A educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável na formação de professores: a Web 2.0 e as interações numa comunidade de prática online

A Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (EDS) é o cerne de um paradigma emergente na educação do século XXI. A EDS constitui-se um processo de aprendizagem holístico e sistémico e tem como função ensinar a viver de maneira sustentável. Apresenta-se como uma abordagem pedagógica inovadora, que combina aprendizagens ativas e participativas, suportadas por uma multiplicidade de estratégias didático-pedagógicas. Objetiva a promoção da capacidade de pensamento crítico, da resolução de problemas e da tomada de decisão, baseada em valores, por parte dos alunos. Para a implementação da EDS é fundamental que os professores tenham consciência de que lidar com as questões da sustentabilidade, na sala de aula, implica dotarem-se de competências específicas. É, portanto, necessário investir na formação de educadores e formadores; o que compreende o seu desenvolvimento profissional, focado no aperfeiçoamento das suas competências, de modo a potenciar novos processos na aprendizagem coerentes com os princípios da EDS. Neste contexto, no presente estudo, foi criada uma Oficina de Formação para professores do ensino básico, na modalidade b-learning, visando a criação de um espaço de formação que permitisse a integração das TIC/Web 2.0 na prática docente, mais concretamente no apoio à inclusão da EDS no currículo. Partindo do pressuposto que as TIC/Web 2.0 são ferramentas que nos oferecem novas oportunidades, pela sua versatilidade de disseminação do conhecimento, e que permitem reorientar o ensino e a aprendizagem sustentados na teoria sócio-construtivista, promovendo o trabalho colaborativo, criou-se uma Comunidade de Prática online. Recorreu-se, para o efeito, a uma plataforma de alojamento de redes sociais virtuais, o Grouply; visando o estabelecimento de interações entre os professores, a partilha de experiências, recursos e conhecimento, indutores da (re)configuração de práticas ao nível da integração das ferramentas da Web 2.0 no contexto da EDS e, ainda, objetivando promover a atualização, o aperfeiçoamento e a aquisição de novas competências pedagógicas contribuindo para o seu desenvolvimento profissional e social. Metodologicamente o presente estudo assumiu uma natureza qualitativa, segundo um design de investigação-ação, o que implicou um plano de ação realizado numa espiral de três ciclos de investigação-ação: recurso a diferentes técnicas e instrumentos de recolha de dados, particularmente o inquérito por questionário e entrevista, realizados aos professores que frequentaram a oficina de formação; observação com base no diário da Investigadora com os registos de observação das sessões de grupo, reflexões da Investigadora/Formadora e das sessões de acompanhamento individual (Supervisão pedagógica), realizadas ao longo da referida oficina; análise documental dos e-portefolios com registos das reflexões individuais de cada uma das sessões da oficina, as reflexões finais dos professores e o registo dos post´s no fórum de discussão, blogs e Whiteboard da Comunidade de Prática online. Decorrente da análise e discussão dos resultados obtidos, o trabalho realizado sugere que os professores adquiriram/desenvolveram competências em EDS e digitais, tendo-se verificado que a oficina de formação contribui para algumas mudanças nas práticas dos professores.

Understanding citizen media as practice: agents, processes, publics

Much recent commentary on citizen media has focused on online platforms as means through which citizens may disseminate self-produced media content that challenges dominant discourses or makes visible hidden realities. This chapter goes beyond a concern with media content to explore the much broader range of socially situated practices that develop around citizen media. Drawing on Couldry’s proposal for a practice paradigm in media research, it suggests shifting the focus from ‘citizen media’ to ‘citizen media practices’ and demonstrates, through a case study of communication activism in the World Social Forum, how this framework can bring into view a broad range of citizen media practices (beyond those directly concerned with the production and circulation of media content), the different forms of agency that such practices make possible, and the social fabric they can help generate. I conclude by arguing that a practice framework necessitates a rethink of the way that the concept of (counter-) publics is used in the context of citizen media. Citizen media practices of the kind described here can be understood not only as practices of ‘making public’ previously unreported issues and perspectives, but as practices of public¬-making: practices that support the formation of publics.

Unilever food solutions new digital CRM platform- what is the combination of tools, processes and content that will help Unilever food solutions grow his business?

Unilever Food Solutions new digital CRM1 Platform - What is the combination of tools, processes and content that will help Unilever Food Solutions grow his business? Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) intend to create a new online platform to enable it to communicate with segments of the markets, which have previously been too difficult to reach. Specifically targeted at Chefs and other food professionals, the aim is to create an interactive website, which delivers value to its intended users by providing a variety of relevant content and functions, while simultaneously opening up a potential transactional channel to those same users.

Validation of plant dynamic model by online and laboratory measurements – a tool to predict online COD loads out of production of mechanical printing papers

COD discharges out of processes have increased in line with elevating brightness demands for mechanical pulp and papers. The share of lignin-like substances in COD discharges is on average 75%. In this thesis, a plant dynamic model was created and validated as a means to predict COD loading and discharges out of a mill. The assays were carried out in one paper mill integrate producing mechanical printing papers. The objective in the modeling of plant dynamics was to predict day averages of COD load and discharges out of mills. This means that online data, like 1) the level of large storage towers of pulp and white water 2) pulp dosages, 3) production rates and 4) internal white water flows and discharges were used to create transients into the balances of solids and white water, referred to as “plant dynamics”. A conversion coefficient was verified between TOC and COD. The conversion coefficient was used for predicting the flows from TOC to COD to the waste water treatment plant. The COD load was modeled with similar uncertainty as in reference TOC sampling. The water balance of waste water treatment was validated by the reference concentration of COD. The difference of COD predictions against references was within the same deviation of TOC-predictions. The modeled yield losses and retention values of TOC in pulping and bleaching processes and the modeled fixing of colloidal TOC to solids between the pulping plant and the aeration basin in the waste water treatment plant were similar to references presented in literature. The valid water balances of the waste water treatment plant and the reduction model of lignin-like substances produced a valid prediction of COD discharges out of the mill. A 30% increase in the release of lignin-like substances in the form of production problems was observed in pulping and bleaching processes. The same increase was observed in COD discharges out of waste water treatment. In the prediction of annual COD discharge, it was noticed that the reduction of lignin has a wide deviation from year to year and from one mill to another. This made it difficult to compare the parameters of COD discharges validated in plant dynamic simulation with another mill producing mechanical printing papers. However, a trend of moving from unbleached towards high-brightness TMP in COD discharges was valid.

Imbalanced functional link between executive control network and reward network explain the online-game seeking behaviors in Internet gaming disorder

Literatures have shown that Internet gaming disorder (IGD) subjects show impaired executive control and enhanced reward sensitivities than healthy controls. However, how these two networks jointly affect the valuation process and drive IGD subjects' online-game-seeking behaviors remains unknown. Thirty-five IGD and 36 healthy controls underwent a resting-states scan in the MRI scanner. Functional connectivity (FC) was examined within control and reward network seeds regions, respectively. Nucleus accumbens (NAcc) was selected as the node to find the interactions between these two networks. IGD subjects show decreased FC in the executive control network and increased FC in the reward network when comparing with the healthy controls. When examining the correlations between the NAcc and the executive control/reward networks, the link between the NAcc - executive control network is negatively related with the link between NAcc - reward network. The changes (decrease/increase) in IGD subjects' brain synchrony in control/reward networks suggest the inefficient/overly processing within neural circuitry underlying these processes. The inverse proportion between control network and reward network in IGD suggest that impairments in executive control lead to inefficient inhibition of enhanced cravings to excessive online game playing. This might shed light on the mechanistic understanding of IGD.

Incremental processing in head-final child language: online comprehension of relative clauses in Turkish-speaking children and adults

The present study investigates the parsing of pre-nominal relative clauses (RCs) in children for the first time with a realtime methodology that reveals moment-to-moment processing patterns as the sentence unfolds. A self-paced listening experiment with Turkish-speaking children (aged 5–8) and adults showed that both groups display a sign of processing cost both in subject and object RCs at different points through the flow of the utterance when integrating the cues that are uninformative (i.e., ambiguous in function) and that are structurally and probabilistically unexpected. Both groups show a processing facilitation as soon as the morphosyntactic dependencies are completed and parse the unbounded dependencies rapidly using the morphosyntactic cues rather than waiting for the clause-final filler. These findings show that five-year-old children show similar patterns to adults in processing the morphosyntactic cues incrementally and in forming expectations about the rest of the utterance on the basis of the probabilistic model of their language.

Engaging Faculty in Online Education: Rightsizing Incentives and Optimizing Support

: Colleges and universities of all types are pursuing increasingly ambitious goals for online education for a range of reasons—enhancing learning, increasing access, growing enrollment, managing costs. However, concerns about workload, support resources, autonomy, and course quality leave many faculty skeptical of online instruction, and most institutions expanding online offerings are struggling to get sufficient numbers of faculty both willing and prepared to teach online. This study presents best practices in managing the strategic and operational challenges associated with increasing the number of fully online and hybrid courses

Processes for Determining Annual Salary Raises

In awarding salary raises to faculty and staff university leaders must consider merit pay, market data, and salary equity of internal positions. This brief examines how institutions balance these considerations along with budget limitations to determine salary raises for all employees, and how several institutions have used raises to incentivize institutional achievement of strategic goals such as enrollment and retention.

Sistema Especialista para Supressão Online de Alarmes em Processos Industriais

Operating industrial processes is becoming more complex each day, and one of the factors that contribute to this growth in complexity is the integration of new technologies and smart solutions employed in the industry, such as the decision support systems. In this regard, this dissertation aims to develop a decision support system based on an computational tool called expert system. The main goal is to turn operation more reliable and secure while maximizing the amount of relevant information to each situation by using an expert system based on rules designed for a particular area of expertise. For the modeling of such rules has been proposed a high-level environment, which allows the creation and manipulation of rules in an easier way through visual programming. Despite its wide range of possible applications, this dissertation focuses only in the context of real-time filtering of alarms during the operation, properly validated in a case study based on a real scenario occurred in an industrial plant of an oil and gas refinery

Conditional reasoning: A key to assessing computer-based knowledge-building communication processes

This article describes a methodological approach to conditional reasoning in online asynchronous learning environments such as Virtual-U VGroups, developed by SFU, BC, Canada, consistent with the notion of meaning implication: If part of a meaning C is embedded in B and a part of a meaning B is embedded in A, then A implies C in terms of meaning [Piaget 91]. A new transcript analysis technique was developed to assess the flows of conditional meaning implications and to identify the occurrence of hypotheses and connections among them in two human science graduate mixed-mode online courses offered in the summer/spring session of 1997 by SFU. Flows of conditional meaning implications were confronted with Virtual-U VGroups threads and results of the two courses were compared. Findings suggest that Virtual-U VGroups is a knowledge-building environment although the tree-like Virtual-U VGroups threads should be transformed into neuronal-like threads. Findings also suggest that formulating hypotheses together triggers a collaboratively problem-solving process that scaffolds knowledge-building in asynchronous learning environments: A pedagogical technique and an built-in tool for formulating hypotheses together are proposed. © Springer Pub. Co.

Knowledge management in the public sector: an online presence as a tool for capture and sharing

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Educação a distância online: potencialidades para a formação de professores que ensinam matemática

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Uso da RMN como um sensor online em processos industriais

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is one of the most versatile analytical techniques for chemical, biochemical and medical applications. Despite this great success, NMR is seldom used as a tool in industrial applications. The first application of NMR in flowing samples was published in 1951. However, only in the last ten years Flow NMR has gained momentum and new and potential applications have been proposed. In this review we present the historical evolution of flow or online NMR spectroscopy and imaging, and current developments for use in the automation of industrial processes.

Chemische und physikalische Charakterisierung von Aerosolpartikeln aus besonderen anthropogenen Emissionsquellen : ein integrativer Ansatz mittels online (HR-ToF-AMS)- und komplementärer offline (ATR-FTIR-Spektroskopie)-Analytik

Die Gesundheitseffekte von Aerosolpartikeln werden stark von ihren chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften und somit den jeweiligen Bildungsprozessen und Quellencharakteristika beeinflusst. Während die Hauptquellen der anthropogenen Partikelemissionen gut untersucht sind, stellen die spezifischen Emissionsmuster zahlreicher kleiner Aerosolquellen, welche lokal und temporär zu einer signifikanten Verschlechterung der Luftqualität beitragen können, ein Forschungsdesiderat dar.rnIn der vorliegenden Arbeit werden in kombinierten Labor- und Feldmessungen durch ein integratives Analysekonzept mittels online (HR-ToF-AMS ) und filterbasierter offline (ATR-FTIR-Spektroskopie ) Messverfahren die weitgehend unbekannten physikalischen und chemischen Eigenschaften der Emissionen besonderer anthropogener Aerosolquellen untersucht. Neben einem Fußballstadion als komplexe Mischung verschiedener Aerosolquellen wie Frittieren und Grillen, Zigarettenrauchen und Pyrotechnik werden die Emissionen durch Feuerwerkskörper, landwirtschaftliche Intensivtierhaltung (Legehennen), Tief- und Straßenbauarbeiten sowie abwasserbürtige Aerosolpartikel in die Studie mit eingebunden. Die primären Partikelemissionen der untersuchten Quellen sind vorrangig durch kleine Partikelgrößen (dp < 1 µm) und somit eine hohe Lungengängigkeit gekennzeichnet. Dagegen zeigen die Aerosolpartikel im Stall der landwirtschaftlichen Intensivtierhaltung sowie die Emissionen durch die Tiefbauarbeiten einen hohen Masseanteil von Partikeln dp > 1 µm. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt auf der chemischen Charakterisierung der organischen Partikelbestandteile, welche für viele Quellen die NR-PM1-Emissionen dominieren. Dabei zeigen sich wichtige quellenspezifische Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung der organischen Aerosolfraktion. Die beim Abbrand von pyrotechnischen Gegenständen freigesetzten sowie die abwasserbürtigen Aerosolpartikel enthalten dagegen hohe relative Gehalte anorganischer Substanzen. Auch können in einigen spezifischen Emissionen Metallverbindungen in den AMS-Massenspektren nachgewiesen werden. Über die Charakterisierung der Emissionsmuster und -dynamiken hinaus werden für einige verschiedenfarbige Rauchpatronen sowie die Emissionen im Stall der Intensivtierhaltung Emissionsfaktoren bestimmt, die zur quantitativen Bilanzierung herangezogen werden können. In einem weiteren Schritt werden anhand der empirischen Daten die analytischen Limitierungen der Aerosolmassenspektrometrie wie die Interferenz organischer Fragmentionen durch (Hydrogen-)Carbonate und mögliche Auswertestrategien zur Überwindung dieser Grenzen vorgestellt und diskutiert.rnEine umfangreiche Methodenentwicklung zur Verbesserung der analytischen Aussagekraft von organischen AMS-Massenspektren zeigt, dass für bestimmte Partikeltypen einzelne Fragmentionen in den AMS-Massenspektren signifikant mit ausgewählten funktionellen Molekülgruppen der FTIR-Absorptionsspektren korrelieren. Bedingt durch ihre fehlende Spezifität ist eine allgemeingültige Interpretation von AMS-Fragmentionen als Marker für verschiedene funktionelle Gruppen nicht zulässig und häufig nur durch die Ergebnisse der komplementären FTIR-Spektroskopie möglich. Des Weiteren wurde die Verdampfung und Ionisation ausgewählter Metallverbindungen im AMS analysiert. Die Arbeit verdeutlicht, dass eine qualitative und quantitative Auswertung dieser Substanzen nicht ohne Weiteres möglich ist. Die Gründe hierfür liegen in einer fehlenden Reproduzierbarkeit des Verdampfungs- und Ionisationsprozesses aufgrund von Matrixeffekten sowie der in Abhängigkeit vorangegangener Analysen (Verdampferhistorie) in der Ionisationskammer und auf dem Verdampfer statt-findenden chemischen Reaktionen.rnDie Erkenntnisse der Arbeit erlauben eine Priorisierung der untersuchten anthropogenen Quellen nach bestimmten Messparametern und stellen für deren Partikelemissionen den Ausgangpunkt einer Risikobewertung von atmosphärischen Folgeprozessen sowie potentiell negativen Auswirkungen auf die menschliche Gesundheit dar. rn

Peter Anton Fonk, der Ermordung Wilhelm Cönen's angeklagt : Versuch eines Beitrages zur Beleuchtung dieses Processes

von Carl Wilhelm Asher