Description of the sessions
Plenary Sessions (SPle)
Sessions which all members are expected to attend.
Plenary Session 1 - Conference Laura Winer
Laura Winer
Working from the outside in: changing spaces to change actions
Changing teaching and learning approaches and practices is difficult in a traditional university context. Focusing on changing teachers’ and students’ behaviour without regard to the spaces where they work is trying to make changes from the inside out. However, a university can establish new expectations for behaviour by instead working from the outside in. This involves providing physical and online teaching and learning environments that foster engagement, collaboration, and connection. Intentionally designing spaces based on research-informed design principles can support engaged learning. Design principles developed at McGill University will be presented, with example applications in diverse physical spaces: active learning classrooms, teaching labs, and multi-purpose environments; and in online spaces that include individual and group tools for accessing content, communicating, and collaborating. As spaces do not exist in a vacuum, other necessary conditions for change will be addressed.
Plenary Session 2 - Conference Ignacio Alcalde
Ignacio Alcalde
Smart Campus @ Smart City. Learning Spaces in the Digital Age
The World faces a process of exponential, rapid and disruptive Change. New Technologies are generating new paradigms in different aspects of society, and are one of the key driving forces of these dynamics of change. We are fully immersed in the Digital Age, which is creating a different world in which people, information and things will be connected as never before, just one click away. Cities are the stage for this changing world. Never in the history of humanity have cities played such a prominent role as they do today. Our world is urban, society is urban and people are urban beings. Such a hyper-connected society demands new Learning Spaces, which need to consider the confluence between physical reality and the digital world. The convergence between the City (“the place where everything happens”) and Digital Technology (“the driver of change”) can offer interesting opportunities at the service of people.
Monographic Sessions (SM)
Monographic sessions are one of the modalities of presentation of papers. Monographic sessions will be conducted by one moderator.
Oral Sessions (SO)
Papers will be presented by Pecha Kucha methodology. This is an informal, engaging and highly visual presentation of 20 slides, each one exactly 20 seconds, for a total presentation time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. These sessions are intended to communicate quickly and efficiently research in progress.
The presentations of the oral sessions have to be made with this template (PowerPoint).
Poster Sessions (SP)
Posters are graphic exhibitions of innovation experiences connected to the topics of the Congress which follow the regulations of CIDUI. Check the poster format guidelines in the following link.
Workshop Sessions (ST)
Workshops, seminars and meetings are activities to develop practical skills, in-depth insights and knowledge.
Network ApS (U) Cat activity
The Catalan Universities Service Learning Network (Xarxa d’Aprenentatge Servei de les Universitats Catalanes, ApS(U)Cat), is a platform that brings together teachers with an interest in this methodology in higher education. Its annual meetings are a place for discussing the experiences and challenges faced by teachers who use this focus and also an arena for advancing its deployment and development. At this third meeting, which is being organised by the ICE Service Learning Teaching Innovation Network (Xarxa d’Innovació Docent d’ApS) at the University of Girona as part of CIDUI 2018, we are proposing an exploration of how creativity can serve to design and transform service learning projects; and discuss the diferent channels for institutionalising service learning at Catalan universities. The meeting draws together teachers forming part of the Xarxa ApS(U)Cat but is also open to anyone else with an interest in this methodology.
Symposium Engagement
It has recently been claimed that society has entered into a period of transition, what has been called the century of uncertainty, from which universities are not exempt. At this time, new challenges are emerging that universities must face. These include their massification, entrance and knowledge generation through new communication and information technologies, the creation of jobs that require new professional skills, professional mobility (geographic and through different specialties), and others. All these elements are converging to create a world of uncertainty and complexity that neither students, lecturers, nor universities are completely ready to face. If we add to this the high percentage of young unemployed non-graduate and graduate people, the rigidity of universities when it comes to meeting the demands of the labour market and the new professional profiles that companies demand, it is no surprise that a large number of students are expressing their disaffection with the academic world, which is revealed in absenteeism and low participation in both lectures and extra-curricular academic activities, and in university life in general.
Symposium CODUR
La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), la Open University del Reino Unido (OUUK) y el Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto delle Tecnologie Didattiche (CNR-ITD) de Italia están llevando a cabo el proyecto europeo CODUR (Creación de una dimensión en línea para los ránquines universitarios).
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