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Workshop HELMeTO 2019

2019 - Jan 29
Online university courses are nowadays widespread, both at traditional and at full distance learning institutions. This phenomenon affects both European Read more

Comanity Project. Getting to know the Greek comunity

2018 - Dec 7
In September 20th-21st, 2018, UNIR participated in the second meeting of the Comanity Project. The meeting was hosted by our Read more

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