2020 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

93 Dr. Claudia Cabrera (Guatemala) Professor and graduate advisor at the Institute of Education. Mag. Dora Sajevicius (Guatemala) Graduate advisor at the Institute of Education. Mag. Andrea Tejera (Guatemala) Academic coordinator of the Master’s Program in Educational Management. They presented the article “Networks and Digital Inclusion in Teacher Education: Current Opportunities and Challenges in Public Schools in Uruguay” virtually at the 13th Ibero-American Congress on Computing for Development, organized by the Division of Engineering Sciences of the Western University Center of the Tricentennial University of San Carlos de Guatemala, July 29–31. Dr. Denise Vaillant (international) Dean and Director of the Doctoral Program in Education. She participated as a speaker in the webinar “KIX: Challenges of Teacher Professional Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,” a series of meetings aimed at exchanging innovative experiences and knowledge among the individuals and organizations that make up the KIX regional hub, promoted by the Global Partnership for Education, the International Development Research Centre, and implemented by Summa and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, November 4. 22 Conducted alongside Dr. Mariela Questa, professor of Institutional Diagnosis and Project Management at the Institute of Education. Dr. Denise Vaillant (Mexico) Dean and Director of the Doctoral Program in Education. She participated as a speaker in the virtual forum “Initial Teacher Training: Toward the New Educational Normal,” organized by Mexico’s Ministry of Public Education through the General Directorate of Teacher Education and Professional Development, June 23. Dr. Denise Vaillant (Peru) Dean and Director of the Doctoral Program in Education. She delivered the opening lecture at the 9th International Meeting of the Kipus Network, “Teacher Policies in Initial and Continuing Education for Basic and Higher Education in the Face of Current Challenges,” through the presentation “Teacher Training and Development Policies in Latin America,” at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, on March 12. She also participated as an expert in the Regional Forum on Quality in Early Childhood Education, organized by the Inter-American Dialogue, the LEGO Foundation, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru, on May 27. Dr. Denise Vaillant (Dominican Republic), Dean and Director of the Doctoral Program in Education. She delivered the videoconference “Induction Programs in Latin America: Foundations for a New Teaching Professionalism” at the Closing Ceremony for the Second Cohort of the National Induction Program for Newly Hired Teachers, organized by the Vice Ministry of Teacher Accreditation and Certification of the Dominican Republic and the National Institute for Teacher Education and Training, June 30. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2020