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- Paradigm shift: From ePortfolios to PLEsPublication . Tavares, Célia; Oliveira, Luciana; Moreira Silva, ManuelA Personal Learning Environment (PLE) reflects, as a concept, the combination of the set of tools that we use around internet, helping to perceive what we are and what we learn. PLEs are able to bring together all learning experiences acquired in different contexts and mix those experiences in order to reflect ones knowledge. This paper aims at analyzing and exploring the advantages of a PLE, focusing specially on the use of ePortfolios in this context, by considering different approaches and exploring the relationship between the development of an e-portfolio and the students learning styles and multiple intelligences. This focus results from our perception that being aware of the students learning preferences is essential to enhance the quality of the teaching-learning environment, developing different kinds of activities and using different learning tools. In order to understand if and how those concepts (ePortfolios, learning styles and multiple intelligences) are related and to develop some understanding on an approach to correlate them, we have used some assessment tools and applied them in a case study in the area of translation and terminology leaning. The study, briefly described in this paper, has been a well succeeded one. However, we expect to foster further knowledge on the factors that should be changed during the teaching-learning process, by detecting and suggesting improvements. For that we will also reflect on what should be done to achieve better results when using ePortfolios, and consider other tools and approaches to enhance this process, such as social networks.
- B-Learning – An Institutional and Operational Development ToolPublication . Silva, Manuel; Peres, Paula; Tavares, Célia; Oliveira, Lucianae-Learning has been gaining a huge acceptance among educators, specially in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). This happens due to the exponential growth of the use of Internet and educational technologies that allowed deep transformations in the teaching-learning process and paradigm. Nowadays Internet has been reinforcing its role as a mediator-facilitator platform in education, allowing the creation of new contexts where learning opportunities can be expanded and potencially collaborative and where the resources are widely available. In this context, HEI have great responsibility in granting teacher and student access to suitable educational technologies, in providing the adequate means for the adoption of those tools and in the creation of opportunities for the dissemination of technical knowledge and pedagogical expertise amongst all intervenient. In fact, e-learning has become a competitive factor amongst institutions, and schools are confronted with the need to realign their mission, by developing and implementing different initiatives and projects so as to support and motivate teachers and to offer today’s students complementary means for the acquisition of knowledge and skills. In this paper we will analyse the case the Online Support Project (PAOL) and the approach followed by the School of Accounting and Administration of Oporto (ISCAP). The main goals of PAOL are to provide the implementation of computer assisted education at ISCAP in a blended learning model and to assist teachers and students in their adjustment to educational technologies, by developing training opportunities and resources, offering technical facilities and sharing good practice. The project began its activity in 2003 with WebCT, but soon changed its approach with the adoption of the open source platform Moodle and the integration of specialized staff to assist teachers and students on a daily basis. Since then, the b-learning model that PAOL initiated has been maturing the school’s educational culture, according to the teacher’s willingness or availability to integrate technology in the teaching-learning process. The use of Web technologies follows a similar trend to that of Roger’s diffusion of innovation theory, as it developed due to the enthusiasm of some innovators and grew steadily in adepts, having now 162 teachers who use Moodle on a regular basis. Teacher’s role in this process can be classified into different types, having, for instance, teachers that are keener to participate and integrate technology, teachers that only allow themselves to participate if the experience is proven successful by others and teachers that are reluctant to participate in any form. It is important to analyse the impact of these roles in the institutional development of b-learning so that we can develop new solutions and approaches that better meet the expectations of the institution. Thus, this paper will focus on the knowledge acquired throughout the experience in the use of Moodle by PAOL at ISCAP throughout the years (2003-2009), as well as the collaborative and cooperative relationships that have been established between teachers, students and the use of b-learning educational approaches and technology.
- A sustainable approach to the reuse of student - centered learning scenariosPublication . Oliveira, Luciana; Albuquerque, Alexandra; Ribeiro, Sandra; Peres, Paula; Carvalho, Carlos Vaz deSeveral annual repports express the increasing role of learning management systems (LMS) in the context of Higher Education Institutions (HEI), as primary tools to support learning...
- Towards e-learning sustainability: designing and reusing student-centered learning scenariosPublication . Oliveira, Luciana; Carvalho, Carlos Vaz deLearnin management systems have gained an increasing role in the context of Higher Education Institutions as essential tools to support learning...
- Profissões em mudança - impacto da transformação digital nas ocupações administrativaPublication . Oliveira, Luciana; Mesquita, Anabela; Sequeira, ArmindaAs mudanças provocadas pela 4ª Revolução Industrial e pela Transformação Digital impactam diretamente no modo de vida atual, no mercado de trabalho e na forma como as organizações se moldam. Este artigo explora e antecipa o alcance e a profundidade dos impactos das tecnologias atuais e emergentes no trabalho atual e futuro dos assistentes administrativos e secretários executivos. No contexto da transformação global das profissões, recorrendo a uma metodologia exploratória, são apresentadas as atribuições atuais destes profissionais e é analisada a sua propensão para depreciação ou automação tecnológica, colocando-se em perspetiva os riscos da profissão. Os resultados mostram que a maior parte das atribuições destes profissionais têm potencial para serem depreciadas, absorvidas por outras carreiras e/ou substituídas por tecnologias. Avançam-se e discutem-se quais as novas competências, conhecimentos, habilidades e qualificações que serão crescentemente necessárias para o reposicionamento da carreira na forma de trabalho digital.
- Qualidade do ensino mediado pela tecnologia com o Moodle: um estudo longitudinalPublication . Rodrigues, Ana Maria; Tavares, Célia; Oliveira, Luciana; Moreira Silva, ManuelO presente artigo pretende demonstrar de que forma o PAOL - Unidade de Inovação em Educação do Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, tem vindo a promover e a sustentar a sua política de inovação e de mudança, num ambiente que promove quer a sustentabilidade quer a qualidade dos serviços e do apoio prestado. Para tal, será descrito o método usado para aferir a satisfação dos serviços, baseado no recurso a inquéritos eletrónicos feitos regularmente a alunos e docentes, bem como analisados os seus resultados e as mudanças a que conduziram ao longo dos últimos anos. Será apresentada, no final, uma reflexão sobre o modo como uma metodologia de investigação-ação, desenvolvida de modo sistemático e continuado pode conduzir a alterações nas práticas quer de uma unidade, quer de uma instituição
- Analyzing social media discourse - an approach using semi-supervised learningPublication . Oliveira, Luciana; Figueira, ÁlvaroThe ability to handle large amounts of unstructured information, to optimize strategic business opportunities, and to identify fundamental lessons among competitors through benchmarking, are essential skills of every business sector. Currently, there are dozens of social media analytics’ applications aiming at providing organizations with informed decision making tools. However, these applications rely on providing quantitative information, rather than qualitative information that is relevant and intelligible for managers. In order to address these aspects, we propose a semi-supervised learning procedure that discovers and compiles information taken from online social media, organizing it in a scheme that can be strategically relevant. We illustrate our procedure using a case study where we collected and analysed the social media discourse of 43 organizations operating on the Higher Public Polytechnic Education Sector. During the analysis we created an “editorial model” that character izes the posts in the area. We describe in detail the training and the execution of an ensemble of classifying algorithms. In this study we focus on the techniques used to increase the accuracy and stability of the classifiers.
- Sustainable blended-learning in HEI: developing and implementing multi-level interventionsPublication . Peres, Paula; Ribeiro, Sandra; Tavares, Célia; Oliveira, Luciana; Silva, Manuel; Mesquita, AnabelaThis chapter aims to demonstrate how PAOL - Unit for Innovation in Education, a project from ISCAP - School of Accounting and Administration of Oporto ....
- B-leraning: elemento institucional e operacional de desenvolvimento educativo uma instituição de ensino superiorPublication . Silva, Manuel; Tavares, Célia; Peres, Paula; Oliveira, LucianaNa sua origem o Projecto de Apoio OnLine do ISCAP (PAOL) tinha como principal fonte impulsionadora a necessidade emergente de desenvolver soluções sustentadas de integração das tecnologias como apoio às aulas presenciais ministradas na instituição. Este elemento impulsionador ainda hoje se mantém como uma das principais alavancas, agora alargada transversalmente nas áreas de conhecimento da instituição e na inclusão das competências didáctico-pedagógicas. Com o desenvolvimento do projecto, ganharam importância crescente as fontes próprias de criação de conhecimento e de soluções técnicas, capazes de responder aos anseios da comunidade escolar. Este artigo pretende enquadrar e explicitar, através da mostra de casos práticos e de uma análise dos resultados de uso da plataforma Moodle, o percurso seguido pelo projecto, a estratégia adoptada e as acções implementadas. Abstract Initially ISCAP’s Online Support Project (PAOL), was instigated by the emergent necessity to develop sustainable solutions in order to integrate technologies as a means to support the institution’s traditional in-class lessons. This propulsive element, still valid today as one of the main levers, has now transversally extended into the various knowledge areas within the institution and the inclusion of pedagogic-didactical competences. With the development of the project, the institution’s own sources of knowledge creation and technical solutions capable of answering the needs of the institutions’ community became ever more crucial. This article seeks to frame and explain, by showing practical cases and the analysis of the results as to the use of the learning platform Moodle, the path taken by the project, the strategy adopted and the actions implemented.