Pedro Hernández-Ramos
Program Director (Family and Community)
Center for Science, Technology, and Society

Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Teaching and Learning with Technology MA Program
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053
408 554 4131
phernandezramos@scu.edu

Fields of Interest

• Technology
• Education

Biographical Note

Pedro Hernández-Ramos received a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from Stanford University in 1985. He worked as an Assistant Editor in the creation of the "International Encyclopedia of Communications," for which he also coauthored an article. He was a Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communications of the University of Pennsylvania, and after a return to California, a consultant to several high-tech companies. In 1991 he joined Apple Computer, where for 5 years he served as Education Manager for Latin America & Caribbean, then as Education Business Development Manager for Apple Pacific, and finally as the Research Manager for the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) program. Subsequently he worked for Acer America, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Cisco Systems before joining Santa Clara University in July 2001. He has a joint appointment as Program Director (Family and Community) in the Center for Science, Technology, and Society and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, where he directs the MA emphasis on Teaching and Learning with Technology.