Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: Difference between revisions

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The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, Catalan OU, UOC) supports e-learning and even calls its online system "Virtual Campus".

The mission of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is to provide people with lifelong learning and education opportunities. The aim is to help individuals meet their learning needs and provide them with full access to knowledge, above and beyond the usual scheduling and location constraints.

The UOC engages people who offer quality online university education and promote:

innovative education enabling personalised learning,
technological leadership that facilitates interaction and collaborative work,
academic research on the information society and e-learning,
the dissemination of knowledge.

The prime objective of the UOC is to enable people to achieve their learning needs with maximum access to knowledge. To this end, the University employs the intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and offers an educational model based on the personalization and constant accompaniment of the student, beyond the limitations of time and space.

The UOC leads the emergence of the new model of online education of the knowledge society.

The educational model of the UOC facilitates access to learning resources from any place and at any time, in a way that permits education to be integrated in people's lives.

The educational model of the UOC revolves around society's needs and is based on:

the quality of academic activity,
research surrounding the ICT,
the dissemination of knowledge.

The UOC has received international awards in recognition of its educational model and the quality of its academic activity including the Center of Excellence Award from the New Media Consortium (NMC) – a consortium of more than 300 learning-focused organisations that promotes the use and development of new learning technologies.

Educational model At the UOC, the student is the protagonist of an educational process, which, thanks to the use of new technologies, is unlimited in both time and space. The student manages their own time, plans how long they take to complete the studies and builds their own academic itinerary.

The counsellor guides the student through their learning process in a personalised way.
The tutor supervises the student's progress in each of their subjects.
The course plan of each subject defines the learning process, the method of working and the evaluation criteria.
The continuous assessment guarantees the academic process and the development of the course.
The Virtual Campus is the support and learning area from where the student can access resources and interact with the university community.
The multimedia didactic materials complement the specific material for each subject.
The virtual library gives access to all of the information resources.
The university community services include resources, activities and advantages to assist with the student's integration into the UOC.
The support centres personalised attention, study resources and a place to meet with other students.

More information on the Open Programmes can be found here: http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/institut_internacional_postgrau/web/programes_oberts/index.html

The UOC main office and other campuses are located in Barcelona, Spain.

The UOC web site is at http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/. Its intranet or online system is called "Virtual Campus" and needs logging in to enter, but a demo is available: the UOC Virtual Campus demo.

Reports

This institution/programme was discussed as a case study in the Megatrends project in its second report, Megaproviders of e-learning in Europe (PDF - 212 pages - EN), 2007 (ISBN 978 82 562 88184).

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-The truename is '''Universitat Oberta de Catalunya'''.
+{{OpenUniversities}}
+<!-- This is the template to be used for short entries for Programmes (universities and private providers) -->
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+The ''Universitat Oberta de Catalunya'' ('''Open University of Catalonia''', '''Catalan OU''', UOC) supports e-learning and even calls its online system "Virtual Campus".
-Other names include:
-* Open University of Catalonia
-* Catalan OU
-The canonical abbreviation is '''UOC'''.
+<!-- The ABBREV is usually a 3-6 letter string typically used as a short reference to the University. -->
+<!-- Say something brief about its mission etc. -->
+The mission of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is to provide people with lifelong learning and education opportunities. The aim is to help individuals meet their learning needs and provide them with full access to knowledge, above and beyond the usual scheduling and location constraints.
+The UOC engages people who offer quality online university education and promote:
+* innovative education enabling personalised learning,
+* technological leadership that facilitates interaction and collaborative work,
+* academic research on the information society and e-learning,
+* the dissemination of knowledge.
 The prime objective of the UOC is to enable people to achieve their learning needs with maximum access to knowledge. To this end, the University employs the intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and offers an educational model based on the personalization and constant accompaniment of the student, beyond the limitations of time and space.
 The UOC leads the emergence of the new model of online education of the knowledge society.
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 The educational model of the UOC revolves around society's needs and is based on:
 * the quality of academic activity,
 * research surrounding the ICT,
+*the dissemination of knowledge.
-* the dissemination of knowledge.
+The UOC has received international awards in recognition of its educational model and the quality of its academic activity including the Center of Excellence Award from the New Media Consortium (NMC) – a consortium of more than 300 learning-focused organisations that promotes the use and development of new learning technologies.
-The UOC has received international awards in recognition of its educational model and the quality of its academic activity.
-====Educational model====
+<!-- Say something fairly brief about the teaching methods, number of students, staff etc. -->
+'''Educational model'''
 At the UOC, the student is the protagonist of an educational process, which, thanks to the use of new technologies, is unlimited in both time and space. The student manages their own time, plans how long they take to complete the studies and builds their own academic itinerary.
 * The counsellor guides the student through their learning process in a personalised way.
 * The tutor supervises the student's progress in each of their subjects.
+* The course plan of each subject defines the learning process, the method of working and the evaluation criteria.
+* The continuous assessment guarantees the academic process and the development of the course.
+* The Virtual Campus is the support and learning area from where the student can access resources and interact with the university community.
+* The multimedia didactic materials complement the specific material for each subject.
+* The virtual library gives access to all of the information resources.
+* The university community services include resources, activities and advantages to assist with the student's integration into the UOC.
+* The support centres personalised attention, study resources and a place to meet with other students.
-* The course plan of each subject defines the learning process, the method of working and the evaluation criteria.
-* The continuous assessment guarantees the academic process and the development of the course.
+More information on the Open Programmes can be found here: http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/institut_internacional_postgrau/web/programes_oberts/index.html
-* The Virtual Campus is the support and learning area from where the student can access resources and interact with the university community.
-* The multimedia didactic materials complement the specific material for each subject.
+The UOC main office and other campuses are located in Barcelona, [[Spain]].
-* The virtual library gives access to all of the information resources.
-* The university community services include resources, activities and advantages to assist with the student's integration into the UOC.
+The UOC web site is at http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/. Its intranet or online system is called "Virtual Campus" and needs logging in to enter, but a demo is available: [http://www.uoc.edu/portal/_resources/EN/demos/campus/index2.html the UOC Virtual Campus demo].
-* The support centres personalised attention, study resources and a place to meet with other students.
-==Source==
+<!-- Say something about membership of international organisations if relevant. -->
-http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/
+<!-- == More details ==>
+<!-- Do not use this section if there are no more details of relevance to the audience. -->
+<!-- University of Name also does the following interesting things.-->
+<!-- Could also add history, organisation, technology etc depending on the editor's judgement of importance and relevance to the EU. -->
+==Reports==
+<!-- Do not use this section if there are no reports. -->
+<!-- (Add any links to reports here.)-->
+This institution/programme was discussed as a case study in the [[Megatrends]] project in its second report, [http://www.nettskolen.com/in_english/megatrends/Book2.pdf Megaproviders of e-learning in Europe (PDF - 212 pages - EN)], 2007 (ISBN 978 82 562 88184).
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 [[Category:Spain]]
+[[Category:Catalonia]]
 [[Category:Universities]]
 [[Category:Open universities]]
 [[Category:Private providers]]
+[[Category:Megatrends]]

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