University of Oxford

Graduate Student, Oxford Internet Institute

St. Antony's

About

Daniel Villar Onrubia is an OII DPhil student researching open educational initiatives and practices in the Higher Education sector.

Daniel is interested in the social and cultural implications of ICTs in Higher Education contexts. His work attempts to provide an in-depth understanding of the socio-technical factors that both enable and constrain the provision of open educational resources (OER) at several Spanish universities. In this regard, it focuses on the role of open educational practices in relation to the strategic orientation of universities as well as to the values, attitudes, aims and day-to-day activity of educators.

He is currently involved in the OportUnidad project as a Research Assistant, and during his time at the OII he has also co-directed, along with Isis A. Hjorth, the Remix Cinema Workshop, a student-led initiative funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the Beyond Text programme. Additional support for this event was secured from UNIA Prácticas y Culturas Digitales, St. Antony’s College, Modern Art Oxford and the Instituto Cervantes. Under the title Expanded University, in 2009 he co-directed a series of events consisting of a symposium and a workshop organised by the International University of Andalusia (UNIA) in collaboration with Spain's School for Industrial Organisation (EOI).

Daniel holds a BA in Media Studies from the University of Seville (Spain), an MA in Digital Technologies, Information & Communication and a Postgraduate Certificate in e-Learning, both the latter from the Spanish National Distance University - UNED. Prior to coming to the OII he worked at UNIA as coordinator of the area of digital corporate communication.

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