I have attempted here to document my experience participating in the ILET transatlantic exchange as a PhD student from the University of Barcelona, Spain.

During this Fall Semester of 2003, I completed various objectives with ILET: study and do research tomy doctoral thesis; collaborate with the Center of Technology in Learning and Teaching (CTLT) and other academic centres; participate in a real intercultural experience for several months as a member of the ILET community, and finally, obtaining the final certificate of Competency in Leadership in Intercultural Educational Technology in order to develop the intercultural competencies in the research of Educational Technology .

As other European PhD students, such as Tom Nyvang from Denmark and John Fraser from UK, after participating in other activities from 2002 and 2003 (Reading Groups, Summer Academies, etc.) we want to learn and collaborate in our field of knowledge with an intercultural and international perspective with Dr. Niki Davis.

In my case, I can explain my experience in these sections:

·         Experience CTLT
- CTLT Community
- Research Projects: ILET, E-doc, etc.
- Seminars: CIT Department, Technological Education Computing Club (TECC), etc.

·         Doctoral Thesis
- Research in e-Portfolios
- Papers co-written

·         Other academic activities
- Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
- Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
- International Education Services

·         Social activities in ISU
- Life in ISU (UV, Ames, Iowa)
- Acknowledgements

This final work of the project has been to analyze and elaborate on the contribution that this experience gave to my university training, with documentation and reflections. It was an enriching learning experience, giving me more autonomy as a learner and helping me in the development of my skills as a researcher. This work has an intercultural and international aspect as a bilingual website in English and in Spanish. For these reasons, I think that similar experiences can be very useful and fundamental in the training of doctoral students.

Thanks to everybody who made it possible!

Update: 05/05/04
Contact: olatz@gream.org