Hisham Al-Omeisy: "I decided to acquire the tools needed to help save my generation and the next"
Alumnus. Graduate of the Master's Degree in Conflict, Peace and Security
The UOC began teaching in the academic year 1995/96, with 206 students enrolled on its Business Science and Educational Psychology degree programmes.
Since then we have grown a lot, such that the UOC community now has more than 200,000 members.
Laura Fernández-Rodrigo: "The synchronous defence is a way to get to know the researcher behind the written project"
Course instructor on the Master's Degree in Education and ICT.
John Trujillo: "The UOC was created with the specific idea of doing things differently from day one"
Course instructor of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences.
Tony Bates: "The UOC is an exceptional university. Indeed, it is unique."
Recipient of an honorary doctorate from the UOC in 2005.
Mayo Fuster: "We're studying how collaborative and co-creative research methodologies can reinvent the way research is conducted"
Principal investigator of the IN3's Digital Commons group.
Fernando Álvarez: "With the advances in technology, it's inevitable that we'll complete some stage of our education remotely at some point in our lives"
Alumni of the UOC's Master's Degree in Education and ICT (E-learning). Álvarez was recently awarded the cum laude distinction for his PhD thesis, developed on the UOC's Education and ICT (E-learning) doctoral programme.
María García: "Spain invests millions in training researchers who can't work here"
Postdoctoral researcher and student of the joint master's degree in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (UOC, UB).