Karine Pinheiro is a Doctoral student in Educational Technology from the University of Minho – Portugal. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Planning from the State University of Ceara (UECE), a Specialist’s Degree in Educational Technology from UFRGS, and a BA in Linguistics from UECE.

She was a visiting researcher under the supervision of Dr. Okada at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) in 2013/2014, where she collaborated to weSPOT european project by developing a co-inquiry on entrepreneurial learning with students and lecturers in Portugal and Brazil.

She worked in the deployment of Educational Technology Centers (NTE) with PROINFO, a Program from the Ministry of Education in Brazil and was an advisor for Public Policies in Education and Technology.

Her experience includes managing ODL programs, acting on the themes of digital inclusion, virtual environments, instructional design, articulation of technological projects and entrepreneurship networks.

Currently, Karine Pinheiro coordinates the Digital Design Agents (UFCVirtual). She is also an international researcher member of the Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU).

She received an ICT award from the Ministry of Culture (BR) for Notice Creative Economy in the category of Training Creative Skills for the “Brazil RiverWalk Project” in partnership with the University of Michigan (USA).).

Keys: digital inclusion, entrepreneuship network, instrucional design

Team: Andre Luis Correa, Claudia Machado

Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan

Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland

Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., Galuščáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain

Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier

Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA