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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
