Marcus Vinicius Santos Kucharski

Doutor e Mestre em Educação pela PUCPR, Licenciado em Letras-Português-Inglês (PUCPR), em Pedagogia (Unopar), e em História (UniCesumar). Pesquisa a prática profissional docente no ensino presencial e na educação à distância. Professor Adjunto da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), lotado no Departamento de Educação (DEPED-CT), coordenou e lecionou em cursos de especialização e atualmente co-orienta trabalhos de pós-graduação Stricto Sensu. Gerenciou a EAD da Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP), onde participou da criação e implementação do curso de graduação tecnológica à distância em Gestão de Transporte Aéreo em parceria com a Universidade de Uberaba (UNIUBE). Lecionou em outras IES no Paraná (PUCPR, UEPG, UTP, UniCuritiba), tendo participado de projetos de pesquisa e extensão. Foi coordenador de mídia digital no Centro Internacional de Tecnologia de Software (CITS), tendo autorado e coordenado a implementação de materiais didáticos multimídicos no âmbito da Educação Básica para o Grupo Positivo. Também possui experiência docente relevante na Educação Básica pública e privada.

Marcus Vinicius Santos Kucharski has degrees in Languages (PUCPR), Pedagogy (Unopar) and History (UniCesumar) . He also holds an MA and a Ph.D. in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR - Brazil), and has dedicated himself to researching teaching practices and supporting the adotpion of teaching technologies in all educational levels, both in traditional and distance learning courses. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR - Brazil) working at the Department of Education, where he coordinated and taught on distance learning Lato Sensu programs on Technologies, Communications and Teaching Techniques as well as teaches on the graduate course on Innovation and Technologies in Education - INTEDUC, at UTFPR. Prof. Kucharski was, for six years, coordinator of distance education at Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP), having worked on the creation and implementation of Brazil?s first distance education undergraduate course on Management of Aerial Transportation. He has taught in various universities in the state of Paraná (PUCPR, UEPG, UTP, UniCuritiba), and counts many years of experience in Child and K-12 Education levels in private and public schools. He was, for eight years, coordinator of digital media at the International Center of Software Technology (CITS), having authored and coordinated the implementation of multimedia educational softwares and trained both faculty and staff in many schools toward the adoption of digital educational solutions. His current research interests encompass especially teacher training with and for the incorporation of digital resources into pedagogical work in all educational levels under an educommunicational approach.