The influence of the Internet on immunology education.

The potential of the Internet as a medium through which to teach basic and applied immunology lies in the ability to illustrate complex concepts in new ways for audiences that are diverse and often geographically dispersed. This article explores two collaborative Internet-based learning projects (also known as e-learning projects) that are under development: Immunology Online, which will present an Internet-based curriculum in basic and clinical immunology to Swiss undergraduate and graduate students across five campuses; and the OCTAVE project, which will offer online training to an international cadre of new investigators, the members of which are carrying out clinical trials of vaccines against HIV infection.

Cooperative or collaborative learning: Is there a difference in university students’ perceptions?

The hypothesis that the same educational objective, raised as cooperative or collaborative learning in university teaching does not affect students’ perceptions of the learning model, leads this study. It analyses the reflections of two students groups of engineering that shared the same educational goals implemented through two different methodological active learning strategies: Simulation as cooperative learning strategy and Problem-based Learning as a collaborative one. The different number of participants per group (eighty-five and sixty-five, respectively) as well as the use of two active learning strategies, either collaborative or cooperative, did not show differences in the results from a qualitative perspective.

MÍDIAS SOCIAIS ON-LINE: o consumidor fala, mas quem escuta?

Sob o prisma da comunicação mercadológica, esse trabalho se propõe investigar o novo perfil de consumidor que, conectado a uma ampla rede de pessoas, influencia e até comanda diversas mudanças na forma de produzir e vender bens e serviços. A comunicação passa a ser mais horizontal do que vertical, pois os consumidores manifestam-se nas mídias sociais on-line e interagem com seus pares, e muitas empresas demonstram dificuldades em perceber o início desse crescente poder de manifestação do consumidor. O propósito desta pesquisa é investigar até que ponto os consumidores estão conseguindo ser ouvidos pelas empresas por meio das mídias sociais on-line. A metodologia aplicada foi o Estudo de Casos Múltiplos de empresas do setor de telefonia celular. Construiu-se um instrumento de pesquisa e, por meio de análise de conteúdo dos comentários coletados durante três meses nas páginas da TIM e da CLARO no Facebook, os resultados apontam uma dificuldade muita grande das empresas do setor de telefonia em ouvir os consumidores.

DFMA- Analysis and Aspects of Applying Internet Based Collaborative Design for Axial Eccentric Oil-Pump Design

The integrated system of design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA) and internet based collaborative design are presented to support product design, manufacturing process, and assembly planning for axial eccentric oil-pump design. The presented system manages and schedules group oriented collaborative activities. The design guidelines of internet based collaborative design & DFMA are expressed. The components and the manufacturing stages of axial eccentric oil-pump are expressed in detail. The file formats of the presented system include the data types of collaborative design of the product, assembly design, assembly planning and assembly system design. Product design and assembly planning can be operated synchronously and intelligently and they are integrated under the condition of internet based collaborative design and DFMA. The technologies of collaborative modelling, collaborative manufacturing, and internet based collaborative assembly for the specific pump construction are developed. A seven-security level is presented to ensure the security of the internet based collaborative design system.

Mobile collaborative cloudless computing

Although the computational power of mobile devices has been increasing, it is still not enough for some classes of applications. In the present, these applications delegate the computing power burden on servers located on the Internet. This model assumes an always-on Internet connectivity and implies a non-negligible latency. The thesis addresses the challenges and contributions posed to the application of a mobile collaborative computing environment concept to wireless networks. The goal is to define a reference architecture for high performance mobile applications. Current work is focused on efficient data dissemination on a highly transitive environment, suitable to many mobile applications and also to the reputation and incentive system available on this mobile collaborative computing environment. For this we are improving our already published reputation/incentive algorithm with knowledge from the usage pattern from the eduroam wireless network in the Lisbon area.

Spatial operators for collaborative map handling

MSC Dissertation in Computer Engineering

ErasmusApp: A Location-Based Collaborative System for Erasmus Students

This paper reports on the design and development of an Android-based context-aware system to support Erasmus students during their mobility in Porto. It enables: (i) guest users to create, rate and store personal points of interest (POI) in a private, local on board database; and (ii) authenticated users to upload and share POI as well as get and rate recommended POI from the shared central database. The system is a distributed client / server application. The server interacts with a central database that maintains the user profiles and the shared POI organized by category and rating. The Android GUI application works both as a standalone application and as a client module. In standalone mode, guest users have access to generic info, a map-based interface and a local database to store and retrieve personal POI. Upon successful authentication, users can, additionally, share POI as well as get and rate recommendations sorted by category, rating and distance-to-user.

Drivers of participation in collaborative consumption ventures

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

O trabalho colaborativo na aprendizagem de uma utilização segura da Internet

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ensino de Informática

Entorns col•laboratius virtuals asíncrons basats en Web i enfocats en la gestió del coneixement = Web-based Asynchronous Collaborative Environments Focused on Knowledge Management

Report for the scientific sojourn at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, from september 2007 until july 2008. Communities of Learning Practice is an innovative paradigm focused on providing appropriate technological support to both formal and especially informal learning groups who are chiefly formed by non-technical people and who lack of the necessary resources to acquire such systems. Typically, students who are often separated by geography and/or time have the need to meet each other after classes in small study groups to carry out specific learning activities assigned during the formal learning process. However, the lack of suitable and available groupware applications makes it difficult for these groups of learners to collaborate and achieve their specific learning goals. In addition, the lack of democratic decision-making mechanisms is a main handicap to substitute the central authority of knowledge presented in formal learning.

Raisonnement clinique avec un simulateur virtuelle de patients sur Internet : l'apprentissage est-il augmenté par l'utilisation d'un groupe de discussion virtuel

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Redes sociales en internet.

on muchas las utilidades de los wikis pero quizá uno de lo usos mas significativos de las redes en la educación son las múltiples posibilidades que ofertan para desarrollar propuestas de colaboración entre docentes que comparten un mismo proyecto de trabajo, en este caso la animación lectora. En esta misma línea, encontramos multitud de herramientas y aplicaciones de Internet que nos proporcionan diferentes ventajas como son espacios compartidos, toma de decisiones comunes, asignación de tareas y responsabilidades, votaciones, gestiones de grupo, entre otros. El objetivo de este artículo es exponer una experiencia de trabajo colaborativo mediante la animación a la lectura y mostrar las características principales de las aplicaciones para el trabajo colaborativo utilizando una red social Ning para los docentes, como complemento y ampliación al uso de las wikis, para el alumnado.