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Education, Modernization, Brazil, Colombia, Europe. The New Era of Higher Education Cooperation. (101083111). Final Publication.

Author: EMBRACE Team

The EMBRACE project showcases a collaborative initiative focused on strengthening teachers’ digital competencies. It highlights its participants, outputs, and communication channels, while reflecting on key experiences such as teacher training, administrative challenges, and the development of an innovative learning ecosystem that fosters digital transformation in education.

Building and Empowering Professional Learning Communities in Higher Education: case Embrace

Author: EMBRACE Team

This article examines how the EMBRACE project builds professional learning communities in higher education, fostering collaboration, digital pedagogy, and institutional transformation. It highlights achievements, challenges, and strategies to strengthen teacher development, innovation, and sustainable partnerships between academia and society.

Teachers’ Digital Competency Development

Author: EMBRACE Team

Collaborative book outlining digital competency frameworks, policies, and institutional practices to support higher education teachers’ digital pedagogy in Latin America.

EMBRACE, the Podcast

EMBRACE is an international podcast about innovation and digital transformation in higher education, analyzing the impact of technology, artificial intelligence, and global cooperation on the modernization of teaching and the development of 21st-century skills.

Joint development of EMBRACE MOOCs, a perspective from UTP teachers

This article reflects on the collaborative creation of MOOCs by Colombian and Brazilian universities within the EMBRACE project. It highlights intercultural teamwork, pedagogical reflection, and the transformative power of international cooperation in digital education. Language differences became bridges, fostering inclusive, participatory, and meaningful learning design for diverse contexts.

Launch of the Embrace MOOC trilogy

The EMBRACE project, led by HAMK (Finland) with partners from Brazil, Colombia, and Portugal, launched a trilogy of MOOCs to train educators in digital and pedagogical skills, based on the ADDIEM model and DigCompEdu framework. The courses are available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

EMBRACE team invites you to the launch of the international project’s MOOCs: free and open teacher training in digital, pedagogical and innovation skills

The EMBRACE project promotes institutional transformation in higher education through teacher training in digital and pedagogical skills. It develops MOOCs to foster innovative, inclusive learning ecosystems aligned with labor market and societal needs. Partner institutions from Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, and Finland collaborate to address complex local and regional challenges.

Virtual course: digipedia – digital and pedagogical competences

From 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.

The construction of MOOCs in the Embrace project

The 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.