Antonio Moreira Teixeira

Open University · Department of Education and Distance Learning (DEED)

This experimental study aims to examine students' acceptance and attitude towards the use of Quiz-Based Game Applications, as well as to analyze how Quiz-Based Game Applications affect the acquisition and development of basic competences. To achieve this purpose, a mixed-methods approach was employed, combining a quantitative methodology through th...

The Information and Communications Technology subject area is a broad multidisciplinary field of academic research and professional practice covering many topics ranging from electronics to system and network administration, to software development, cyber security, VR, AR, IoT and AI. Due to its nature, it cooperates closely with diverse areas, mos...

Studies show that feedback greatly improves student learning outcomes, but achieving this level of personalization at scale is a complex task, especially in the diverse and open environment of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This research provides a novel method for using cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to enhance the feedback...

As recently demonstrated during the CoViD-19 pandemic, mortality data provide a better understanding of epidemiological trends and the impacts of health policies within a population. The accurate way information on causes of death is recorded, coded, and published is therefore critical. Despite using an online platform for registering death certifi...

This study presents a learning-oriented assessment experience and examines the impact of communication and relationships on student satisfaction and on the acceptance of self- and peer-assessment. To this end, an analysis was conducted based on the data collected from engineering students in a subject with a high degree of creativity. The answers o...

The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to quickly mobilize toward emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL) practices. Teachers’ digital competences were essential in this context. This study aims to identify the ERTL practices adopted in Portugal and how they were perceived by teachers of students aged 3 to 18. Data were...

La pandemia de la COVID-19 puso de manifiesto la necesidad de formar adecuadamente al profesorado universitario en relación con las competencias digitales y la utilización de tecnología para apoyar los procesos educativos, incluyendo la generación de contenidos, la impartición de la docencia o la evaluación del estudiante, entre otros. Esta formaci...

The emerging new learning scenarios made possible by the rapid dissemination of adaptive digital technologies are deeply changing higher education processes. They provide educators and learners with new opportunities for transforming their educational practices. encouraging learning innovation and challenging traditional teaching methods. This tran...

Technology is pervasive and intertwined in many aspects of modern life and society. The digital revolution that is sweeping the world has shown its potential in education during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is rapidly transforming the way students learn, and as a result, technology is expected to improve the face of education by making it more inclusi...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic led educational systems worldwide to transpose activities planned for face-to-face education to mediated contexts - through what is known as Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning (ERTL). This posed unprecedented challenges to schools, teachers, families, and students. In this context, it was relevant to describe...

Administrative support provided to teachers, learners, and staff is critical for ensuring the quality of the teaching and learning experience in open, distance, and digital education (ODDE). Having been seen for a long time as a peripheral function, administrative support is now recognized as playing a decisive role in suppressing student dropout,...

The review of state of the art on creating and managing learning resources and accessible Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is a topic that cannot only consider formal literature. The evidence and lack of a measurement consensus require the inclusion of contextual information, corroborating scientific results w...

We present findings from a unique virtual community of practice piloted to support a programme of prevention evidence and knowledge sharing among professional prevention practitioners as ‘experiential experts’ around tackling novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use in Portugal. A mixed-methods approach that combined quantitative analysis of interac...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the globe moved towards “emergency online education”, experiencing a metamorphosis that advanced their capacities and competencies as never before. Teaching and Learning Centers (TLCs), the internal units that promote sustainable transformations, can play a key role in m...

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered profound social consequences, affecting all aspects of human activity, including education. The process of remote teaching that was implemented in response to this crisis is known as emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL). The present study focuses on Portuguese parents' perspectives about this process. Data w...

PROF-XXI is a European-funded project whose aim is the creation of Teaching and Learning Centers (TLCs) for Latin American Higher Institutions in an effort to promote the development of competences for university professors and foster teaching innovation in onsite, but also in online and hybrid education. PROF-XXI includes a partnership of seven hi...

Palabras clave: educación a distancia; educación abierta; universidad abierta; educación superior; aprendizaje en línea.

The promotion of life skills in learners is especially challenging in distance and online environments where the learners’ physical absence from the classroom hinders the evaluation of these types of skills. Due to the great challenges brought about by this physical absence, there is a lack of empirical studies attempting to examine life skills in...

En Visiones en educación sin barreras ni fronteras participaron para su elaboración más de 35 importantes y reconocidos académicos como autores provenientes de toda Iberoamérica, solo por mencionar algunas personalidades que se unieron a este libro homenaje nombraré algunos maestros como Claudio Rama, Julio Cabero, Marta Mena, Santiago Acosta, Fran...

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar parte dos resultados obtidos na investigação realizada no programa de doutoramento em educação, pela Universidade Aberta de Portugal, no período entre 2016 a 2019, tendo como tema: A Escola Confessional – O Desafio de Preservar a Missão e o Desenvolvimento de Valores na Educação – Um Estudo na Rede Marista....

Emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL) represent a critical and challenging time for teachers globally. To understand how Portuguese teachers interpreted their ERTL experiences of the first lockdown, we started by asking: What perspectives do teachers have about ERTL? Answering three open questions made available online between April and May...

Emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL) represent a critical and challenging time for teachers globally. To understand how Portuguese teachers interpreted their ERTL experiences of the first lockdown, we started by asking: What perspectives do teachers have about ERTL? Answering three open questions made available online between April and May...

Presentación del número especial de RED “Transición de la educación convencional a la educación y al aprendizaje en línea, como consecuencia del COVID19” Presentation of the special issue Transition from conventional education to online education and learning, as a consequence of COVID19.

Tourist apps can be very useful for sightseeing, and this is one of the reasons that makes them so numerous in app stores. Good usability can make the difference when choosing an app, from the user's point of view, so this study is aimed at analyzing and discovering common usability issues in apps for tourism. This paper presents a research study w...

Resumo: A pandemia de Covid-19 teve impactos profundos no ensino superior. Em Portugal, afetou cerca de 350000 estudantes, envolvidos num processo de transição de emergência para práticas de ensino remoto. Consideramos fundamental identificar práticas adotadas pelas instituições de ensino superior nesse contexto, assim como a forma como têm sido re...

This article presents a modified version of the SERVQUAL model to measure student satisfaction at the Higher Institute of Sciences and Distance Education in Mozambique. The SERVQUAL model consists of the use of questions related to services to distance education students. These questions were organized using the SERVQUAL questionnaire in two phases...

In the research on the ethical challenges related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and the personalisation of the learning process, four key categories have been identified: Security, Privacy, Automation, and Interaction. Based on this framework, using Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT), we’ve conducted a study with twenty one actors in the field...

This report presents a review of the accessibility models in Learning Resources and MOOCs with the aim of establishing common terms in the research of the EduTech project and other projects associated with virtual accessibility in member HEIs. This study is based on the search and analysis of articles and publications related to the subject followi...

Open universities (OUs) have been at the forefront of educational technology. Designed as innovative and flexible organizations, they have proven instrumental to assure the consolidation of research, innovation and quality practice in distance and online education. Inspired by the impact of open education and MOOCs, traditional higher education ins...

The paper introduces the competence framework produced by the OpenGame project, that includes the attitudes, knowledge and skills that educators need to master in order to work with Open Educational Practices (OEP). With this outcome, the OpenGame research team aims at closing the gap between the expanded interest of researchers and practitioners t...

This paper analyzes the effects of gamification in the social network of a massive online course. An educational social-networking platform gathered information about the contributions of participants and about the social networks that were formed during the course. A gamification layer with three game elements (points, badges, and leaderboard) was...

As instituições de ensino superior não são alheias aos desafios que se colocam à sociedade atual, particularmente de ordem socioeconómica, científica e tecnológica. No contexto desses desafios e, simultaneamente, oportunidades que se colocam às instituições do século XXI, revisitamos neste artigo o conceito de scholarship, de Ernest Boyer, enquanto...

Os desafios da transição acelerada para as práticas de Ensino Remoto de Emergência no ensino superior, na sequência da Covid-19, obrigaram à identificação urgente de práticas adotadas nas instituições de ensino superior em Portugal, como estão a ser coordenadas e adaptadas estas práticas ao longo do tempo e como professores e alunos do ensino super...

Climate change can be regarded as one of the key topics of sustainable development where public awareness and education are crucial. In the field of education, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have raised remarkable attention throughout the last decade as their initial objective is to provide massive open online education for everyone. This arti...

In recent years, the Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) movements have been essential in creating opportunities in all scholarly activities, within the context of higher education. The main purpose of this research was to understand how perceptions and practices of faculty towards OER are related to their perceptions and practice...

La necesidad de aumentar la escalabilidad, la interoperabilidad, y la flexibilidad de la oferta educativa está impulsando la expansión del aprendizaje digital y abierto en la educación superior. A medida que este movimiento se expande por todo el mundo, las universidades de educación a distancia entran en una crisis. El aprendizaje potenciado por l...

El artículo trata de un conjunto de reflexiones sobre las relaciones interpersonales y las emociones en las comunidades virtuales de aprendizaje1. Los referentes teóricos se inspiran en los constructos bajtinianos de alteridad y dialogicidad y se complementan con las perspectivas de Vygotski sobre la construcción social del conocimiento y las emoci...

The fast and constant evolution of information and communication technology (ICT) has brought on cultural, social and economic changes. Educational institutions (EIs) are aware that both students and teachers need to acquire digital competence to meet up actual and future workforce needs. Society needs individuals to handle a variety of thinking an...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are currently a popular phenomenon in the online learning world. Today many institutions offer MOOCs. This phenomenon has not only created a new trend in online education, it also has been adopted by a number of institutions around the world, allowing spaces for research in pedagogical, technological and organiza...

This document contains the Quality Reference Framework (QRF) developed by the European Alliance for the Quality of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), called MOOQ. The Quality Reference Framework consists of three dimensions: Dimension 1: Phases Analysis, Design, Implementation, Realization, Evaluation Dimension 2: Perspectives Pedagogical, Tec...

In today´s economy and workforce digital competence is critical. Teachers are expected to have digital confidence and the necessary training to do a correct integration of technology in their teaching fields. This paper tells the experience of developing a MicroMasters program launched in edX platform. MicroMasters Programs are a series of graduate...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) became very popular during the last years leading to an increasing global debate about their quality. To address the quality issues, several research surveys and instruments were developed to analyse the current status of MOOCs and to examine the different perspectives of learning with MOOC from core MOOC stakeho...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are open courses available online without costs for the user and designed in such a way as to be scalable, thus allowing for a large number of participants. In this framework, a team of researchers from Universidade Aberta (UAb.pt) has developed a specific pedagogical model which has being tested, discussed and im...

Higher Education (HE) is experiencing disruption from technologies, demographics, the globalising world and longer life expectancy. Historically Higher Education has had a legacy of being seen as the requirement for an educated ‘elite’, there has been a policy ambition set in various countries (including the UK) for it to become the expectation for...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as provision of open and online education have become phenomena in higher education that cannot be dismissed. While MOOCs have orginated in Canada and the United States, the cMOOC and the xMOOC model used there does not fit entirely with the European take on education. This chapter describes an alternative, colla...

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) movement is the latest ‘big thing’ in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) which threatens to transform Higher Education. Both opportunities and threats are extensively discussed in literature, comprising issues on opening up education for the whole world, pedagogy and online versus campus education. Most of the li...

p class="BODYTEXT">MOOCs are a recent phenomenon, although given its impact, have been subject to a large debate. Several questions have been raised by researchers and educators alike as regarding its sustainability both economical and as an efficient mode of education provision. In this paper we contribute to this discussion by presenting a case s...

p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"> Much of the literature and the academic discussion about the impact of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) in institutional strategic planning has been centred on the US context. However, data shows that although the US are responsible for the largest MOOC platforms and th...

A new competence-based approach for personalizing MOOCs in a mobile collaborative and networked environment Un nuevo enfoque basado en competencias para la personalización de MOOCs en un entorno móvil colaborativo en red Abstract Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a disruptive new development in higher education which combines openness and sca...

The introduction of massive open online education has offered a new range of exciting possibilities for the development of language learning. By opening up access to language education for all who are digitally connected, it contributes to increase the speed and outreach of the dissemination of one of the key transversal competences. Additionally,...

Resumo: A introdução de uma educação online aberta e massiva trouxe um novo espectro de possibilidades desafiantes para ampliar o acesso a uma educação de qualidade. No entanto, a maioria dos MOOCs oferecidos atualmente não são desenhados para capacitar e favorecer experiências de aprendizagem colaborativas de qualidade, não sendo, portanto, adequa...

Most current MOOC models basically follow a trend originated at the top US universities that is broadly identified in the literature as xMOOCs. These models are proving to be inconsistent with the European standards for formal higher education due to their low-level of learner support and lack of an enriched pedagogical approach. Within the framewo...

Massive open online courses (MOOC) have been dramatically expanding online learning opportunities due to the emergence of new platforms and MOOC aggregators that facilitate access and search for courses according to the needs of each user, growing from a selection of specialist courses to an offering of hundreds of courses on major online platforms...

The introduction of massive open online education has offered a new range of exciting possibilities for widening access to quality education. However, most of MOOCs in offer today are not designed to empower learners and favour quality collaborative learning experiences, thus not being suited for use in a formal institutional setting. In this paper...

This article has come about as a result of joint work between the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Spain) and the Universidade Aberta (Portugal), pioneering universities in the development of MOOC platforms with pedagogical approximations different from the xMOOC and cMOOC models. The work has been centred on the analysis of the...

Na última década, a disseminação de práticas de e-Learning em contexto académico conduziram à multiplicação de estratégias institucionais de implantação de modelos digitais de ensino nas universidades europeias. Os recentes avanços das tecnologias de aprendizagem digital, contudo, têm vindo a confrontar os decisores políticos e universitários com a...

Summary Recommendations • All stakeholders need to promote a better and deeper understanding of the role and contribution of open and distance learning for meeting societal challenges, notably for driving productivity and economic growth as a sustainable option for increased participation in higher education. • There needs to be support by governme...

If climate change education is to become more than self-serving and contribute to meeting the global challenge of sustainable development, it must broaden its scope to include a wider range of students in terms of age, social group and ethnicity than is usually the case. In this paper the authors discuss how open and flexible learning can apply its...

The paper reviews the initiatives concerning the measurement, management and disclosure of intellectual capital (IC) in public universities. Those organizations also are facing the challenge of manage intangibles in their value creation process. Several researches have been developed linking some elements of IC (human, structural and relational cap...

A discussion on the future developments on educational media in the context of higher education in Portugal will be the focus of this panel. This panel will represent different lines of research and development as well as a variety of experiences on implementing innovation in higher education. The panelists will share their expectations and visions...

By 1576, in order to obtain the censor’s permission to publish his two last treatises, the artist and philosopher Francisco de Holanda was forced to produce a major change in his conception of art. In an anticipation of the trend that was going to spread all over Europe some decades later, he agreed to replace his neo-platonic notion of an art of d...