Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE), the Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina (FUAA) share the results of the 5th edition of the Inter-American Award for Educational Innovation in Higher Education (MEIN Award), held on September 23, 24 and 25, 2024 under the theme “Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Strategies, Achievements and Challenges”.
1st Place:
CHATAI: Asistente Virtual Inteligente
Universidad Abierta para Adultos
Dominican Republic
2nd Place:
Inteligencia Artificial para la generación de nuevos modelos formales
Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Argentina
3rd Place:
Transformando la formación de Instrumentadores Quirúrgicos: Uso de la realidad virtual e inteligencia artificial en el desarrollo de habilidades prácticas
Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina
Colombia
The International Jury was made up of an Inter-American team of six experts in higher education from 6 countries of the Americas, who collaborated with great dedication and professionalism in evaluating the projects.
- John Jairo Briceño Martínez, Dean of Education, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia
- Modaldo Tuñón, President’s Advisor, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
- Etienne Carbonneau, Director, Research and Internationalization Support/Senior Advisor, Government Relations, Université du Québec, Canadá
- Rodrigo Carrillo González, Technology and Innovation Manager, Department of Innovation, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile
- Adriel Patrón Ponce, Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Strategic Communication and the Distance Learning Degree in Communication, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México. Director of e-Learning at TaloMx
- Róger Kar Ramos Alfaro, Professor and Coordinator of the University Chair in Project Management and Entrepreneurship, Universidad de Costa Rica
The organizers and promoters of this inter-American event recognize the work and commitment to innovation in higher education of all the institutions that participated in this fifth edition of the MEIN Award and appreciate their interest in sharing their strategies, achievements, and challenges to implement innovative initiatives through the use of AI that transform our institutions and environment.

We invite you to watch the videos of the participating and awarded experiences in our playlist “MEIN Award – 5th edition 2024”
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