Department: Psychology and Educational Sciences Department

Unit: Education and eLearning

Research group: EDUL@B Research Group in Education and ICT

Email: mguitert@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat de Barcelona with the thesis "Los proyectos en ""projecte"" un caleidoscopio de escenarios. Estudio de un caso sobre la utilización de la telemática en el aula" 1995. Supervised by Dr. Juana María Sancho Gil.

Montse Guitert Catasús's R&I focuses on researching emerging educational scenarios and open, flexible and online teaching and learning strategies in order to transform and improve educational practice. She is principal investigator in the Edul@b research group, where she studies how institutions, organizations, teachers and administrators deal with new scenarios, especially those involving digital technologies, in order to stay ahead of change and improve teaching and learning processes. She examines how students learn throughout their lives (from school through to retirement) as citizens and professionals. Guitert's main research interests are collaborative learning, online teaching, and training in the use and application of digital technologies across different educational settings and levels. In addition she studies training, assessment and accreditation in digital skills and learning ecologies as a basis for professional development.