2018 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

104 2018 Yearbook Dr. Lourdes Cardozo (Australia) Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Education. She held meetings at Deakin University to plan and advance research for the joint project between Universidad ORT Uruguay Deakin University, “Smart Data: Developing Social Media Literacy in Pre-Adolescent Students,” for which Dr. Cardozo serves as principal investigator, Melbourne, November 19–27. Mag. Andrea Tejera (Chile) Academic Coordinator of the Master’s in Educational Management. She participated in the follow-up meeting of the ORACLE Project (Regional Observatory for Quality and Equity in Higher Education), in the General Assembly of the International Network for Educational Management Support (Red AGE), and in the international conference “School Management in Ibero-America: Advances and Challenges,” which took place at the University of Talca, Santiago, Chile, April 9–11. Dr. Denise Vaillant (Chile) Academic Secretary of the Institute of Education. She led a workshop on teacher training for doctoral candidates in the Doctoral Program at Diego Portales University as part of the agreement between the Doctoral Program at Diego Portales University and Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago, Chile, April 9–12. She served on the thesis committee for María Paz González Vallejos’s doctoral thesis, titled “Beliefs as a Critical Component of the Professional Development of Science Education Instructors,” on April 9. Dr. Denise Vaillant (Colombia), Academic Secretary of the Institute of Education. Delivered the lecture “Thinking Outside the Box: Innovation in the Field of Teacher Education” at the 2018 Regional Workshop on Innovation in Teacher Education organized by the Colombian Ministry of Education and the Regional Program for the Development of the Teaching Profession in Latin America and the Caribbean, Bogotá, October 25–26. Dr. Denise Vaillant (Spain) Academic Secretary of the Institute of Education. She coordinated the panel “Teacher Training Institutions in the 21st Century: A Comparative Analysis between Latin America and Europe” at the 36th International Congress of the Association for Latin American Studies, Barcelona, May 25. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2018 Mag. Andrea Tejera at the AGE Network Assembly