Educational Resources Open to the Community — 2025

In 2025, the Center for Continuing Education in Higher Education (CAES) at the National Institute of Higher Education ( Universidad ORT Uruguay ) offered open-access practical resources designed to support lesson planning, the development of teaching activities, and the assessment of learning.

The materials are organized into three areas: preparation, instruction, and assessment. They include guidelines on virtual classes, learning activities, rubrics, self-assessment, and feedback to students.

The materials include the handouts “Class Organization: The 5E Model,” “Rubrics or Assessment Matrices,” and “Self-Assessment.”

Target Audience: Faculty members and individuals interested in teaching, both from the university community and from outside the institution.

Terms of access: Free online consultation; no membership in the Universidad ORT Uruguay is required.

View the practical guides

Throughout 2025, “Invasion of the Estafaliens,” a free educational game developed by the National Institute for Educational Technology ( Universidad ORT Uruguay ) in collaboration with IBM, Securitas, and Banco República, remained available to the community.

Launched in 2024, this resource helps users learn to recognize and prevent online scams through interactive activities and challenges inspired by real-life situations.

It includes four levels in story mode and an additional challenge with more than 200 cases focused on fraud detection, personal data protection, and developing digital security habits.

Target audience: the general public; no affiliation with the university is required.

Terms of Access: Free access to the game online and via mobile apps.

Access the educational game 

In 2025, the University of the Andes ( Universidad ORT Uruguay ) had an open-access digital academic repository where users could access the institution’s scientific, academic, and cultural publications.

Its collections included theses, final graduation projects, articles, and research papers. These materials provided opportunities for consultation and learning for students, faculty, researchers, and people outside the university.

Terms of Access: Free online access to publications available via open access, with no requirement to be a member of the university community.

Access the repository 

Throughout 2025, the Institute of Educational Research ( Universidad ORT Uruguay ) published open-access scientific research through its journals *Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa*, *Anales de Investigación en Arquitectura*, and *InMediaciones de la Comunicación*.

The publications cover topics in education, architecture, urban planning, and communication, and provide free access to full-text academic articles.

As an example of open-access publications, on May 2, 2025, the journal *Anales de Investigación en Arquitectura* published the article “From the Industrial Container to the Functional Cube: The Presence and Concealment of Technique in the Architecture of Alejandro de la Sota,” by Ana Pascual Rubio and Luis Tejedor Fernández.

Target audience: students, teachers, researchers, professionals, and the general public.

Access requirements: Free online access; no university affiliation required.

Consult academic journals

From Industrial Container to Functional Cube — Annals of Architectural Research

Throughout 2025, the libraries of the University of the South ( Universidad ORT Uruguay ) allowed people from outside the institution to consult their collections in the reading rooms on the Centro and Pocitos campuses, without needing to be students at the university.

The service was available at the “ Downtown Library ” (Mercedes 1174) and the Pocitos Library (Carlos Berg 2566) in Montevideo. 

Terms of Access: Throughout 2025, access to the library collections and use of the reading rooms were free of charge for individuals not affiliated with the National Library of the Republic ( Universidad ORT Uruguay), upon presentation of a government-issued ID, completion of the required registration, and compliance with the library’s rules of use.

Available services: accessing materials from the collections and using the reading areas.

Restrictions for non-members: The service did not include home loans, the use of computers with internet access, or Wi-Fi.

Check out library services 

On February 10, 2025, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) announced a call for applications for the “Eco-Entrepreneurs: Forging a Sustainable Future” program, a free 40-hour training program for selected participants aimed at incorporating sustainable practices into companies and startups. The program’s content included the circular economy, corporate sustainability, green jobs, and tools for business digitization.

On June 24, 2025, the CIE issued a new call for applications for the program, scheduled to begin on July 14. The proposal called for virtual meetings via Zoom on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

View the February 2025 call for applications

View the June 2025 call for applications

In 2025, the National Institute for Educational Development ( Universidad ORT Uruguay ) and the ReachingU Foundation launched the first edition of the Certificate in Educational Management with an Emphasis on Transformative Leadership, designed for teachers and administrative teams at schools in vulnerable communities in Uruguay.

The program offered 40 full scholarships and combined virtual sessions, asynchronous activities, and in-person sessions.

The certificate program began on May 5, 2025, lasted eight months, and focused on educational project management and leadership in change and improvement processes. The closing ceremony, which included the presentation of certificates, was held on December 8.
 

2025 Results:

• Forty teachers and educational leaders participated in the first edition, which took place in 2025.
   

• 36 executives completed the program and received their certificates.

The participants developed projects to improve management and learning in their school communities.

Target Audience: Teachers and administrative teams at schools in vulnerable communities, selected through an application process.

Eligibility requirements: Scholarships covering 100% of tuition, excluding travel and logistical expenses.

View the 2025 call for applications

View the 2025 results