Modes of study: on-site or online.

Barcelona, Spain.

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is a fully accredited online university based in Barcelona with over 70,000 students worldwide. The University welcomes doctoral students who want to develop their research in a highly qualified and international setting and on a doctoral programme that is recognized throughout the European Higher Education Area.

Overview

About

The Education and ICT doctoral programme focuses on online teaching and learning, the institutional or social framework, and technology-mediated online education systems, in general, in any geographic or cultural setting. It is open to any innovative research that involves the use of ICT in education. With this in mind, the programme supports interdisciplinary work that covers fields as diverse as psychology, pedagogy, computer engineering, law, tourism, economics, mathematics or the humanities, among others.

Visit the programme website for more information

https://studies.uoc.edu/en/doctoral-programmes/education-ict/presentation

Related Programmes

Knowledge and Information Society Doctoral programme https://studies.uoc.edu/en/doctoral-programmes/information-knowledge-society/presentation

Network and Information Technologies Doctoral programme https://studies.uoc.edu/en/doctoral-programmes/technologies-information-networks/presentation

Humanities and Communication Doctoral programme https://studies.uoc.edu/en/doctoral-programmes/humanities-communication/presentation

Health and Psychology Doctoral programme https://studies.uoc.edu/en/doctoral-programmes/health-psychology/presentation

Programme Structure

The programme offers the following research lines:

• Responsive Teaching and Learning Processes and Outcomes in Online Education
• Challenges for Sustainable Management and Organization in Online Education
• Technologies for Supporting Teaching and Learning
• Flexible and Open Online Education
• Educational issues and contexts in the digital society

Key facts

Programme details

Admissions from December 1 2020 to February 12 2021

Starting in September 2021

Programme duration

Part-time 5 years or full-time 3 years

Languages

English, Spanish or Catalan

Delivery mode

On-site at the UOC or online on the Virtual Campus

Fees and funding

Tuition fees  https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/escola-doctorat/acces-i-admissio/preus-taxes/index.html

Funding

Call for grant applications for the Education and ICT (e-learning) Doctoral Programme. The deadline for applications is 12 February 2021.

The UOC is offering grants for the Education and ICT (e-learning) Doctoral Programme for the 2021/2022 academic year.

These grants are only available to full-time students working on-site at the UOC.

The standard period that the grant covers is three years, and the grants are subject to an annual renewal. This renewal depends on the students' meeting the learning and research objectives established in each particular case. One of these objectives is to complete the thesis in no more than three years.

The programme also includes the possibility to develop an industrial doctorate, with grants for the best applicants with agreements with companies. Doctoral students undertaking an industrial doctorate will have a university supervisor and a tutor at the company.

Prospective applicants can find information on the application procedure, and on the content and organization of the doctoral programmes on the website. We recommend that you apply for access and contact the researcher who is in charge of the thesis proposal you are interested in, and send them a letter of introduction.

Full details: https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/escola-doctorat/beques/beques-uoc-escola-doctorat/index.html