Stella Porto
Senior Learning Specialist
InterAmerican Development Bank
Washington, D.C., USA
Stella Porto’s Session
Stella will be a panelist in the session “The Employer Perspective: Skills, Gaps, and Expectations.”
About Stella Porto
Stella Porto is currently a Senior Learning Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. She has been with the IDB since September 2014. The IDB, through its Knowledge and Learning division, offers a variety of e-learning products to the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Stella manages the design, development, and delivery of several of these. She is also the head of CredencialesBID, IDB’s open badge initiative.
Prior to joining the IDB, Stella was the director of the Master’s of Distance Education and E-learning (MDE) at the University of Maryland Global Campus, where she also held other positions since 2001. Prior to that, she was a Professor of Computer Science for around 9 years in her native country, Brazil. Stella holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, a master’s degree and a doctoral degree in Computer Science, and much later, she added a master's in Distance Education.
Outside her full-time job duties, Stella collaborates with Quality Matters as a facilitator and also works on various consulting projects related to online learning through her own business, StellerJ Consulting.