Author: Essi Ryymin
The fast evolution of digital technologies is transforming higher education, highlighting the need for ongoing professional development in global digital learning. Faculty must be trained in digital pedagogy, cross-cultural collaboration, and emerging technologies to create engaging, inclusive, and flexible online learning experiences across international contexts.
Read moreAuthor: Marja Laurikainen
The EMBRACE Professional Development Program enhances digital and pedagogical skills of higher education teachers in Brazil and Colombia, addressing gaps exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative promotes teacher training, inclusive digital learning, and collaboration with the European DigCompEdu framework. Initial feedback highlights the program’s rich content, accessibility challenges, and its potential for transformative educational change.
Read moreAuthor: EMBRACE Team
An international conference in Bragança highlighted collaboration within the European STARS EU alliance. It fostered dialogue, showcased projects, and promoted academic innovation. Notably, Professor Inês Barbedo presented the Embrace project, emphasizing its potential to strengthen collaboration and innovation in higher education, especially within the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) community.
Read moreThe power of artificial intelligence in academic tutoring of university students offers a new worldview of the educational scenario from learning to learn, which allows consolidation of educational activities based on the strategic use of ICT.
Read moreFrom the CRIE, the UTP invites teachers to enroll in the MOOC Digipeda – Digital and Pedagogical Competencies, starting in October 2024. They will not only be able to strengthen their digital competencies, but also share and exchange ideas and experiences with teachers from Brazil.
Read moreThus, the following sections present actions coordinated by the researchers, such as training courses, workshops and events, which culminated in the approval of the international research project Erasmus Capacity Building Higher Education “EMBRACE – Education Modernization Brazil, Colombia, Europe – the new era of digital higher education cooperation, valid from 2023 to 2026, in which, in addition to UFABC, other Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from Brazil, Finland, Portugal and Colombia participate.
Read moreAt HAMK, studying is a team effort – both with other students and with partners. As a student, you’ll get to solve real-life problems right from the start of your studies.
Read moreThe Technological University of Pereira is a public institution of higher education accredited with high quality in several of its undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Read moreWith more than four thousand students, preparing for the job market is just one of the institution’s functions.
Read moreOur partners from UTP tell us how the project has developed in their institution and also their expectations for it.
Read moreThe project, entitled EMBRACE: “Education Modernization Brazil, Colombia, Europe – the new era of digital higher education cooperation”, was approved under the ERASMUS-EDU-2022-CBHE call, Development of Competences in the Field of Higher Education, Axis 2: Partnerships for Transformation in Higher Education.
Read moreThe present essay proposes a reflection on the contributions of qualitative principles in research to be developed in the field of Instructional Design, aiming to contribute to the proposition of new methodological approaches.
Read moreAccording to George Siemens, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are online courses that provide learning on a large scale, allowing mass participation and free access to high-quality materials, without the need for prerequisites for participation.
Read moreAn international conference in Bragança highlighted collaboration within the European STARS EU alliance. It fostered dialogue, showcased projects, and promoted academic innovation. Notably, Professor Inês Barbedo presented the Embrace project, emphasizing its potential to strengthen collaboration and innovation in higher education, especially within the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) community.
Read moreAreandina is a Higher Education Institution IES in Colombia, founded in 1983 in the city of Bogotá, Cundinamarca. Their motto: “We fulfill dreams”
Read moreUFABC is a Brazilian federal public institution of higher learning based in Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo, municipalities belonging to the ABC region, both in the state of São Paulo.
Read moreCompetency-based training is based on identifying these key skills and designing educational programs that help students acquire them and apply them in practical situations.
Read moreThe enhancement of teaching and learning activities is a central objective in contemporary education, especially in the context of the digitisation of information. In this context, digital teaching strategies promote a learner-centred process when properly managed and thought through by significantly enhancing the learning process.
Read moreThis paper explores the use of generative artificial intelligences to create dynamic tests in formative assessments. Through personalized quizzes, immediate feedback is facilitated, allowing the teacher to adjust his or her teaching in real time. This innovative methodology improves students’ understanding, catering to their individual needs and fostering deeper and more meaningful learning.
Read moreThe article examines the legal and ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to copyright. It addresses the debate on the authorship of AI-generated works, possible legal reforms and their impact on the creative industry, highlighting the need for new regulations to balance technological innovation and intellectual property protection.
Read moreThe fast evolution of digital technologies is transforming higher education, highlighting the need for ongoing professional development in global digital learning. Faculty must be trained in digital pedagogy, cross-cultural collaboration, and emerging technologies to create engaging, inclusive, and flexible online learning experiences across international contexts.
Read moreThe IPB is a public institution of higher education, committed to providing quality training and promoting research and extension activities with an impact on the economic, social and cultural environment.
Read moreIFSP is a multi campuses pluri-curricula higher and professional education institution.
Read moreEMBRACE is a project led by Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) to which several institutions from Brazil, Colombia and Portugal have joined, with the idea of looking to the future and supporting the modernization of higher education.
Read moreThe emergence of Artificial Intelligence based on usage models, such as the recognition and generation of texts, contexts and images based on simple questions.
Read moreThe EMBRACE project is developing a trilogy of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) with the aim of training higher education teachers and managers in digital and pedagogical competences, and based on the European Digital Competence Framework for Educators.
Read moreThe EMBRACE Professional Development Program enhances digital and pedagogical skills of higher education teachers in Brazil and Colombia, addressing gaps exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative promotes teacher training, inclusive digital learning, and collaboration with the European DigCompEdu framework. Initial feedback highlights the program’s rich content, accessibility challenges, and its potential for transformative educational change.
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