The accesses to the Anella Científica of the Universitatde Girona, Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Universitatde Lleida were made through frame relay circuits of 2 Mbps established with the radio network of the Centre de Telecomunicacions de la Generalitat deCatalunya.
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It's important to consider that the Anella Científica was the first high speed network installed on he state and one of the firsts in Europe.
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Within Catalonia’s higher education environment, UOC’s unique contribution is to provide access to higher education university studies available to any member of society who, because of work, residence, age or other factors, must opt for more flexible learning systems to achieve their educational objectives.
More recently, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra was created, while territory-focused universities such as the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Universitatde Girona and Universitatde Lleida have also gained their independence.
For instance, Universitat Ramon Llull, Universitat Internacional deCatalunya and the Universitatde Vic were all established in 1995.
This project deals with the analysis of devices of educational influence, that is, the inter-psychological processes through which teachers and peers help students to build knowledge in formal situations of teaching and learning, a central issue from a constructivist perspective.
Main Researcher: Elena Barberà (UniversitatObertadeCatalunya) - Teresa Mauri Majós (Universitatde Barcelona).
Teresa Mauri Majós (Universitatde Barcelona) - Isabel Gómez Alemany (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
We are told, as their sole justification, that Windows 95 is very easy to use and the current de facto standard on PCs and also that co-operation among mates and between teachers and students requires a choice of document editing software, which happens to be Microsoft Office.
The UniversitatObertadeCatalunya, as our first university in the Internet, is the place where our next generation will learn how to behave themselves online.
Admittedly, this is a partly Utopian goal, but betting for open systems in the UniversitatOberta can only ease its work and bring obstacles down, little can it worsen the difficulties and servitude that goes with imposed proprietary systems.
La UniversitatObertadeCatalunya tiene 10 premisas que trata de promover entre unos alumnos que tienen la necesidad de estudiar en una universidad convencional pero que no les es posible.
La universidad trata de integrar la enseñanza o el aprendizaje diario.
También ha ganado varios premios por la calidad de su educación y aula virtual: en el año 2000, el premio Global Bangemann Challenge por ser la mejor iniciativa de educación a disancia y el premio WITSA a la Excelencia como mejor oportunidad digital.
The UOC (UniversitatObertadeCatalunya) began research work in 1995 when the University started.
From 1999 the research work was gathered under one body of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), an interdisciplinary centre with an international focus of research on the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), an especially the Internet, on society.
The Telefónica Chair for Virtual Communities is a result of an agreement for strategic collaboration between Telefónica and the UOC to develop work in the field of education and technology, as well as establishing joint lines of research and development of new generation Internet applications, multilingual services, info-graphics and web contents.
We will show the example of a completely virtual university, UniversitatObertadeCatalunya (UOC), where the learning process takes place in a virtual campus and we will focus on a specific subject: “Comparative literature”.
To do that, we will show the example of a completely virtual university, UniversitatObertadeCatalunya (U. C.), where the learning process takes place on a virtual campus and we will focus on one specific subject: that of comparative literature.
In 1995, the UniversitatObertadeCatalunya (U. C.) was conceived as the first completely virtual university in the world.
Not all institutions interested in offering distance education are in a position to acquire and/or maintain the commercial licenses required for the technological platforms that are currently available on the market.
The UNESCO e-learning campus of the UniversitatObertade Catalyna announced an international Seminar on "Leading the University in a Knowledge Society." The seminar will be organized in two modules, each with one-week duration: November 24-28, 2003 and March 22-26, 2004.
While both seminars are onsite, between the two modules the participants will be offered a virtual space in order to continue the exchange of experiences and learning, as well as to access sources of information for decision making.
ARTNODES - studies and promotes arts, sciences and technology intersections as new forms of emerging art in english, catalan and spanish.
DIGITHUM - an electronic journal produced by the Humanities and Philology Studies at the UOC publishing contributions on digital technologies in the wide-ranging field of the humanities and social sciences, and on the role these disciplines have to play in the information and knowledge society (in english, spanish and catalan)
RUSC (Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento)) - publication of the UniversitatObertadeCatalunya’s UNESCO Chair of E-learning
Emma Kiselyova is a Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy researching and facilitating international partnerships and networks with the Center.
She is also pursuing research on the public diplomacy impact of visa policies and exchange programs.
Kiselyvoa is head of International Relations at UOC (UniversitatObertadeCatalunya) in Barcelona.
Manuel Castells is Senior Professor at the Internet Inter-disciplinary Institute (IN3), UniversitatObertadeCatalunya, Barcelona.
He has also been Professor of Sociology and Professor of Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, and Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Professor Castells is the author of 23 books, including the trilogy Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell,1996-2000), The Internet Galaxy (Oxford University Press, 2001), and The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model (with Pekka Himanen; Oxford University Press, 2002).
The internships positions (from 2 to 4) are for students in psychology, human-computer interaction, industrial engineering (human factors emphasis), or a related area of study.
These individuals all share the common goals of acquiring knowledge, personal enrichment and lifetime learning, and they all use information and communication technologies to interact, thereby consolidating a growing, dynamic online community.
This site is a consolidation of publicly available and privately submitted job postings in HCI, Usability, User Experience, Interaction Design, Information Architecture and Ergonomics.
by O. Ardaiz, L. Díaz de Cerio, R. Messeguer, K. Sanjeevan, A. Gallard.
Asignador de Recursos Grid para Aplicaciones CSCL basadas en Componentes, Actas de Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática 2003 (JITEL 2003), Gran Canaria, Septiembre de 2003.
by O. Ardaiz, P. Artigas, L. Díaz de Cerio, F. Freitag, R. Messeguer, L. Navarro, D. Royo.
Autonomous Government of Catalonia, UOC (UniversitatObertadeCatalunya), UPC (Universitat Politècnica deCatalunya), etc.
The following are collaborating on current European projects: UOC (UniversitatObertadeCatalunya), UPC (Universitat Politècnica deCatalunya), Telefònica, Oracle Ibèrica, Sun Microsystems, CTC (Cable i Televisió deCatalunya), CHC (Consorci Hospitalari deCatalunya), ATM
Member of the Information Technology Commission of FEMP (Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias)
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- Albert Criado (Departament d'Educació de la Generalitat deCatalunya)