Lúcia Amante is an integrated researcher at UID-FCT nº 4372, Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning (LE@D)- Universidade Aberta (Portugal). She as a degree in Educational Psychology at the Higher Institute of Applied Psychology (ISPA - Lisbon); a postgraduate degree in Multimedia Educational Communication and, since 2004, a Ph.D. in Education from the Open University of Portugal (UAb). She is an associate professor at the the Department of Education and Distance Learning; At the moment she coordinates the doctorate in Distance Education and Elearning (dEDEL). She has integrated Teacher training programs, directing seminars on educational use of digital technologies in schools and on models of learning assessment. She teaches different subjects, namely Digital Media and Socialization, Assessment in E-learning Contexts and Information and Communication Technology in Educational Contexts. She develops her research activities at the Distance Education and E-learning Laboratory in the Portuguese Open University; Her interests mainly focus on research in distance education, particularly in the pedagogy of online education and in educational psychology connected with the use of digital technologies in schools and other contexts. She joined the team responsible for the Universidade Aberta’s Pedagogical Model for Distance Education; she has been a consultant on the project “Metas de Aprendizagem na Área das TIC” ("Learning Goals"), promoted by the Education government Department (http://www.metasdeaprendizagem.min-edu.pt/sobre-o-projecto/apresentacao/). She was Invited Teacher at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in 2017.