ALVARO GALVIS
Alvaro Glavis studied systems and computing engineering in Bogota, Colombia before going on to a Master of Education in Pennsylvania, USA. He is mainly interested in Playful, creative and collaborative learning environments, On line learning environments, strategic thinking as applied to educational and cultural initiatives, strategic uses of informatics in developing world organizations and Informatics as applied to education in the developing world.

Alvaro Galvis is a senior researcher at The Concord Consortium, Concord,
MA. He is the co-project director of Seeing Math Telecommunications
project, a project that creates and uses interactive video case studies
for math teacher professional development. He is a professor and
researcher on sabbatical from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
He founded and lead UNIANDES-LIDIE, the R&D Lab on Informatics as Applied to Education of the Computer Science Dept of Universidad de Los Andes. One of his projects, Ludomatica, was awarded the Global Bangemann Challenge in Stockholm, 1999, as a sound and socially impacting educational innovation based on information and communication technologies. His research studies and publications have merited him numerous invitations as a keynote
speaker in national and international conferences, as well as as
consultant in Central and South America, working for OAS, IADB, UNESCO and
WORLD BANK. Alvaro was awarded a Computing and Systems Engineering degree
from UNIANDES and a Master and Doctor of Education degrees from PSU.
email: alvaro@concord.org