Julià Minguillón

Julià Minguillón (Barcelona, Spain, 1968) received his Ph.D. degree from the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in September 2002. In January 2001 he joined the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) where he is a faculty member of the Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunication Studies department. Currently now he is the Academic Director of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning. He has developed learning resources for object oriented programming, abstract data types engineering and compiler construction. He is also involved in the integration of e-learning standards in virtual learning environments, such as IEEE LOM, SCORM and IMS LD. His main research interests include the formal description of the learning process by means of ontologies, personalizing the learning process by means of adaptive itineraries based on reusable learning objects, and user modeling in virtual e-learning environments applying web mining techniques for improving user experience and usability, accessibility and mobility issues. He is also interested in open educational resources and the uses of social tools for teaching and learning. He was in charge of the UOC participation in the OLCOS (Open Learning Content Observatory Services) EU funded project. He leads the Spanish Government funded PERSONAL(ONTO) project, the framework that articulates all the aforementioned research lines and the E-MATH++ project which promotes the use of learning object repositories in virtual learning environments.