Antonio Carrasco Rodríguez holds a PhD in Modern History from the University of Alicante.
His teaching career dates back to 1997, the year in which, after finishing his research grant for Research Staff Training from the Ministry of Education and Culture, he taught for a year at the University of Alicante through a teaching collaboration.
From 1999 to 2004 he worked on the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library project at the University of Alicante, as a digital editing technician and coordinator of some twenty websites on historical topics. During this time, he was also delegated archivist of the Basilica of Santa María in Alicante. Between 2005 and 2009 he worked as director of Research, Development and Innovation Projects at the Digital Workshop of the University of Alicante, working as a consultant on a dozen research projects that received public funding from the State, and working as principal investigator on two R+D+i projects, funded by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, and related to the application of new digital technologies to the fields of teaching and dissemination.
From 2008 to September 2022 he was associate professor in the Department of Medieval History, Modern History and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques at the University of Alicante. Since September 2022 he has been Assistant Professor at the Department. He is currently a member of the Commissions of the Degree in History, Quality and Equality of the Faculty of Arts. He is also a tutor for the first and fourth years of the Degree in History, and is responsible for the Tutorial Action Programme in the aforementioned Faculty.
He has excelled in the application of technology to teaching. He is the administrator of some 600 blogs on historical topics and fifty YouTube channels, created with his students. He has co-directed the creation of three history-based video games, developed in collaboration with teachers and students of the Multimedia Engineering and History degrees. He is the author of several history textbooks for secondary school.
He uses social networks and digital technologies in the classroom to encourage motivation, engagement and participation. He tries to develop the critical capacity and the skills and competences of his students through various activities, including those related to gamification and project and game-based learning. He is a specialist in the theory and application of the flipped classroom method.  He has incorporated the use of mobile devices and e-learning platforms in the teaching and assessment (and co-assessment) of his students. Hos main lines of research are church and government history, gender history, teaching innovation, and applications of artificial intelligence to history teaching.