António TEIXEIRA Universidade Aberta, Portugal António TEIXEIRA is the President of EDEN-European Distance and E-learning Network and also the Secretary of Ibstpi-International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction. A Professor at Universidade Aberta, the Portuguese Open University (Department of Education and Distance Learning) since 1991, he's also a researcher at the University of Lisbon. Professor Teixeira received his training in Philosophy at the University of Lisbon (MPhil in 1994, PhD, in 2003) and in online education at the University of Turku (2004). From 2006 to 2009, he was Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta. Presently, he’s a member of the International Advisory Board of the Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance of the Massey University (New Zealand) and is on the scientific board of a number of international journals in education. Over the years he has participated in close to twenty international research projects, funded by the European Commission or the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been a member of several task forces on open educational resources, lifelong learning, virtual mobility and sustainable development. He’s a member also of the e-ASEM network (Asia-Europe Meeting), since 2008, and of the Expert’s Board of the Horizon Report for Iberoamerica (2010, 2012 & 2013). He was also a visiting scholar at the Korean National Open University and received an EDEN Fellowship for demonstrating excellence in professional practice of open, distance and e-learning. António TEIXEIRA, PhD President, EDEN-European Distance and E-learning Network Secretary and Director IBSTPI-International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction Professor at Universidade Aberta, PORTUGAL Researcher at the University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL Rua da Escola Politécnica, 147 1269-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL Tel: (+351) 214 532 156 Mobile: (+351) 963 055 965 Skype ID: antonio.m.teixeira Web: http://www.eden-online.org/nap_elgg/pg/profile/teixeira Email: [email protected] .