Virtual course: digipedia – digital and pedagogical competences

From the CRIE, the UTP invites teachers to enroll in the MOOC Digipeda – Digital and Pedagogical Competencies, starting in October 2024. They will not only be able to strengthen their digital competencies, but also share and exchange ideas and experiences with teachers from Brazil.

At the top of the picture, the header has a navy blue image cut by light blue bundles of lines and dots. In the left-hand corner of the image is written Open courses - Federal Institute of Espírito Santo and the menu for accessing the options: Home, Courses Search and Embrace. At the bottom of the picture, the three available EMBRACE MOOC courses are shown side by side: 1. DIGIPEDA - Digital and Pedagogical Skills; 2. Active Pedagogies Using Digital Tools; and 3. World of Work: Digital Skills and Innovation.

Provision of MOOCs in the EMBRACE project: UFABC team tutors’ perspective on MOOC 1.

The EMBRACE project MOOCs involved UFABC teacher tutors who evaluated and improved content to ensure academic quality. They praised the variety of materials and digital tools but noted challenges in language integration, assessments, and Moodle navigation. Their feedback will help refine future editions.

Dynamic Tests for Assertive Formative Assessment

This paper explores the use of generative artificial intelligences to create dynamic tests in formative assessments. Through personalized quizzes, immediate feedback is facilitated, allowing the teacher to adjust his or her teaching in real time. This innovative methodology improves students’ understanding, catering to their individual needs and fostering deeper and more meaningful learning.

EMBRACE UFABC team’s continuing teacher training experience

The EMBRACE project, funded by EACEA, focuses on modernizing higher education by enhancing teacher training in digital pedagogy, integrating CLIL and ePedagogy approaches. Through international collaboration and active learning strategies, UFABC participants developed digital competences and adapted global practices to local needs, emphasizing inclusion, accessibility, and student-centered methodologies for lasting educational transformation.

Transforming Learning: Designing Cognitive Activities through Bloom’s Taxonomy and Technology Tools

The article explores how the design of cognitive activities based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, combined with technological tools, transforms learning. It sets clear and measurable objectives at each cognitive level, from basic comprehension to critical evaluation, encouraging dynamic learning aligned with desired competencies.

Between Northern Lights and Digital Clicks: Why Teaching Is Also About Continuing to Learn (V.8, N.7, P.8, 2025)

The article highlights the importance of continuous teacher training, using Finland and the international EMBRACE project as examples. The initiative promotes inclusive and collaborative learning ecosystems in Brazil, Colombia, and Europe, fostering teacher development through technology, internationalization, and co-creation tailored to diverse contexts.

Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

The Technological University of Pereira is a public institution of higher education accredited with high quality in several of its undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Instituto Politécnico De Bragança

The IPB is a public institution of higher education, committed to providing quality training and promoting research and extension activities with an impact on the economic, social and cultural environment.

The relevance of competency-based training, what does it consist of?

Competency-based training is based on identifying these key skills and designing educational programs that help students acquire them and apply them in practical situations.

What is EMBRACE?

EMBRACE is a project led by Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) to which several institutions from Brazil, Colombia and Portugal have joined, with the idea of looking to the future and supporting the modernization of higher education.

Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities

The article examines the legal and ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to copyright. It addresses the debate on the authorship of AI-generated works, possible legal reforms and their impact on the creative industry, highlighting the need for new regulations to balance technological innovation and intellectual property protection.

Instituto Federal do São Paulo (IFSP)

IFSP is a multi campuses pluri-curricula higher and professional education institution.

EMBRACE team invites you to the launch of the international project’s MOOCs: free and open teacher training in digital, pedagogical and innovation skills

The EMBRACE project promotes institutional transformation in higher education through teacher training in digital and pedagogical skills. It develops MOOCs to foster innovative, inclusive learning ecosystems aligned with labor market and societal needs. Partner institutions from Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, and Finland collaborate to address complex local and regional challenges.

Joint development of EMBRACE MOOCs, a perspective from UTP teachers

This article reflects on the collaborative creation of MOOCs by Colombian and Brazilian universities within the EMBRACE project. It highlights intercultural teamwork, pedagogical reflection, and the transformative power of international cooperation in digital education. Language differences became bridges, fostering inclusive, participatory, and meaningful learning design for diverse contexts.

EMBRACE: Cultivating Learning Ecosystems for Thriving Communities and Economic Growth

The digitalization of work demands stronger ties between universities and industries, emphasizing collaboration, transversal skills, and innovative ecosystems to prepare students for the evolving future of work.

Tutor Training of the Embrace Project at Ifes

Between May and December 2024, Ifes implemented tutor training under the Embrace Project, enhancing teachers’ digital and pedagogical skills through MOOCs. The initiative fostered educational innovation and workplace alignment, empowering educators as multipliers of modern teaching practices across campuses, with strong participant engagement and promising long-term impact.

Häme University of Applied Sciences, the project leader.

At HAMK, studying is a team effort – both with other students and with partners. As a student, you’ll get to solve real-life problems right from the start of your studies.

From the Traditional Classroom to the Digital Space: The Need for Digital Competences in Teaching for Learning

The enhancement of teaching and learning activities is a central objective in contemporary education, especially in the context of the digitisation of information. In this context, digital teaching strategies promote a learner-centred process when properly managed and thought through by significantly enhancing the learning process.

A girl is studing with a robot. Picture generated with AI

Academic tutoring for university students from artificial intelligence (chatbot)

The power of artificial intelligence in academic tutoring of university students offers a new worldview of the educational scenario from learning to learn, which allows consolidation of educational activities based on the strategic use of ICT.

Launch of the Embrace MOOC trilogy

The EMBRACE project, led by HAMK (Finland) with partners from Brazil, Colombia, and Portugal, launched a trilogy of MOOCs to train educators in digital and pedagogical skills, based on the ADDIEM model and DigCompEdu framework. The courses are available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Instituto Federal del Espírito Santo (IFES)

With more than four thousand students, preparing for the job market is just one of the institution’s functions.

UTP: “Embrace Project, a success story”

Our partners from UTP tell us how the project has developed in their institution and also their expectations for it.

Digital transformation in higher education: UFABC towards the development of a learning ecosystem

The project, entitled EMBRACE: “Education Modernization Brazil, Colombia, Europe – the new era of digital higher education cooperation”, was approved under the ERASMUS-EDU-2022-CBHE call, Development of Competences in the Field of Higher Education, Axis 2: Partnerships for Transformation in Higher Education.

EMBRACE partner university teams at an online teacher training event Image description (for all to see): The image illustrates the final moment of one of the online meetings of the teacher training participants. Organised in windows on the ZOOM application screen, it is possible to identify the faces of some of the participants. In the top left-hand corner is the image of the smiling face of Hamk teacher Essi, who led the session. Then there are the attentive faces of the participants from UFABC, Carla Rodriguez, Graciela Watanabe, Allan Xavier, Michele Sato, Carolina Carvalho and João Sato, distributed among other partners from the Brazilian (IFES and IFSP) and Colombian (UTP and Areandina) institutions.

Development and pilot offer of MOOCs in the EMBRACE project: the multiplicity of knowledge from the perspective of the UFABC team.

The development of three MOOCs by teams of experts and IDs followed a collaborative, competency-based approach, promoting pedagogical innovation. Despite cultural and linguistic challenges, courses were successfully offered in three languages on digital and pedagogical skills, aligned with the EMBRACE project’s objectives.

Instructional Design Research in the Brazilian Context: Contributions of Qualitative Principles

The present essay proposes a reflection on the contributions of qualitative principles in research to be developed in the field of Instructional Design, aiming to contribute to the proposition of new methodological approaches.

Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)

UFABC is a Brazilian federal public institution of higher learning based in Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo, municipalities belonging to the ABC region, both in the state of São Paulo.

Techno-Pedagogical Report on the use of Artificial Intelligence tools at the University

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence based on usage models, such as the recognition and generation of texts, contexts and images based on simple questions.

Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina

Areandina is a Higher Education Institution IES in Colombia, founded in 1983 in the city of Bogotá, Cundinamarca. Their motto: “We fulfill dreams”

What are MOOCs?

According to George Siemens, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are online courses that provide learning on a large scale, allowing mass participation and free access to high-quality materials, without the need for prerequisites for participation.

Faculty Development and Training for Global Digital Learning Initiatives

The fast evolution of digital technologies is transforming higher education, highlighting the need for ongoing professional development in global digital learning. Faculty must be trained in digital pedagogy, cross-cultural collaboration, and emerging technologies to create engaging, inclusive, and flexible online learning experiences across international contexts.

Between the human and the artificial: towards a digital teaching approach based on the generative dialectic of AI

This article explores AI-assisted digital teaching through the lens of digital dialectics. It highlights how human-AI interaction can foster critical thinking, argumentation, and knowledge construction, while warning against cognitive sedentarism. Emphasizing ethical use, it presents AI as a human extension that should support—not replace—deep, reflective learning.

The construction of MOOCs in the Embrace project

The EMBRACE project is developing a trilogy of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) with the aim of training higher education teachers and managers in digital and pedagogical competences, and based on the European Digital Competence Framework for Educators.

The integration of technology into educational processes

Between Northern Lights and Digital Clicks: Why Teaching Is Also About Continuing to Learn (V.8, N.7, P.8, 2025)

Joint development of EMBRACE MOOCs, a perspective from UTP teachers

Main Articles

The integration of technology into educational processes

Between Northern Lights and Digital Clicks: Why Teaching Is Also About Continuing to Learn (V.8, N.7, P.8, 2025)

Joint development of EMBRACE MOOCs, a perspective from UTP teachers

Other Articles

Virtual course: digipedia – digital and pedagogical competences

Provision of MOOCs in the EMBRACE project: UFABC team tutors’ perspective on MOOC 1.

Dynamic Tests for Assertive Formative Assessment

EMBRACE UFABC team’s continuing teacher training experience

Transforming Learning: Designing Cognitive Activities through Bloom’s Taxonomy and Technology Tools

Between Northern Lights and Digital Clicks: Why Teaching Is Also About Continuing to Learn (V.8, N.7, P.8, 2025)

Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Instituto Politécnico De Bragança

The relevance of competency-based training, what does it consist of?

What is EMBRACE?

Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities

Instituto Federal do São Paulo (IFSP)

EMBRACE team invites you to the launch of the international project’s MOOCs: free and open teacher training in digital, pedagogical and innovation skills

Joint development of EMBRACE MOOCs, a perspective from UTP teachers

EMBRACE: Cultivating Learning Ecosystems for Thriving Communities and Economic Growth

Tutor Training of the Embrace Project at Ifes

Häme University of Applied Sciences, the project leader.

From the Traditional Classroom to the Digital Space: The Need for Digital Competences in Teaching for Learning

Academic tutoring for university students from artificial intelligence (chatbot)

Launch of the Embrace MOOC trilogy

Instituto Federal del Espírito Santo (IFES)

UTP: “Embrace Project, a success story”

Digital transformation in higher education: UFABC towards the development of a learning ecosystem

Development and pilot offer of MOOCs in the EMBRACE project: the multiplicity of knowledge from the perspective of the UFABC team.

Instructional Design Research in the Brazilian Context: Contributions of Qualitative Principles

Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)

Techno-Pedagogical Report on the use of Artificial Intelligence tools at the University

Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina

What are MOOCs?

Faculty Development and Training for Global Digital Learning Initiatives

Between the human and the artificial: towards a digital teaching approach based on the generative dialectic of AI

The construction of MOOCs in the Embrace project