Short Biography
M. Sc. Elvis Ortega-Ochoa holds a Master’s Degree in Education and ICT (e-learning) from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), a Specialization in Quality Management in Education and a Bachelor of Science in Basic Education from the National University of Education (UNAE), and a Technical Assistant’s qualification in Computer Science from the South American Training Center (CCSUB). He is a Trainee Researcher in the Doctoral School at UOC. His research interests are Learning Experiences Design, Adaptive Learning, and Educational Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Current Ph. D. Project
The Ph. D. project is entitled An Empathic Pedagogical Conversational Agent and Development of Competencies: A Quasi-Experimental Mixed Methods Research. The main goal is to understand the adaptive learning articulated by an empathic PCA and its impact on the development of computer and research competencies. Professors are the main beneficiaries because they will know whether there is a relationship between the three variables of the framework to evaluate the learning outcomes of empathic PCAs (learning outcomes, learning performance, and student perceptions) and whether there are significant differences in learning performance. These issues are relevant to understanding how PCA works in the online learning environment.