Dr. Odiel Estrada Molina holds a PhD in Educational Sciences (2018) from the University of Havana and is currently an Assistant Professor in the area of Didactics and School Organization (DOE) of the Pedagogy Department at the University of Valladolid, Spain. His solid academic background includes a degree in Computer Engineering (2010), a Master's degree in Higher Education Sciences (2016), and an Interuniversity Master's degree in Audiovisual Communication and Education (2022) from the International University of Andalusia. In addition, he holds three diplomas related to Higher Pedagogical Training, university teaching, and the management of training processes.
Throughout his career, he has taught full-time and part-time in various international institutions such as the University of Computer Sciences (Cuba), where he served as Head of the Teaching Department; the Technical University of Manabí (Ecuador) as Guest Professor; the Valencian International University (Spain) as a teacher and researcher; and the University of Huelva as a Research Support Technician. He has taught Pedagogy and Didactics courses in bachelor's, official master's, and doctoral programs, accumulating over 1,570 hours of university teaching. Currently, he is a member of three doctoral programs: Transdisciplinary Research in Education (UVa, Spain), Interuniversity Program in Communication (Universities of Huelva, Cadiz, Malaga, and Seville, Spain), and Education Program (UTM, Ecuador).
His main line of research focuses on educommunication, educational technologies, and university teacher training, consolidating an outstanding scientific production with 53 published articles, several of them in high-impact journals (Scopus and Web of Science), totaling more than 1,100 citations in Google Scholar. He has coordinated R&D projects as Principal Investigator aimed at improving university teacher training and the integration of digital technologies, and he holds an educational software registration in Cuba.
His research excellence has been recognized with the National Young Researcher Award (2019) granted by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba, the National Pedagogy Award (2019) from the Cuban Association of Pedagogy, and the recognition as the most outstanding young university professor (2018). As a guarantor of scientific quality, he has an extensive background in academic review and management, being an active member of the editorial boards of prestigious international journals, such as Revista Comunicar, IPSA Scientia, Revista Opuntia Brava, and IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence.
In the Docentes 2.0 Technological-Educational Journal (RTED), he joins the Scientific Committee and serves as an external peer reviewer, providing methodological rigor, solid analysis of digital learning environments, and excellence in the evaluation of media competencies. His extensive experience in international research and teaching strengthens the validation of teacher competency frameworks, the analysis of the impact of generative AI in the classroom, and the quality of research on educommunication and ICT. His profile contributes significantly to the consolidation of techno-pedagogical practices, ethics in scientific dissemination, and the international positioning of the journal in the field of educational technology.