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The need for reform of the current education system was one of the main conclusions from the Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach international seminar which took place this week at Barcelona’s Media-TIC building.

The 9th International Seminar organized by the UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning is to be held in Barcelona on 26 and 27 November. The objective of this annual meeting is to analyse the impact of new technologies on higher education.

The 15 bodies collaborating with UOC’s School of Cooperation met at the Campus for Peace headquarters to network and establish links. Coordinators of more than 90 courses offered shared information on the initiatives being developed.

Are rankings likely to focus on eLearning in the future? If so, what parameters will be used and who will be defining those? What impact will they have on online education? If not, are present rankings of any use to online education institutions?

La imperante necesidad de reformas en el sistema educativo actual es una de las principales conclusiones del seminario internacional «Cambios transformadores en la educación: un enfoque sistémico».

The need for reform of the current education system was one of the main conclusions from the Transformative Changes in Education: System-wide Approach international seminar which took place this week at Barcelona’s Media-TIC building.

The 9th International Seminar organized by the UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning is to be held in Barcelona on 26 and 27 November. The objective of this annual meeting is to analyse the impact of new technologies on higher education.

L’Université Ouverte de Catalogne UOC, est un établissement public, elle est la première en Europe en E-Learning.

L'Université Ouverte de Catalogne (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) offre 3 aides financières pour des étudiants en Master International en Civilisation Musulmane au titre de l'année universitaire 2011-2012.

The 15 bodies collaborating with UOC’s School of Cooperation met at the Campus for Peace headquarters to network and establish links. Coordinators of more than 90 courses offered shared information on the initiatives being developed.

Are rankings likely to focus on eLearning in the future? If so, what parameters will be used and who will be defining those? What impact will they have on online education? If not, are present rankings of any use to online education institutions?

The UPF-UOC project has been awarded a total of four million euros.

UOC - The Open University of Catalonia Interviewing Mustapha Cherif

Integration of the FAO's Food Security Information for Decision Making Distance Learning programs into the UOC's Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society

The revolution in digital books and digital classrooms in teaching. How to educate digital natives.

The UOC began more than 15 years ago as an e-learning institution and solely as an e-learning institution

The 2010 Horizon Report: Iberoamerican Edition, a joint-initiative between the UOC’s eLearn Center and the New Media Consortium, is available online from today

From September 30 to October 1, the Campus for Peace of the UOC – Open University of Catalonia will hold the 4th International Congress on Conflictology and Peace, at Cosmocaixa (Isaac Newton, 26, Barcelona).

Open University of Catalonia (The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC) has renewed its agreements with institutions in Latin America with the objective of strengthening ties with the continent.

Imma Tubella, President of the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC), inaugurated the UOC's new academic year 2010-2011 this Monday.

An agreement has been signed by Dr. Imma Tubella, UOC President, and Carlo Petrini, President of Slow Food, which will allow the university’s Food Systems, Culture and Society Area to participate in this movement.

The IDP offers analysis of the different rules with which the relationships occurring on the internet are structured and fostered.

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 inaugurated the first e-learning research and innovation centre in Spain.

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