Ángel Velázquez Iturbide, new vice president of the Association for the Development of Educational Informatics (ADIE)

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Professor Velázquez has been appointed Vice President of the Association at the last meeting of its Ordinary Assembly held in June 2018, at the proposal of the new President of the Association. The URJC teacher has been a member of the association for 15 years. In it he has held the position of President during the last two terms (2010-2014 and 2014-2018).

The Association plays an important role in research on the use of informatics in education. ADIE's two main forums for disseminating research are the magazine IE Communications and International Symposium on Informatics in Education (SIIE), an event that is held annually alternately between Spain and Portugal.

Computer science will be a subject that will be studied at school and high school

The most outstanding activity of Professor Velázquez within ADIE in the last year has been the coordination of a SCIE working group on computer education in pre-university educational stages. As a result, a report has been prepared that recommends that computer science be a compulsory study subject in these stages so that students have a better training.

Professor Ángel Velázquez has been a University Professor of Computer Languages ​​and Systems since 2003. Coming from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he has been a professor at the URJC since the first academic year of the University, 1997-1998, when the two Technical Engineering in Computer Management and Systems. He is director of the Laboratory of Information Technologies in Education (LITE), as well as coordinator of the research line in Human-Computer Interaction and Educational Computing of the URJC Doctoral Program in Information and Communication Technologies.