- Davinia Hernández-Leo is a visiting Fulbright scholar from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain working in the CS department and POET Lab at Virginia Tech.
- She is an assistant professor coordinating the Educational Technologies section of the Interactive Technologies Group, which does research on computer-supported collaborative learning and educational technologies.
- Her research focuses on providing teachers with design tools to plan collaborative learning activities and support orchestrating integrated learning flows across virtual and physical spaces.
8. - Hernández-Leo, D.; et al. Collage, a Collaborative Learning Design Editor Based on Patterns . Educational Technology & Society 2006; 9(1): 58-71. - Hernández-Leo, D. et al. A multicase study for the evaluation of a collaborative learning pattern-based visual design approach , Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 21(6), 2010, p. 313–331 A design process based on broadly accepted collaborative learning techniques (formulated as patterns) that enables teachers to create their own (computationally represented) learning designs (implemented in the Collage editor, uses IMS LD)
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10. Assessment: new interactions for (IMS QTI) question items and interaction contexts for tests Application to Web Maps: Answering test questions interacting with maps (drawing, ordering markers, etc.) Routes of geo-located questions In virtual situ In real situ - Navarrete, T.; Santos, P.; Hernández-Leo, D.; Blat, J . QTIMaps: A model to enable web maps in assessment . Educational Technology & Society 2011; 14(3):203-217 - Santos, P.; Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Hernández-Leo, D.; Blat, J. QuesTInSitu: from tests to routes for assessment in situ activities . Computers & Education 2011, 57(4): 2517-2534
Assistant Professor, is the coordinator of the Educational Technologies research section of the Interactive Technologies Group (GTI), Information and Communication Department at Universtitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
She is also in charge of the Teaching Quality and Innovation Unit of the UPF Polytechnic School since 2008.
Davinia was previously a member of the GSIC/EMIC multidisplinary group and Assistant Teacher at the Department of Signal Theory, Communications and Telematics Engineering of the University of Valladolid, where she received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees (European mention) in Telecommunications Engineering in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She was also a visiting Research Fellow at the Educational Technology Centre of the Open University of the Netherlands in 2006
Tacking two main challenges providing teachers with modeling languages, design processes and tools that facilitate the planning of learning and assessment activities supported by technologies, making the designs explicit for computational interpretation, communication and sharing; second, supporting the orchestration of integrated flows of collaborative learning activities across virtual and physical spaces using multiple software services, ubiquitous computing and personal devices. This research is being conducted as part of a number of European and national projects, and published in more than 70 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. Some of these publications are being highly cited, and their contributions have been implemented in renowned tools: Collage, LdShake, QuesTInSitu and SOS. Davinia has also directed three PhD theses and several Master theses on these research lines.