Potenciando el compromiso social de la universidad mediante las TIC

  1. Montse Serra 1
  2. Elena Planas
  3. David Baneres
  4. Adriana Ornellas 1
  1. 1 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01f5wp925

    Geographic location of the organization Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Book:
Actas del simposio-taller sobre estrategias y herramientas para el aprendizaje y la evaluación: JENUI 2015 : Andorra La Vella, 7 de julio de 2015
  1. Xavier Canaleta (coord.)
  2. August Climent (coord.)
  3. Lluís Vicent (coord.)

Publisher: Asociación de Enseñantes Universitarios de la Informática. AENUI

ISBN: 978-99920-70-09-3

Year of publication: 2015

Congress: Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI) (21. 2015. Andorra La Vella)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

A quality educational system for all the audiencesbelongs to the main social commitment that universities have with the current and ever-changingsociety. The ICT are a strategic key element for theuniversities in order to promote solutions for sectors of the population which suffer social exclusionand to increase its access to the knowledge. Ouruniversity has developed several initiatives with theobjective to approach the technology to the generalaudience. Moreover, these activities promote thelifelong learning using the technology as a tool.One of these projects focuses on encouraging a better adaptation of inpatient young people tofacilitate the stay by doing several leisureeducational activities based on learning of a programming language. These activities could be donein the hospital grounds or in the inpatient residence.The aim of this paper is to show the experience ofthis initiative.