eMadrid Excellence Network special session on multi-learning experiences at EDUCON 2018

eMadrid Excellence Network took part in EDUCON once again, a congress hold this year between 17 and 20 of April in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands), focused on the latest trends and challenges in the field of engineering education. Specifically, eMadrid team has participated in a special session on the 19th, with several presentations related to the «multi-learning» experiences of this group, that put together researchers from UC3M, UAM, UCM, UPM, UNED and URJC.

The annual IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, better known as EDUCON, has become an important meeting point for professors, researchers and other professionals, offering attendees an interesting forum for exchange and collaborate on engineering teaching and learning around the world. Sponsored by IEEE Education Society, it’s the largest reference in education in the IEEE 8 Region (Europe, Middle East and North Africa). An appointment that this time has been set on a spanish landscape: Canary Islands. La Universidad de La Laguna, la Universidad de Vigo y la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) collaborate in its organization.

eMadrid participation started at 3.00 pm with a special opening by Carlos Delgado Kloos, professor of Telematic Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, currently vice rector of Digital Strategy and Education at this university and eMadrid project coordinator, who presented some multi-learning experiences («Multi-Learning: Experiences from the eMadrid Excellence Network») and also introduced the following presentation:

«The hybridization factor of technology in education». Carlos Delgado Kloos, Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Carlos Alario Hoyos, Iria Estévez Ayres, María Blanca Ibáñez, Raquel M. Crespo García. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).