eMadrid Excellence Network, dedicated to the research and development of educational technologies in the Comunidad de Madrid and financed by the regional administration, as part of the call for R&D programs in IT 2018, launches a new edition of eMadrid Awards. The following three categories have been enabled:
** Due to COVID-19 sanitary restrictions, this seminar will take place online. In the coming days, we will provide you with more details trough our social media and our website. Registration remains open **
Date
Friday, May, 8, 2020
Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend
Program
The seminar will start at 11:00
LWMOOCS 2020 Call For Papers is open until next 15th of March. This year, Learning With Moocs will take place in Antigua, Guatemala, from 30th September to 2nd October. The main theme of the congress is «The 4th Industrial Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities». In 2019, Milwaukee was chosen as location after Madrid, whree LWMOOCS was held in 2018.
The eMadrid network is going to participate, once again, in this international meeting. Manuel Castro (Full Professor at UNED and IEEE Fellow) is the Chair of the Steering Committee. Also, Carlos Delgado Kloos (eMadrid coordinator and Full Professor at UC3M) will be part of this group. Moreover, Castro and Edmundo Tovar are co-organizers, along with their universities, of this event. Another eMadrid members are participating: Sergio Martín (UNED) and Pedro J. Muñoz Merino (UC3M) have a seat on the Program Committee.
This IEEE conference provides academic and industry professionals the opportunity to discuss research into MOOC technologies as well as the practical aspects of creating and offering MOOCs to diverse worldwide audiences.
The eMadrid network will be, once again, part of EDUCON (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference). This year, it will take place on 27, 28, 29 and 30 of April ONLINE, due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Last year, the conference was held in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). The guiding thread of EDUCON 2020 will be «Engineering Education for the Future in a Multicultural and Smart World». Manuel Castro (Full Professor at UNED and IEEE Fellow) and Edmundo Tovar (Professor at UPM) are members of the Steering Committee. Moreover, Carlos Delgado Kloos (Full Professor at UC3M and eMadrid network coordinator) and Sergio Martín (Professor at UNED) have a seat on the Scientific Committee.
EDUCON has become an unmissable event for professors, researchers and other professionals. We are talking about a fórum, sponsored by IEEE Education Society, which is considered the the largest reference in education in the IEEE 8 Region (Europe, Middle East and North Africa). For many people, its the perfect place for collaboration and Exchange of ideas on engineering teaching and learning around the world.
(More details about eMadrid session at EDUCON 2020 coming soon)
Date
Friday, February 21, 2020
Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend
Program
Date
Friday, December 13, 2019
Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend
{ Madrid, October 3, 2019 } The eMadrid network will offer a workshop within the next UCAml (13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence), a congress related to the main research area of this group, educational technologies, scheduled from 2 to 5 December 2019 in the city of Toledo (Spain).
The eMadrid Workshop will be held on December 2 and will be focused on the concept of «smart education».
ο 16.00 - 16.10 / Workshop introduction.
ο 16.10 - 17.00 / Keynote talk: «Smarter learning in the future». Rob Koper. Open Universiteit in the Netherlands (OUNL).
ο 17.00 - 17.20 / «The potential of Open Data to automatically create learning resources for smart learning environments». A. Ruiz Calleja, M.L. Bote Lorenzo, G. Vega Gorgojo, S. Serrano Iglesias. Universidad de Valladolid.
ο 17.20 - 18.00 / Coffe Break.
ο 18.00 - 18.20 / «On the identification of several key issues on OER Discovery for Smart Learning Environments». P. Molins, F. Jurado, P. Rodríguez. Universidad Autónoma.
ο 18.20 - 18.40 / «Smart Education: a review and future research directions». A. Carruana Martín, C. Alario Hoyos, C. Delgado Kloos. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
ο 18.40 - 19.00 / «The PRISMA: a visual feedback display for learning scenarios». B. Tabuenca, L. Wu, E.Tovar. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
ο 19.00 - 19.20 / «Prof. Watson: A pedagogic conversational agent to teach programming in Primary Education». P. Yeves Martínez, D. Pérez-Marín. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
ο 20.00 / Reception.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend
** ID-number: 2017-1-NL01-KA203-035259
{ Madrid, 22th of October, 2019 } The eMadrid network will participate for the fourth year in SIMO EDUCATION, a technological leading event for teachers and other professionals in this sector, scheduled from 5 to 7 November at IFEMA (Feria de Madrid). eMadrid special session will focus on «Apps and tools to innovate in the classroom», with inputs and specific examples of the studies developed by the members of this network dedicated to the research on educational technologies.
If you are interested in these session, please join us the 5th of november, from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm, in the Orange Room (Sala Naranda, 6A21) of pavilion 6.
The speakers who will make the presentations (available later on emadridnet.org) are as follows:
You can get your free pass on this link if you register online until November 4 (included).
Date
Friday, October 11, 2019
Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend.
*** IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)***
Imagen: Carlos Delgado Kloos, during the last eMadrid Workshop
{ Madrid, September 15, 2019 } The Practitioner Award was given to Carlos Delgado Kloos, professor and vice president for Strategy and Digital Education at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). The Open Education Awards for Excellence provide annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the Open Education (OE) community, recognizing exemplary leaders, open educational resources and Open Projects & Initiatives. In this edition, 2019, have also been honoured Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, with the Leadership Award, and Dirk Ulijn and Bart Meeuwissen, with the Student Award.
Date
Friday, September 20, 2019
Admission to the seminar is free, but please note that registration is required to attend.
«EntreCom4ALL goals. Adapting a framework of entrepreneurial skills for different objetive groups». Edmundo Tovar, associate professor at UPM.
«Structure and modalities of EntreCom4ALL». Bernardo Tabuenca, assistant professor at UPM.
«The use of EntreCom4ALL in the classroom». Tomás Serrano, educational project manager at CECE (Confederación Española de Centros de Enseñanza).
ID number: 2017-1-ES01-KA202-038383
{ Madrid, July 15, 2019 } The eMadrid network will offer a workshop within the next UCAml (13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence), a congress related to the main research area of this group, educational technologies, scheduled from 2 to 5 December 2019 in the city of Toledo (Spain). The eMadrid Workshop will be held on December 2 and will be focused on the concept of «smart education». The eMadrid network has opened a «call for papers» for this occasion: candidates can send their proposals (on the topics announced) until 9 September 2019.
June, 26-27, 2019
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / Campus de Puerta de Toledo / Aula 1.A.01 /
Ronda de Toledo, 1 / 28005 Madrid
«Educational technology with a human touch»
Attendance is free, but registration is required.
Where to eat 
Program brochure 
«Educational technology with a human touch». The IX eMadrid Workshop, scheduled 26-27 June 2019 at the Campus de Puerta de Toledo of the UC3M, will focus on this topic. The program of this consolidated event, which includes the participation of leading experts from both the academic and business worlds, highlights with this idea one of the main challenges of the educational sector in all its stages: the impact of the newest technology in the classroom. The eMadrid Network (a collaboration project between the universities UC3M, UAM, UCM, UPM, UNED and URJC) will be free of charge and open to the general public, as in previous editions. Please note that registration is required to attend.
The eMadrid network, within the framework of the call for R&D Programmes in Technologies 2018, has selected the winners of the eMadrid Awards 2019, all of them authors of works whose theme is totally or partially related to research or development of educational technologies. We would like to thank all the candidates who have participated in this edition for their efforts and highlight the quality of the works presented.
Keep on reading to find out who are the winners in each category
