Luisa Aires

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

The research study provides a reflection on individuals who find themselves at risk of social exclusion, with the aim of exposing the lived reality of this group, especially those in regions where ARSSCI (Andalusian strategy for social cohesion and inclusion) is being applied, highlighting highly vulnerable individuals such as UMCA (unaccompanied m...

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...

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...

In a viral society in which the social being claims the ability to maintain distance and the socially desirable representation of the body, in particular the face, claims its concealment, the distance educational relationship represents a critical area that deserves to be highlighted in the research agendas. This study aims to explore the sense of...

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...

Higher distance education models can be described from the theoretical and practical foundation of feminist pedagogy. The objective of this work is to know what feminist approaches are identified in the pedagogical models adopted by distance and hybrid education at the University and what curricular characteristics they have. The scoping review is...

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...

Digital media technologies increasingly affect how people interact with their environment and has led to rising levels of indoor screen time. In this study we examine how locative media technologies, such as GPS, can lead to meaningful leisure and learning experiences for human development in an outdoor setting. Our purpose is to understand the rol...

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 poster addresses the theme of Teachers and learners changing roles in a global technology-mediated environment. Given the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is imperative to develop and implement strategies that mitigate its educational impact. Differences between school systems in a global context and their ability to design and implement a...

Theme of the abstract  Online education for non-adult populations  Equitable and social fair access to digital learning opportunities  Well-being and mental health in digital learning environments Abstract Since the emergence of the new information and communication technologies, a new social gap has appeared, between those who know how to use t...

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...

Cultural-historical research has had a relevant presence in Spain and, to a lesser extent, in Portugal, since the 1970s. A review of the state of the art of the culturalhistorical approach in these two countries allows us to identify four general lines of research: 1) sociocultural activities, mental actions, and semiotic mediation; 2) education in...

The progressive development of the Digital Age has given rise to a growing number of concepts related to individuals' experiences with their digital literacy, from the level of competence or lack thereof conceptualized in the digital divide, to the very concept of digital citizenship, essential today for participation in democratic societies. This...

Cultural-historical research has had a relevant presence in Spain and, to a lesser extent, in Portugal, since the 1970s. A review of the state of the art of the culturalhistorical approach in these two countries allows us to identify four general lines of research: 1) sociocultural activities, mental actions, and semiotic mediation; 2) education in...

Informed participation in collective decision-making processes requires better educational levels, a wider range of digital skills and access to technologies. In a global digital society this process is part of the exercise of informed citizenship. Digital citizenship presupposes participation mediated by access and, above all, by the critical use...

No texto original do Modelo Pedagógico Virtual (MPV) da Universidade Aberta (UAb), publicado em 2007, é assinalada a necessidade de produzir ciclicamente atualizações e ajustes ao Modelo, fruto de um processo de monitorização permanente. Sendo uma representação simbólica da realidade educativa da UAb e tendo uma função organizadora das suas prática...

Informed participation in collective decision-making processes requires better educational levels, a wider range of digital skills and access to technologies. In a global digital society this process is part of the exercise of informed citizenship. Digital citizenship presupposes participation mediated by access and, above all, by the critical use...

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...

Local dynamics play a key role in individual and collective empowerment for digital literacy and citizenship. This paper presents the results and reflections from a broader investigation into the public Internet access places in Portugal in the inland municipalities of the country's coast, undertaken by ObLID Network. Specifically, we intend to ref...

The global food system makes a significant contribution to climate change, affecting greenhouse gas emissions and other major environmental impacts, along the entire food chain. Individual food consumption is an important part of the production-consumption chain, because consumers make the final choice of the goods and services they consume, and th...

In this chapter, we reflect on the conceptions and different forms of participation in e-Learning contexts in higher education and its influences in climate change literacy. Although the literature review highlights intense research on the value of participation in informal contexts, we argue that the construction of a pedagogical discourse on e-Le...

The eBook "Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Good Practices in Portugal and Spain" results from a wide range of research on Literacy and Digital Inclusion in Portugal and Spain and was edited by ObLID Network. (http://contemcom.org/).

In this chapter, we reflect on preliminary results from the study “Distance Education and eLearning in Higher Education in Portugal”, developed by the Observatory for the Quality of Distance Education and eLearning. The need to carry out the mapping of conceptions about distance education and eLearning in Public Institutions of Higher Education (IE...

This article arises from the discussions carried out within the Observatory for Quality on Distance Education and e-Learning at Universidade Aberta (Portugal) and also from the participation in a brief program about "Massive Open Online Courses: Principles and Practices". This theoretical article aims to contribute to a conceptual description about...

The media discourse is a very important element in the image construction of the Other and, therefore, in intercultural relations. In this study we sought to identify how five European Newspapers has characterized Portugal and Portuguese people in the context of the financial crisis, in 2011. We analysed 25 articles about Portuguese crises from fiv...

Nos projectos de pesquisa em educação, a coerência e a interacção permanentes entre o modelo teórico de referência e as estratégias metodológicas constituem dimensões fulcrais do processo investigativo. O presente e-book apresenta um breve contributo para a delimitação epistemológica do paradigma de investigação qualitativa e explora os fundamentos...

This e-book sets the limits of the qualitative research paradigm taking into account its theoretical and methodological foundations. If any scientific activity fits into specific spatial-temporal and social-historical contexts that mediate and justify its methodological options, the coherence and the interaction between the theoretical reference mo...

A presente investigação apresenta um primeiro contributo para um “Diagnóstico sobre o Ensino a Distância e eLearning no Ensino Superior em Portugal”, desenvolvido no âmbito do Observatório da Qualidade do Ensino a Distância e eLearning, sediado na Universidade Aberta (Portugal). O relatório encontra-se estruturado a partir dos seguintes tópicos:...

Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and its continuing aftermath accounts for many of these changes, but the diverse cultures and histories of different regions are also sig...

Reaching beyond access to technical resources, digital inclusion is associated with the development of know-how and skills that have enabled individuals to participate in collective life, whereas domestication refers to the integration of technologies into the family’s routines at home. The research described in this article had two phases: first,...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of online social networks to improve the digital inclusion of women and to overcome the digital gender gap in Spain (South) and Portugal (North). The opportunities that information and communication technologies implicate for women, in the processes of change, are seen as an important perspective to...

Neste capítulo, procura-se compreender e interpretar memórias autobiográficas dos professores, a propósito dos episódios mais marcantes vividos como docentes e como alunos. Para cumprir esse desiderato, as emoções emergem como chave analítica fundamental das vivências evocadas. Começa-se, por isso, por uma breve revisão teórica do tema, com particu...

É indiscutível que as TIC transformaram os modos de vida dos indivíduos, as suas mentalidades, os seus objetivos de vida e a organização das sociedades, pelo que é suposto emergir uma escola com percursos ancorados nas especificidades da atual sociedade em rede. Contudo, investigações desenvolvidas no âmbito da Rede de Observatórios Municipais para...

p>Over the past 15 years, learning in distance education universities has become more interactive, flexible, collaborative, and participative. Nevertheless, some accounts have highlighted the importance of developing more instrumental and standardized educational practices to answer the challenges of employability. In fact, the choice of skills tha...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare face‐to‐face versus online course delivery systems in the area of food consumption and to analyse the students' expectations and experiences. It aims to analyse the following dimensions: general expectations, learning organization and interactions in students' discourses. Design/methodology/approach...

No presente artigo, exploram-se as potencialidades da teoria sociocultural e a sua aplicação à análise dos processos educativos online. Parte-se da seguinte questão básica: qual é a relevância teórico-metodológica da teoria sociocultural para a interpretação da acção educativa, em geral, e da acção educativa online, em particular? A forte imbricaçã...

En: Revista de Educación (Madrid) Madrid 1999, n. 320, mayo-agosto ; p. 223-253 Se reivindica la aportación, muy relevante para la perspectiva sociocultural, del linguista ruso Mijaíl Bajtín. Se lleva a cabo un análisis de algunas de las nociones fundamentales de su teoría estético-literaria. ésta contiene evidentes elementos de contacto con alguno...

Centro de Estudos em Educação e Inovação Resumo O presente artigo resulta de uma reflexão colectiva que os autores têm vindo a desenvolver tendo em vista a implementação de cursos online ao nível da Pós-Graduação na Universidade Aberta.

Esta comunicação persegue dois objectivos: analisar a forma como os processos de mediação configuram o género do documentário científico e, por outro lado, verificar se a tendência que se tem registado em vários conteúdos televisivos para a espectacularidade e para o entretenimento, através de uma redução dos processos de mediação jornalística é ge...

Pensar, hoje, os sistemas educativos significa, entre outros, identificar perfis identitários de profes-sores orientados para a diferença e para a promoção de práticas pedagógicas culturalmente rele-vantes. A diversidade, dimensão intrínseca das sociedades multiculturais, é também um elemento fundamental das culturas de escolas. Docentes e discente...

En el artículo se analizan los procesos apropiación del documental ¿Senhora Aparecida¿, junto de agentes específicos y en el marco de la teoría sociocultural. El texto valora particularmente los constructos de privilegiación y reintegración en el ámbito de la aplicación de la metodología microgenética. A partir de los discursos producidos a lo larg...

Bibliografía p. 349 - 353 Estudio de la diferencias entre los sujetos con alto y bajo rendimiento escolar, a través de la inteligencia y los códigos lingüísticos utilizados en sus producciones escritas, Sujetos que estudiaban sexto de EGB en el curso 1986-87 en los centros del distrito de Porto : 319 alumnos.