Diana Hernández-Montoya

Costa Rica

Diana Hernández Montoya is a teacher passionate about human talent, innovation and technology. She is currently a researcher and coordinator of the Fabrication Laboratory and the Open Educational Resources Node, both at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) in Costa Rica, where she has worked for 16 years.
Professionally she has been formed in the areas of Preschool Education, Primary Education, Educational Technology and Informatics, Project Management, Design Thinking, Science Diplomacy and Digital Transformation. She has worked in public and private educational institutions in different tasks: teacher, researcher, project manager, academic producer and coordinator. She has also been a national and international speaker on a variety of topics that integrate education, technology, innovation and of course, human talent.

Among the projects she has coordinated are the Distance Education Technology Observatory, the Distance Research and Innovation Network and OpenCourseWare, all at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia.

She has been a presenter twice at TEDx Pura Vida Education (2020-2023) and TEDx Pura Vida Salon, with the topics Let’s Preschool, Flexibility and Openness, and People and Passions, respectively. Both the Fabrication Lab and the Open Educational Resources Node have been recognized with international awards, among them: the Center of Excellence Award from the New Media Consortium, three times with the Open Education Awards for Excellence from Open Education Global, with the Recognition for Innovation in the framework of the Contributions to the Improvement of Quality of Life Award and with the National Research Award granted by the College of Surgeons and Dentists. In addition, she has been recognized three times as a distinguished employee of the UNED.