Biography

Fernando Albuquerque Costa (Ph.D.) is a professor and researcher of Educational Technology at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon. There, he integrates the I&D Research Unity (UIDEF). He taught at the University of Lisbon from 1988 until 2008 at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

Currently, he is the academic director of the Master's degree in Education and Training (e-learning and distance learning), also coordinating the Degree in Education and Training.

His main research interests are Digital Technology and Curriculum and Innovation of Educational Practices, having addressed 9 doctoral theses (2 ongoing), 5 post-doctorates, 2 sandwich doctorates, and 54 academic master's theses in these fields.

At the international level, Fernando coordinated the Portuguese teams of different European research projects in the area of pedagogical use of ICT, including projects about the evaluation of educational multimedia, innovative teaching practices, electronic portfolios, professional development of teachers, and the development of digital competence of adult educators.

At the national level, for the Ministry of Education, he was the coordinator of i) the Distance Learning Project for Itinerant Students; ii) the national study about ICT Teachers Competencies and iii) the ICT Learning Outcomes Project. More recently, he coordinated three I&D projects, one aiming to foster the integration of ICT in teachers' and students' practice, one another aiming to promote the digital literacy of adults, and one about improving College Learning with Gamification (funded by national FCT).

Currently, Fernando coordinates one financed project to foster the integration of ICT in teachers' and students' practice in the municipality of Amadora. Fernando has more than one hundred publications available at www.researchgate.net/profile/Fernando_Costa10.

He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific international journals, such as the Digital Education Review (http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/der). He was co-director of the first scientific online journal on ICT in education and training published in Portugal (http://eft.educom.pt).