Research

Research at the IUCE

Interdisciplinary research, both basic and applied, into training processes in Higher Education: educational assessment, technology, communication and transfer to the education system.

Research groups

USAL Recognised Research Groups linked to the Institute.

CaUSAL↗

Academic Culture, Heritage and Social Memory

Carmen López San Segundo

DIDEROT↗

Digital Didactics of Musical Expression and the Performing Arts

Javier Félix Merchán Sánchez-Jara

EduDIG↗

Research Group on Digital Innovation and Education

Sonia Casillas Martín

GRIAL↗

Research Group in InterAction and eLearning

Francisco José García Peñalvo

GROUSAL↗

Robotics and Society Group

Vidal Moreno Rodilla

INDIE↗

Interdisciplinary Research Group on Digital Intelligence in Educational Processes

Juan José Mena Marcos

MOVERE↗

Research Group on Physical Activity, Movement and Education

Josué Prieto Prieto

OCA↗

Audiovisual Content Observatory

Juan José Igartua Perosanz

VisualMed↗

Research Group on Advanced Medical Visualisation Systems

Juan Antonio Juanes Méndez

Publications

The scientific output of the Institute's members is available on the Research Portal of the University of Salamanca. The IUCE also publishes the journal Education in the Knowledge Society (EKS).

USAL Research Portal

Scientific output of the IUCE

Articles, books, chapters, projects and supervised theses by IUCE researchers, always up to date on the USAL Research Portal.

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Read the latest articles by the IUCE's management team

Director · 2025

¿Innovación o resistencia? Comparativa de la intención de uso de futuros docentes de dispositivos móviles en evaluación educativa mediante PLS-SEM

Alberto Ortiz-López; José Carlos Sánchez-Prieto; Susana Olmos-Migueláñez — Revista Electrónica Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado

Deputy Director · 2026

Inteligencia híbrida y agencia educativa: hacia una ecología de colaboración humano-IA

Francisco José García-Peñalvo — Education in the Knowledge Society (EKS)

Academic Secretary · 2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Music Education Ecology: AI as an Agent for Understanding, Meaning-Making, and Creative and Cognitive Growth

Javier Félix Merchán-Sánchez-Jara; Sara González-Gutiérrez; María Navarro-Cáceres; Enrique González-Gutiérrez; Juan José Navarro-Cáceres; Carlos Sánchez García et al. — AI in Education

EKS

Education in the Knowledge Society

The IUCE's open-access scientific journal: interdisciplinary research on the Knowledge Society and technology-mediated educational processes. Indexed in Scopus and in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Web of Science. ISSN 2444-8729 (until 2014 it was published as Teoría de la Educación: Educación y Cultura en la Sociedad de la Información, TESI).

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