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- The Importance of Making Teaching Practices Public, Shareable, and UsablePublication . Lopes, J. Bernardino; Viegas, Clara; Pinto, José AlexandreIt is acknowledged that to improve the value of the learning process and outcomes in areas such as science, technology, engineering and math, the teaching quality needs to be enhanced. Therefore, it is crucial to have access to real teaching practices. The multimodal narrative (MN) tool allows teaching practices to become public, sharable, and usable (open science perspective), preserving their holistic, complex, and ecological nature. This tool has characteristics and a structure that enable an in-depth study of teaching practices, in different contexts, with several purposes (e.g., teacher education, professional development, and research). This chapter presents MNs and the necessary steps involved in collecting multimodal data, structuring the narrative, and validating the document. MNs can be used by teachers and researchers, or other professionals, with multiple specific objectives, globally contributing to improving professional practices.
- The Optical Clearing Method: A New Tool for Clinical Practice and Biomedical EngineeringPublication . Oliveira, Luís Manuel Couto; Tuchin, Valery VictorovichThis book describes the Optical Immersion Clearing method and its application to acquire information with importance for clinical practice and various fields of biomedical engineering. The method has proved to be a reliable means of increasing tissue transparency, allowing the investigator or surgeon to reach deeper tissue layers for improved imaging and laser surgery. This result is obtained by partial replacement of tissue water with an active optical clearing agent (OCA) that has a higher refractive index and is a better match for the refractive index of other tissue components. Natural tissue scattering is thereby reduced. An exponential increase in research using this method has occurred in recent years, and new applications have emerged, both in clinical practice and in some areas of biomedical engineering. Recent research has revealed that treating ex vivo tissues with solutions containing active OCAs in different concentrations produces experimental data to characterize drug delivery or to discriminate between normal and pathological tissues. The obtained drug diffusion properties are of interest for the pharmaceutical and organ preservation industry. Similar data can be estimated with particular interest for food preservation. The free water content evaluation is also of great interest since it facilitates the characterization of tissues to discriminate pathologies. An interesting new application that is presented in the book regards the creation of two optical windows in the ultraviolet spectral range through the application of the immersion method. These induced transparency windows open the possibility to diagnose and treat pathologies with ultraviolet light. This book presents photographs from the tissues we have studied and figures that represent the experimental setups used. Graphs and tables are also included to show the numerical results obtained in the sequential calculations performed.
- Understanding the Importance of Students' Assessment and Feedback With Multimodal NarrativesPublication . Viegas, Maria Clara; Cruz, Eliane de SouzaMultimodal narratives give insight of a classroom, teacher mediation, and students' work. In this chapter, the authors use this facility to better understand the importance of assessment and feedback in classroom practice. The analysis of excerpts from two complete multimodal narratives made it possible to highlight the importance of teacher intentions regarding the assessment process, the chosen tasks, and the subsequent feedback. It also provided an inside perspective of what was actually implemented in the classroom and how different teacher mediation leads to different results. These identifications in teaching mediation and students' involvement emerge transversally regarding teaching levels or contexts as objects of reflection, illustration, or simply inspiration. This shows the importance this tool can have in education by addressing parallel and complementary aspects of a classroom, which makes it a powerful tool in teaching.