Intergenerationality in a Digital World: Proposals of Activities:Bilingual (EN and PT)

A educação para os media tem ganho um grande fôlego nos últimos anos, porém ainda precisa de passos de gigante, muito em especial ao nível da forma como é tratada e enraizada junto dos cidadãos. Este e-book surge com essa preocupação. As fichas de atividades tão diversificadas, todas elas com uma componente digital, embora não esquecendo em alguns casos a ligação a outros dispositivos não digitais e formas de estar na vida no dia a dia. Estas 20 propostas do e-book Intergeracionalidade e o mundo digital: Propostas de atividades/Intergenerationality in a Digital World: Proposals of activities tentam dar forma a uma necessidade que encontramos de fazer com que as pessoas, além das crianças e dos jovens em espaço escolar e no contexto mais formal, questionem, pensem e ajam sobre as interpelações do mundo mediático e da informação.Media Education has gained momentum in recent years, but this area still needs to be improved, especially in terms of how it is perceived and implemented among citizens. This e-book is the result of this concern. The activities are diverse and include a digital component, without forgetting the connection to other non-digital devices in daily life. These 20 proposals of the e-book Intergeracionalidade e o mundo digital: Propostas de atividades/Intergenerationality in a Digital World: Proposals of activities intend to respond to the need that people, besides children in education, question, think and act on the interpellations of a mediatised world full of information available.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Stakeholders perspectives on time horizon and quantification of enterprise architectures benefits/value drivers

Enterprise Architectures are being used by many organizations as a strategic tool for framing and managing key business and IT initiatives and activities. However, given the complexity and costs associated with building an Enterprise Architecture, there is a growing need to demonstrate the importance and usefulness in terms of the value that it represents to an organization. Without an adequate justification for the investment in Enterprise Architecture projects, organizations either do not to start or tend to abandon their Enterprise Architectures. In this paper, we present the stakeholders perspectives on two key dimensions of the Enterprise Architectures benefits/value drivers: the time horizon (time needed for the realization of the benefits) and its quantification (measurement of the realization of the benefits). In our view, these two dimensions are fundamental to realize how much effort will be required to assess the value of an Enterprise Architecture.- (undefined

Inverse Cubic Law for the Probability Distribution of Stock Price Variations

The probability distribution of stock price changes is studied by analyzing a database (the Trades and Quotes Database) documenting every trade for all stocks in three major US stock markets, for the two year period Jan 1994 -- Dec 1995. A sample of 40 million data points is extracted, which is substantially larger than studied hitherto. We find an asymptotic power-law behavior for the cumulative distribution with an exponent alpha approximately 3, well outside the Levy regime 0< alpha <2.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, RevTex 2 figures adde

Integrated planning of information systems and contingency and recovery

This article intends to emphasize a group of inherent concerns to the Contingency and Recovery Planning when integrated with the Information Systems Planning. It begins with the approaching to the positioning of Information Systems Planning and Contingency and Recovery activities in the organizational context, afterwards it propose an approach to developing in an integrated way the planning of that activities evidencing the outcome of this integration. Finally, it mentions the characteristics and advantages of this new approach, weaving considerations about the inherent concerns to ensure the business continuity.- (undefined

Engineering, a course of men: does the inversion of this trend remain?

Commonly, there are more men than women seeking engineering courses, even though, with some common exclusions as for health related engineering courses.Recently, Higher Education in Portugal has faced deep changes, particularly regarding the number of students, the growth of the educational network and the courses' curricular structure. There is an association with the increase in the number of women attending Portuguese Higher Education Institutions and the vast augmentation in the number of students.To investigate whether these changes have also changed the preferences of women/men in engineering courses, options and admissions, from 2010 to 2014, in fifteen engineering courses of a Portuguese University, were studied and the conclusions of that work published [1].In this paper we revisited that work and extended it with data from 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 and we studied, for each course, the number of applicants and the number of students placed (by gender), the application option and the average grades of the admitted applicants.As a result of this analysis we verify that in courses with male predominance, the female gender increased significantly, unlike what happens in the other two courses (female predominance), where the values remain almost constant.This work has been financed by FEDER funds through the Competitivity Factors Operational Programme - COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007136 and POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013

Adoption of authenticated Peer-to-Peer academic networks - a case study of a failure

The use of P2P applications in universities has been mainly focused on questions related to file sharing and copyright. violation, and little attention has been given to the development of secured and authenticated P2P applications, specially conceived to academic environments. In this paper, we describe Bumerang, an authenticated campus P2P network, which despite technological quality and top level institutional commitment, didn't reach critical mass of users, failing at the individual adoption level. To understand the factors that contributed for this result, we make a retrospective analysis of the process of conception and diffusion including results from the network activity. We conclude that we must reinforce their perceived utility, deal with the security concerns with new approaches and stay away from using the P2P term.- (undefined

The game and the alternating roles of learner/teacher as facilitators of the learning process in organizations

In this work a new strategy is proposed for online training of members of medium and large organizations, based on the sharing and exchange of knowledge among them. The strategy is supported with the creation of intra-enterprise online communities, where all members assume, simultaneously, the role of trainer and trainee. The interaction in the community is achieved through a game, in which each participant challenges others to learn what he has to teach in his domain area, sharing information and resources on matters that they dominate and where are, at the same time, challenged to learn other subjects from different professional areas. The adoption of this model could change the classic positioning of distanceLearning systems based on Internet by giving a very significant role to the learning communities and to the use of games as a challenging way to improve the level of expertise of the members of an organization, helping them to cooperate and to better exchange information.- (undefined

Distance education as a service system

Distance education (DE) is the teaching method that grows the most in Brazil, and as the enrolment number grows, the challenges expand with it, because the teaching organizations need to structure themselves to attend the increasing demand. In this scenario, DE should be viewed not just in the technology basis, but rather with a systemic view that is compounded by all teaching modality aspects such as learning, teaching, communication, creation and management. Due to this need, it aims to analyse DE as a service system, like it is defined in the Service Science perspective, as dynamic settings of resources (people, technologies, organizations and shared information) to generate a mutual value. In doing so, it proposes the conceptual model DE-SS that provides a holistic vision of relations among resources and stakeholders in a distance education system.INCT-EN -Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Excitotoxicidade e Neuroproteção(UID/CEC/00319/2013