http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech Defining, designing and developing the educational technology of the future. Open source, interoperability, participation, personalization, Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:16:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are pleased to communicate you that the new annual Projects Report from the Office of Learning Technologies is already available from this website. This report contains a brief description of all those OLT projects carried out during 2010. If you want to read further, please, check the 2010 OLT ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2011/07/25/2010-olt-projects-report-already-available/ We are very closed to oficially publish the 2010 Project Report from the Office of Learning Technologies. Would you be interested in having a look to some of the projects from this report, right now? If this is the case, please, check the following temporary 2010 OLT Project Report. http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2011/06/01/2010-project-report-coming-soon/ Today there is a wide array of tools for learning and teaching in the network and the number of Web 2.0 tools used to learning and teaching keep growing. Wikis, blogs, Google Apps and video conferencing tools are good examples. Despite these resources, the problem is that there is a ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2011/03/08/learning-apps-the-app-store-for-education/ So far, we have been working to provide to third-party entities and external applications an API, to access to the basic campus services. One of these external applications is a pilot test, developed by the “Estudis d’informàtica”. It is, actually, a self-teaching and self-assessment environment for the students but it gives an ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2010/12/01/pilot-test-of-digital-circuits/ In general, quizzes help students to determine what they have learned. A well-designed test can thus give critical information about a student's understanding of the subject material. Our team has been working to integrate the Moodle Quiz application -a quiz tool that belongs to the Moodle LMS platform- into the ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2010/11/22/moodle-quiz-already-available/ IMS Learning Impact 2010 took place in Long Beach, California, from 17 to 20 May. As a member of the IMS Consortium, UOC is looking to follow and implement the guidelines and specifications of this institution. We are currently working with the IMS LD and IMS Basic LTI. The  IMS ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2010/07/21/uoc-at-ims-learning-impact-2010/ On the 21st of January we presented our paper: A New Solution for Creating Versatile Learning Environments: My UOC (Learning Technologies) at the 2010 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, "Learning Environments for a Web 2.0 World,”. The meeting took place in Austin, Texas and we had the opportunity to meet and ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2010/03/19/my-uoc-at-the-2010-educause-learning-initiative-annual-meeting/ The virtual classrooms and the available learning tools are living spaces that, each semester, include enhanced functionalities, new options and new tools. The goal is to fulfil our students´ and professors´ needs and wants. By following a user-centered design process and being close to tutors and professors, we implement those functionalities and tools that will ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2010/03/12/classrooms-and-learning-tools-semester-updates/ We are pleased to announce that the "UOC TECHTALKS" YouTube-channel is already available together with its opening conference, "Mobile Technology and Social Change" by researcher Jessica Colaço (Strathmore Research Center,Kenya) and a 2009 OET participant. The TechTalks is a cycle of conferences organized by tthe Office of Learning Technologies (UOC) that ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2010/02/04/uoc-techtalks-youtube-channel/ During November 2009, training will be provided for future teachers of the Free Technology Academy (FTA), a virtual training academy that will provide courses specialized in free software from beginning of January, 2010, onwards. The FTA is an initiative that started last April with the support of the European Union, and ... http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/Edtech/2009/11/30/ready-to-study-at-the-free-technology-academy/