This course 'Unethical decision making in organizations : A seminar on the dark side of the force' will teach you how strong organizational contexts push good people towards unethical decisions. You will also learn how to protect yourself and your organization against such forces lurking in the dark. View the MOOC. More...
Learn statistics in a practical, experimental way, through statistical programming with R, using examples from the health sciences. We will take you on a journey from basic concepts of statistics to examples from the health science research frontier. Do you want to learn how to harvest health science data from the internet? Do you want to understand the world through data analysis? Start by exploring statistics with R! View the MOOC. More...
¿Por qué es importante tener y mantener un blog?, irse de Erasmus, consejos para hablar en público, dación en pago o mitos al hacer deporte son algunas de las Knowledge Pills de la UCAM.
Las UCAM Knowledge Pills son un proyecto de la Unidad MOOC en colaboración con el Servicio Polimedia de la UCAM para ofrecer contenidos pedagógicos en formato video en abierto a todo el mundo.Se trata de breves cápsulas de conocimiento sobre diferentes temáticas presentadas en un formato visual atractivo y que permiten compartir conocimiento en forma de breves consejos, guías, definiciones o explicaciones por parte de docentes de la UCAM o invitados de prestigio. View the resource. More...
Materiais de apoio, receitas e protocolos experimentais de apoio à divulgação da ciência ligada ao quotidiano da preparação de alimentos nas nossas casas. Estes materiais têm sido produzidos por investigadores durante as várias edições da iniciativa A cozinha é um laboratório. More...
We’ve once again updated our MOOCs Scoreboard with all of the new MOOCs that came online in the past month from European institutions. Globally, the number of MOOCs available worldwide increased by 40%, from 1533 to 2138.
The European grand total is up to 458, making up 21% of the global total of MOOCs. Spain increased its already substantial lead by adding another 15 MOOCs in February. The graph below shows which countries had new MOOCs in the past month and how many.
By Eva Suba. Encouraged by the successful experiences gained from last October's Synergy Workshop, EDEN is following up its newest collaboration initiative and offers you another highly inspirational event. We would appreciate to welcome you again at our most popular and highly reputable conference and offer even more visibility to your projects. The next Synergy Strand will be organised in the frames of the EDEN Annual Conference (10-13 June 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia). By engaging the conference audience in highly interactive working group activities during dedicated parallel sessions, the Strand will facilitate the sharing of practices, project activities, outputs and research findings. More...
Our Person of the Week this week is Davor Orlic. He is one of the people redefining the limits of the field of open education in Europe. He is currently involved in four major projects:
What do these four projects have in common? They are all finding new ways of using digital technology to improve teaching methodology. Furthermore, they are all making education in Europe more openly accessible. In this article, we’ll look at two of the innovations Davor is currently working on: turning video lectures into automatically transcribed databases, and turning the country of Slovenia into a living laboratory for open education experiments. More...
Barcelona (Spain) has won the 2014 “iCapital” prize for the European Capital of Innovation, the European Commission announced yesterday.
The Barcelona Open Data portal opens up all public sector information in standardized digital formats so that anyone can reuse the data however they want.
The Factory of the Sun is an environmental education facility that integrates and showcases a number of services relating to renewable energy, urban environment, and sustainability.
Barcelona Activa is a municipal company that promotes quality and future-oriented employment and businesses. It hosts 115 companies in its Business Incubator and Technology Park, introduces people to new technologies in its Cybernarium, and offers training and coaching to job seekers and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Open Education Europa is making its own contribution to innovation in Barcelona through our partnership with the Open Education Challenge. The Open Education Challenge aims to develop, strengthen and fund innovative education startups.
The iCapital prize is worth 500 000 Euros, which will go towards scaling up and expand Barcelona’s innovation efforts.
Website: European Comission Press Release.
Google is developing a new open source educational tool to make learning on the internet more hands-on. The project is called Oppia and it aims to make it easier for anyone to create interactive learning activities.
Website: Google Open Source Blog.
The European Commission has published a new report called “E-Skills for Jobs in Europe: Measuring progress and moving ahead.” The report showed that Europe is expected to have about 700 000 unfilled new ICT-related jobs by 2015.
Website: E-Skills Report.
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