Esbrina Research Group (University of Barcelona) presentation
Esbrina Research Group (University of Barcelona) presentation
Esbrina Research Group (University of Barcelona) presentation
Even before the school closures in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but especially since then, digital educational platforms have burst into the classrooms of schools in different parts of the world. In this context, large digital platform providers such as Google, Amazon or Microsoft have demonstrated an efficient capacity to respond to a situation that exceeded the ability of many public administrations to deal with the sudden digitisation of educational activities. However, the entry of these and other corporations (also known as BigTech) into our education systems had been years in the making.
Recording of the round table Round Table: Views from Open Science, which took place on May 27, 2022 in Valladolid within the IV Summer School: The doctoral thesis and Open Science: dilemmas, trajectories and decision making, with the participation of Juliana Raffaghelli, Jesús Valverde Berrocoso and Pablo Rivera Vargas, and moderated by Eduardo Fernández.
It is obvious that research is key to improving education, but how to ensure that this research has a real transfer and impact on educational contexts does not seem to be such a simple task. We raise this concern in the research group every time we start a new project: how to shorten the distance that separates the University and the School, seeking to reduce the existing gaps between the observer and the observed (Sancho-Gil & Correa-Gorospe, 2019).
From ICUFOP we have always been very respectful of the ethical considerations of research. Informed consent at the beginning, negotiation in the process and the return of reports in the final phase, but we were observing how this way of proceeding did not eliminate the distance between the research team and the team of teachers who were involved in the research we were conducting.
For this reason, for the development of the projects in which we are currently involved, NOMADIS and PedaLAB, we considered the possibility of exploring other forms of research.
Committed to open science and to making scientific research and its dissemination more democratic and more linked to the needs of Society, REUNI+D, University Network for Research and Educational Innovation is pleased to announce that the IV Summer School will be held in Valladolid in May 2022, organized by the CEAEX group of the University of Valladolid.
A group of colleagues from different national and international universities, who are concerned about opening classrooms to collaborative work with schools and other non-formal educational organisations, have been weaving a lively and passionate debate for almost two years. Being part of an educational innovation project brought us together. This project was aimed to think about how to advance university teaching in relation to collaborative experiences outside the university classroom. The aim was to give meaning to academic and experiential knowledge crossed by a narrative process of learning and evaluation.
Presentation video of the University Network for Research and Educational Innovation.
Social laboratories, as spaces for socio-educational experimentation, have become one of the main mechanisms for innovation nowadays. In this framework, medialabs emerge as a type of laboratory focused on experimentation with technologies and media and evolve, with the development of the digital society, into laboratories of citizen mediation and social innovation.
The educational reform, which began at the end of 2020 with the approval of the LOMLOE (Organic Law 3/2020, of December 29, which modifies Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3, on Education) continues its journey by addressing at the beginning of this year 2022 one of the issues that generates the greatest expectation among the educational community: the reform of the teaching profession. In accordance with the planned calendar, in the first months of the year the Ministry of Education will present a proposal that will cover, among other issues, those related to initial teacher training. Presumably, this reform will lead to a review of initial teacher training programs by universities, which will have to accommodate them to the resulting renewed framework of competences and contents.
Learning in the context of the digital age is closely linked with the overabundance of information, with the speed and immediacy of access to data and with the variety of content that we can find on the Internet. In this panorama of constant flow and data storage, the concept of “Big Data” was born.