Carmen PopaCarmen Popa is a full professor at the University of Oradea’s Sciences of Education Department. Her specialty is Education Sciences. She is organizing the courses and seminars: Theory and Methodology of Instruction, Pedagogy of Pre-School Teaching, Coperative Learning, Theory and Methodology of Curriculum, coordinating the practicum classes for the entire department, guiding the research projects for graduating students. She acquired a research grant entitled A Cross-Cultural Study of Implementing the Cooperative Learning Model in Primary Schools in Finland and Romania from Finland, University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Centre for Research on Networked Learning and Knowledge Building (2004). Since 2010, she is the coordinator of the educational program for the blended weekend classes (IFR) of the Faculty of Social and Humanistic Sciences. She was also a member of the Senate of University of Oradea. Read More Read Less