Perfils. Randy Barker: mestre de metges

Randy Barker (EUA, 1939) és metge i professor al Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center de Baltimore, als Estats Units. El Centre ha estat un dels primers a fer del learning by doing un element programàtic, filosofia que, d’alguna manera, comparteix fonaments amb l’aprenentatge basat en problemes (ABP). Barker visita Girona perquè és membre del Consell Acadèmic Internacional de la Facultat de Medicina de la UdG, en la qual, a més, ha impartit la lliçó magistral Professionalisme i ensenyament de la medicina

Social Networking Sites as Technology Enhanced Learning Communities towards autonomous language learning

The following contribution pretends to cope with the demands of a globalised, post-modern environment through the design and implementation of an online international project where an SNS is used in order to join English as Second Language (ESL) students from different parts of the world. The design of the project appears around the implementation of the Bologna process in the Faculty of Education from the University of Girona where the basic prerequisite of all students to acquire English at the level B1 of the Common European Portfolio makes English a compulsory competence for communication among its higher education candidates in order to develop in the world. Together with the University of Girona, there is the International Educational and Resources Network (iEARN) which promotes the participation of schools around the world in online international projects