Eduardo Velez, Ph.D. - University of Illinois. His field of study was Applied Social Statistics. His areas of interest include Sociology of Social and Economic Development and Economics of Education. Dr. Velez had a long trajectory at the World Bank in Washington D.C., Mexico City and in Beijing and was Education Sector Manager for East Asia and the Pacific, and also for Latin American and the Caribbean and also Principal Education Specialist for Eastern and Southern Africa. He has also held an academic career. He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in China, Japan, USA and Colombia. Currently he is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC.  Dr. Velez has written extensively on the subjects of Economics, Education, Development and Sociology (has published nine books and near 100 articles in professional journals or as chapters in books, and has produced dozens of research reports).

Eduardo Velez，伊利诺伊大学社会学系博士，美国乔治城大学任客座教授。研究领域包括社会学和教育经济学，以及发展规划的分析与评估。曾任世界银行全球教育实践局东亚和太平洋教育局局长，拉丁美洲和加勒比地区教育局局长，中国方项目（人力发展）部门领导人和乌干达和坦桑尼亚的人类发展集群领导人。此外，Velez博士拥有丰富的教学经验，曾任北京大学、北京师范大学、复旦大学、布朗大学、日本神户大学客座教授。在经济学、教育学、社会学领域专业期刊发表论文100余篇以及撰写多篇研究报告。

Dr. Velez will describe the Escuela Nueva model that uses active pedagogy centered on the learners to improve internal (reduces repetition and dropout) and external (increases cognitive and non-cognitive learning) efficiency indicators. He will also explain why after working in the education sector for more than 40 years he still promotes the model that lately has received the two most important recognition in education worldwide, the WISE and the YiDan prizes.   

本期讲座，Velez博士将介绍同时荣获WISE创新大奖和“一丹奖”的哥伦比亚“新学校”（Escuela Nueva）模式，详细剖析“新学校”模式所采用的学习者为中心的混龄教学法，以及这种模式对内部（减少留级和辍学率）和外部（增加认知和非认知学习）效率指标的提升。此外，Velez博士也将分享为什么在世界银行等国际组织的教育部门工作40多年后，他依然认可和推广“新学校”模式。