2010 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

95 Universidad ORT Uruguay AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2010 Dr. José Ignacio Porras (Chile) Ph.D. in Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid. Managing Partner of the consulting firm ARSChile. Activity: taught the seminar “Society and Institutions” as part of the Master’s in Educational Management, May 16–18. Dr. Joaquín Gairín (Spain) Director of the Department of Applied Pedagogy and Professor of Didactics and Educational Organization at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Coordinator of the Ibero-American Network for Educational Management (Red AGE). Activity: taught the course “Management of Organizational Development Processes” as part of the Master’s in Educational Management, July 25–26. Mag. Claudia Muñoz-Reyes (United States) Advisor to the global “Seeds of Empowerment” program on mobile technologies, education, and community development at the Stanford University School of Education. Activity: delivered the lecture “The Impact of New Mobile Technologies on Inclusive Education,” October 19. Dr. Alejandro Armellini (England) Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the University of Kent. Senior Researcher at the University of Leicester. Activity: led the “Carpe Diem” workshop for teachers, December 20. Dr. Luis Osin (Israel) Doctor of Science in Computer Science from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). Former Director of the Department of Educational Computing at the Israel Center for Educational Technology. Former consultant in educational computing at the Latin American Institute for Educational Communication of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. Activity: delivered the lecture “Equity and Education,” December 7. Mag. Claudia Muñoz-Reyes