Advances in E-learning-Experiences and Methodologies

About the Contributors
María D. R-Moreno earned a PhD (2004) in Computer Sciences by the Universidad de Alcalá
(Spain) with the distinction of the European Doctorate. During her PhD she performed several visits
to different international centers such as British Telecom Adastral Park in UK and the CNR in Rome.
In 2006, she was at NASA Ames Research Center as a Postdoc, working at the Autonomous Systems
and Robotics group. During the summer of 2007, she was a Visiting Researcher at ESA in the ExoMars
mission. Her research interests are in the area of planning, scheduling, monitoring, and execution applied
to real domains as satellites, workflow, and e-learning.
María José Rodríguez-Conde earned her PhD in Education (University of Salamanca, Spain, 1994).
She has been an associate professor of Research Methods in Education at the Faculty of Education of
the University of Salamanca since 1999, an expert in evaluation methodology and statistical analysis of
data in social sciences. She leads the Research Group in Educational Evaluation and Guidance (GE2O),
is a collaborator in the Group of Research in Interaction and E-learning (GRIAL) of the University of
Salamanca, and is the director of several projects on evaluation in education. GRIAL’S last published
work dealt with the evaluation processes in e-learning and it has directed several doctoral dissertations
centered in the processes of evaluation of programmes in education.
Addisson Salazar is working towards a doctorate degree in Telecommunications at Universidad
Politécnica de Valencia (UPV). He has received the BSc and MSc in Informatics from the Universidad
Industrial de Santander and a D.E.A. in Telecommunications from UPV in 2003. He is a researcher
of the Signal Processing Group of the Institute of Telecommunication and Multimedia Applications
at UPV. His research interest is focused on statistical signal processing, pattern recognition, and data
mining and knowledge discovery, where he has worked in different theoretical an applied problems,
many of them under contract with the industry. His theoretical aspects of interest are signal classification,
time-frequency analysis, independent component analysis, and algorithms for data mining. He
has participated in different Programmes of the European Community. He has published more than 70
papers including journals and conference contributions.
Antonio Seoane (1971) holds a 5-year degree in Philosophy from the University of Salamanca
(Spain) and has worked as high-school professor at the Department of Philosophy since 1998; he also
teaches for E-Learning masters degrees at both the University of Alcalá de Henares and the University
of Salamanca (Spain). Currently, he is finishing two doctoral theses on ancient greek rhetoric and online
training methodology, respectively. His researching interest fields are the ancient rhetoric, the modern
communication theory, e-learning, and online training methodology. He is an active member of the Researching
GRoup on InterAction & eLearning (GRIAL) at the University of Salamanca, where he acts as
Academic Coordinator of Training Activities, standing out the E-Learning Master and the Online Tutor
Lifelong Learning Diploma, both from the University of Salamanca. He is author of several articles and
chapters regarding his researching fields and published in recognized reviews and volumes.
Rowena Sinclair is a senior lecturer in the Accounting Department of the School of Business at
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. As a chartered accountant, Rowena has
over 10 years of extensive accounting and auditing experience in both the private and public sector
working with both small enterprises through to large multinational corporations. Her teaching areas
currently focus on auditing and contextualizing accounting within the workplace. Her research is cur-