Biography
Dr Carlos Delgado Kloos studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain and Computer Science at the Technische Universität München in Germany. He is Full Professor of Telematics Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he is also the Head of the Department of Telematics Engineering, Director of the GAST research group and Director of the UNESCO Chair on “Scalable Digital Education for All”. He has been Rector’s Delegate for Digital Microcredentials, Vice Rector for Strategy and Digital Education, Vice Rector for Infrastructures and Environment, and Associate Vice Rector for International Relations and Cooperation. He has carried out research stays at several universities such as Harvard, MIT, Munich, Passau, and Naples.
His main research interests are in the field of Educational Technology. He has been involved in a large number of research projects and has published more than 600 papers (h-index 59 on Google Scholar). He has coordinated several MOOCs on edX, MiríadaX, Federica Weblearning, and Coursera with around 700,000 registrations. He has been promoting the adoption of digital micro-credentials in Spain through the CertiDigital project (certidigital.es) and has also recently recorded a MOOC about AI for Teaching and Learning, which can be followed on Coursera in Spanish and English and on Federica Weblearning in Italian.