Digital Practicum 3.0: Exploring Augmented Reality, Remote Classrooms, and Virtual Learning To Enrich and Expand Preservice Teacher Education Preparation

PRAC3 would be a pioneer initiative to test the efficacy of an online teaching practicum. Today’s operational online resources aiming at bringing in the ICT in the practicum are based on the web 2.0 (theoretical contents online, users’ interaction via forums, blogs, social websites, etc). However, the ultimate motivation for this consortium is to design integrated online teaching resources for the on-site school teaching training based on web 3.0, which its defining feature is the possibility to access more personalized information according to the user’s experience (e.g., Elaboration of mentors’ and preservice students’ profiles, and virtual personalized school practices).

Co-thinking and Creation for STEAM diversity-gap reduction (CreaSTEAM)

Lack of diversity, especially gender inequality and social background are some global problems in different sectors but especially latent in the context of the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering (and the recently added concept of Arts), and Mathematics (STEAM), from primary school to university level and, therefore, labor market. When we talk about diversity, we are worried about attracting representative people from all sectors of society, different cultures, disabilities, ethnic groups, gender or sexual orientation.

Migrantes en STEM: Voces y Experiencias (MSTEM)

El proyecto se enfoca en visibilizar las experiencias de estudiantes y profesionales internacionales migrantes que incursionan en las áreas de ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (STEM). A través de sus historias personales, desafíos y logros, se busca resaltar cómo su condición migrante, junto con factores como la identidad, el origen y el género, impactan en su acceso, permanencia y éxito en estos campos. Con esto, el proyecto promueve una mayor comprensión y valoración de la contribución y diversidad que aportan las personas migrantes a STEM.