Marta Abelha is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Education and Distance Learning (DEED), at Universidade Aberta / Open University, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Didactic (2011), from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is research member of the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies - CEIS20 , a research unit of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her research interests focus on Teacher Education, Project-based Learning (PBL), Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Supervision, Teacher Collaboration, among other areas.