When schools worldwide began shifting from face-to-face to virtual classrooms due to the pandemic, educators were forced to rethink and redesign their learning environments – essentially overnight. While technology in schools had been rising for years, few teachers had extensive experience in conducting learning in a mostly online environment. In Honduras, nearly … [Read more...] about Creating Effective Online Education Experiences in Honduras
Luis Espinal
Luis Miguel Espinal Fuentes is the Specialist of Technology, New Pedagogies, and Teacher Training from the National Program for Education Digital Transformation (PNTED in Spanish), which is an initiative from the Honduran Government and the IADB with the objective of fostering hybrid education models based in technology through an inclusive and integral approach. Since 2018, he is a Senior Consultant for the Educational Portal of the Organization of American States (OAS) in projects of e-learning, instructional design, and STEM and STEAM education and since 2021, he is an Advisor of the Aero special STEM program of the Pan-American Development Foundation (PADF). He has a Bachelor’s Degree in science and a Master’s Degree in Education Technology from Monterrey’s Technological Institute and a specialization in STEM-STEAM education from the Pontifical Bolivarian University of Colombia. Previously, he worked as an Educational Innovation Specialist at the Autonomous University of Honduras and as a consultant for different governments in the region in education and technology. He has also worked as a secondary and tertiary education teacher, has written several academic articles, and has participated in conferences in Latin America and Spain.