Education and uoc News

The meeting served to discuss the challenges arising from the current economic crisis for a university community that has to face up to strategic change.

Information and communications technologies have had a strong impact on the most vulnerable countries. ICT experts from around the world have analyzed how they influence socioeconomic development and the migratory movements of these societies.

Professor Pekka Himanen, one of the internationally best-known experts of the information age will give a lecture on "The Hacker Ethic: The Way Forward after the Current Global Economic Crisis".

The UOC's postgraduate courses start today, Wednesday 28 October, with some new developments.

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) Library has started up a new service for loan and use of e-book readers.

The 6th International University Teaching and Research Conference (CIDUI) which is to take place in 2010 has opened the call for presentation of symposium proposals until 15 January 2010.

Professor of psychology at St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, John Edwards is to talk about Management of Language Diversity in the Classroom:

The UOC's Barcelonès Support Centre is to host the second EcoUniversity Conference organised by the UOC on Friday, 16 October.

Wiebe E. Bijker, professor of Technology and Society at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, is to give a lecture entitled Vulnerability of Technological Cultures.

Expert in learning interaction and Research Fellow at the UOC's IN3 research institute, Jakko van der Pol, offered a research seminar entitled Facilitating Online Learning Conversations.

UOC - Open University of Catalonia - The Global Online University research professor and director of the IN3, Manual Castells has received the 2008 National Sociology and Political Science Award at the Cervantes Institute.

The UOC has joined the YouTube EDU educational platform (youtube.com/edu), a teaching platform which provides users with content from higher education institutions.

The UOC is co-organizing the 1st Conference on the Environment and Healthcare Technology taking place on 7 October at Madrid's Hospital Clínico San Carlos.

The UOC's eLearn Center, the first e-learning research and innovation centre in Spain and one of the few in Europe, is already welcoming its first international researchers.

UOC - Open University of Catalonia - The Global Online University is to host the inauguration ceremony for the academic year 2009-2010 for the Catalan university system at noon on Friday, 18 September.

UOC - Open University of Catalonia - The Global Online University starts new semester with 38,904 students.

UOC - Open University of Catalonia - The Global Online University pilot course on Facebook will begin in October