Jorge Luis Romeu

P.O. Box 6134

Syracuse NY 13217

Jromeu@cat.syr.edu

January of 2001

For the past six years, the Juarez project has given faculty development workshops in Spain, Mexico and Venezuela. These workshops discuss the use of new technology (statistical and simulation software) and pedagogical techniques (distance learning, cooperative and contextual learning and student projects) to teaching statistics for undergraduate and graduate level university courses.

One-week workshops on these topics have been taught at the Universities of the Basque Country (San Sebastian), Galicia (Santiago de Compostela), Tamaulipas (Tampico), ITAM (Mexico City), De las Americas (UDLA-Puebla), Veracruzana (Xalapa) and Romulo Gallegos (Venezuela). In addition, two-day workshops have been taught in universities in Bilbao and Coruna (Spain) Mexico City and San Juan (Venezuela). Distance learning capabilities have also been used to make the courses available to several campuses of some of these university systems.

The Project has brought to the US, with full scholarships, over a dozen Mexican and Venezuelan faculty, to attend SUNY CIT Conferences on technology in education. It also maintains two email lists: one for educational technology interests and another one for research interests in environmental issues. And it has donated several dozens of books in mathematics, statistics and computer science to these university libraries.

The Project has received Grants and other types of support from the US Department of State, USIS, WICHE, SUNY, FACT, UUP, the Mexican Cultural Center (NYC) and private donations, among others. More information about the Juarez Lincoln Marti Project can be obtained from its Web Page: http://snycorva.cortland.edu/~matresearch/

In this conference presentation we will overview the faculty development course material used in our workshops, and the Project’s organization and some of its achievements.