Bio - Albert Sangrà

Hello, what can I do for you?

Albert Sangrà is an expert in e-learning and a professor of Education at the UOC. He has been involved in research and teaching in the field of online learning for 30 years, and was one of the founding members of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) team. He is the director of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change and has received several awards for his work. His interest in the use of technologies in education and distance or online education in particular is reflected in his publications and projects. He is a consultant and advisor on projects for the implementation and development of digital education models.

Albert Sangrà is the director of the UNESCO Chair in Technology and Education for Social Change at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences , and a researcher with the consolidated research group Edul@b.

Currently, and since 2016, he is also the director of the Industrial PhD Plan of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

He has been awarded the 2015 e-Learning Excellence Award by the World Education Congress , and has been recognized as an EDEN Senior Fellow by the European Distance and E-Learning Network.

A member of the founding team of the UOC (1994-95), he was Director of Methodology and Educational Innovation until 2004, in charge of the design and development of the university's educational model; Director of the Master's Degree in Education and ICT (e-learning) (2006 to 2012); and Director of the eLearn Center (2012-2014), a research, training and innovation center in e-learning.

He served as Vice-President of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL) (2011-2014) and as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) (2003-2009). He also served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Universidade Aberta in Portugal. Currently, he is an advisory member of the Board of Directors of the IACC Professional Institute in Chile; a member of the Evaluation Center of the Pegaso Telematics University in Italy; a member of the International Advisory Committee of the TELSC (Technology Enhanced Learning & Societal Challenges) Doctoral Program , shared by the University of Lisbon, the University of Aveiro, and the University of Minho in Portugal; a member of the COER (Center for Open Education Research) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany; and a member of the International Network of Researchers in Distance, Online, and Open Education , among other responsibilities.

He has been a visiting professor at the Korean National Open University (South Korea); the Università degli Studi di Trento and the Università dlgli Studi di Milano (Italy); Athabasca University (Canada); and the Universidad del Norte (Colombia), among others.

He is an evaluator for the European Research Council (ERC) and for several national agencies for the evaluation of the quality of higher education (Italy, Portugal, Estonia, Andorra, Cyprus, and South Africa). He is a member of the Standing Committee for Evaluation of the Andorran Agency for the Quality of Higher Education.

Associate editor of the American Journal for Distance Education and member of the Editorial Board of various indexed academic journals, such as the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE), the Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society (Je-LKS) and the Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia (RIED). He is director of the “Educación Desatada” collection at Editorial UOC.