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[05/09/2008]
Ecology and cooperation
Ecovillages and responsible tourism, towards a culture of sustainability
There are people who live in apartments in large cities and there are those who live in larger houses in towns and villages, but there is also another alternative way of living that more resembles the hippy communes of the 1960s. These are ecovillages, human settlements guided by three basic principles: “taking care of people, the environment and oneself”. This is how they are described by José Luis Escorihuela, Ulises, the man behind the ecovillages movement and coordinator of the Gaia Education design for sustainability virtual courses organised jointly by the UOC and this international consortium of ecovillage educators.
[31/07/2008]
The UOC’s Catalan Language and Literature studies remain those in highest demand
The UOC has had 510 students enrolled on its Catalan Language and Literature degree course in the last semester and has received some 170 applications for the same degree for the upcoming semester. This figure compares favourably with the pre-registration of 104 people at brick-and-mortar universities offering this degree in Catalonia.
[04/07/2008]
Exams
Over three days, thousands of UOC students have taken exams at one of the sites provided by the University throughout the region. A large management team is to be found behind the scenes making sure everything runs smoothly and efficiently over this period.
[19/06/2008]
The aim of the conference that took place on Thursday June 19 as part of the meeting of representatives from the UOC and its associate companies was to contribute to innovation.
[26/05/2008]
ICT and Health
Chatting about sexuality in Second Life, receiving a text message from your doctor to remind you to take your medication, checking on your position in a hospital waiting list online... All of these actions are already possible thanks to the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the health sector. The internet is a very powerful tool that gives users greater autonomy and control over their health –which surveys around the world have shown to be the greatest concern in people’s lives. As with all processes involved in the rapid changes in the information age, ICTs open up very interesting possibilities –but not without certain risks.
[15/05/2008]
Positive results from the UOC’s presence in Mexico
Since 2002, the UOC has consolidated its presence in Latin America by signing agreements with university institutions in Mexico, the country with the fastest growing student community.
[31/03/2008]
EUA Spring Conference 2008
European universities backing lifelong learning
The University of Barcelona has hosted the spring conference of the European University Association (EUA), an event that has brought together over 350 university representatives from around the continent, including the UOC’s President, Imma Tubella. Under the title “The Governance of European Universities Post 2010”, participants have debated the challenges and missions of university institutions in terms of the globalisation of knowledge.
[31/03/2008]
Young, educated, employed and active internet users
The users of the UOC portal surveyed by AIMC were above average internet users, half were women and most university graduates. 50% of those consulted were between twenty-five and thirty-four years old and well above average in terms of connecting to the internet from work or using laptop computers.
[21/02/2008]
Politics and technology
ICT + Politics: An area yet to be exploited
Elections to the Lower House and the Senate are to be held in Spain on March 9, 2008, along with regional elections in Andalusia. This will be the ninth time such elections have been held since 1977. With that in mind we have retrieved this report on how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) relates to politics and the administration. It originally appeared in the Món UOC magazine at the time of the last local elections.
[14/01/2008]
Free software
A freer way to access the Campus
Given that we live in the age of new technologies, the IT boom, internet law and the like; an age, in short, that has presented users with a new reality and greater freedom, it seems logical that, throughout the world, there are thousands of fans and advocates of what is known as free software, an alternative to proprietary operating systems that force users to accept restrictive conditions preventing alterations from being made to programs.
[03/12/2007]
The Campus project
A joint university commitment to free software
It is a key period for the future of e-learning and educational technology in Catalonia. Distance learning is now an established reality thanks to the initiatives of a number of political and educational institutions. However, the Catalan university system has greater aims and, in this light, has set up the Campus project. This initiative is to produce a series of tools that will help each university to construct virtual campuses using shared open-source software. The twelve Catalan universities, the Catalan regional government?s Department of Telecommunications and Information Society and other institutions and agencies, including the Department of Education, the Catalan College of Public Administration, the i2CAT Foundation and the Catalan Centre for Supercomputing, are taking part in its development.
[25/09/2007]
The situation of e-justice in Latin America
This work analyses the development of technology and its use in the field of justice, based on data from international bodies and questionnaires answered by the judiciary bodies in these countries. The results have led to the establishing of an index of the development of electronic justice (e-justice), which will enable assessment of future evolution and the sharing of experiences. The study has been presented at the 13th Ibero-American Judiciary Summit, having been commissioned by this institution.
[01/07/2007]
Fair tourism
Sun and sand, eco-tourism, rambling, volunteer schemes, cycle tourism and safaris are just some of the varied options that we can choose this summer, but what?s special about the ones included in the guide Turismo responsable. 30 propuestas de viaje [Responsible Tourism. 30 Travel Ideas] (Alhena Media)? Well, all of them take into account the local people and benefits them in some way. The guide is the initiative of the Turisme Just (Fair Tourism) NGO, created little more than a year ago by Joan Miquel Gomis, director of the UOC?s Tourism programme, and Carles Tudurí, consultant on the same course.
[01/06/2007]
Project Internet Catalonia
The results of the Project Internet Catalonia to be presented
PIC is a research programme carried out from September 2001 to July 2007 by the UOC's IN3. It is a basic research programme, defined by the researchers and co-led by Manuel Castells and Imma Tubella. It is made up of 7 research projects, all of which focus on Catalonia, but based on international research findings in each field.
[01/04/2007]
Mobile communications
Twenty-first century society, the mobile society
The book Comunicación móvil y sociedad. Una perspectiva global published by Editorial Ariel and Fundación Telefónica covers the two years of research by the international team integrated by Manuel Castells and Mireia Fernández Ardèvol from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Jack Linchuan Qiu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Araba Sey from the University of Southern California. The research analyses the transformations in the forms of human communication with the appearance and dissemination of wireless communication technologies, such as mobiles or Wi-Fi, worldwide.
[01/01/2007]
Professor Derrick de Kerckhove visits the UOC
Considered to be the most important and influential intellectual on communication after Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor Derrick de Kerckhove leads the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology and has visited Barcelona to set up new projects with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC). With doctorates in language and literature, and sociology of art, he is a consultant to the world's leading cultural centres and communication media. A member of the Club of Rome, De Kerckhove is currently working on intelligence architecture, in what he calls the "third phase of electricity". One of his projects is to link Toronto to the four neo-technological motors of Europe: Barcelona, Lyon, Milan and Stuttgart.
[01/06/2006]
Open source
This semester is to see some five thousand UOC computer engineering students take part in the pilot project for an educational platform based on free software. This software is also to be made available to management staff at the university. Alongside the pilot project, the UOC is working on the creation of an open source Virtual Campus as well, which involves the majority of the other Catalan universities.
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