Carlos Turro
Technician, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Carlos Turro is M.D. and PhD from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. He is working there since 1992 and since 2000 is Head of its Media Services unit. From that place he has developed the Polimedia service as a system to create Video Learning Objects. Currently, the Polimedia system is used by more than fifteen universities and has produced more than 18000 learning objects. The Polimedia system was granted with the Spanish national award FICOD 2009 for digital services.
He has and is working in different EU- funded projects. He has worked at the Translectures project, for automatic and interactive transcription and translation of video lectures and the Rec:All project researching how video cab be used in learning environments.
Currently is involved in the edX project for MOOC production, in the Opencast community of Lecture Recordings where UPV developes of a media player for lectures called Paella Player and in the EMMA project for automated transcription and translation of MOOCs.