Awards & Fellowships

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2025

Digital Futures 2025 Early Career Summer Programme by Digital Futures Research Center ($50000 SEK).

2024

Outstanding Theoretical Journal Article Award for “The i-SUN process to use social learning analytics: a conceptual framework to research online learning interaction supported by social presence” – Research & Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).
Mary Kay Sommers Dissertation Award – College of Education – Purdue University ($2600).
Outstanding Dissertation Award – Department of Curriculum and Instruction – Purdue University.
Best Research Paper Award for “The process of developing a digital repository for online teaching using design-based research” – AERA Design and Technology SIG
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Data Institute – Association for Institutional Research (AIR) – Washington D.C.
New Faculty Mentoring Program Awardee – Division C – American Educational Research Association ($300).

2023

Outstanding Publication Award: Book Chapter, with your chapter entitled “Mobile Learning for Emergency Situations: Four Design Cases from Latin America” – Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Culture, Learning, and Technology (CLT) Division
Early Career Symposium Awardee – Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Research & Theory Division.
LASER Institute Scholar (Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research) – North Carolina State University ($1500).
Somos Purdue Award – Latino Cultural Center, Purdue University.
Dean’s Graduate Student Outstanding Scholarship Award – Purdue University ($1,000).
Women in Network Science Collabathon – Northeastern University (Highly selective).
Professional Development Grant – Purdue Graduate Student Government ($570).
Top 10 Good COVID Reads by National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL): “The Impact of COVID-19 on Education: A Meta-Narrative Review” https://nidl.blog/2023/01/18/top-10-covid-19-articles-published-in-2022-several-major-literature-reviews/

2022

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship ($27,500). Applying to Fellowships is incredibly daunting. I couldn't have move forward with mine without the generosity of previous fellows who shared their materials publicly... because [sometimes] even emailing others to ask for help sounds like a massive task. So, here you have my materials.
- Check out the awesome proposals of Alberto Guzman (method proposal) and Chris Bennet (policy focused proposal).
Bilsland Fellowship – Purdue University Graduate School.
Summer Institute of Computational Social Science – University of Pennsylvania ($1200).
Graduate Student Seminar – Division C American Educational Research Association ($275).

2021

McJulien Graduate Student Scholarship Award – Association of Educational Communications and Technology ($500).
Graduate Student Mentoring and Networking Seminary – Association of Educational Communications and Technology Division of Distance Learning ($240).
2021 UPCEA Region Excellence in Instructional Design Award – University Professional and Continuing Education Association. This award was received as part of a team effort.
Renewal of P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship 2021 - 2022 ($7,000).
Frank DeBruicker Award on Educational Technology – Purdue University ($2000).

2020

COVID-19 Impact Scholarship – Purdue University ($1,000).
P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship 2020 - 2021 ($7,500).
People’s Choice Best Online Poster Award for work titled “Learner-learner interaction over time: A network-analysis.” Colombia Student Association at Purdue (CSAP) ($100).

2019

Fall Travel Grant ($400) - Colombian Student Association at Purdue.
1st Place in Design and DeL Best Practice Award 2019, AECT 2019 for the project “PoRTAL: Purdue Repository for Online Teaching and Learning.”

2016