<e-UCM> The e-Learning Research Group at UCM

Dr. Baltasar Fernández-Manjón

Portrait Position: Associate Professor
e-mail: balta@fdi.ucm.es
Personal website: http://www.fdi.ucm.es/profesor/balta
Mail address:
    Facultad de Informática, DISIA
    C/ Prof. García Santesmases s/n
    28040 Madrid, Spain

Dr. Baltasar Fernández-Manjón is an associate professor in the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DISIA) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Dr. Fernández-Manjón is also the Vice Dean of Research and Foreign Relationships at the Computer Science School of this university. He co-leads the Complutense e-learning research group <e-UCM>. He is the former Academic Director of the Computer Science Technical School of Centro de Estudios Superiores Felipe II (Aranjuez, Spain) (2001-2006). He received a Bachelor in Physics (major in Computer Science) and a PhD in Physics from the UCM. He is member of the Working Group 3.3 "Research on the Educational uses of Communication and Information Tecnlogies" of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and of the Spanish Technical Committee for E-learning Standarization (AENOR CTN71/SC36 "Tecnologías de la información para el aprendizaje"). He is also liason person between IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (LTTC) and IFIP WG3.3. His main research interests are e-learning technologies, educational uses of markup technologies, educational uses of serious games, application of educational standards, and user-modelling, having published more than 60 research papers on these topics. He is also co-organizer and program committee member of several conferences (e.g. SIIE, ICALT, SCORM) and associate editor of several special issues about e-learning: Journal of Universal Computer Science (Springer, 2005 and 2007), Computers In Human Behaviour (2008), Simulation and Gaming (2008).


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