World Teachers’ Day Celebration · World Teachers’ Day Celebration UNESCO Paris, Thursday, 5th October 2017 Panel 2: Higher Education Responses to the New Demands for Quality,

World Teachers’

Day Celebration

UNESCO

Paris, Thursday, 5th October 2017

Panel 2:

Higher Education Responses to the New Demands

for Quality, Equity and Inclusion in Education

Fr. Dr. Julio Fernández Techera, S.I.

• 2nd. university

in the country,

1st, private in

Uruguay (1985)

• 9.500

students

• 7 schools

• 3 campuses

• 1.500 faculty

members

VISION

In four years, UCU will be a very attractive

ethos for young people, who will want to

live the human and academic experience

that we offer. We will be a university that

attracts for its innovative profile, its

excellence in teaching and research, its

institutional agility and its personal,

community and global commitment.

DESIGN THINKING +

HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN

DESIGN THINKING +

HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN

80 Faculty and

Students

1 Month of Intense

Work

Guided by

R. Steinbeck

(California) and

I. Hunt

(Melbourne)

DESIGN THINKING +

HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN

DESIGN THINKING +

HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN

• 4.000 POST-IT

• 24 STRETEGIC GOALS IDENTIFIED

• 8 STRATEGIC ISSUES SELECTED

14 PROTOTYPE SOLUTIONS

RESULTS

RESULTS

14 prototype-solutions for 8 different problem areas

THE VISION

4 PROJECTS DEFINED, COMBINING 6 PROTOTYPES

4. Creating enviorments for student life

4 DEFINED PROJECTS

2. Innovation Center 1. Teacher training center

3. Unpacking the Study-Abroad Experience

How might

we enhance

the pedagogical

and didactic

competencies of

our professors?

LUDUS Project Teaching Training Center

MEESHTING

"...the quality of an

education system

cannot exceed the

quality of its teachers

and school leaders" Ángel Gurría

OECD Secretary-General

“Education as usual just can’t continue” Desing Thinking Workshop @ UCU / July-August 2017

Fr. Dr. Julio Fernández- Techera, S.I.

[email protected] Catholic University of Uruguay