Professor João Mattar is a specialist in distance education with the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. João has over 75 publications across a broad range of subject areas in education, including games in education and connectivism. He is a Member of the International Council of Advisors of the UNESCO Chair in Distance Education (CUED) at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Spain, and an International Specialist at the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency (A3ES) of Portugal. He is also currently the President of ABED, the Distance Education Association of Brazil.
Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/1829627/c1e-mxgwsn8d1jcdkwg2-mk05nr45u6zv-zntvip.mp3 | recorded April 2024
João’s online profile: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9511610526352732
Nominated works (free to access):
- Mattar, J. (2018). El constructivismo y el conectivismo en tecnología educativa: El aprendizaje activo, situado, auténtico, experiencial y anclado. RIED-Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 21(2), 201–217. https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.21.2.20055.
https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ried/article/view/20055 - Mattar, J., Santos, C. C., & Cuque, L. M. (2022). Analysis and comparison of international digital competence frameworks for education. Education Sciences, 12(12), 932. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/12/932
- Ramos, D. K., Anastácio, B. S., Da Silva, G. A., Rosso, L. U., & Mattar, J. (2023). Burnout syndrome in different teaching levels during the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 235. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-023-15134-8
- Baxto da Silva, W., Amaro, R., & Mattar, J. (2019). Distance education and the Open University of Brazil: History, structure, and challenges. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(4), 99-115. https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/4132
- Mattar, J. (2020). Active Methodologies in Distance Education: literature review. Rev. Bras. Aprend.Aberta. I: e388. https://seer.abed.net.br/RBAAD/article/view/549/372
Nominated works (may require purchase):
- Mattar, J., Ramos, D. K., & Lucas, M. R. (2022). DigComp-based digital competence assessment tools: literature review and instrument analysis. Education and Information Technologies, 27(8), 10843-10867. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-022-11034-3
João’s Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=4PJYPs8AAAAJ
João’s Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/joaomattar
João’s Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/joao_mattar/