The UOC to take part in the International University Teaching and Research Conference

Oct. 27, 2009 - PRLog -- Cristina Girona, Albert Sangrà and Montse Guitert from the UOC's eLearn Center are on the Organizing Committee, and Lourdes Guàrdia, from the Psychology and Educational Sciences Department, is to take part on the Conference's Scientific Advisory Board as a member of its standing committee.

Cristina Girona is also the UOC's representative on the Executive Committee.

Barcelona - CIDUI 2010 is to take place in Barcelona on 30 June, and 1 and 2 July of next year, under the title of New Quality Areas in Higher Education. A Comparative and Trend Analysis. This conference is being jointly organized by Catalonia's eight public universities.

CIDUI
The first International University Teaching and Research Conference took place in Barcelona on 26, 27 and 28 June 2000. Since then, CIDUI has been held every two years, regularly bringing together large numbers of professors driven by the desire to make universities institutions that respond to the challenges being set by global society and the demands for knowledge building, always bearing in mind the need for social cohesion and the overcoming of inequality.

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