The field of education in Europe has been marked in recent decades about the adequacy of educational systems to new social and economic conditions being faced and which resulted in different perspectives and recommendations with the objective of bringing the necessary powers under overall development.

These processes of updating education systems have had as an important component of discussion of the role played by ICT to meet the challenges of globalization and technological revolution has imposed on European society on equal.

The Digital Education Observatory at the University of Barcelona, precisely analyzes the impact of ICT and the Information Society in education and, specifically, new forms of literacy and learning.

The site provides information on the structure and functioning of the Observatory and its research and innovation projects, as well as reports and publications produced.

News: Next publication of Digital Education Review (DER)

Digital Education Review (DER) is a journal designed as a space of dialogue and reflection about the impact of ICT in education and new emergent forms of teaching and learning in digital environments. ICT plays an important role in education, raising discussions and important new challenges. Analyze the impact of ICT and new forms of literacy and learning are the main interests of Digital Education Review. The journal focus is related to digital literacies and to virtual teaching and learning: virtual environment design, development of cognitive tools, educational materials, Internet, hypermedia  and evaluation of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) when applied to education. The publication is open to all those investigators who wish to propose articles on this subject. We will accept investigation work of the theoretical and bibliographic, as well as the practical and experiential. Finally, this journal is the result of the intellectual work of Digital Education Observatory (OED) andt Virtual Teaching and Learning Research Group (GREAV) at University of Barcelona. (More information at: http://greav.ub.edu/der)