Revista Latina

 

Maricela López-Ornelas

Institute for Research and Educative Development
Autonomous University of Baja California
Km. 103 Tijuana-Ensenada Highway, s/n, 22830
Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Phone 52 (646) 175 07 07 Ext. 64530
ornelas@uabc.edu.mx

Maricela López-Ornelas is a Ph.D. student in Media and information sciences at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Education Sciences (2004) from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) with the thesis Design and validation of a tool to evaluate electronic scholarly journals. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences (1993) from the same University.

She is currently a full professor at the Institute for Research and Educative Development (http://iide.ens.uabc.mx/blogs/iide/) of the Autonomous University of Baja California, where she is part of the research body on Educational Evaluation.

Since 1993 she has been teaching in B.A. programmes in the area of communication and since 2007 she has also been teaching in postgraduate courses in the area of education.

She is co-founder of the REDIE project, the Electronic Journal de Educative Research (http://redie.uabc.mx), where she is responsible for the online editing processes. She is a member of the editorial teams of peer-reviewed journals in the area of communication.

She has presented papers and coordinated international conference roundtables. Moreover she has published articles about the evaluation of online information and the development, management and evaluation of the online academic journals, in important journals of communication sciences. These articles are available at: http://iide.ens.uabc.mx/blogs/ornelas/.