STUDENT GUIDE 2024/2025
The learning model
An educational model based on an innovative, high-quality online methodology has been the UOC's hallmark since the university was first founded, and this model continually develops thanks to the advances made in research and innovation in e-learning.
What's it like to study at the UOC?
What are the key characteristics of our learning model?
The UOC learning model responds to the educational needs of people engaged in lifelong learning, optimally leveraging the potential offered by the internet and education technology.
Providing a memorable learning experience is the definitive purpose of this model. To this end, the model has developed the following qualities:
- Central focus on students and their learning activity: you are provided not only with fitting resources, but also guidance and support from teaching staff who set activities and challenges that encourage participation and enable you to achieve your learning objectives. This fosters active involvement in your learning and the development of critical thinking.
- Digital, dynamic and flexible: the digital environment enables the learning experience to be personalized and adapted to specific social and technological contexts. Using multi-format, multi-device digital resources, available at any moment and wherever you are, makes learning adaptable to everyone's individual needs and pace.
- Collaborative: the teaching staff actively encourage participation and interaction, as this aids the shared construction of knowledge among all members of the class.
- Constantly evolving together with society and technology: it is a live model that continuously incorporates the latest trends in e-learning.
The environment in which all these constituent parts come together and interrelate is the UOC's Virtual Campus, where you can access your online classrooms.
What are the learning model's components?
Students' learning activity is the backbone. Four aspects come into play to support you in your learning: the support and guidance provided by the teaching staff, the dynamic and collaborative networking environment, assessment of and for learning, and the tools and resources.
How does this model evolve?
Our educational model is constantly evolving thanks to innovation, applied research and our ability to harness new trends in e-learning.
The eLearning Innovation Center (eLinC) drives this evolution by means of learning innovation.
The eLinC team strives to improve the student learning experience by providing services to teachers, advising them on how to analyse and redesign their courses and programmes, and listening to their needs and ideas. It also helps to devise and deploy teaching innovation projects by providing pilot testing environments. Learning analytics is also one of its key focuses, through which it explores and analyses learning data. Its overriding mission is to evolve e-learning through innovation and constant improvements that position the UOC as a world leader in this field.
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