Diana Hernández Montoya
Academic Researcher and Fabrication Laboratory Coordinator
Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica
Diana is a teacher focused on human talent, innovation, and technology. Currently works doing research and is the coordinator of the Fabrication Laboratory of the Universidad Estatal a Distancia. She has degrees in Preschool and Primary Education, Educational Technology, Project Management, Design Thinking and Digital Transformation.
Her work experience includes public and private educational institutions with roles like teacher, researcher, project manager, instructional designer, and program coordinator. These roles have given her opportunities to be part of interdisciplinary teams and to remain open to change, learning, error, and the never impossible task of generating real impacts on people's lives and on the dynamics of the spaces she works.
Also, she has been the coordinator of the OpenCourseWare at UNED for almost 12 years and participated in various projects related to the Open Educational Movement and Open Educational Resources & Practices, both national and internationally.
Personal Information
Nationality: Costa Rican
Live in San José, Costa Rica.
Academic Instruction
Digital Transformation and Project Management Specialist
Master in Educational Technology and Informatics (MATIE) with Magna Cum Laude degree
Licentiate in Pre-School Education
Bachelor in Primary Education
Professional Experience
February 2008 to present at Universidad Estatal a Distancia in Costa Rica.
Projects’ coordinator:
- OpenCourseWare UNED de Costa Rica
- Observatory about Technology in Distance Education
Producer of Academic multimedias
- Copyright
- El cordel de Ariadna (mathematic multimedia)
During 2008 she was Member of the Comision in charge to propouse a new model for an university center in UNED. Member of the academic- technological subcomision and coordinator of the Direction of Materials Production. These subcomisions were created to establish a new academic-technological proposal for the university.
At various times has been reading tesis for the area of education, technology, design, of graduate and postgraduate students of public universities in Costa Rica.
She has taught at postgraduate level in the areas of technology and education.
Speaker in national and international congress.
dhernandez@uned.ac.cr