Public profile Dr. Juan Cristobal Cobo Romaní

Cristobal Cobo is research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on the European Community's Interreg Atlantic Area Programme 'K-Network' project, focused on creating a strong knowledge sharing and dissemination network in the Atlantic Area to promote the exchange of good practices and implementation strategies for building and exploiting a 21st Century Knowledge and Information Society. He is also coordinator of a collective project on informal, non-formal and invisible learning: a collaborative book and an online repository of bold ideas for designing cultures of sustainable innovation.

In 2009 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, University of Oxford, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). From 2005 to 2010 he was Professor and Director of Communication and New Technologies and editor of the educational platform of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO, Mexican Campus). In 2007 he participated as Academic coordinator in Mexico of the program 'From Information to Innovative Knowledge: Tools and Skills for Adaptive Leadership' at the University of Minnesota and FLACSO-Mexico. He has also been professor of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (2006) and the Technological Institute of Superior Studies of Monterrey (2005). Invited reviewer at the MIT Press.

With John Moravec he is co-author the book “Invisible Learning: Toward a new ecology of education”(2010); In 2009 he published ‘Information Architecture, usability and Internet‘ (2009) and with Hugo Pardo he wrote ‘Planet Web 2.0, fast food media or collective intelligence’. He has worked on academic projects with organizations such as the Open University (UK), the University of Oxford, the University of Minnesota, the University of Toronto, the Open University of Catalonia, the Mexican Ministry of Public Education, Burson-Marsteller (Chile) and the Ministries of Education of Chile and Argentina, the Telefonica Foundation (Argentina and Mexico) and the European Union (Program ALFA III).

Dr Cobo currently serves on the board of the New Media Consortium (Horizon.ib). During 2010, he spoke at the TEDx conference about Invisible learning: How to learn beyond the school? (YouTube). He also has collaborated in the design and development of academic online platforms like e-Competencies (ESRC-SSRC), Mexican National Council on Science and Technology(CONACYT), the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences-Mexico's Open Knowledge Repository and Collaboratory, Invisible Learning (Education Futures) and Planet Web 2.0 (FLACSO-UVic).

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