Research lines

  • e-Health and active ageingResearch on the new field known as e-health that deals with the use of ICTs by all the actors within the health system, including empowering patients for the management of their own health needs and active ageinge-Learning and ICTs in educationResearch on the shift from teaching to learning, from e-learning to personal learning environments and heutagogy, and including ICTs in schools, instructional technology and educational innovation.Collaborative economy and behavioural economicsResearch on the collaborative/sharing economy, a renaissance of cooperativism (especially platform cooperativism) and the new ways firms and consumers (citizens) interact within the current regulatory and legal framework. This includes experimental research on economics and decision-making using behavioural economics, and therefore moving beyond the idealized concepts of representative agents and competitive markets alone.e-Governance and technopoliticsResearch on the transformation in norms, legitimation and power balances through the appropriation of ICTs as well as politics 2.0, e-participation, e-government and open government, and the powerful area of technopolitics.undefinedundefined