A staff development program for promoting change in Higher Education teaching and learning practices

This paper presents and discusses a staff development program for faculty staff being carried at the University of Aveiro, aiming at providing academics with essential skills in areas such as teaching best practices, student-centered curriculum design, collaborative learning and the adoption of ICT/Internet technologies

A staff development program for promoting change in higher education teaching and learning practices

This paper presents and discusses a faculty development program being carried out at the University of Aveiro, aiming at providing academics with essential skills in areas such as teaching best practices, student-centered curriculum design, collaborative learning and the adoption of ICT/Internet technologies.Education for the 21 st century - impact of ICT and Digital Resources ConferenceRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

A staff development program for promoting change in higher education teaching and learning practices

This paper presents and discusses a faculty development program being carried out at the University of Aveiro, aiming at providing academics with essential skills in areas such as teaching best practices, student-centered curriculum design, collaborative learning and the adoption of ICT/Internet technologies.Education for the 21 st century - impact of ICT and Digital Resources ConferenceRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

International cooperation helps developing higher education through distance education in Mozambique

In 2007, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, settled a joint 4 year program aiming at the development of distance education in Higher Education in Mozambique. This program has been financially supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2008 several activities were undertaken: development and update of the skills of the Distance Education Centre’s (CEND) staff of the University Eduardo Mondlane; support to the decision-making process leading to the identification and development of a pilot-project, a 3 year degree in Business Management, fully delivered at a distance; support to the improvement of the technological infrastructure of CEND. A doctoral program in Multimedia in Education, specially conceived for a group of CEND’s staff, will start soon, that will promote study and research taking advantage from the direct experience participants have in designing, deploying and managing distance education. Furthermore, pedagogical, technical and strategic management support to the CEND’s distance education activities will be continued. Both universities recognize that sharing their achievements and difficulties, on the basis of mutual institutional and personal respect, and promoting joint research based on the results achieved, is the most sound basis to improve their knowledge and prospectives about distance education in HE.Calouste Gulbenkian Foundatio

A staff development program for promoting change in Higher Education teaching and learning practices

This paper presents and discusses a faculty development program being carried out at the University of Aveiro, aiming at providing academics with essential skills in areas such as teaching best practices, student-centered curriculum design, collaborative learning and the adoption of ICT/Intemet technologies

Introdução de serviços Web 2.0 no ensino superior moçambicano: desenvolvimento de uma proposta no contexto da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

Doutoramento em Multimédia em EducaçãoO uso de ferramentas Web 2.0 em educação, concretamente em contexto universitário, tem crescido de forma generalizada impulsionado por benefícios nas áreas pedagógica, científica e mesmo de administração universitária. Estas ferramentas caraterizam-se por serem de uso livre, de manipulação facilitada, e pela disponibilidade em diversos meios ou suportes e por não precisarem (a maioria delas) de elevada largura de banda, fator decisivo para os públicos dos países em desenvolvimento como Moçambique. A Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) encontra-se num processo de massificação do uso de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) entre as quais se destacam as ferramentas Web 2.0. Este documento descreve uma investigação aplicada que compreendeu o desenvolvimento e implementação de estratégias para a introdução e disseminação destas ferramentas para apoio às áreas pedagógica, científica e de gestão universitária. Identificam-se os desafios e oportunidades decorrentes dos constrangimentos particulares deste tipo de iniciativas aplicadas a uma instituição de ensino superior de um país como Moçambique, em termos de infraestruturas tecnológicas e de literacia digital. Os resultados alcançados permitem evidenciar um caminho muito positivo com várias iniciativas de utilização das ferramentas implementadas e ativas no terreno.The use of Web 2.0 tools in education, specifically in an academic context, has grown in a general way driven by benefits in areas like education, science and even academic management. These tools are characterized for being free to use, ease to manipulate, available in different media and for the fact that do not require (most of them) high bandwidth connections, a critical characteristic for the public in developing countries such as Mozambique. The Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) is in a dissemination process for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) among which Web 2.0 stand. This document describes an applied research involving the development and implementation of strategies for the introduction and dissemination of these tools to support areas such as pedagogical, scientific and also management. It identifies the challenges and opportunities arising from the particular constraints of such initiatives applied to an institution of higher education in a country like Mozambique, in terms of technological infrastructure and digital literacy. The results achieved provide evidence of a very positive path with various initiatives implemented and several tools in use