Estudio de las acciones Erasmus en Educaci??n Superior

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Analysis of successful modes for the implementation and use of open course ware (OCW) & open educational resources (OER) in higher education : the virtual mobility case

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Reutilizaci??n de datos abiertos en el aprendizaje de dise??o de bases de datos a trav??s de proyectos

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De una tarea a un mundo de posibilidades = D'una tasca a un món de possibilitats

El siguiente trabajo trata de la importancia que pueden adoptar las tareas globalizadoras como promotoras de las competencias básicas. Este tipo de actividades proporcionan al sujeto que las realiza una serie de conocimientos, capacidades, habilidades y destrezas que le permiten desenvolverse y desarrollarse de manera satisfactoria en la sociedad. Dando lugar, de este modo, el aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida -Lifelong learning- (Bolívar y Pereyra, 2006)

Experiència d'autoregulació d'aprenentatges a partir dels blocs educatius dels alumnes de grau d'educació primària

La majoria dels alumnes actuals del grau d’educació primària que esdevinguin mestres es jubilaran als voltants de l’any 2050. Aquest fet, i la constatació que vivim en una societat canviant, fa cada vegada més necessari esenvolupar la competència d’aprendre a aprendre, no només per ser un ensenyant competent, sinó també per afrontar la realitat amb tota la seva complexitat. Les exigències del pla Bolonya, els suggeriments del Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 de la Comissió Europea i els nostres propis programes educatius, ja incorporen l’autoregulació dels aprenentatges com una de les fites a assolir en el procés d’ensenyament aprenentatge. En aquests context, la pràctica que presentem persegueix dos objectius: per una part dotar als alumnes de grau d’eines per a la seva autoregulació dels aprenentatges, i per altra, comprovar fins a quin punt la introducció de la coavaluació era acceptada per l’estudiantat del grau d’educació primària i si es reconeixien els beneficis de la funció reguladora de la coavaluació en el procés l’ensenyament aprenentatge, en especial en els aspectes que feien referència a la competència lingüística i la capacitat crítica.

La Gestió del treball autònom per part de l’estudiant

L'autor s'ha basat, en part, en el que descriuen Gerald Grow i Philip Candy en el seu llibre Self-direction for lifelong learning, un llibre que si bé es va publicar fa vint anys, encara es pot considerar un referent per a molts conceptes bàsics de l'aprenentatge autogestionat. Ha integrat a les reflexions que compartireix la seva experiència com a docent per presentar certes relacions entre l'estudiant i el docent en el continu que va des de l'aprenentatge dependent fins a l'autodirigit

A Educação faz tudo? Crítica ao pedagogismo na “sociedade da aprendizagem”

Os discursos apologéticos acerca das todopoderosas aprendizagem e educação ao longo da vida são reproduzidos em vários documentos de política da União Europeia e de outras agências internacionais. O seu foco é a adaptação funcional dos aprendentes individuais à empregabilidade, flexibilidade e competitividade económica, no quadro da “sociedade da aprendizagem” e da “economia do conhecimento”. Depois de analisar o racional da aprendizagem ao longo da vida, orientada para a aquisição de qualificações e habilidades, o autor conclui que os seus principais argumentos e as suas críticas contra a pedagogia moderna são frequentemente baseados em assunções pedagogistas, de carácter economicista, e em crenças exageradas no poder da educação e da aprendizagem.

O Ensino Superior e o alargamento a novos públicos: as perceções dos estudantes sobre os cursos online

Este trabalho teve por objetivo identificar as perceções dos estudantes do ensino superior sobre o ensino online, tentando-se perceber como é que encaram o e-learning para a continuação dos estudos. Os resultados obtidos revelam que os estudantes manifestam algumas reticências sobre o ensino online mas, ao mesmo tempo, estão disponíveis para no futuro virem a optar por esse tipo de ensino, reconhecendo o impacto positivo que poderá ter na melhoria das suas qualificações e no desenvolvimento da sua carreira profissional. Concluiu-se que os estudantes valorizam, em primeiro lugar, a redução de custos e a flexibilidade na gestão do tempo.

Fatores do abandono escolar precoce e motivações para o regresso em educação de adultos

A presente investigação tem como objetivo analisar e compreender os motivos que levaram um grupo de adultos a frequentar um processo de formação, depois de terem abandonado precocemente a escola formal, quando seria de esperar a sua frequência. Sendo Portugal um país em que se tem verificado um elevado abandono escolar precoce, apesar das melhorias nas últimas décadas, torna-se necessário conhecer as razões desse abandono e, ao mesmo tempo, procurar compreender as motivações dos adultos para o regresso a um percurso educativo. Numa altura em que as experiências e as aprendizagens informais e não formais assumem um lugar de destaque no currículo individual, assim como a aprendizagem ao longo da vida, torna-se pertinente a reflexão acerca da necessidade crescente demonstrada pela população adulta em atualizar os seus conhecimentos e ver formalmente reconhecidas as competências adquiridas ao longo da sua vida. Assim, foi realizada uma análise documental de entrevistas efetuadas aos adultos, antes da frequência da sua formação, num Centro de Novas Oportunidades. Os resultados obtidos foram discutidos à luz da investigação recente neste domínio.

Children's lives, children's futures: A study of children starting secondary school

This title presents a fascinating analysis of how children in their first year of high school feel about their schools, its place in their lives and its role in their futures. This highly topical monograph focuses on how children in their first year of high school feel about school, its place in their lives and its role in their futures. The theoretical context of the study is the focus in educational studies on children's voice and children's active role in education, together with the focus in the sociology of childhood on children as active constructors of their lives and childhood as a subject of serious study. The importance of young people's life plans and the alignment between education and ambitions was recognized in the Sloan Foundation study of American teenagers. In many Western societies there is concern that children from less advantaged social backgrounds have limited aspirations, and are disproportionately unlikely to go to university. This book is highly relevant to understanding the nature of children's engagement with education, the choices and constraints they experience and the reasons some young people fail to take advantage of educational opportunities. "Continuum Studies in Educational Research" (CSER) is a major new series in the field of educational research. Written by experts and scholars for experts and scholars, this ground-breaking series focuses on research in the areas of comparative education, history, lifelong learning, philosophy, policy, post-compulsory education, psychology and sociology. Based on cutting edge research and written with lucidity and passion, the CSER series showcases only those books that really matter in education - studies that are major, that will be remembered for having made a difference.

Evaluation of agri-environmental and forestry schemes with multiple objectives

The evaluation of EU policy in the area of rural land use management often encounters problems of multiple and poorly articulated objectives. Agri-environmental policy has a range of aims, including natural resource protection, biodiversity conservation and the protection and enhancement of landscape quality. Forestry policy, in addition to production and environmental objectives, increasingly has social aims, including enhancement of human health and wellbeing, lifelong learning, and the cultural and amenity value of the landscape. Many of these aims are intangible, making them hard to define and quantify. This article describes two approaches for dealing with such situations, both of which rely on substantial participation by stakeholders. The first is the Agri-Environment Footprint Index, a form of multi-criteria participatory approach. The other, applied here to forestry, has been the development of ‘multi-purpose’ approaches to evaluation, which respond to the diverse needs of stakeholders through the use of mixed methods and a broad suite of indicators, selected through a participatory process. Each makes use of case studies and involves stakeholders in the evaluation process, thereby enhancing their commitment to the programmes and increasing their sustainability. Both also demonstrate more ‘holistic’ approaches to evaluation than the formal methods prescribed in the EU Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

Resources, staff beliefs and organizational culture: factors in the use of information and communication technology for adults with intellectual disabilities

Background  Access to, and the use of, information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly becoming a vital component of mainstream life. First-order (e.g. time and money) and second-order factors (e.g. beliefs of staff members) affect the use of ICT in different contexts. It is timely to investigate what these factors may be in the context of service provision for adults with intellectual disabilities given the role ICT could play in facilitating communication and access to information and opportunities as suggested in Valuing People. Method  Taking a qualitative approach, nine day service sites within one organization were visited over a period of 6 months to observe ICT-related practice and seek the views of staff members working with adults with intellectual disabilities. All day services were equipped with modern ICT equipment including computers, digital cameras, Internet connections and related peripherals. Results  Staff members reported time, training and budget as significant first-order factors. Organizational culture and beliefs about the suitability of technology for older or less able service users were the striking second-order factors mentioned. Despite similar levels of equipment, support and training, ICT use had developed in very different ways across sites. Conclusion  The provision of ICT equipment and training is not sufficient to ensure their use; the beliefs of staff members and organizational culture of sites play a substantial role in how ICT is used with and by service users. Activity theory provides a useful framework for considering how first- and second-order factors are related. Staff members need to be given clear information about the broader purpose of activities in day services, especially in relation to the lifelong learning agenda, in order to see the relevance and usefulness of ICT resources for all service users.

O trabalho em saúde como espaço pedagógico: desafios e possibilidades

The ongoing transformations in brazilian society, arising from technical and organizational changes in the working world, are making, with much emphasis, heated debates resurge related to themes and issues that refer to the relationship between work, skills and education. Thus, this study is inserted in the link between education and work, pointing to the work as an educational principle according to Antonio Gramsci. This paper aims to discuss the interfaces between education and work in the everyday health care teams and learn about the activities developed by health teams related to the learning processes in and with the work to analyze the opportunities and challenges of transforming spaces of health work in an environment of lifelong learning. This is a descriptive, exploratory with a qualitative approach case study developed from semi-structured interviews with the health staff professionals of the Unidade de Terapia Intensiva da Casa de Saúde Dix-Sept Rosado in Mossoró / RN , who answered open questions about the relationship between education and work. The interviews were conducted during the month of January 2010, the same being recorded, transcribed and analyzed, culminating in the production of new knowledge on the subject. It is understood that work and education activities are eminently human, therefore only the human being works and educates. Given the statements of participants, it is noticed that all work processes in health are learning moments. This happens through new demands imposed by the everyday of the services, by interaction with a multidisciplinary team, participation in educational activities and individual study. It was noticed that the institution in this case does not promote study courses related to Intensive Care and that there are obstacles to the realization of educational activities on and with the work, such as: excessive workload, inability to release staff to participate in events, low pay, which leads the worker to have more than one employment, rejection of new knowledge by some workers and lack of physical infrastructure and incentives for the activities. The daily situations must be transformed in learning, selfanalyzing the problems of practice and valuing the work process itself in its intrinsic context. We conclude that dealing with the web of relationships between educational processes and production processes of health services, unraveling the intricacies of the world of work and education requirements in this sector are increasingly on the agenda of Sistema Único de Saúde workers and managers. The continuing consideration of this issue becomes an essential condition for the proper discharge of their responsibilities. We consider that bringing the education to everyday life is the result of recognition of the educational potential of the work situation

Regulation, worker protection and active labour-market policies in Latin America

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Flexible labour markets, workers' protection and the security of the wings": a Danish flexicurity solution to the unemployment and social problems in globalized economies"

Includes bibliography