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- AduLeT project and its community of practice: an insight into technology advanced use within higher educationPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelFor the last two decades one cannot overlook the fact that there have been major improvements in the area of educational technology. Schools and universities also try to accompany the evolutional pace of this new technological stance introduced in the teaching-learning process. The spread of tablets, smartphones and social networks has accounted for an immersion into the technological world by both students and lecturers. Hence, it has been most impossible to underestimate the value of these tools regarding teaching methods. On the one hand, students, as digital natives, adhere enthusiastically to these new teaching approaches. On the other, lecturers are sometimes bereft of ideas when it comes to motivating the students and introduce innovative methodologies to their in regard to the use of technologies in an advanced way. The aim of this paper is to present the platform Community of Practice (CoP), the ultimate visible result of the Advanced use of Learning Technologies in higher education (AduLeT) project, a collaborative 3-year (2016-2019) research project funded by the European Commission, involving seven partner countries. CoP meets the standards that teaching nowadays requires aiming at providing higher education lecturers with a substantial matrix of tools and methods combined. We shall demonstrate the use and effectiveness of the CoP by showing some practical examples and by highlighting several insightful user experiences within the Portuguese higher education context. To establish a connection with the main target audience, we organized two workshops and a multiplier event to lecturers from several higher education institutions, disseminating the results and involving more lecturers in this community. Thus, we intend to materialize in this paper a summary of the project, essentially in the Portuguese perspective. During the multiplier event, we had very positive reactions from the lecturers regarding the CoP. After this event, the participants were also asked to fill in a satisfaction survey on the use of the CoP. In the paper, we shall then put forth and analyze the survey answers so that we shed some light on the efficacy and applicability of the CoP.
- Comunidade de práticas do projeto AduLeT: cenário de aprendizagem inovadorPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelO projeto europeu AduLeT tem o objetivo de promover o uso avançado de tecnologias de aprendizagem no ensino superior. O consórcio que representa o projeto é formado pela Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE, Alemanha); University of Stuttgart (US, Alemanha), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, Espanha), Humak - University of Applied Sciences (Humak, Finlândia), John von Neumann University (JNU, Hungria), Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNL, Holanda), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB, Portugal) e International Education and Training Institution (Pixel, Itália). O projeto visa melhorar a qualidade do ensino dos docentes, desenvolvendo as suas competências ao nível da utilização avançada de tecnologias educativas, através de uma Comunidade de Práticas (CoP). Esta comunidade permite a partilha de experiências de aprendizagem em contexto de ensino superior para resolver problemas educativos, interligando métodos com ferramentas. A título exemplificativo, se em contexto educativo, pretendermos introduzir um novo tema, descrever visualmente um conceito ou temática ou apresentar ideias resultantes de um trabalho em grupo podemos recorrer ao brainstorming e usar ferramentas para construir mapas mentais, tais como: FreeMind, Xmind, Mind42 online, Openmind, Popplet, Mindmeister, etc. É desejável que essa experiência de uso seja partilhada com essa CoP. Pretendemos com esta comunicação apresentar a plataforma de suporte à CoP e elucidar como os professores do ensino superior podem usar a CoP em situações de ensino e aprendizagem. A plataforma agrega métodos de ensino, ferramentas educativas e problemas, bem como uma matriz de métodos de ensino combinados com tecnologias adequadas, bem como as correspondentes soluções partilhadas por professores em resposta a problemas da sua atividade educativa. A CoP possibilita a consulta de boas práticas para o uso adequado de tecnologias educativas, devidamente enquadradas com métodos de ensino adaptados à resolução de problemas e outros requisitos de ensino, assim como o registo de professores que podem contribuir com novos métodos, ferramentas, problemas e soluções. Portanto, a CoP pretende ser uma plataforma que auxilie os professores a melhorar a qualidade do ensino, a criar redes de colaboração e a aperfeiçoar as suas competências de utilização avançada de tecnologias em cenários de aprendizagem inovadores.
- Por e para uma educação para a autonomiaPublication . Pires, Manuel Vara; Mesquita, Cristina; Lopes, Rui Pedro; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Santos, Graça; Patrício, Maria Raquel; Castanheira, LuisEducar e formar para a autonomia é, provavelmente, o maior desafio educacional que as escolas, os educadores, os professores, as famílias e a comunidade enfrentam na atualidade. Deve configurar mais do que um objetivo, constituindo-se antes como um compromisso das instituições educativas, de todos os educadores e professores desde que uma criança entra no sistema educativo e prosseguindo ao longo de toda a sua vida. Isto significa que todos, pais, educadores e professores, gestores e responsáveis pela formação, devem assumir esse compromisso, procurando criar as melhores condições para que a criança, o jovem e o jovem adulto possam desenvolver a vontade, as capacidades, os conhecimentos, mas, sobretudo, a sua agência participativa para ser, estar e tornar-se em realidades sociais tão líquidas, voláteis, incertas e complexas como aquelas que vivemos na atualidade e as que se perspetivam para o futuro.
- Desbravando novos horizontes: a EduSer rumo à Scielo PortugalPublication . Pais, Clarisse; Mesquita, Elza; Dotras Bravo, Alexia; Costa, Carlos Casimiro da; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Freire-Ribeiro, Ilda; Chumbo, Isabel; Costa, Jacinta Casimiro da; Patrício, Maria Raquel; Vaz, Paula Marisa FortunatoNesta apresentação exploramos a jornada emocionante e desafiadora de submeter a revista EduSer à Scielo Portugal, um marco significativo na promoção da ciência aberta e na divulgação da investigação. A submissão representa um passo crucial para ampliar o alcance e a visibilidade da revista a nível nacional e internacional, além de fortalecer a sua credibilidade no meio académico. Ao integrar este portal agregador, a EduSer junta-se a uma comunidade prestigiada de revistas científicas que promovem a acessibilidade e a excelência na investigação. A transição para a Scielo Portugal implica uma mudança significativa na estratégia de divulgação e promoção da revista. Este passo surge como um reflexo da estratégia de crescimento e expansão da EduSer cujo intuito é adotar novas abordagens para alcançar um público mais amplo e diversificado, aproveitando os recursos e a plataforma disponibilizada pela Scielo Portugal. Ao superar estes desafios, a EduSer não apenas fortalece a sua posição como um veículo de destaque na área da educação, mas também contribui para a missão maior da ciência aberta: promover o acesso equitativo ao conhecimento científico e incentivar a colaboração e a inovação. No entanto, este processo não é isento de desafios. A adaptação aos critérios e padrões rigorosos da Scielo Portugal exige esforços consideráveis por parte da equipa editorial da EduSer. Desde a conformidade com as diretrizes editoriais e técnicas da Scielo, à conversão e formatação dos documentos em Word para o JATS-XML (Journal Article Tag Suite XML), cada etapa requer uma atenção meticulosa e uma preparação específica na conversão e formatação. Embora existam ferramentas de código aberto para transformar um arquivo Word (.docx) em JATS-XML, a plataforma da Scielo ainda não está atualizada para que esta conversão seja efetuada de forma mais ou menos automática e, portanto, todo o processo é moroso e desafiante. Todavia, a submissão da revista EduSer à Scielo Portugal marca uma etapa crucial na sua trajetória, representando um compromisso renovado com os princípios da ciência aberta e um impulso para a disseminação do conhecimento educacional de alta qualidade. Esta jornada reflete não apenas os esforços da equipa editorial, mas também o compromisso do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança com a excelência académica e a inovação na educação.
- Adulet: an innovative community of practice for higher educationPublication . Chumbo, Isabel; Gonçalves, Vitor; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelHigher education lecturers are currently overwhelmed with the idea of changing from the old paradigm, in which teaching and learning happened through a teacher-centred perspective, to a student centred approach, currently a more widely accepted new teaching standpoint, which lecturers are eager to transform into a vivid and motivating experience, by exploring various alternatives. The pressure to do so while resorting to several technological tools is enormous. The use of technological tools available to every student, namely smartphones, social networks, new platforms and other devices do not suffice anymore. Teachers and lecturers seek to go beyond the obvious tools and search for a way to combine these technologies and the new pedagogical approach in order to provide a more profound meaning to the teaching and learning process. AduLeT – Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in higher education – is a European project involving seven different institutions, which aims at improving the teaching quality of lecturers by enhancing their skills concerning the use of technologies in an advanced way, through a Community of Practice (CoP) where methods and tools are intertwined, thus envisaging a common outcome: sharing ready-made solutions which have been tested in a higher education context to solve an educational problem. The aims of this contribution are as follows: 1. to describe the project in the given context; 2. to explain the different stages and methodology towards the design of the CoP; 3. to provide insight about the CoP itself; 4. To clarify how higher education teachers can use the CoP in their daily educational routine. The CoP is made available through a platform, currently correcting some functionalities in the evaluating stage with potential end users, which consists of an application developed with an author programming tool that allows getting flexible, visual, easy and logic navigation and interaction. The platform has been developed to provide users with a valuable experience to facilitate lecturers’ understanding and usability. Our experience shows that a CoP could facilitate the adaptation process and allow a faster and more effective transferability of teaching innovations among different countries as well as among lecturers and universities at an international level. Currently the CoP already contains methods from different fields of knowledge and a variety of tools which can allow a lecturer to choose from, in order to include them in their lectures and seminars as to obtain a better interaction from the student’s side and also to create a more motivated approach on a daily basis.
- AduLeT: uso avançado de tecnologias de aprendizagem no ensino superiorPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelNo contexto europeu, grande parte das universidades usa sistemas de gestão de aprendizagem para enriquecer a sua oferta formativa presencial. Enquanto o ensino à distância parece estar difundido, o uso avançado de tecnologias tem ainda um longo caminho a percorrer. Cabe às universidades impulsionar a aplicação de métodos e tecnologias de ensino inovadores, lacuna que o projeto AduLeT pretende colmatar. Assim, este projeto europeu procura responder às seguintes questões: Porque é que o potencial pedagógico das tecnologias educativas não é adequadamente usado pelos docentes? Como minimizar as barreiras e outros constrangimentos identificadas pelo projeto? Assim, pretende-se nesta comunicação por poster apresentar os principais objetivos: i) identificar barreiras no uso avançado de tecnologias; ii) desenvolver soluções que minimizem estas barreiras; bem como os principais resultados: i) Recolha de informação sobre métodos de ensino e ferramentas digitais (Technology Enhanced Learning); ii) identificação de barreiras no uso avançado de tecnologias no ensino superior; iii) elaboração de guiões, exemplos de boas práticas e outras ações baseadas nos resultados de questionários que podem ser disseminados noutras universidades; e iv) criação e dinamização de uma Comunidade de Práticas (CoP) que permita o crescimento e desenvolvimento de uma comunidade que partilhe cenários de uso de tecnologia educativa.
- Adulet project and educational technologies: updates to the state of the artPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelHigher education teachers are now facing bigger challenges than ever before regarding students’ motivation and effective learning. The teaching model paradigm has been rapidly changing over the last decades due to the wide array of technological tools available to every student, namely smartphones, social networks, new platforms and devices which cater for new teaching/learning methods and tools. Technology can either represent an added-value in the learning/teaching process or it can be a major failure if teachers do not have enough knowledge or skills to deal with it in the most adequate way. It is in this context that the “AduLeT - Advanced use of Learning Technologies in higher education” project emerged in 2016 and will operate until 2019. This seven partner-consortium international project aims at creating a Community of Practice to improve the teaching quality of lecturers by enhancing their skills concerning the use of technologies in an advanced way. The aims of this paper are as follows: 1. to describe the project design, focusing on its different stages, namely the research methods applied, known barriers and how to overcome them; and highlighting the guidelines for the effective use of “Technology-Enhanced Learning” tools (TEL tools); 2. to anticipate some known and expected results of the survey conducted in each country by the consortium partners; 3. to demonstrate how the CoP shall work by setting forth some examples of possible and already pinpointed teaching methods and tools for TEL. It is our belief that this project could present good practices for the use of appropriate educational technologies and properly conformed with teaching/learning methods applicable to the resolution of problems, difficulties, requisites of common teaching, providing a structured and meaningful model within the TEL area. Therefore, it will most certainly contribute to the modernization of Europe’s Higher Education systems for education and training. We do hope that, in the long run, this community of practice grows as a whole in order to become self-sufficient.
- AduLeT community of practice: an innovative learning settingPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelThis paper aims to present the platform which supports the AduLeT Community of Practice (CoP), giving hints to higher education teachers on the use of the CoP in the teaching-learning process. The platform assembles teaching methods, technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools and problems, a matrix combining teaching methods with the most adequate tools, as well as user experiences (problems and solutions) shared by lecturers. The CoP works on the advisory level, facilitating good practice regarding the adequate use of TEL tools, matched with teaching methods adapted to problem fixing as well as other requirements. Lecturers can always register and thus add their own contribution to the CoP in regards new methods, tools, problems and solutions. Consequently, the CoP intends to: be a helpful platform so lecturers can improve their teaching performance, generate collaborative networks, and upgrade technology enhance learning competences in innovative learning settings.
- Advanced use of learning technologies in higher education: AduLeT project big picturePublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelAduLeT aims at creating a Community of Practice (CoP) to improve the teaching quality of lecturers by enhancing their skills concerning the use of technologies in an advanced way. The main idea is training the teacher on how a specific teaching method can be combined with a certain technology in addition to providing guidelines, best practice and strategy concepts for lecturers and universities. The CoP should also supply the means to ensure contact with other lecturers and therefore share experiences within teaching using Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The consortium of this project consists of the following partners: - Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany) - Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) - Humak University of Applied Sciences (Finland) - University Pallasz Athéné (Hungary) - International Education and Training Institution, Pixel (Italy) - Open University of the Netherlands (Netherlands) - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal).
- AduLeT project: leading technology enhanced learning tipsPublication . Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria RaquelThe European Commission favours the implementation and use of digital content and specially Open Educational Resources (OER) made accessible in higher education. Most of the lecturers have neither the skills nor the time to supply the teaching materials as digital content or OER. Therefore, Advanced Use of Learning Technologies in Higher Education (AduLeT) is a project that has been set up within the European Union Erasmus+programme support, involving seven partners working together from November 2016 to August 2019. This project will provide lecturers with a community to share user experiences that integrate selected teaching methods with technologies and learning objects to solve an educational problem. AduLeT project brings in a Community of Practice (CoP) for lecturers with suitable teaching methods for technology enhanced learning (TEL). One specific requirement is the visualization of a set of category of tools matching with methods, like a matrix of methods and tools that can easily help teachers choosing from them. The lecturer can also find guidelines in the CoP for the effective use of TEL tools according to themethodology he/she plans to use in the learning process.The CoP will also make it possible to get in touch with other lecturers and to share experiences about teaching with TEL tools. In this contribution we will present the main requisites and functionalities implemented to provide the CoP, based on two workshops with the lecturers of the partner countries. We believe that this project could be an excellent support to the teacher, because it will present good practices for the use of appropriate educational technologies, properly conformed with teaching methods applicable to the resolution of problems, difficulties and requisites of common teaching.