Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: The first university born online - Interview with Albert Sangrà

Abstract

Albert Sangrà is full professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and director of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change. As a founding member of this university, he briefly recalls its birth in the mid-1990s and emphasizes its particularity of offering fully online learning in the Catalan language that incorporated Spanish shortly afterward. He then outlines the principles on which e-learning is currently based at the UOC and, finally, shares his views on the future of this mode of training in light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.