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- Student´s digital transformation during higher education: entrance and exit digital profilePublication . Messias, Inês; Loureiro, AnaDigital technology has entered almost all areas of our daily lives to the point that we call our own society the Digital one. In the last 2 years with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, that has forced most of us to work from our homes, connecting online, this aspect of growing more digital has accelerated. This transition to remote work reminded us, once more, of the need to empower students with the required digital skills, or e-skills, to enter the labour market that “demands highly skilled people” [1], to perform lifelong learning, and to help answering the call of the European Commission’s Digital Compass targets of developing digital competences until 2030. This paper is the first part of an ongoing research that aims to understand the Higher Education (HE) Students’ Digital Profile when they enter HE, and then assess if their existing digital profile is correspondent to the labour market´s ideal profile when they finish their studies. This research also and foremost aims to design a research model for Student’s Digital Profile, providing us with the opportunity to assess this on a yearly basis, to the students that enter HE and the ones that are finishing their studies, helping Higher Education Institutions perceive if their studies’ syllabus are adequate to empower students with the needed workforce digital competences each specific field of expertise requires. As this study is correspondent to the first part of this research, this paper will focus on the literature review and research methodology that will lead us to our first results
- Online communication and assessment practices during the Covid Pandemic: a study of the portuguese higher education students’ perceptionsPublication . Morgado, Lina; Paz, João; Pereira, Hugo; Loureiro, Ana; Messias, Inês; Cardoso, Paula; Paiva, Ana Maria Videira; Runa, Ana; Seco, Carlos; Mendes, Elizabete; Vieira, Márcia de Freitas; Oliveira, Nuno RicardoThis proposal is part of an ongoing research and presents the results on the perceptions and pedagogical practices experienced by students from various higher education degrees in Portuguese higher education institutions, during the period of social confinement determined by the Portuguese Government, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objective of the general research was to understand how Higher Education faculty and students experienced the digital transition to emergency education and the pedagogical practices adopted during the period. The research was based on a mixed methods approach and, in order to address the research objectives and describe the pedagogical practices implemented, specific instruments were developed for data collection. A questionnaire was developed, aimed at students, and interviews aimed at both students and faculty, focusing on technological and pedagogical dimensions, as well as the assessment of the experience. Data collection was carried out after the first lockdown, at the end of the first semester of 2020, and took place in eight higher education institutions. In this paper we will present a preliminary analysis of Questionnaire results related to two dimensions: online communication and assessment.
- Facebook + LMS: scenarios for student´s engagement in distance learningPublication . Messias, Inês; Morgado, Lina
- Learning during emergency remote teaching in Portugal: higher education students' emotional snapshotPublication . Cardoso, Paula; Morgado, Lina; Paz, João; Mendes, Elizabete; Loureiro, Ana; Messias, Inês; Oliveira, Nuno Ricardo; Runa, Ana; Pereira, Hugo; Vieira, Márcia de Freitas; Paiva, Ana; Seco, CarlosThis chapter will address results of LE@D’s project “Teaching in Times of Emergency: Digital Transition,” which focused on the experience of rapid digital transition to an “emergency teaching,” a scenario quite different from distance education. Through a mixed methods approach, data was collected through an online questionnaire applied to students and videoconference interviews conducted with both higher education faculty and students. Participants in this research are students and faculty from eight Portuguese higher education institutions, four from universities (three public and one private) and four from polytechnic insti tutes (three public and one private), covering the regions of Lisbon and Tagus Valley, Alentejo and Algarve (Central and Southern Portugal). In this chapter, the authors present a preliminary analysis of the results obtained related to the psychological aspects experienced during this period, aiming at understanding the impact this shift has had on students’ cognitive adaptation and social and emotional processes.
- Envolvimento do estudante no ensino a distância: criação dum cenário de agregação LMS e rede socialPublication . Messias, Inês; Morgado, Lina; Barbas, Maria da Costa Potes Franco Barroso Santa-ClaraA Web 2.0, que faz já parte do nosso dia-a-dia, está a tornar-se também parte da Educação, que por seu lado está a tornar-se mais personalizada, com abordagens focadas no conhecimento, socialmente ligada e envolvente de modo a incluir, tanto os chamados nativos digitais, como os imigrantes digitais [1]. De acordo com Siemens [2] a aprendizagem atual depende da conetividade entre indivíduos e tende a diluir as fronteiras entre a aprendizagem formal e informal. O estudo9 pretende compreender como é que a agregação duma plataforma informal (Facebook) como complemento duma plataforma formal (Moodle), poderá contribuir para um maior envolvimento dos estudantes de ensino superior e, medir o impacto que estas podem ter no processo de aquisição de conhecimento. Integrado no contexto do Ensino Superior, o estudo centra-se nos níveis de envolvimento do estudante e na frequência e qualidade da sua participação em Fóruns, sendo os seus participantes, docentes e estudantes deste nível de ensino. Uma vez que é objetivo do estudo compreender de que forma a interação e a colaboração contribuem para o envolvimento dos estudantes em contextos híbridos de elearning foi adotado como quadro teórico a Activity Theory, sendo que a abordagem metodológica escolhida é de natureza mista, com recurso a ferramentas de Social Network Analysis (SNA)
- Online communication and interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: perceptions of tourism higher education faculty and studentsPublication . Paiva, Ana Maria Videira; Runa, Ana; Loureiro, Ana; Seco, Carlos; Mendes, Elizabeth; Pereira, Hugo; Messias, Inês; Paz, João; Morgado, Lina; Vieira, Márcia de Freitas; Oliveira, Nuno Ricardo; Cardoso, PaulaThis proposal is part of an ongoing research and presents the results of the perceptions on online communication and interaction by students and faculty of Tourism undergraduate degrees, during the first period of confinement enforced by the Portuguese government as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objective of the general research was to understand how Higher Education faculty and students experienced the digital transition to emergency education and the pedagogical practices adopted during the period.
- Facebook + Moodle : environments to foster student´s involvement in distance learningPublication . Messias, Inês; Morgado, LinaWeb 2.0 has changed our daily lives, and is now part of our society, both professionally and for entertainment. As Education changes, accompanying society, it has evolved to become more personal, focused on knowledge, reflexive, socially connected and involved, as to include not only the digital natives, but also the digital immigrants [1]. Students are now acquiring skills and competences that allow them to use digital tools to research, select information and reflect upon it, work collaboratively and share their created knowledge online. As the use of Web 2.0 tools increases in Higher Education Institutions for learning and knowledge creation, to be connected is now a relevant skill, especially for students in Distance learning, not only to overcome isolation, but also to help create online informal communities using 2.0 tools, giving a sense of belonging, fostering involvement and collectively create and share knowledge. According to Forbes, in December 2013, Facebook is still the online social network with more users “Facebook continues to lead the pack in terms of number of active monthly users (1.15 billion at last count).” [2]. As for Moodle, it is the most used open source LMS in Higher Education Institutions. This paper reflects on the possible implications that the use of formal and informal learning platforms can bring to online distance learning in higher education, and discusses how the complementary use of these two platforms (Facebook and Moodle) can contribute to the students’ involvement and effective learning.
- Transformação digital no ensino superior: desafios e contradiçõesPublication . Morgado, Lina; Aires, Luísa; Paz, João; Afonso, Ana Paula; Loureiro, Ana; Messias, Inês; Oliveira, Nuno RicardoA partir de um contexto de ambiguidades e contradições, com esta comunicação pretende-se contribuir para a estabilização do universo associado à Educação a Distância, à Educação Híbrida e à Digitalização da Educação, dando particular ênfase às variantes pedagógicas e mediadas que estes conceitos representam.
- From face-to-face to online learning: designing a pedagogical model for an higher education contextoPublication . Loureiro, Ana; Messias, Inês; Rocha, Dina; Oliveira, Nuno RicardoNowadays, online and virtual platforms play a key role in contemporary society. Digital technology has become ubiquitous and indispensable to our daily routines, whereas the educational field is not an exception. Higher Education Institutions (HEI), due to the transition to emergency remote learning during CoViD-19 pandemia, had to change the way programmes were delivered. At this moment, this fact has triggered on the part of HEIs, decision-makers and the educational community in general, the need to invest in the development and redesign of Pedagogical Models, as a social responsibility of the institution, besides the legal compliance with the accreditation agencies, of courses and institutions that promote distance learning. Online learning became a methodology that was acquired and that, in some situations, prevailed on time. However, delivering online learning has its own specificities and requires certain pedagogical adaptations, to which, sometimes faculty is not aware of. According to Decree-Law 133/2019, which approves the legal system of higher education provided at a distance, certain criteria are required to be reflected in the HEIs' official documents on this teaching-learning modality. Therefore, the design and conception of a pedagogical model for online learning and distance education is crucial, since HEIs have the responsibility, regardless of the contexts, to provide quality and inclusive education. Many online programmes are available for training but HEI have a significant role in providing a formal and certified training, founded on criteria of quality, flexibility and effectiveness and based on virtual learning platforms, grounded on adapted and personalised pedagogical models. This paper aims to present the distance learning pedagogical model of a HEI which is being developed for a quality distance learning offer. An extensive literature review was carried out, which allowed to know different pedagogical models applied in diverse contexts. A comparison of the different models was made, according to a set of defined criteria that emerged from the needs diagnosed in the HEI. This resulted in a proposal for a pedagogical model, based on the following principles: quality and learning experience; ethics and academic integrity; digital inclusion and accessibility; open science and environmental sustainability; flexibility; and interaction. The model will be validated by eLearning and pedagogical experts before it can be implemented as a model in the HEI.
- Facebook + LMS : cenários para o envolvimento do estudante na aprendizagem a distânciaPublication . Messias, Inês; Morgado, LinaO capítulo apresenta alguns aspetos que enfrentam os estudantes quando estão integrados em contextos de aprendizagem a distância e como o desenvolvimento de cenários agregadores de ambientes virtuais com características diferentes como o Facebook e o Moodle podem potenciar o envolvimento na aprendizagem por parte dos estudantes. Apoiando-se numa revisão da literatura, são apresentadas variáveis que potenciam o envolvimento do estudante na aprendizagem a distância.