being unemployed, to help them start up a collaborative enterprise. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) leads the design of the game and the pedagogical model.

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Project eMundus (Erasmus Mundus)

The eMundus project aims to strengthen cooperation and awareness among Higher Education Institutions worldwide by exploring the potential of Open Approaches (e.g. OER, MOOCs and VM) to support long term, balanced, inter-cultural academic partnership for improving learning and teaching through Open Education approaches.

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Project QAREER: Quality Assurance of Career Services in Higher Education (Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Actions)

The QAREER project mainly aims to collect the different perspectives of the actors involved (secondary education institutions, students, employers, career guidance professionals) to define quality standards applicable to the process.

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Project Espaq: (Enhancing Students Participation in Quality Assurance in Armenia HE) (Tempus)

Key objective of the project is to strengthen the quality assurance processes and practices in the Armenian higher education by ensuring the involvement of all the stakeholders, especially the students and thus contributing to improving the QA in Armenian HE.

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Project Edumotion (FP7-Research4SME)

This project researches on the use of ICT for informal learning on the field. To this end, the project studies the use of recent geolocation mobile technologies for educational purposes. The project is developing a software platform that enables the definition of a set of educational activities. Each educational activity includes one or more Points Of Interest (POIs). A mobile application guides the students throughout the POIs, gives them information about the visited POIs, and enables the activity organizer to track and assess the activities.

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Project u-Tutor (A4Learning)

The project A4Learning combines learning analytics techniques and information visualization with the aim of enhancing the reflexive capacity of students and that way, contributing to a more critical learning.  This model is designed for Higher Education.

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Project u-Mentor (iLIME: Learning, Interaction, Mentoring, Evaluation)

The main purpose of the project iLIME is to elaborate and implement an automatized itinerary-recommendation system aiming at helping teachers to make personalized recommendations to its students. The LIME eLearning model has been designed for personalized learning, with special focus on the combination of formal and informal settings in a combined paradigm. In doing so, it copes with the artificial difference between Learning Management Systems and specific, restricted social networks which complement the user formal activity with informal interaction.

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Project u-Coach

The u-Coach project proposes a control panel for teachers who, besides of allowing them to monitor the activity of their students in a simple and centralized way, it enable them to receive recommendations for their teaching job. For example, the system may remind the teacher the date of the next installment or recommend him to participate in the forums. All these recommendations will be modulated by the criteria of academic coordination.

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Project u-Director

uR-Director will be a brand new service for collectives which are grouped together around an specific function, including coordination and mentoring tasks. The service, running through Telegram, will deliver answers to specific questions, withdrawn from a data base that will be fed by the users throughout a validation system.

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Project u-JITT (Just In Time Teaching)

Teachers can use this platform to ask questions to students outside the class in order to be more efficient. The tool is very appropriate to encourage students to spend some time preparing the class in advance, sending small questions before class. To answer these questions, the student must complete a review or any kind of reflection. Also, teachers can reconfigure the class doing more emphasis on some issues to better address the needs of students.

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Project AppMOOC (ADER)

The project AppMOOC (Support for semi-automatic correction of online activities in massive courses (MOOCs)) is designing and implementing a software support for semi-automatic correction of activities in massive courses (> 200 students per course). In this way, the teacher may receive a pre-assessment of each student, grouped by profiles and results, which will benefit the correction process (in time and depth), learning, and allow greater and more adequate feedback to the student.

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Project e-Story: Media and History (Erasmus+ KA2)

In this project specialists in history and media education from Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands and United Kingdom work together to encourage history educators to use multimedia resources to help students become more media literate. The project will result in a variety of tools designed for educator to teach about history and media, including a training package on media literacy and multimedia tools for the teaching of history (offering resources that educators can directly use to teach about media and history in a critical way).

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