Maite
Fernandez Ferrer

PhD in Education and Society from the University of Barcelona (UB), and member of the Research Group in Education (GREDU) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), which I co-lead with Professor Marta López. Since 2010, I have participated in various studies on competence-based education, as well as on the assessment of learning and quality in higher education. Notable among these are the R&D project “The impact of educational assessment on the development of competences in university education: The perspective of the first graduating cohorts” (EDU2012-32766); the CYTED project “Ibero-American network for the development of a technological platform to support the assessment of training processes” (512RT0443); and the European project AMED "Advancing higher education in Maldives through E-learning Development". I have also led several projects in recent years, including EFICCA3 "Internal feedback strategies for the implementation of new competence-based curricula: towards student self-regulated learning", funded by the Research Plan of Catalonia (EDU145/23/000013); and COFE-I "Understanding the processes of internalized feedback in university students" (PID2022-138430NB-I00), co-led with Professor Elena Cano (UB). Since 2011, I have participated in national and international scientific conferences such as EARLI, EAIR, ELSE and ECER. My research experience has resulted in various publications, including books, book chapters, and articles in indexed journals. Among my international research stays are the one at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) in 2012, which lasted six months, and another at the Universität zu Köln (Germany) in 2015, which lasted three months. After completing two Master’s degrees—one in International Studies, Cooperation and Organizations (UB), and another in Social and Educational Interventions (UB)—I completed my international doctoral program in 2017, supported by a pre-doctoral grant from the Government of Catalonia, and defended my dissertation on technology-enhanced education, specifically on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and their evaluation. Since that same year, I have been working as a faculty member in the Psychology and Education Sciences Department at the UOC, where I have taught in the Master’s programs in "Assessment and Quality Management in Higher Education", "eLearning", and "Psychopedagogy", as well as in the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education, which I direct. I currently serve as Vice-Dean of Alliances, Community and Culture in this same department.