Octaedro – Institut de Desenvolupament Professional / Institut de Ciències de l’Educació

University lecturers will find useful guides for their teaching practice in the collections that make up the co-publication with the ICE. From the precise analysis and research of current teaching practices and based on the knowledge of renowned teachers, the Spanish and European educational panorama for all areas of knowledge is envisioned.

University teaching notebooks

They provide university teaching staff with various materials and documents that facilitate teaching work, in accordance with a vision of teaching and learning centred on the work of students, and aim to facilitate good teaching practices.

Proposals are made that help to clarify key concepts; varied strategies for planning, methodology and teaching evaluation are presented, designed from different disciplinary and academic contexts. Didactic proposals made by teaching teams are presented and experiences are offered where good teaching use has been made of information and communication technologies.

Due to their content and usefulness, these materials can help to improve teaching and be an instrument for the training of university teaching staff.

University Education (Directed by Teresa Pagès Costas)

This collection directed by Teresa Pagès Costas (Faculty of Biology UB) contributes to the dissemination of significant experiences and good practices of innovation and teaching improvement in the field of higher education and attempts to provide appropriate responses to the challenges posed by trends in the teaching-learning process and the construction of new spaces for higher education.

Composed of highly popular books on university teaching and learning, it is aimed especially at university lecturers and future teachers in training, university administrators, students in higher education and all those interested in the world of university teaching.

The collection also presents digital editions of all the books and of those documents which, due to their nature or the length and breadth of their approaches, exceed the possibilities of editions in traditional formats.

The Editorial Board of the collection is made up of: Antoni Sans Martín (director del ICE, Facultad de Pedagogía, Universidad de Barcelona); Mercè Gracenea Zugarramurdi (secretaria del ICE, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Barcelona); Salvador Carrasco Calvo (ICE, Universidad de Barcelona); Miquel Martínez Martín (Facultad de Pedagogía, Universidad de Barcelona); Atilà Herms Berenguer (Facultad de Física, Universidad de Barcelona); Mar Cruz Piñol (Facultad de Filología, Universidad de Barcelona); Miguel A. Pereyra García-Castro (Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Granada); Miquel Oliver Trobat (Facultad de Educación, director del ICE, Universidad Islas Baleares), Carmen Saurina Canals (Facultad de Economía, Universidad de Girona), Pedro Allueva Torres (Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Zaragoza) and the editorial team of Ediciones OCTAEDRO.

Part of this collection is the series: Educación comparada e internacional, directed by Miguel A. Pereyra, at the Universidad de Granada. The books in this series have a distinct and distinct orientation. It publishes works that present the results of leading international research on issues related to higher education from a comparative perspective.