Carlos Vaz de Carvalho

Prof. Carlos Vaz de Carvalho

Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
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Biography

I am currently Professor Coordenador at the Computer Eng. Dep. of the Engineering School of the Porto Polytechnic (ISEP). I have a PhD (2001) in Technologies and Information Systems from the University of Minho, focusing on the use of e-learning in Higher Education. As Professor, I have lectured more than 20 different courses on Algorithms, Programming, Data Structures, E-Learning and Multimedia. Currently I am lecturing Serious Games Design and Multimedia Application Development. I started my research career in 1988 at INESC in the Computer Graphics Group. In 1996 I focused in Technology Enhanced Learning while doing my PhD at the University of Minho. Between 2005-2014 I was the Scientific Coordinator of GILT R&D (Games, Interaction and Learning Technologies). I have directed eight PhD and 50 MSc theses and authored over 250 publications and communications, including more than ten books (as author and editor). I have coordinated 20 national and European projects, and I have participated in more than 40 other projects. I have worked as an expert for the European Commission and associated agencies in the scope of the Horizon Europa, Eurostars, Socrates-ODL, Minerva, E-Learning, E-Contents Plus, Lifelong Learning and Erasmus+ programmes. On the management side, I directed the Distance Education Unit of the Porto Polytechnic between 1997-2000. Between 2001-2005 I was the E-Learning Director of ISEP, and I served as Dean of the Computer Eng. Dep. between 2003-2005.

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