Universidad de Córdoba

Coordinator

Víctor Pavón

Víctor works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba (Spain), where he teaches in the areas of EFL methodology and bilingual education. He is also member of the Committee for Language Accreditation within the CRUE (the national association of Rectors of Spanish universities) and current Head of the Dpt. of English and German Philology. My main interests focus on research and development for capacity building, and subsequent competence building of staff, to support the implementation of bilingual education programmes.

Our team

María del Mar Sierra Rodríguez

 

María del Mar is currently a Ph.D. Student of the Philological Studies programme at the University of Seville while working as a lecturer at the University of Córdoba. Her research interests are English historical linguistics and dialectal variation and has been involved in two research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity dealing with these fields. She became interested in teaching methodology, especially gamification, when she started working as a teacher herself.

 

Sara Rendón Romero

 

Sara Rendón obtained her International PhD at the University of Seville in 2019. She previously completed a degree in English Studies and a Masters’ degree in Teaching of Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Languages Teaching. Since 2016, she has focused her research on early biliteracy and the transference of knowledge, skills and linguistic structures. She currently works as a lecturer at the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the University of Seville and her areas of interests are bilingual education and literacy, diversity and the digital gap. She is a member of the UCO team collaborating on the project.

Nora Rodríguez Loro

 

Nora Rodriguez is a lecturer in English Literature at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, and a member of the Restoration Comedy Project research group. Her research focuses on Restoration theatre, particularly the dedications of plays addressed to women during the reigns of the late Stuarts. Her research interests also include language learning and bilingualism. Nora has taught English to undergraduate students at the Universidad de Córdoba and Universitat de València, and has also supervised master-dissertation thesis on bilingualism.

María del Carmen Ramos Ordóñez

 

Carmen, BA’s Degree in English Philology, BA’s Degree in Education, Specialist in Foreign Language-English and Master’s Degree in English for Professional Qualification, has been working as an English specialist in Secondary Schools, Infant and Primary Schools, and currently works as a lecturer at the University of Cordoba. Her areas of interest are Content and Language Integrated Learning, Cooperative Learning, Project Based Learning, and the use of portfolios and technology.

OUR INSTITUTION

The University of Cordoba (also known by the acronym UCO) is located in Córdoba, Spain. The UCO was granted charter in 1972, although its roots lie in Universidad Libre 1870. This young, mid-sized university (18,000 students, 1,400 teachers, 730 staff) is a dynamic institution that has successfully adapted to the current demands for excellence in teaching and proven scientific expertise.

Three different campuses gather the UCO academic offer in:  Humanities, Legal & Social Sciences; Science & Technology; Health Sciences.

 

WE ARE PART OF THIS PROJECT BECAUSE WE WANT TO…

All the lecturers in the UCO team can provide a personal view of the current situation of teaching in the field of higher education. This includes the changes implemented as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of digital tools and the problem derived from it.

One of our competences is the analysis and interpretation of the collected data and relevant literature using the scientific method. 

This project is a great opportunity for us, as it can offer an international view of the need for the digitalisation of teaching, exchange of experiences and the possibility of enriching our career as researchers and teachers.