About Aprèn
Aprèn is a portal that provides access to the teaching support materials developed by the teaching staff of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
Aprèn contains the teaching content that UPC teaching staff incorporate into UPCommons, the UPC’s open knowledge portal, and Zonavideo, the UPC’s audiovisual portal
The objectives of Aprèn are:
- To improve the visibility and impact of the teaching output of UPC teaching staff with an integrating platform that standardises access and search.
- To add value to the teaching output of UPC teaching staff.
- To increase open access publishing of the teaching content produced by UPC teaching and research staff and make it easier for the content to be reused to improve teaching.
- To identify the authors of the teaching content unambiguously, both in terms of their personal name and their institutional affiliation.
- To promote the use of UPCommons as the institutional repository for collecting and preserving all of the UPC’s academic output.
What can I find in Aprèn?
Aprèn can be used to consult the UPC’s teaching content by choosing one of the options listed below.
- Teaching staff: consult the teaching content produced by UPC teaching staff.
- Organisation: consult the teaching content produced or supervised by the members of a UPC unit (schools or departments).
- Subjects: consult the teaching content related to a subject taught at the UPC.
- Degrees: consult the teaching content related to a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree taught at the UPC.
- Content: consult all the teaching content available on UPCommons.
- Open access: consult all the teaching content available on UPCommons and Zonavídeo that has been published in open access on the internet.
- Bachelor’s and master’s theses: consult bachelor’s and master’s theses produced by UPC students as a final work and summary of the knowledge and competencies that they have gained at the UPC.
- Videos: consult the audiovisual content linked to teaching activities at the UPC.
The main types of educational content currently available in the Aprèn system are:
- Lecture notes and presentations
- Exam papers
- Bachelor’s and master’s theses
- Audiovisual content
- Books
- Student assignments
- Problems and exercises
- Practicals
- Software
- Images