The GIEL-ELIT Research Group was established in 2004 around a central core of research work: e-learning. GIEL in Spanish means Grupo de Investigación en e-learning (E-Learning Research Group in English), with its equivalent in Basque being ELIT, e-learning Ikerkuntza Taldea.

We understand the term e-learning as a meeting point between the background of Social Sciences applied to the educational field and new trends like technology-enhanced learning. Accordingly, GIEL is a multi-disciplinary group able to work in this field with the double perspective that is required.

Currently we focus our research in the following lines:

• Personal Learning Environments (PLE) and their relation to social networks, in particular, Personal Learning Networks (PLN).

• Teaching in Higher Education, technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and emerging needs in Higher Education settings (blended learning, active learning methodologies…)