Interface de app para dispositivos móveis de universidade virtual, caso da UAb

O avanço das tecnologias de informação continua a mudar os paradigmas de ensino e aprendizagem. Os meios disponíveis são cada vez mais diversificados e, com a necessidade de procurar novos estudantes e diversificar o público-alvo, as instituições de ensino superior estão a repensar os seus modelos de negócio e estratégias pedagógicas. A proliferação de dispositivos móveis catalisa uma aposta crescente no ensino a distância (EaD) no sentido de proporcionar aprendizagens em mobilidade (m-learning). No entanto, as soluções existentes para m-learning são ainda pouco adaptadas às recentes metodologias de EaD, na maioria das vezes funcionando como extensão de um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem ou com muito foco nos conteúdos. Sendo a Universidade Aberta (UAb) a única instituição de ensino superior público em Portugal de ensino a distância, com um modelo pedagógico próprio, constitui um natural caso de aplicação de tecnologia móvel em novos contextos de aprendizagem, importando por isso estudar e desenhar os mecanismos de interação mais adequados com professores e estudantes em mobilidade. Adotou-se neste trabalho a metodologia Design Science Research, tendo sido identificadas as características e comportamentos de potenciais utilizadores, e definidas as funcionalidades que devem ser disponibilizadas na primeira versão de uma aplicação para dispositivos móveis (app) no contexto do ensino a distância. É proposto o design da interface dessa app, usando o modelo da UAb como caso de aplicação, e disponibilizada uma lista de orientações para o desenvolvimento do protótipo funcional. Da investigação realizada, concluiu-se que a interface proposta constitui um modelo válido para o desenho de uma app para aprendizagens em mobilidade, no regime de ensino de uma universidade virtual. A partir deste modelo, as instituições de ensino superior podem desenvolver apps adaptando-se ao avanço das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação e ficarem alinhadas com as necessidades dos seus alunos e docentes, particularmente se dispuserem de oferta formativa a distância.

Programa de inclusão digital dos conselheiros de saúde : o uso das tecnologias de informação e comunicação auxiliam no controle social?

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2016.

Teaching Through Technology – the Experience of Bulgarian Teachers

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2016

A oralidade no 2º ciclo – Como potenciar o desenvolvimento da compreensão e expressão oral?

Relatório final apresentado para a obtenção do grau de mestre em Ensino do 1.º e 2.º Ciclos do Ensino Básico

Humanidades digitales y la escuela 2.0

During the last decades the growth and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have led us to a new social paradigm that reflects a deep change not only in an individual but also in a social behavioural pattern. All these changes define the so-called knowledge and information society. This social evolution has had different textual states and types as its main core and instrument of transformation therefore scholars and specialists in the field of Humanities have not missed the opportunity of studying recent phenomena, which have come from the current setting given by new technologies. Researchers in Humanities have had to reconsider their own traditional working method based on printed text in order to analyse how nowadays we search for data, select them, analyse them and the ways we create and spread new information and knowledge. Having in mind this scenario where humanist works, the concept of Digital Humanities has arisen conditioned by the existence of cyberspace, digital text, hypertext, on-line text, implementation of new ways of communication, global access to information and various elements which build a common methodology for all humanistic disciplines. Most of these changes have affected the educational system and education as an academic and humanistic discipline.

Educational software in english to the awareness in a preschool education supervised context

Information and communication technologies play an increasingly important role in society, in the sense that all areas and professions make use of digital resources. The school can not be brushed off this reality, aim to create full subjects and integrated in society today. Educational software can be used very early in the education of children, but they must be carefully and monitoring. This article aims to present the results of the use of educational software in English to the awareness of context with children of pre-school education in kindergarten, nursery center Redemptorist Fathers - The smallest fox in White Castle, a 21 group children under 5 years. Early awareness of foreign language such as English can be started with digital multimedia capabilities and various software available on the market. However, the small study described the case reveals some resistance from parents and educators, in the preparation of these to choose and monitor the use of ICT by children, in addition to also highlight the self-interest of the children involved and their learning a few words in English language in different contexts of daily worked. The study opens perspectives on close monitoring needs of such uses and training of educators in the field of use of resources multilingual awareness in pre-school education.

A utilização das aplicações digitais «Peak & Neuronation» no envelhecimento ativo : um estudo de caso na USALBI

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Gerontologia Social.

A oralidade no 2º ciclo – Como potenciar o desenvolvimento da compreensão e expressão oral?

Relatório final apresentado para a obtenção do grau de mestre em Ensino do 1.º e 2.º Ciclos do Ensino Básico

Materiais electrocrómicos e mecaelectroquímicos: contextualização e experimentação na disciplina de química do 12º ano

Durante os últimos 1O anos, em particular, tem-se assistido à descoberta e desenvolvimento de materiais com propriedades únicas e potencialmente úteis em vários domínios da Ciência e Tecnologia. Quer seja na área das Ciências Biomédicas e do Ambiente, na área das Novas Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação ou nas Novas Tecnologias relacionadas com sistemas de Conversão e Armazenamento de Energia Eléctrica, encontram-se inúmeros exemplos de Novos Materiais com propriedades muito interessantes, e cujas aplicações inovadoras podem revolucionar o nosso Mundo. O presente trabalho é uma proposta de contextualização e experimentação do tema "Materiais Electrocrómicos e Mecaelectroquímicos" no Programa de Química de 12° Ano, nomeadamente na terceira Unidade - Plásticos, Vidros e Novos Materiais. Neste, é apresentada uma sub-unidade que possa integrar a unidade referida. Faz-se especial referência às aplicações dos polímeros condutores, que pela sua inovação e actualidade tomam a leccionação do tema mais apelativa, interessante e facilitadora de uma literacia científica. São apresentadas experiências laboratoriais demonstrativas e elucidativas do tema em questão. Como forma de apoiar a leccionação do referido tema, é apresentada a proposta de uma animação gráfica animada em Power Point. ABSTRACT: During the past 1O years, in particular, it has witnessed to the discovery and development of materials with unique properties and potentially useful in various fields of Science and Technology. There are numerous examples of new materials in different areas, such as Biomedical, Energy and Environmental Sciences and New information and Communication Technologies, with very interesting properties, and whose innovative applications can have an outstanding impact in our world. This dissertation is a proposal of contextualization and experimentation of theme "Electrochromic Materials and Electrochemical Artificial Muscles" in the Program of Chemistry, in 12th year, particularly in the third unit - Plastics, Glass and New Materials. lt will present a sub-unit that can integrate the unit above. The definitions and some applications of the Electrochromic Materials and Electrochemical Artificial Muscles are showed. Demonstrative and illustrative laboratory experiments of the theme are proposed. ln order to support the teaching of that subject, it is presented an animated graphical presentation in Power Point.

Recursos didácticos digitales: medios innovadores para el trabajo colaborativo en línea

The purpose of this paper is to present the origin, characteristics and rules of the Blogs, Wikis, Chats, Forums, and the Cmap Tools, that one must take into account when working with them as digital resources. In addition, the main contribution offered, is an explanation of possible didactic uses that these resources offer as a dynamic strategic proposal for collaborative e-learning.

Research monograph : emergence of smart urban ecosystems : application of ICT for capacity building in environmental decision making

Since the industrial revolution, our world has experienced rapid and unplanned industrialization and urbanization. As a result, we have had to cope with serious environmental challenges. In this context, explanation of how smart urban ecosystems can emerge, gains a crucial importance. Capacity building and community involvement have always been the key issues in achieving sustainable development and enhancing urban ecosystems. By considering these, this paper looks at new approaches to increase public awareness of environmental decision making. This paper will discuss the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), particularly Web-based Geographic Information Systems (Web-based GIS) as spatial decision support systems to aid public participatory environmental decision making. The paper also explores the potential and constraints of these web-based tools for collaborative decision making.

SELinux policy management framework for HIS

Health Information Systems (HIS) make extensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The use of ICT aids in improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare services by making healthcare information available at the point of care (Goldstein, Groen, Ponkshe, and Wine, 2007). The increasing availability of healthcare data presents security and privacy issues which have not yet been fully addressed (Liu, Caelli, May, and Croll, 2008a). Healthcare organisations have to comply with the security and privacy requirements stated in laws, regulations and ethical standards, while managing healthcare information. Protecting the security and privacy of healthcare information is a very complex task (Liu, May, Caelli and Croll, 2008b). In order to simplify the complexity of providing security and privacy in HIS, appropriate information security services and mechanisms have to be implemented. Solutions at the application layer have already been implemented in HIS such as those existing in healthcare web services (Weaver et al., 2003). In addition, Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is the most commonly implemented access control model to restrict access to resources at the OS layer (Liu, Caelli, May, Croll and Henricksen, 2007a). Nevertheless, the combination of application security mechanisms and DAC at the OS layer has been stated to be insufficient in satisfying security requirements in computer systems (Loscocco et al., 1998). This thesis investigates the feasibility of implementing Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) to enforce a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policy to help protect resources at the Operating System (OS) layer. SELinux provides Mandatory Access Control (MAC) mechanisms at the OS layer. These mechanisms can contain the damage from compromised applications and restrict access to resources according to the security policy implemented. The main contribution of this research is to provide a modern framework to implement and manage SELinux in HIS. The proposed framework introduces SELinux Profiles to restrict access permissions over the system resources to authorised users. The feasibility of using SELinux profiles in HIS was demonstrated through the creation of a prototype, which was submitted to various attack scenarios. The prototype was also subjected to testing during emergency scenarios, where changes to the security policies had to be made on the spot. Attack scenarios were based on vulnerabilities common at the application layer. SELinux demonstrated that it could effectively contain attacks at the application layer and provide adequate flexibility during emergency situations. However, even with the use of current tools, the development of SELinux policies can be very complex. Further research has to be made in order to simplify the management of SELinux policies and access permissions. In addition, SELinux related technologies, such as the Policy Management Server by Tresys Technologies, need to be researched in order to provide solutions at different layers of protection.