Department: Psychology and Educational Sciences Department

Unit: Education and eLearning

Research group: GREDU Education Research Group

Was part of these groups:

Email: mfernandezferrer@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat de Barcelona with the thesis Els cursos en línia oberts i massius anàlisi crítica del nou model d' educació a distància i del paper de l' avaluació dels aprenentatges 2017. Supervised by Dr. Elena Cano García.

Maite Fernández Ferrer has a PhD in Education and Society from the University of Barcelona (UB), she is a member of the Learning, Media & Social Interactions (LMI) consolidated research group (2017 SGR379) and the Teaching Innovation in Assessment and Technology Group (GIDAT) (GIDUB-13/149) led by Dr Elena Cano. Since 2010 she has taken part in different studies on competencies and learning and quality assessment in higher education, and since 2011 she has participated in scientific congresses in Spain and abroad on this subject. Based on her research she has published book chapters and articles in indexed journals. Her international research experience includes a six-month stay at the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 2012 and a three-month stay at the University of Cologne in Germany in 2015. In 2017, thanks to a predoctoral grant from the Government of Catalonia, she completed her international PhD with cum laude honours with a thesis on education with the use of ICTs, specifically on the new massive open online courses (MOOCs) and their assessment. Since then, she has been a lecturer in the UOC's Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, teaching on the bachelor's degree in Primary Education and the university master's degrees in Quality Management and Evaluation in Higher Education, Educational Psychology, and Education and ICT (E-learning).