video of the 11st Innovation Forum celebrated May 14 where Lluis Pastor, Director of the Studies of Communication Sciences and Information of the UOC, introduced the concept of Funiversity. (video in Catalan)
Continue Reading...Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
What makes us talk about a funiversity? Because we know they aren’t. Why should a university be fun? Universities are serious things and what’s explained in the classes (whether large rooms or virtual spaces) has to be serious and transcendental. It’s true. There are many things in life that aren’t fun, or attractive, or entertaining. [...]
Continue Reading...Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
On this occasion, our aim is to offer a brief look at the voice resource, specifically Voice IP, which, although not a new technology, as we know, we felt it would be interesting to look at it by highlighting some modern voice applications and considering in the last instance the possible educational aspects of its [...]
Continue Reading...Thursday, July 16th, 2009
One of the reference manuals on mobile learning (the use of wireless mobile technology in education) is the e-book entitled Mobile Learning – Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training (edited by Mohamed Ally) and published by Canada’s University of Athabasca. This book, published under a Creative Commons licence, brings together interesting, current initiatives in [...]
Continue Reading...Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
On Tuesday, June 16, took place the 8th Innovation Forum with the topic touch technology where we’ve could discover how works this technology, which can make and what applications can be made from different real experiences. This time came two experts in these technologies, Jose Miguel Aragonés and David González from Art Studio Multimedia company [...]
Continue Reading...Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
On Friday April 17, 2009 we have celebrated the 7th Innovation Forum that focused us to understand from a non-technical, clear and direct examples, and what is referred to the new concept called RIA (Rich Internet Applications). We heard some time to discuss this concept with the world of Web applications without knowing in many [...]
Continue Reading...Thursday, March 5th, 2009
“Integration of location-based services with mobile social networking sites ( MSNS)” In the near future, once the controversy and limits of privacy and confidentiality arising from GPS-based applications, such as Google Latitude, have been overcome, we will increasingly see people using social networks (whether personal, professional or educational, etc.) from their mobile devices for a [...]
Continue Reading...Sunday, February 8th, 2009
True, the manual of your mobile phone contains a lot of information about how to use that device. But are you going to learn to use it by reading through this long-winding technical gibberish? Most likely not; Most people will experiment and explore what they can do by themselves, and possibly ask their friends in [...]
Continue Reading...Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
The world wide web is growing every day and is getting ever more complex. Search engines, robots and algorithms have reached an impressive complexity and ability to create relevant results to search terms but are still not able to answer concrete questions. When asking Google “what is the fastest way from Barcelona to Lyon right [...]
Continue Reading...Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Co-authors: Peter Bihr and Thomas Praus Introduction Social Communities have grown rapidly over the last years, offering people the chance to publish personal information and connect with each other. The biggest social community today is Facebook with more than 120 million members. Due to the myriad possibilities to use Facebook, there many ways to support [...]
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