Biography

Full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Coordinator of the Educational Technology Laboratory (LabTE) at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Coimbra.
Invited member of International Summit on ICT in Education - EDUSummIT 2017, 2019, 2023.
Member of the Portuguese Society of Games (Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências dos Videojogos)
Member of the Portuguese Society of Education Sciences (Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Educação - SPCE).
She coordinated several research projects and she participated in several European projects and Brazilian Projects.
She taught at some universities: University of Minho, University of Coimbra, Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo, Mozambique, Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL), Díli, Timor.

She coordinated the following projects:
--Principal Investigator -project reference: PTDC/CPE-CED/118337/2010, From Games to Mobile-Learning Interactive Activities, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
[01.12.2012 to 30.11.2015]
--Principal Investigator -project reference: PTDC/CED/70751/2006, "Pedagogical Implications of Podcasts in Blended-Learning", Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
--Principal Investigator - project reference: POCTI/33691/CED/2000, "Knowledge Deconstruction and Anchors to promote collaborative learning on the web", Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
--Principal Investigator - project reference: nº 40/2000, "Os Multimédia na Aprendizagem: da análise do software educativo às reacções dos utilizadores", Instituto de Inovação Educacional (IIE) ao Sistema de Incentivos à Qualidade da Educação, medida 2.
--Main Investigator - project reference: PESH/CED/903/95, "A Teoria da Flexibilidade Cognitiva Hipertexto em Ambientes de Educação Não Presencial", JNICT.