¿Evaluando o bordando retales? : un modelo de evaluación receptivo centrado en el evaluando para escenarios CSCL.

Monográfico con el título: la investigación y la innovación universitaria, un campo emergente y en coordinación

Lo que el ojo no ve : un estudio de caso basado en procesos de indagación co(wiki)laborativos.

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La formaci??n pr??ctica interdisciplinar de Magisterio en un entorno tecnol??gico y colaborativo

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Una Propuesta de Marco Instruccional Basado en la Taxonomía de Bloom.

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Aprendizaje activo en Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones : un caso de estudio.

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A gestão pedagógica do ensino e aprendizagem on-line : especificidades

A gestão pedagógica do ensino e aprendizagem on-line: especificidades abordam os desafios da Gestão do Projeto Pedagógico que tem as Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação por base didático-pedagógica. O fenômeno constitui-se na gestão do ensino-aprendizagem de curso lato senso a distância, no uso do computador conectado à internet, e a formação do educador especialista responsável pela coordenação, ensino, avaliação e/ou monitoria a frente do trabalho educativo. Reflete sobre os desafios da práxis pedagógica, subsidiada pela busca questionadora das tecnologias, a fim de responder também à demanda por inclusão sócio-digital. A abordagem metodológica de natureza qualitativa pauta-se na interpretação da realidade, de caráter hermenêutico com o intuito de considerar a experiência vivida pelos sujeitos na educação on-line a partir de uma visão crítica. Questiona o descompasso da educação formal brasileira e os avanços sociais com as incorporações de novas tecnologias de aprendizagens. Estabelece nas análises, a relação entre as teorias que sedimentam os objetivos do curso, as práticas de gestão e as influências ideológicas que marcam esse cenário, no PIGEAD da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro Brasil, período de 2010 a 2012. Os resultados desta pesquisa mostram que a interatividade, diferencial que aproxima o indivíduo e o torna parte da comunicação estabelecida na EAD on-line, não ocorre plenamente entre os sujeitos do processo. Além disso, a gestão democrática participativa declarada em seus objetivos de formação se mostra na realidade como prática centralizadora, sinalizando um descompasso entre teoria e prática. Esta pesquisa, entre outros, oferece elementos de avaliação e aprimoramento ao PIGEAD.

Is the unfolding of the group discussion off-pattern? Improving coordination support in educational forums using mobile devices

A forum is a valuable tool to foster reflection in an in-depth discussion; however, it forces the course mediator to continually pay close attention in order to coordinate learners` activities. Moreover, monitoring a forum is time consuming given that it is impossible to know in advance when new messages are going to be posted. Additionally, a forum may be inactive for a long period and suddenly receive a burst of messages forcing forum mediators to frequently log on in order to know how the discussion is unfolding to intervene whenever it is necessary. Mediators also need to deal with a large amount of messages to identify off-pattern situations. This work presents a piece of action research that investigates how to improve coordination support in a forum using mobile devices for mitigating mediator`s difficulties in following the status of a forum. Based on summarized information extracted from message meta-data, mediators consult visual information summaries on PDAs and receive textual notifications in their mobile phone. This investigation revealed that mediators used the mobile-based coordination support to keep informed on what is taking place within the forum without the need to log on their desktop computer. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Introducing Undergraduate Students to Science

Understanding the scientific method fosters the development of critical thinking and logical analysis of information. Additionally, proposing and testing a hypothesis is applicable not only to science, but also to ordinary facts of daily life. Knowing the way science is done and how its results are published is useful for all citizens and mandatory for science students. A 60-h course was created to offer undergraduate students a framework in which to learn the procedures of scientific production and publication. The course`s main focus was biochemistry, and it was comprised of two modules. Module I dealt with scientific articles, and Module II with research project writing. Module I covered the topics: 1) the difference between scientific knowledge and common sense, 2) different conceptions of science, 3) scientific methodology, 4) scientific publishing categories, 5) logical principles, 6) deductive and inductive approaches, and 7) critical reading of scientific articles. Module II dealt with 1) selection of an experimental problem for investigation, 2) bibliographic revision, 3) materials and methods, 4) project writing and presentation, 5) funding agencies, and 6) critical analysis of experimental results. The course adopted a collaborative learning strategy, and each topic was studied through activities performed by the students. Qualitative and quantitative course evaluations with Likert questionnaires were carried out at each stage, and the results showed the students` high approval of the course. The staff responsible for course planning and development also evaluated it positively. The Biochemistry Department of the Chemistry Institute of the University of Sao Paulo has offered the course four times.

Pedagogical Methods in Web-Based Language Teaching

This paper presents a research project that is being conducted at Dalarna University in Sweden. The aim is to study the following: 1) The quality of online language education compared with that of campus education, and 2) Advantages and disadvantages of online language education and how the disadvantages might be overcome. The project consists of two parts: pedagogical methods in online language education from the teachers’ point of view and from the students’ point of view. The first part was conducted in 2012 and various characteristics (benefits and difficulties) of online language education were identified. Flexibility and wider opportunities were general benefits, while lack of physical co-presence, difficulty in having lively debates/discussions, and high dropout rates were among the problems. The second part of the project (being conducted in 2014) aims to investigate how students experience online language learning. The goal is to explore alignments and misalignments between teachers’ perspectives and students’ perspectives, and to develop methods to enhance the quality of online education.

Från traditionellt akademiskt bibliotek till modern lärmiljö : Högskolan Dalarnas bibliotek – förväntningar och resultat

I denna rapport beskrivs idéerna bakom Högskolan Dalarnas prisbelönta bibliotek i Falun. Planerings- och byggprocessen beskrivs och det färdiga resultatet utvärderas, samt de erfarenheter som har gjorts delas.

A Resource Centric Approach For Advancing Collaboration Through Hydrologic Data And Model Sharing

HydroShare is an online, collaborative system being developed for open sharing of hydrologic data and models. The goal of HydroShare is to enable scientists to easily discover and access hydrologic data and models, retrieve them to their desktop or perform analyses in a distributed computing environment that may include grid, cloud or high performance computing model instances as necessary. Scientists may also publish outcomes (data, results or models) into HydroShare, using the system as a collaboration platform for sharing data, models and analyses. HydroShare is expanding the data sharing capability of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System by broadening the classes of data accommodated, creating new capability to share models and model components, and taking advantage of emerging social media functionality to enhance information about and collaboration around hydrologic data and models. One of the fundamental concepts in HydroShare is that of a Resource. All content is represented using a Resource Data Model that separates system and science metadata and has elements common to all resources as well as elements specific to the types of resources HydroShare will support. These will include different data types used in the hydrology community and models and workflows that require metadata on execution functionality. The HydroShare web interface and social media functions are being developed using the Drupal content management system. A geospatial visualization and analysis component enables searching, visualizing, and analyzing geographic datasets. The integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is being used to manage federated data content and perform rule-based background actions on data and model resources, including parsing to generate metadata catalog information and the execution of models and workflows. This presentation will introduce the HydroShare functionality developed to date, describe key elements of the Resource Data Model and outline the roadmap for future development.

Redefining the Academic Library Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services

Academic libraries are faced with a daunting series of challenges brought on by the digital revolution. In an era when millions of books, articles, images, and videos available instantaneously via the web, libraries across all institutional types are experiencing declining demand for their traditional services, built around the storage and dissemination of physical resources. At the same time, new demand for digital information services and collaborative learning spaces promise new areas of opportunity and engagement with patrons. A rapid and orderly transition to “the library of the future” requires difficult trade-offs, however, as no institution can afford to continue expanding both its commitment to comprehensive, local print collections as well as new investments in staff, technology, and renovations. This report illustrates how progressive academic libraries are evolving in response to these challenges, providing case studies and best practices in managing library space, staff, and resources.

SAACI : sistema de apoio à aprendizagem colaborativa na internet

O atual contexto social tem sido marcado pelo constante avanço tecnológico e científico, pela rápida defasagem dos conhecimentos e pela demanda por profissionais mais qualificadas e capazes de aprender e resolver problemas colaborativamente. A fim de atender esta demanda, o ensino tradicional tem que mudar, de forma que as pessoas possam desenvolver habilidades de “aprender a aprender” e “aprender colaborativamente”. A Aprendizagem Colaborativa tem sido apontada como uma alternativa a este problema, possibilitando uma aprendizagem flexível, ativa e centrada no aluno. Os alunos aprendem em colaboração com outros alunos, o que possibilita uma aprendizagem mais profunda, através de trocas de idéias, dúvidas e pontos de vista. Por outro lado, o advento da rede Internet e a consolidação desta como um importante meio de comunicação mundial têm introduzido novas possibilidades à Aprendizagem Colaborativa Apoiada por Computador (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning – CSCL). Uma atenção especial tem sido dada ao WWW, serviço que possui grande potencial como meio ativo de aprendizagem, embora seja amplamente utilizado como meio passivo de transmissão de informações pela Internet. Este cenário tem viabilizado a utilização da infra-estrutura da Internet para a criação de um sistema de CSCL de grande alcance e a um custo relativamente baixo. O objetivo principal do presente trabalho é propor e implementar um modelo de CSCL baseado na Internet que forneça, de forma integrada, o suporte necessário para o desenvolvimento efetivo de atividades colaborativas de aprendizagem. O trabalho realizado pode ser dividido em três etapas principais: (1) o levantamento teórico, que consistiu no estudo das principais áreas relacionadas com o trabalho desenvolvido, o que foi fundamental para a definição do modelo de sistema de aprendizagem colaborativa proposto; (2) a definição do modelo, que consistiu no levantamento das atividades básicas que devem ser apoiadas por um ambiente de CSCL e na proposição do modelo de um sistema de CSCL baseado na Internet com suporte às atividades levantadas; (3) a implementação do modelo, que possibilitou a verificação da viabilidade da utilização do serviço WWW como base para um ambiente de CSCL, através da utilização de recursos de programação para web e da integração de ferramentas já existentes na Internet.

Logger : agente de colaboração em um ambiente de aprendizagem utilizando software livre no apoio à educação a distância

O Ensino Colaborativo suportado por Computador, conhecido por CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), utiliza-se de uma metodologia de ensino em que os alunos trocam idéias sobre assuntos que foram previamente pesquisados. O professor tem a função de moderador onde incentiva e orienta os alunos no processo de aprendizagem através da criação de cenários para motivação dos mesmos, sugerindo artigos e direcionando-os para os pontos mais importantes de cada assunto. Entretanto, para que se possa buscar uma interação apropriada entre o aluno e o ambiente de aprendizagem, se faz necessária à utilização de ferramentas que propiciem um maior controle sobre o sistema, permitindo assim, a monitoração das tarefas executadas pelo usuário, podendo direcioná-lo de forma correta na busca do aprendizado interativo. Busca-se, através deste trabalho, subsidiar o estudo de Lachi, permitindo a monitoração das ações através de um agente de colaboração, nos horários de aulas prédeterminados e fora destes horários, mantendo informações sobre a freqüência das interações realizadas e permitindo uma melhor orientação pelo responsável das atividades a serem executadas pelos alunos, através da captura das conversações realizadas num ambiente de Educação a Distância que utiliza Software Livre, o qual como resultado final proporcionará a análise das conversações com aplicação de um algoritmo de best search pelo professor, das ações dos participantes, no qual foi proposto por Lachi e agora implementamos parcialmente.

Práticas de letramento digital de professores em formação: demandas, saberes e impactos

Over the last decades, the digital inclusion public policies have significantly invested in the purchase of hardwares and softwares in order to offer technology to the Brazilian public teaching institutions, specifically computers and broadband Internet. However, the teachers education to handle these artefacts is put away, even though there is some demand from the information society. With that, this dissertation chooses as an object of study the digital literacy practices performed by 38 (thirty-eight) teachers in initial and continuous education by means of the extension course Literacies and technologies: portuguese language teaching and cyberculture demands. In this direction, we aim at investigating the digital literacy practices of developing teachers in three specific moments: before, while and after this extension action with the intent to (i) delineate the digital literacy practices performed by the collaborators before the formative action; (ii) to narrate the literacy events made possible by the extension course; (iii) to investigate the contributions of the education course to the collaborators teaching practice. We sought theoretical contributions in the literacy studies (BAYNHAM, 1995; KLEIMAN, 1995; HAMILTON; BARTON; IVANIC, 2000), specifically when it comes to digital literacy (COPE, KALANTZIS, 2000; BUZATO, 2001, 2007, 2009; SNYDER, 2002, 2008; LANKSHEAR & KNOBEL, 2002, 2008) and teacher education (PERRENOUD, 2000; SILVA, 2001). Methodologically, this virtual ethnography study (KOZINETS, 1997; HINE, 2000) is inserted into the field of Applied Linguistics and adopts a quali-quantitative research approach (NUNAN, 1992; DÖRNYEI, 2006). The data analysis permitted to evidentiate that (i) before the course, the digital literacy practices focused on the personal and academic dimensions of their realities at the expense of the professional dimension; (ii) during the extension action, the teachers collaboratively took part in the hybrid study sessions, which had a pedagogical focus on the use of ICTs, accomplishing the use of digital literacy practices - unknown before that; (iii) after the course, the attitude of the collaborator teachers concerning the use of ICTs on their regular professional basis had changed, once those teachers started to effectively make use of them, promoting social visibility to what was produced in the school. We also observed that teachers in initial education acted as more experienced peers in collaborative learning process, offering support scaffolding (VYGOTSKY, 1978; BRUNER, 1985) to teachers in continuous education. This occurred because of the undergraduates actualize digital literacy practices were more sophisticated, besides the fact being integrate generation Y (PRENSKY, 2001)