Research Team
Maite Fernández-Ferrer
Professor of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
Project Manager EFICCA3
Keywords: competences, learning evaluation, feedback, quality assessment, higher education
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfernandezferrer
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2941-0658
Scopus ID: 57189987864
Researcher ID: E-1477-2017
Twitter: https://twitter.com/maitefernandezf
Research group: Learning, Media & Social Interactions https://www.lmi-cat.net/en and Teaching Innovation Group in Evaluation and Technology https://www.ub.edu/rimda/content/gidat
PhD in Education and Society from the University of Barcelona. Member of the consolidated research group “Learning, Media & Social Interactions” and of the consolidated teaching innovation group “Teaching Innovation Group in Evaluation and Technology”.
Since 2010 Maite Fernández-Ferrer has been part of different research projects on competences and evaluation of learning and quality in higher education, among others, the ERASMUS+ project “Advancing higher education in the Maldives through the development of online learning”, the R&D project “Analysis of the effects of the provision of feedback supported by digital monitoring technologies on transversal competences”, the CYTED project “Ibero-American red for the development of a technological platform to support the evaluation of training processes” (reference 512RT0443) or the ARAFI project “Competences and key factors for educational success from the perspective of university students who are children of immigrants”. Since 2011 she has participated in several scientific conferences on the subject, both national and international, such as AERA, ECER or EARLI. From her research experience have emerged several publications, book chapters as well as articles in indexed journals. Her international research stays include six months at the University of Cape Town (South Africa, 2012) and three months at the Universität zu Köln (Germany, 2015).
In 2017, thanks to a predoctoral grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya, she completed the international doctoral programme with Cum Laude presenting her doctoral thesis on education using ICT, specifically on new massive and open online courses and their evaluation. Since 2017 she has been working as a tenured professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Open University of Catalonia, where she teaches in the degree of Primary Education and in the master’s degrees of Evaluation and Management of Quality in Higher Education and of Educational Psychology. She is currently vice-dean of Alliances, Community and Culture in the same faculty and leads two competitive research projects on the process of internalization of feedback and self-regulation of student learning.
Tenure-eligible lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the Open University of Catalonia.
Keywords: Curricular practices, initial and ongoing teacher training, digital transformation of education, emerging educational scenarios, music technology.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0796-610X
Twitter: EduardMasdeu
Web personal: eduardmasdeu.com
Research group: SGR-GRUMED (Research Group in Music, Voice, and Education).
Tenure-eligible lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the Open University of Catalonia, since 2024. He holds a PhD in Education, Society, and Quality of Life from the University of Lleida, a Master’s in Education and ICT (e-learning) from the Open University of Catalonia, a Master’s in Educational Technology: e-learning and Knowledge Management from Rovira i Virgili University, a Postgraduate degree in Educational Task Planning and Management from the University of Barcelona, and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Rovira i Virgili University.
His research activities focus on three main areas: curricular practices in education, technology-driven innovation as a catalyst for transforming and improving educational practices, and the intersection between technology and music education. Since 2023, he is member of the consolidated research group SGR-GRUMED (Research Group in Music, Education, and Voice) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he conducts applied research on music within the framework of compulsory education. During his predoctoral stage, he completed a research stay at the Applied Music Research Centre at Roehampton University in London.
He has over a decade of professional teaching experience at various educational levels: as a primary school teacher in public schools throughout Catalonia; as a university professor involved in the initial training of teachers, teaching courses on various subjects (music education, educational technology, and supervision and tutoring final projects and curricular practices) at several Catalan universities (University of Lleida, Rovira i Virgili University, Open University of Catalonia, and UManresa); and as an expert trainer in technology-driven innovation for various educational companies and institutions.
He has received several awards for projects related to innovation and the improvement of educational practices in schools, including the BATEC Award for Educational Research and Innovation from the City of Lleida for the project “MITEM, a Framework Proposal for the Integration of Technologies in Music Education” (2015), and the EDUTEC Award for Educational Innovation with ICT for the project “Connecting the music” (2019).
Elena Cano García
Associate Professor, Department of Didactics and Educational Organization, University of Barcelona (UB)
Keywords: Assessment, competencies, feedback
ORCID number: 0000-0003-2866-5058
Scopus Author ID: 35766367400
Researcher ID: F-4082-2016
Twitter: @mariaelenacanog
Research groups: Learning, Media & Social Interactions https://www.lmi-cat.net/en and Teaching Innovation Group in Evaluation and Technology https://www.ub.edu/rimda/content/gidat
Full professor of the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona (UB) since 2001.
Degree in Educational Sciences (1990), in Economics (1995) and PhD in Educational Sciences (1996) (UB). Coordinator of LMI Consolidated Research Group (Learning, Media & Social Interactions) (2021 SGR 00694). Member of GIDAT Teaching Innovation in Assessment and Technology Team (GINDOC-UB/152).
My research activity is focused on educational evaluation, starting from my Ph D. on Educational Quality and evolving to competency-based assessment and feedback. In recent years the role of technology has been analyzed. I have participated in and coordinated several research projects, both international (Erasmus+, EIT Health, CYTED) and national, regional or competitive institutional ones. I have participated in 46 projects, of which I have coordinated 18.
My main outputs are 18 books; 80 book chapters; 90 papers; 280 contributions to scientific congresses. I got some contracts with foundations and governments, for counseling on assessment. I have also spread the research results through my activity as a university teachers’ trainer.
Georgeta Ion
Associate professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Applied Pedagogy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
Keywords: assessment, feedback, evidence informed practice
Scopus Author ID: 29067865000
Twitter: @georgetaion2
Research group: Organizational Development Team (EDO)
Georgeta Ion is a professor in the Department of Applied Pedagogy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has a degree in Psychology and Educational Sciences from the University of Bucharest and a Master’s degree in Educational Management and Evaluation from the same university. Since 2007 she has been a Doctor of Educational Sciences from the University of Barcelona. Her research topics are related to educational practices informed by scientific evidence and student evaluation.
In the field of evidence-informed educational practices, she has coordinated and participated in projects that explore the factors that affect the use of scientific research in educational improvement, the construction of the research capacity of teachers and well-founded educational policies. . The projects have been financed in national and international R + D + i programs (Erasmus + program).
In the field of evaluation, in recent years she has coordinated and participated in projects on Evaluation strategies for self-regulation of learning, effective peer feedback processes, evaluation with digital tools. The projects have received funding from the UAB Office of Teaching Quality (OQD), AGAUR- ARMIF program and the European Union (Stratgeic partnerships in Higher Education program).
She is a member of several international professional associations and since 2016 she is a co-convenor of the Research in Higher education network of the European Educational Research Association (EERA).
Check her research activity here.
Ludmila Martins Gironelli
Pre-doctoral researcher (FPI), Department of Didactics and Educational Organization, Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona (UB)
Keywords: feedback, technologies, self-regulation, academic motivation, evaluation
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9527-4295
Twitter: https://x.com/LudmilaMartinsg
Research groups: Learning, Media & Social Interactions https://www.lmi-cat.net/en and Teaching Innovation Group in Evaluation and Technology https://www.ub.edu/rimda/content/gidat
PhD student at the Education and Society Programme (Universitat de Barcelona). Master in Applied Psychology (Universidade da Coruña). Degree in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires). FPI Researcher in the Project “Analysis of the effects of the provision of feedback supported by digital monitoring technologies on transversal competences (Reference PID2019-104285GB-I00); Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN); State Research Agency. Undergraduate lecturer at the University of Barcelona. Link to personal profile.
Nati Cabrera Lanzo
Academic Director of the Master’s Degree in Quality in Higher Education and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
Keywords: Educational quality; Leadership; Evaluation; Feedback
ORCID number: 0000-0003-1813-9601
Scopus Author ID: 55342193900
Researcher ID: N-4128-2014
Research group: Edul@b and Teaching Innovation Group in Evaluation and Technology https://www.ub.edu/rimda/content/gidat
Academic Director of the Master’s Degree in Quality in Higher Education and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She teaches courses on Quality in Higher Education, Education and ICT, Teacher’s training and Leadership and management in Education. PhD in Educational Sciences at the University of Barcelona (UB). She’s been working at the UOC since 1995 holding different academic management positions. Member of the Edul@b Research Group (2021 SGR 01111; 2017 SGR 1471; 2009 SGR 591). Member of GIDAT Teaching Innovation in Assessment and Technology Team (GINDOC-UB/152).
Her main research areas are Quality in Education (Schools, Universities and VET), Leadership and digital transformation in education, technology-enhanced learning, Competence-based assessment, e-assessment and feedback.
She has written numerous articles, books and chapters in her fields of study, participated in more than 35 research projects and collaborated as an expert on several committees and official organisations. She has taught numerous training courses and advised higher education institutions on the integration of technologies in training and management processes (for more information see here).
Tanja Strecker studied a Magister Artium with the main subject Pedagogy and the minor subjects Psychology and Criminal Law and Criminology at the Justus Liebig Universität Giessen (Germany). After participating in the Master’s Short Course European Youth Studies (MA EYS Consortium, European Youth Center Budapest), she completed the official Master in Educational Research at the University of Lleida (Spain) and obtained an FPU predoctoral scholarship to carry out her doctoral thesis on social inequality in university education, which she defended in 2018. She worked on different research projects at the University of Lleida, the Pompeu Fabra University and now the Open University of Catalonia, collaborated with the RAY Network (Research-based analysis of the European Youth Programs) and the German NGO Youth Policy Labs, among others in the interim review of the UN youth strategy. She is an associate lecturer at the University of Lleida, a collaborator of the Pere Tarrés Foundation and the research assistant of the EFICCA3 project at the UOC.
