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					<title><![CDATA["The Internet is the best place for learning"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2008/Barbara_Grabowski.html</link>
					<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:57:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[The International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (IBSTPI) is a council that comprises renowned professionals from the teaching profession, private industry, the military sector and world governments. The current chairperson, Barbara Grabowki, explains how this non-profit making organisation conducts research and advises us on the competencies we need to have for different professions. These include online teaching.]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA[“Europe is not a Christian club; in reality it is much more heterogeneous”]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2008/jordi_moreras.html</link>
					<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:21:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[As part of the event organised at the UOC, the anthropologist Jordi Moreras offered a lecture on how to approach the Muslim identity in a European context. He assures us that it is very much a work in progress and that just as with Europe’s own identity, it is continually in transformation. It is a subject which can not be looked at from just one perspective and that generates a debate with more questions than answers.]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["The UOC is very aware of the technological changes and how they need to be integrated into education"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2008/Cleveland_Innes_.html</link>
					<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Dr M. Cleveland-Innes is Associate Professor at the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University, Canada, and teaches on the Master of Distance Education Programme. She visited the UOC in January as a researcher rather than as a teacher. She is carrying out a study into leadership in open and distance learning universities and has spent over a month visiting institutions across Europe willing to answer questions like: Which leadership models are working in these institutions? Are they the same or different models as in other institutions? Do innovative educational systems like the UOC need innovative leadership styles?]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["In internet it's not the big that eat the small, it's the fast that eat the slow"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2008/vicent_partal.html</link>
					<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:51:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Technological changes also have a great impact on the media. New forms appear; older ones try to evolve and offer new services or may simply disappear. Broadband television (IPTV), videos, podcasts or wikis and blogs are technologies to which newspapers, radio, television and, above all, digital media, adapt themselves. Without losing our local vision, one of the media of reference in Catalan, Vilaweb, is also immersed in this dynamic of change. Vicent Partal is the director and one of its founders and is linked to the UOC in a number of ways, for example, as a member of the panel of judges of the Lletra Award and as a member of the University Foundation's Board of Trustees. (November 2007)]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["You have to show a compelling reason why you are bringing in the innovation"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2008/vijaykumar.html</link>
					<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:23:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[As Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr Vijay Kumar is MIT's leader in new technologies for learning, a position that undoubtedly makes him a world <i>guru</i> in the field. Dr Kumar is also honorary advisor to India's National Knowledge Commission, where he has been engaged in advancing open and technology enabled initiatives for educational access and quality. He was one of the guest speakers at the University Campus Conference, the conference held last October in Barcelona to discuss the Campus Project, an initiative of Catalan universities to develop virtual campuses using free software.]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["The universities with students at a distance are more innovative"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2007/robabel.html</link>
					<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:07:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[The UOC has recently joined IMS Global Learning Consortium, a global, non-profit, member association that aims to enhance learning worldwide through the use of technology and provide leadership in shaping and growing the learning and educational technology industries. Rob Abel, IMS Chief Executive Officer, has been in Barcelona to attend the opening ceremony of the University Campus Conference and contribute with his experience to the Campus Project, the pioneering initiative that will enable the Catalan universities to construct their virtual campuses using free software.]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["In five years, we will be debating how real should Second Life be"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2007/larryjohnson.html</link>
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:43:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Dr Larry Johnson is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), a group of more than 250 colleges, universities, technology companies and world-leading museums interested in the intersection of emerging technology and learning. The Consortium aims to serve as a catalyst for the development of new applications to energise learning and creative expression, and sponsors programmes and activities designed to stimulate innovation. One particular example of this effort are the 85 islands that the NMC has on Second Life, where universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) take their first steps in the virtual world.]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["After the industrial society we are going from a society of tools to a society of language"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2007/touraine.html</link>
					<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:15:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Professor Alain Touraine, Director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris,
was appointed Honorary Doctor by the UOC in June. A benchmark for scholars in terms of interpreting
twentieth-century models of society in Europe and Latin America, Touraine received this doctorate
in recognition of his extensive intellectual career and his scientific production in the field of
the social sciences. He is especially outstanding for his contribution to the analysis of the
post-industrial society and for a sociological theory focused on the subject as the primary source
of social action.]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["The great challenge is learning to read on the Internet, without being sceptical and knowing how to compare"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2007/galli.html</link>
					<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:18:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[The Internet contains millions of blogs, and hanging from every single are numerous articles, some of them brilliant, others trivial. The question is how do you filter the most interesting without reading the rest. A year and a half ago, Ricardo Galli, IT lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), came up with the answer, namely Meneame.net, a website to which anyone can send a piece of news and anyone can "menear" (recommend) it or advise against it. Depending on these opinions, it will strike it lucky and make its way up to the site?s homepage or, to the contrary, fall into oblivion.
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At the end of May, Galli was at the UOC, where he reflected on how the Web 2.0 could enhance the community experience of an online university. However, he preferred to conduct the interview by e-mail: "I'm no good with synchronous media: I like the comfort of the asynchronous nature of e-mail." The Internet is changing journalism.]]>
					
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					<title><![CDATA["There is pluralism in Islam in Europe"]]></title>
					<link>http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/la_universitat/sala_de_premsa/entrevistes/2007/dassetto.html</link>
					<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:28:00 GMT +01:00</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Felice Dassetto was born in Italy in 1941, but lives in Belgium, where he has been a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven since 1998. An expert in Islam in Europe, Dassetto has specialised in the social anthropology of Islam in the continent, researching aspects as complex as the symbolic religious systems or the relationship between the elite and Muslim immigrants. He is the founder and coordinator of the Bibliographic and Documental Network on Immigration and Director of the 'Musulmans d'Europe' collection for the French publisher L'Harmattan.]]>
					
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