Claudia Urrea is a
visiting research scientist at the MIT – Media Lab. She was born in Colombia, where she received an
undergraduate degree in Computer Science from EAFIT University.
In the mid 90s, she moved to the US,
where she received her Master's degree in Educational Media and
Technology from Boston
University, and her
doctorate degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. Her PhD thesis focuses on
the creation of new learning environments for the digital era. She helps
empower and support schools and communities of learners to evolve from
traditional teaching methods and material into progressive learning
environments using state of the art technologies developed at MIT-Media
Lab.
Claudia regularly
consults with ministries of education (Colombia,
Costa Rica, Brazil, and Haiti) and organizations such
as the Inter-American Development Bank, and SEED-Schlumberger to rethink
learning. She also works in collaboration with OLPC to participate in the
worldwide deployment of revolutionary learning tools to children in the
developing world.
