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Centre for Public Administration & Public Policies
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People’s voices on the sustainable forest reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Publication . Amaral, Filomena; Simão, João
Since the early 2000s, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been conducting a reform of its forestry sector with the publication of The Forest Code (2002). The implementation of this law, which aims to assure the participation of all stakeholders, has been evolving slowly since then. The present research aims to evaluate the knowledge local communities and indigenous people detain over the ongoing reform, and the expectations they created when negotiations over the implementation of industrial harvesting activities in their traditional territories began. By interviewing local people, we came to understand that insufficient knowledge regarding the law gathers with a lack of concern towards ecological or environmental matters and with the need of seeing basic needs satisfied; all this in a context in which different stakeholders’ responsibilities and negotiational terms are often misunderstood.
Students’ perceptions of a food safety and quality e-learning course: a case study for a MSC in food consumption
Publication . Fernandes, Ana Paula; Caeiro, Sandra
Life long training and education in food safety is a crucial issue in particular for
professionals working in the field. At the same time there is a need to evaluate the
effectiveness of that training in particular when is given in e-learning. The purpose of
this explorative work is to evaluate the Food Safety and Quality e-learning course
within a Master program offered in the National Distance Learning University in
Portugal. Following a case study methodology a mixed methods approached was
used, based on an online questionnaire survey to students that enrolled the course,
followed by a Focus Group Discussion to better discuss the weak points addressed
by the students in the questionnaire. The questionnaire aimed to assess students
perceptions about the course organization, recourses, assignments, acquired
competences, change attitudes and behaviour and link with the professional activity
Students who enrolled the course during 2016/17 and 2017/18 were surveyed in the
fourth semester of the curricular year, in the period of development of the master
thesis dissertation. In addition a quantitative analysis was conducted in the temporal
distributions of messages published on the Moodle platform (learning analytics) to
evaluate students’ interactions and engagement during the course.
This study has shown that overall, students are very satisfied with the course,
however they suggested improvements that are needed considering the
pedagogical model used and their availability to learn as students with full time jobs,
most related with the food science. This explorative research aimed to contribute to
the improvement of food safety and quality training based also on recent tools and
recommendations within e-learning in science education.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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UID/CPO/00713/2019