La transformación digital de la política educativa

Currently, Alejandra Cardini is the Acting Head of Office and Coordinator of the Knowledge Generation and Mobilization team at the IIEP-UNESCO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. She leads various areas and programmes of the office, developing strategic alliances and managing human and financial resources. She is also responsible for the knowledge production and dissemination strategy through the development of research and the Information System on Educational Trends in Latin America (SITEAL), the Regional Forum on Educational Policy, and the Network of Specialists in Educational Policy.

She has extensive experience in research projects, advisory roles, and educational policy advocacy. She served as the Director of the Education Programme at the Centre for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) and led the education theme in Think 20, a G20 affinity group focused on public policy recommendations, from 2018 to 2022. She conducted research at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of San Andrés, and the Centre for Critical Education Policy Research (University of London). She worked for the Ministry of Education of the Argentine Republic, collaborating with provincial ministries on educational planning. As a teacher, she has taught at the primary level and, as a professor, in master's programmes in educational policy (at the Institute of Education, University of London; Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile; the Inter-Institutional Doctorate in Education [UNTREF, UNLA, and UNSAM]; Universidad de San Andrés; and Universidad Austral).

She holds a Primary School Teacher qualification from the Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas Sofía Esther Broquen de Spangenberg.

ICT Programme Specialist at the IIEP-UNESCO Latin America and the Caribbean Office. His main responsibilities include promoting and identifying trends in ICT and education policies at the regional level, providing advice for the development of ICT-related projects, and managing technological platforms and portals.

Muriel Poisson is the acting Team Leader for IIEP’s team on Knowledge Generation and Mobilization (KGeM). In this capacity, she coordinates and develops the foresight, research, communication, publication, and library functions of the Institute. She is also managing IIEP’s new research project ‘Using digital tools to promote transparency and accountability,’ as well as capacity-building activities targeting Civil Society Organisations.

In addition, she is the task manager of the Institute’s capacity-building programme on Ethics and Corruption in Education. She coordinated several international research projects on related issues, including open school data, open government in education, and teacher codes of conduct. She trained more than 3,000 people in the area and provided technical assistance to national teams in charge of developing an integrity risk assessment, a public expenditure tracking survey, or a teacher code of conduct. She is also managing ETICO, a dynamic clearinghouse on transparency and accountability issues in education.

Prior to this, she was involved in the preparation of studies on non-formal education in Asia and on education in cities. She participated in the organization of meetings on curriculum change for the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in Geneva. She was also involved in activities led by UNESCO within the framework of the Dakar follow-up as assistant to the Assistant Director-General for Education. Finally, she acted as Team Leader a.i. of IIEP’s Research and Development team from 2014 to 2017.

Muriel has authored a number of articles and books, including: ‘Corrupt Schools, Corrupt Universities: What Can Be Done?’

Se desempeña como Líder Ejecutivo del Laboratorio Educativo Digital de la Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) y consultor de la Fundación Ceibal (Uruguay), donde asesora a organizaciones regionales en innovación educativa y pensamiento de futuros. Su experiencia incluye la dirección del Centro Imaginar Futuros (2021-2023) y del Centro para la Excelencia en el Aprendizaje de la Universidad EAFIT (2018-2021). A lo largo de su carrera ha liderado proyectos de investigación que han impactado a cientos de instituciones educativas y miles de docentes en Colombia y Latinoamérica, consolidándose como referente en innovación educativa digital.

Actual Directora Ejecutiva de CIEB y representante de la Coalición de TEC Educación, cuenta con un Doctorado en Ciencia Política por IESP/UERJ y una Maestría en Estudios de Desarrollo por la Universidad de Londres. Su trayectoria en gestión educativa incluye el cargo de Secretaria de Educación de Minas Gerais (2019-2022) y Subsecretaria de infraestructura y tecnología de la Secretaría de Estado de Educación de Río de Janeiro. Su experiencia combina una sólida formación académica con implementación práctica de políticas educativas y tecnológicas, destacándose en la transformación digital de sistemas educativos estatales en Brasil.