Bio - Albert Sangrà

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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). Is Professor Professor of Psychology and Education Sciences Studies, and researcher of the consolidated research group Edul@b.

Currently, and since 2016, it is also the Director of the Industrial Doctorate Plan of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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

Member of the founding team of the UOC (1994-95), he has been 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), research, training and innovation center in e-learning.

Been vice president of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL) (2011-2014), and 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 de Portugal. He is currently an advisory member of the Board of Directors of the Universidade Aberta de Portugal. IACC Professional Institute, from Chile; member of the Valutazione Núcleo of the Università Telematica Pegaso, from Italy; member of the International Advisory Committee of the TELSC (Technology Enhanced Learning & Societal Challenges) Doctoral Program, shared by the University of Lisbon, University of Aveiro and the University of Minho, in Portugal; member of the COER (Center for Open Education Research), Oldenburg Universität, Germany; and member of the Network of International Researchers in Distance, Online and Open Education, among other responsibilities.

Been 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 of the European Research Council (ERC), and of various national agencies for the evaluation of the quality of higher education (Italy, Portugal, Estonia, Andorra, Cyprus, and the Republic of South Africa). He is a member of the Permanent Evaluation Committee of the Agància per la Qualitat de l'Ensenyament Superior d'Andorra.

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.