Carlos Batalha

Carlos is a music teacher and a board member of the Portuguese Association for Music Education (APEM), where he works on teacher training and web development, as well as creating and managing online courses for the professional development center of that institution.

He has been a music teacher for over two decades, and his working experience spans from middle-school classes to university-level teacher training. He has travelled the world and worked in Timor Leste for four years.

Carlos graduated in music education at Escola Superior de Educação in Lisbon and he obtained a master’s degree in educational informatics from the Catholic University of Lisbon. His master’s degree thesis focused on educational technologies, which brought together an online community of teachers from several countries who supported each other by sharing experiences, problems, successes, and educational resources.

At work he’s interested in e-learning, music technologies, and web development.

He devotes his free time to family, music, travel, and hiking.