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The Educational Portal of the Americas stands as the digital educational strategy of the OAS Human Development, Education and Employment Department, which aims to generate opportunities for professional development and institutional capacities strenghtening for educational innovation in OAS Member States.

During the III Summit of the Americas, as a result of the Since 200 1, the Educational “ Connecting the Americas” initiative held in Quebec – Portal has given more than Canada in April 2001, the OAS was mandated to support 30.000 scholarships to citizens human potential using new technologies of information from 34 countries. and comunication - ICT (AG / RES. 5154/11). The Educational Portal of the Americas was launched during the II Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education, in Punta del Este Uruguay, on September 24-25, 2001. During the 2011 General Asembly, the Educational Portal was aknowledged as an strategic program for advancing human development and competitiveness through professional development and institutional capacity building.

OUR PARTNERS AND ALLIES IN TRAINING PROGRAMS

www.educoas.org What does the OAS Educational Portal do ?

New Portal Overview The Educational Portal of the Americas seeks to develop knowledge and capacities in citizens and institutions from the OAS Member States; aiming to strengthen their leadership skills to design and implement innovative policies, programs and practices to guarantee an inclusive, equitable and quality education.

4 Diploma courses, 16 online courses, 4 MOOC courses Regional reach in collaboration with universities, specialized institutions and other education entities Specialized technical consultancy for Ministries of Education and public and private institutes • Training and onsite support • Change management • Innovation for improving quality in education Digital educational strategies design and implementation for Ministries of Education and public and private institutions • Online courses and MOOC courses design and implementation • Virtual Networks and Communities of Practice • Digital resource center on educational innovation • Practice mapping and geo-located programs

Oferta en Educación Education Courses Cursos actuales La ind ndagació ión como omo estra strate tegia ia pe peda dagógica Turismo - Sostenibilidad

Developing and implementing tailor-made training programs … - Course offered by the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and the Educational Portal of the Americas. - Prepared as part of the OAS Gender Program, with support from the Government of Canada. - Duration: 9 weeks

Managing and producing digital contents … Our communication, design & digital education team develops strategies tailored to our partners needs in terms of content management and redesign, in order to improve readability through digital tools such as interactive infographics. Digital educational strategy developed for the OAS Department of Sustainable \ Development (2016 – 2017)

Developing and energizing Virtual Networks and Communities of Practice The Educational Portal ’ s platform for virtual networks and communities of practice makes it possible to manage the interaction among different publics of interest. These spaces hold a variety of customized tools.

New Portal Overview Tracking and sharing successful experiences in the Americas EducaSTEAM Practices map (Internal view)

Content curation – Resource Center on Educational Innovation Simple search for key work Tag cloud search Search by type All contents published in the Resource of public Center have been previously curated and classified to provide up-to-date material of academic value. Search by the type and format of the information

Latin American Network of Science, Technology and Innovation Fair Leaders (Year 2016):  30 Leaders – 15 countries Inquiry-based learning as a Pedagogical Strategy for Higher Education; partnered with The  Higher Consortium of Universities in Central America -CSUCA- (Year 2016): 102 university teachers from 7 countries in Central America. Strengthening Institutional Capacities for Innovation in Education; partnered with the  Ministry of Education of Saint Lucia (Years 2016 and 2017): 450 teachers and 29 school principals. Institutional Capacities Development for Educational Innovation in STEAM areas; partnered  with Tecnoacademias – SENA – Colombia (Year 2017 -2018): 10 Technical schools, 115 instructors/teachers.

Experience and leadership in STEM Education, a crosscutting theme in the Inter-American Education Agenda Technical Cooperation Missions • Fairs, exhibitions and academic events • Map of practices in STEM and STEAM • EducaSTEM Program Education EducaSTEAM seeks to increase access opportunities and the improvement of STEAM education in the Americas, Technical guides and educational resources • providing information and knowledge transfer on public production policy formulation and the implementation of programs in educational innovation in STEAM areas and the exchange of STEM and STEAM Education Diploma Course • practices between individuals, institutions and governments of OAS Member states.

How could the Portal contribute to the Inter- American Education Agenda?

How could the Portal contribute to the Inter-American Education Agenda? Lines of action Working Groups 2 and 3  Regionalizing the training offer available for teachers and other early childhood educational agents that are of relevance to the Inter-American Education Agenda: • Coordinate the educational offers available in the countries • Manage and disseminate information of open educational offers • Design and implement a digital strategy to strengthen the regional educational offer Lines of action Working Group 1  Designing and implementing virtual courses tailored to the needs of each Ministry of Education.  Training teachers and school principals through the current Portal’s course catalogue, in association with the Ministries of Education.

¿ Cómo puede contribuir el Portal a la implementación de la Agenda Interamericana de Educación? Designing and implementing a digital strategy that include: Lines of action Working Groups 1, 2 and 3 • Develop a map to geo-locate initiatives and a resource center to identify, analyze, and promote innovative policies, programs, and experiences oriented towards improving quality in education and comprehensive early childhood care and education, and strengthening of the teaching profession. Lines of action Working Groups 1, 2 and 3 • Create a Virtual Network for the Ministries of Education in the region to promote the exchange of information and collaboration on policies approaches. • Plan and develop thematic events, education forums, and regional workshops. • Create an Interactive catalogue for teacher training offer and for early childhood integral attention (managed by the Educational Portal and fed online by the Ministries of Education and their associated institutions)

¿ Cómo puede contribuir el Portal a la implementación de la Agenda Interamericana de Educación? Designing a program to develop institutional capacities for innovation and quality in education, tailored to the specific needs fo each Ministry of Education and the country´s context. Lines of action Working Groups 1 and 2 • Diagnosis and training needs assessment • Methodological design tailored-made • Technical assistance to formulate and implement innovative policies, programs, and practices oriented to improving quality in education • Training for educational leaders and school directors in leadership and change management for innovation in education • Teacher training in trends and approaches to innovation in education

¿ Cómo puede contribuir el Portal a la implementación de la Agenda ¿ Cómo puede contribuir el Portal a la implementación de la Agenda Interamericana de Educación? Interamericana de Educación? Summarizing … • The Educational Portal of the Americas has the academic, technical and technological capacity to contribute to the implementation of the Inter-American Education Agenda, in its different lines of action. • We can help create a technical and economic proposal to help the Inter-American Education Commission raise funds to implement the Education Agenda, and at the same time expand the operational capacity of the Educational Portal.

www.educoas.org @educoas www.facebook.com/www.educoas.org/ Nelly Gochicoa Luis Andrés Ochoa Alín Valenzuela Ngochicoa@oas. org Lochoa@oas.org avalenzuela@oas. org