Lines of work

On the basis of the established network, different initiatives are proposed:

I1. Train teachers in digital skills through massive open and accessible courses.

The first sMOOC was “Digital Competences in Uncertain Times” whose objective is to digitally train teachers and professionals from different areas of education and civil society. It is intended for educational institutions and social organizations with training needs in the five areas of competence established by the latest European resolution on teaching digital skills (information literacy, communication and collaboration, creation of digital content, security and problem solving). The first edition of the course is developed with the University of Quilmes (Argentina). (Date: 02/22/2021 to 04/04/2021)

In addition, in the context of the ENID-Teach project, five NOOCs for digital teacher training in digital pedagogies are offered:

NOOC 1. Connected and Critical Methodologies
NOOC 2. Collaborative and Research Methodologies
NOOC 3. Active and Gamified Methodologies
NOOC 4. Inverted Methodologies
NOOC 5. Designing Flexible Learning  D-Programmes

I2. Request research projects that will disseminate to European and Latin American context resources and innovations made. It is intended to be done through the application and development of Erasmus + projects, K2 Action “Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices”, in the actions “European universities” and “Capacity building in the field of Higher Education”. Therefore, transnational projects will be based on a multilateral partnership between higher education institutions. Participation in projects depends on the calls to be published and the acceptance of them.

Among the most important lines of research that ReCoIn-TaD currently has, the analysis of the challenges for the university of the future stands out, studying the challenges and perspectives of teacher training in the face of the PostCOVID crisis and what are the most effective means for transfer knowledge and international cooperation. These lines respond to an analysis of the current educational model that was already requiring, in the period prior to the pandemic, a transformation in which the inclusion of connected processes and communicative and educational approaches will be committed, based on pedagogies. digital activities, will give a greater role to students, as future agents of social change. After the unique experience lived by COVID-19, we have been able to observe how it is a priority to have more flexible, multidisciplinary and transversal communication and educational structures where d. response to the people who need it most, without any distinction.

I3. Establish agreements between universities when the circumstances and mutual needs require it.

I4. Launch cooperative innovation projects between universities with the aim of offering a cartography of digital pedagogies. This mapping is configured taking into account two moments of analysis. On the one hand, analyzing the students’ previous academic experiences in education and digital communication. And, on the other, based on the results of the study of the potentiality of innovative pedagogical initiatives based on communication processes, social networks, new narratives, performance, collaborative and active learning, augmented reality, among other methodologies implemented by the network members.

In this line, the UNED began to work in the academic year 2017-18 and is currently working through teaching innovation projects developed by the Communication, Social Networks and New Narrative Group (CoReN) (GID2017-4) Coord. Sonia Santoveña-Casal), to which some of the members of this network belong. The Group carried out a process of mutual enrichment with contributions from other members of INCON-TDL and thus advance the educational innovations internationally.