The eLearn Center, the UOC centre for research, innovation and teaching in e-learning runs the Doctoral Programme in Education and ICT (e-learning), which offers the option of writing a doctoral thesis as part of the research projects in the Time factor programme.

Similarly, the doctorate is open to unpublished research contributions in the field of e-learning and guarantees methodological quality and commitment to the advancement of knowledge in this field of research.

The principal objective of the programme is to bring together actions and decisions reasoned empirically on the time factor in online teaching with the aim of improving learning.