CV
José Manuel Martins Ferreira obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1992 at the University of Porto, Portugal. He was vice-rector of the University of Porto from July 2014 to June 2018, where he was responsible for information management, educational technologies, quality and continuous improvement. During the course of this mandate he coordinated the certification of U.Porto’s internal quality assurance system, created Google for Education and Microsoft Office 365 programmes in all 14 faculties, launched U.Porto’s distance learning platform, and promoted the development of U.Porto’s first MOOC. He was vice-dean for education at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) from 2010 to 2013. He founded FEUP’s Teaching and Learning Lab in 2008, introduced the Google Apps for Education programme in FEUP in 2013, and was from 2005 to 2011 the Head of the University’s panel that awarded the “U.PORTO e-Learning Excellence Prize”.
(full academic/research profile at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6181-4118)