Follow us on our international Twitter account: @UNIRResearch
3rd Open Education Policy Forum: Cooperation changes everything
2018 - Oct 22
In terms of content, the main message I bring home from this event is that “open” is somehow entering in the mainstream education policy discourse. In more and more countries, specific policies and initiatives focussing for instance on OER or open licenses are fading away, leaving space to a more “srtructural” presence of openness instances in general education policy. This is typically the case of Scandinavian countries but also of many others who are using general policy instruments (such as the OGP network) to instill more openness in their education system
Final Project Partners’ Meeting of the European Project Virtual Tours for Business Culture
2018 - Oct 18
The project has obtained very ambitious results. The final meeting of Virtual Tours project, hosted by University of Padova, was Read more
Daniele Di Mitri, PhD at Open University of The Netherland, has won the Martin Wolpers’ Award to the most young promising research
2018 - Sep 12
In the frame of the Martin Wolpers’ Award, funded by Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED) Read more
The call for nominations for the Martin Wolpers’ Lifetime Award is open
2018 - Aug 7
The Award will be given to an outstanding member of the academic, political, social, or industrial communities, who has contributed Read more
UNIR iTED publishes a compendium about MOOCs in developing countries
2018 - Jul 27
The compilation, that is now available for downloading in three formats, is an edited version of “Making Sense of MOOCs, Read more
The call for nominations for the 2018 UNESCO-King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize is now open
2018 - Jun 27
The deadline for applications is set on 31 October 2018 The increasingly powerful capacities and lower costs of ICTs, as Read more
UNIR iTED contributes to the Open Education Global Conference
2018 - May 7
In April 24-26 took place the Open Education Global Conference 2018, in Delft, The Netherlands, a diverse conference focused on Read more
The attainment gap or how on Earth we fight for achieving goals and against a dramatic drop-out
2018 - Apr 23
A couple of weeks ago I run a workshop, at Coventry University (thanks for the invitation!), with the pompous title: Read more
ICT in Education: the missing link in the innovation cycle
2018 - Apr 23
Usually, the cycle of innovation is sold as a great progress in education. However, in education, the cycle of innovation Read more
Last week UNIR iTED participated in the second partners meeting of EduHack project at Coventry University
2018 - Apr 11
Daniel Burgos, director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED), and Fabio Nascimbeni, researcher at Read more