Josep Duarte

Dr. Duarte holds a doctorate in Pedagogy from Ramon Llull University (URL), Barcelona, and a Master in Business Administration from ESADE Business School, Barcelona. He qualified from the University of Barcelona (UB) with a bachelor's degree in History and in Education, and also has a teaching qualification.

He is former vice president for Postgraduate Studies and Lifelong Learning, and former director of the International Graduate Institute at the Open University of Catalonia, UOC (2007-2013). The UOC is a benchmark online university, internationally recognized for quality e-learning, and Dr Duart has played an active role in the development of its educational model, which makes intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Today he is a research professor in the Educational Sciences and Technology department at the UOC.

He was the founder and director of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning (2002-2009) and academic director of the I International Seminar "Leading Universities in the Knowledge Society". He is the editor-in-chief of the "International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education" ethe.uoc.edu. (Former RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal, russian.uoc.edu) a journal published by Springer and co-edited by UOC and Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).