The UAB awards the 7th Teaching Excellence Award in its Teaching Innovation Conference

On 7 May the UAB held its 7th Teaching Innovation Conference, which included conferences and debates in the morning, and three sessions for the presentation of papers in the afternoon.

The conference began with the inaugural lecture, entitled “Academic development and evaluation of teaching activity: an explosive couple”, by Idoia Fernandez, professor of Education Studies at the University of the Basque Country. This was followed by the debate on “ChatGPT enters the classroom: what do we do now?”, by Joan Simon, lecturer of Pharmacy at the UB; Robert Clarisó, lecturer of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications at the UOC, and Cristina Mercader, lecturer of Education Studies at the UAB.

At 12 noon, as is customary within the conference, the 7th Teaching Excellence Award was presented to M. Dolores Márquez, professor of Economics and Business and, as a novelty, a secondary award was given to Professor Alfonso Rodríguez Baeza, from the Faculty of Medicine. The award ceremony was chaired by the rector of the UAB, Javier Lafuente, and featured a performance by the UAB Chamber Choir.

In the afternoon, the activities continued with three parallel sessions, in which good teaching practices were presented by thematic area: “Gender Perspective in Teaching”, “Educational Inclusion in University Teaching”, and “Innovation and Learning”.

The first part of the conference was held in the conference hall of the Rectorat building, including the presentation of the 7th Teaching Excellence Award, while the afternoon presentations took place in the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (the centre where the award-winning professor teaches).

Programme and registration