Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez is an Associate Professor of Learning Technologies and a researcher in field of AI at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. Her research investigates learning technologies from a human-centered perspective to understand behaviour and cognition and harness the value that technology can bring to them. Her work involves the design, implementation and evaluation of TEL experiences, tools and environments. Her work also includes mobile learning, assistive TEL and the study of motor-development with motion technology. She has secured over 2 million Euros in research funding. She is currently leading the MotorSense project, which uses motion detection to assess motor development in children, and the DALDIS project, which explores data analytics for digital assessment. Previously, she led EDUWORS, exploring the skills mismatch between formal education and the labour market, covering topics including CoVE (Collaborative Virtual Environment for Children with Autism), Share.TEC and MOTILL (Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning). She has authored over 90 scientific publications, as well as been the programme chair or served on the programme committees of the main TEL conferences. She provides reviews for Computers and Education, BJET, JCAL and IEEE Learning Transactions. She is a UNICEF adviser and has provided consultations for GE, ECDL, etc. She has previously received the Teaching Excellence Award. She has also coordinated postgraduate and undergraduate academic programs and supervised PhD and postgraduate students. She is a member of the Trinity College Board.
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez has lectured in Learning
Technologies at Trinity College Dublin since 2002. She is a researcher in the
College's Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG) and a member of the
Committee of the International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) and
the Steering Committee of the Mobile Learning Special Interest Group of the
Kaleidoscope European Network of Excellence. She has been involved with the
IADIS Mobile Learning conference series since its inauguration, and she chaired its
2008 conference. She is a UNICEF adviser. She has led numerous research
projects and currently leads the mobileDNA (Digital Narrative Approach),
ShareTEC (Sharing Digital Resources in the Teaching Education Community), and
Teaching and Research in Ubiquitous Secure Telecommunications Environments
(TRUST-E) projects. She received the Early Career Provost Teaching Award in
2006. She completed an M.Sc. in Information Technology in Education at Trinity
College in 2002 and is currently completing a PhD in the production of
multimedia Digital Narratives with mobile technologies. She graduated from the
University of Western Sydney, Australia, in Interpreting & Translation
(major in simultaneous interpreting) and is fluent in Spanish, English, and
Italian. Before joining Trinity, she was a language teacher and a freelance
interpreter and translator in Spain, Italy, and Turkey.
