Manuela Aparicio was an assistant professor in the Department of Science of Information and Technology at ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon from 2017 until 2019. Previously she was lecturer at ISCTE from 2004 until 2017. Manuela is presently an assistant professor at NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, since 2017. She earned her PhD degree in Information Management from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). Her MSc. degree is form ISCTE-IUL. Her research interests include the evaluation of information systems effectiveness. Specially the implementation and use of information technology in education. She is also interested in e-learning systems success research. She conducted a bibliometric study on e-learning evolution concepts, and proposed two different business models for massive online open courses (MOOCs). Her work appeared in the Information & Management, Journal of Educational Technology & Society, Internet and Higher Education, Computers in Human Behavior and others. She is a member of ACM (Association for Computer and Machinery), she is chair of EuroSIGDOC/ACM chapter and also belongs to ACM Women.