Visiting Scholars

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I have the opportunity to meet and learn with some visiting scholars coming to my local university site. The challenge is proximity and time when it comes to these types of academic exchanges. I am carving time away from data analysis and dissertation writing since I know these two teacher educators and researchers from Spain are working and researching in similar areas of interest. Before I meet them, I am taking time to get to know their scholarly works – doing my research. Some interesting connections are emerging.

These scholars will also be presenting on the topic of “The 3rd R of ICT: Read, Write and Relate: Digital competencies, digital learning and digital citizenship” in a face-to-face and virtual talk.

The local newspaper outlet describes this opportunity “Acedo, a professor of communication and education and director of the Paulo Freire Chair in Educommunication, and Lazo, a professor of journalism and the director of the Digital Communication and Information Research Group, will discuss their experiences with massive open online course design and implementation including their involvement with the European ECO Learning portal.”

Dr. Sara Osuna-Acedo works at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain and is the Director of the Paulo Freire Chair of Educommunication at UNED. She has an ORCID that shares over 200 articles, and her ResearchGate shares 85 articles of interest. Her twitter account may be a way to stay connected beyond this chance to meet.

Some works of interest:

Dr. Carmen Marta Lazo works at the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain. She has an ORCID that shares over 200 articles, and her ResearchGate shares 150 articles of interest. Her twitter account may be one way to stay connected.

References

Frau-Meigs, D., Osuna-Acedo, S., & Marta-Lazo, C. (Eds.). (2021). MOOCs and the Participatory Challenge: From Revolution to Reality. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67314-7

Gabelas, J. A., Marta-Lazo, C., & González Aldea, P. (2015). The relational factor in media convergence: an emerging proposal. Anàlisi, 53, 20. https://doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i53.2509

Gil Quintana, J., & Osuna-Acedo, S. (2020). Transmedia Practices and Collaborative Strategies in Informal Learning of Adolescents. Social Sciences, 9(6), 92. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9060092

Gil-Quintana, J., & Osuna-Acedo, S. (2020). Citizenship Training through sMOOCs: A Participative and Intercreative Learning. Sustainability, 12(20), 8301. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208301

Hueso-Romero, J. J., Gil-Quintana, J., Hasbun, H., & Osuna-Acedo, S. (2021). The Social and Transfer Massive Open Online Course: Post-Digital Learning. Future Internet, 13(5), 119. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13050119

Marta-Lazo, C., Osuna-Acedo, S., & Gil-Quintana, J. (2019). sMOOC: A pedagogical model for social inclusion. Heliyon, 5(3), e01326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01326