IntroductionEvidence suggests that cooperative learning and peer-assessment fosters students ability to work with others and may lead to better cognitive outcomes and higher achievement. This work aimed to assess the use of an online collaborative tool for the teaching/learning and assessment of Microbiology.Materials and methodsA total of 144 students were grouped and assigned to create wiki entries as well as...
The University of Porto, like other universities around the world, is working to promote effective integration of various learning techniques. This paper describes the results of a research that aimed to find and test new technologies in T&L of human nutrition in a second-cycle course of Porto University. The application of blended-learning as a strategy to respond to the numerous pedagogical challenges that Bo...
There is an ongoing project on the University of Porto (U.PORTO) that aims the association of two didactical tools of information and communication technologies: elearning and computer based assessment (CBA). In order to make the convergence of e-learning with CBA there are several issues that have to be addressed: pedagogical problems in the assessment methods, technical problems in the implementation process ...
There is an ongoing project on the University of Porto (U.PORTO) that aims the association of two didactical tools of information and communication technologies: e-learning and computer-based assessment (CBA). Implementing CBA at an institutional level raises several issues. Supporting staff, if existing, have to address and solve some hard challenges: pedagogical training in new assessment methods, technical ...
The "A NAME for Health" project, funded by the EDULINK program, is a project that establishes A Network Approach in Medical Education (NAME) for the Pursuit of Quality in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Health Systems. It aims to improve Health Care through an ongoing intervention quality program on Medical Education, at 4 HEIs in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique: Faculty of Medicine of University of Po...
Clinical Anatomy, introduced in different medical curricula around the world, is considered of relevance for future physicians, since it allows the integration of anatomical knowledge with clinical activity developed by health professionals. Besides helping to develop the essential "critical anatomical reasoning" identified as crucial to the acquisition of "clinical reasoning", this area of knowledge contribute...
In 2007, the teaching staff of Clinical Anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) and the Office of Support for New Technologies in Education of the University of Porto (UP), engaged in a project of building a virtual tool that could allow students to practice and develop identification skills of anatomic structures, in the computer. Later, this "Virtual Quiz" was to be integrated in ...
The aim of this work is to give a brief account of an ongoing project at the University of Porto which aims to connect two different fields of teaching and learning: e-learning and computer-based assessment. Although these are contiguous areas, related to each other, there are some issues that rise from the use of computers to engage assessment activities. The University of Porto started a vigorous project of e...
Como já tivemos oportunidade de referir noutros documentos, o Departamento de Didáctica e Tecnologia Educativa (DDTE) da Universidade de Aveiro (UA) estabeleceu, desde 2005, uma parceria, com o Ministério da Educação, para levar a cabo medidas de promoção do sucesso educativo em Matemática. Surgem, assim, os m@c1 e m@c2, respectivamente, Programas de Formação Contínua em Matemática com professores do 1º e do ...
Congresso Florestal Nacional: A floresta e as gentes - Actas das Comunicações ; Diversos esforços têm sido realizados na modelação do crescimento de Eucalyptus globulus em Portugal, pretendendo-se essencialmente que os modelos desenvolvidos sirvam como ferramentas de decisão no planeamento e gestão florestal. Os modelos mecanísticos, baseados em processos fisiológicos e em variáveis ambientais têm como mais va...
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