2016 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

144 2016 Yearbook Dr. Beatrice Avalos (Chile) Professor of History and Geography at the Catholic University of Chile. Served as a member of the panel for the first thesis defense in the Doctorate in Education program, November 21. Dr. José Carlos Sánchez García (Spain) Director of the Entrepreneurship Chair at the University of Salamanca. Delivered the lecture “Entrepreneurship in the Classroom: How to Develop a Sense of Initiative and Entrepreneurial Spirit in the Classroom?”, April 11. Dr. Carlos Marcelo García (Spain) Director of the Doctoral Program in Education at the University of Seville. He delivered the lecture “The New Classmates in the Classroom: The Use of Cell Phones in the University Setting,” July 6. He led the Doctoral Seminar: Educational Technologies for the Doctorate in Education, July 5–7. Dr. John Moravec (United States) Consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. Founder of the global educational research and development project Education Futures LLC. He presented the project “What Now? ICT in Primary Education: Can We Build Collective Capacity?”, May 3. Prof. Rebecca Ferguson (United Kingdom) Professor at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. She held a meeting with students from the Institute of Education and university faculty interested in research and technology, April 12. CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2016 Prof. Rebecca Ferguson