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What is OLT?

The Office of Learning Technologies (OLT) leads the development of UOC’s learning model. With its multidisciplinary team, its mission is to create the learning environments of the 21st Century for the new digital generations and global citizens. The objective is to go beyond designing for functionality and usability, and to design for engagement and motivation to learn, enriching them as students as well as people.
Based in Barcelona, Spain, the Office of Learning Technologies of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is located on Av. Tibidabo, 47, 08035 Barcelona, Spain. To contact us, you may call us at +34 93 2532300 or email us at learningtechnologies@uoc.edu.

Articles about our projects

Posted by prebaque Wednesday 25 January 2012, 10:35

E-inclusion

What is the experience of using e-books by inmates in a prison context like? Posed  with this question, the UOC and Can Brians Prison carried out a pilot study in which female inmates club book users at the prison’s library read a novel using iLiad devices. 6 e-books were lent to Can Brians’ prison library at the women’s unit, and after 3 months of a pilot study, a focus group was carried out in order to gather their thoughts about their experience. We talked about their reading habits, previous experience of using ICT, and general experience of using an e-book (advantages and disadvantages, main difficulties, and so on). The most relevant conclusions were:

  • E-book and content design should be sufficiently appealing in a context where the senses are limited, in order to opt for an e-ink device instead of a paper book.
  • Inmates consider that learning content and other didactic content such as Wikipedia, dictionaries and pseudo-scientific journals (History, Quo…) are the most suitable content for e-books.
  • Using e-books and other types of ICT devices at a prison can help inmates not to be excluded from the technological world that are prevalent in our society.

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Posted by lvillarejo Monday 16 January 2012, 14:10

The LT Office invited to the Learning Without Frontiers event

The LT Office has been invited to “Learning Without Frontiers (LWF)”; an international event which is known to be the ‘Davos’ of the global education industry. The LWF brings together international thought leaders, policy makers and innovators from the education, technology and entertainment sectors to connect and engage in a new dialogue about the future of learning. Recognising how affordable and disruptive technologies challenge traditional approaches to industrial scale education, the LWF community has taken a globally respected position of leadership in the use of mobile, gaming, social media, open source and other digital platforms to support learning. The discussion, however, is not about technology but how society is changing in the digital age and how our approach and platforms for learning reflect, embrace and respond to those changes. The event will take place on January 25th and 26th in London and the UOC will share the scenario with thought leaders/opinion leaders such as Noam Chomsky or Sir Ken Robinson.

Learning Without Frontiers Logo

The Learning Technologies office will play a twofold role there. Firstly, we will participate in the LWF Festival where education industry leaders showcase their latest innovations. We will present the iUOC project: enhancing mobile learning at the UOC. The iUOC allows the developing of native applications to connect with our virtual campus. The very first outcome of the project is the Campus for iPAd app, which has been developed collaboratively with Orange. Secondly, we will be part of a panel discussion with education industry experts on how mobiles can support education in schools, colleges and universities. Stay tuned for our feedback whilst in the Learning Without Frontiers event.

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