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; 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, Assessment in E-learning Contexts. She has coordinated 1st cycle courses (Degree in Education), 2nd cycle courses (Master's in Educational Communication and Digital Media) and 3rd cycle courses (Doctorate in Distance Education and Elearning). She develops her research activities at the Distance Education and E-learning Laboratory in the Portuguese Open University, where she is currently vice-coordinator. Her interests mainly focus on research in distance and open education, particularly in the pedagogy of online education, namely on learning assessment in these contexts. She joined the team responsible for the Universidade Aberta’s Pedagogical Model for Distance Education and she is responsible for the design and development of the Online Internship courses offered annually to new students at the Universidade Aberta. She was Invited Teacher at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in 2017 and at Universidade Federal da Bahía (UFBA) in 2023.