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For 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.
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Keywords
Community of Practice Educational tools User experiences AduLeT
Citation
Gonçalves, Vitor; Chumbo, Isabel; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Patrício, Maria Raquel (2019). AduLeT project and its community of practice: an insight into technology advanced use within higher education. In The Future of Education 9th Edition: Conference Proceedings. Florença: Filodiritto Publisher. p. 131-136. ISBN 978-88-85813-45-8
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Filodiritto Publisher