The aim of the UOC UNESCO Chair in eLearning is to foster an integrated research, learning, information, and documentation system on the positive effects that the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) represents for universities. The UOC UNESCO Chair in eLearning promotes an open university model capable of generating the dynamics of improvement within universities and within the UOC itself, acting as a space for reflection and interdisciplinary analysis of the transformations experienced by higher education institutions as a result of the introduction and use of eLearning.

The International Seminar has been conceived as a framework for dissemination and exchange of knowledge and experience linked to the relationship between university and eLearning. Its aim is to look deeply into the knowledge and analysis of the main elements and challenges that the twenty-first century university faces.

The goal of the Seminar is to address web 2.0 tools, its applications, and all the successful experience derived from its use as a means for improvement and utilization of ICTs within higher education institutions.

In order to analyze these opportunities, the challenges that they pose, and the changes derived from their use, the UOC UNESCO Chair in eLearning Fourth International Seminar will be organized around three theme axes:

• Platforms and Tools: We will analyze web 2.0 tools and Multi-User Virtual Environments possibilities from the educational point of view, their limits, their advantages, and their shortcomings.
• Users: We will explore the changes that web 2.0 has and can introduce from the point of view of the different agents of the learning process, focussing upon users.
• Educational paradigms changes: We will cover the role of Public Administration as the catalyst of all these changes within educational systems.

The seminar registration fee is 300 euros. Seats are limited; English will be the Seminar language.