Margarida Lucas

University of Aveiro | UA · Research Centre for Didactics and Technology in Teacher Education

La competencia digital docente es esencial debido al creciente papel de la tecnología en las aulas. Este estudio evalúa la competencia digital docente en el contexto de la Península Ibérica, abarcando a 170,603 docentes en activo de enseñanza obligatoria en España (Andalucía) y Portugal. Su objetivo principal es analizar las diferencias en la compe...

The use of video and paper-based materials is commonly widespread in foreign language learning (FLL). It is well established that the level of acceptance of these materials influences learning outcomes, but there is lack of evidence regarding the use and related impact of videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) on these aspects. This paper...

This study examines the relation between K-12 teachers’ trust in artificial intelligence (TAI), their knowledge of AI (KAI), and their digital competence (DC). It further examines the relation between TAI and age, sex, teaching experience and International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) levels. The study employed a comprehensive and v...

This study analysed 32 TikTok videos from an account focusing on teaching European Portuguese. A total of 612 top-level comments were collected in compliance with TikTok's policies. Python-based text mining was used to process the comments and identify topics of interest. The analysis identified three main clusters from TikTok comments. Cluster #1...

STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—and STEM literacy have emerged as one (of many) concerted efforts aiming to provide the different competences required for future generations to adapt to an evolving world. Despite lacking a comprehensive framework for STEM, this concept has been studied under different perspectives, one of whi...

A growing trend of integrating and teaching Informatics and Computational Thinking (CT) skills at primary education levels poses different challenges for teachers. Research demonstrates that it is challenging to introduce Informatics in schools without well-prepared teachers. In this paper, we examine Lithuanian teachers' perceptions of the barrier...

Este artigo apresenta os resultados sobre o uso dos recursos digitais por professores de ensino superior de duas instituições públicas brasileiras a partir da área 2 do DigCompEdu. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo-inferencial que tem por objetivos verificar como os docentes têm selecionado e utilizado os recursos digitais em suas aulas; identificar...

In recent years, short videos have proliferated on various social media platforms, serving as a visual resource with a long history of use for various educational purposes, including foreign language learning (FLL). Despite the growing interest in the use of such platforms for short video learning, little is currently known about the use of these p...

CoMMiTTEd - Covid, Migrants and Minorities in Teacher Education: A Fake News Observatory to Promote Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy in Times of Crisis. E-handbook for teachers and teacher educators. Authors: Araújo e Sá, M. H.; Gerwers, F.; Gintsburg, S. & Spotti, M. (Coord.); Ambrósio, S.; Breeze, R.; Brinkmann, L.; Dedecek Gertz, H.; De Ru...

This literature review focuses on the use of short videos for foreign language (FL) teaching and learning from 2013 to 2022, a research area that has been attracting growing attention. The results were classified according to three categories based on the scope of the short videos in research: (1) short videos as a medium, (2) short videos as an in...

Due to the impact of the recent pandemic, the teaching and learning experience worldwide was marked by a wave of emergency digitalization. The sudden need to transition to online teaching and learning (OTL) has forced Higher Education actors to adapt quickly without proper planning. This study examines teachers’ perceptions of the benefits and chal...

Digital competence is one of the eight key competences for lifelong learning. In a generic way, it can be defined as the set of knowledge, skills, attitudes, abilities and strategies that make citizens capable of using digital technologies in a creative, critical, meaningful and responsible way for different personal and professional activities. In...

The purpose of this article is to compare digital competence assessment instruments based on DigComp related frameworks. The study aims to answer four questions: (a) What types of instruments based on these frameworks are available? (b) How were these instruments created from these frameworks? (c) What procedures were used to guarantee the validity...

Digital competence is among the basic key competences for digital learning and employability. For this reason, its acquisition and development should be on the agenda of higher education institutions (HEIs) who wish to prepare their students to thrive in an ever faster evolving digital labour market. However, the existence of a valid instrument tha...

The use of digital educational resources is a contemporary requirement. Basic education teachers need to be prepared for the proper and emancipatory use of these resources. This research verifies how teachers from the municipal education network in the countryside of São Paulo state in Brazil, have used digital resources in teaching-learning activi...

This article analyzes the contribution of three continuous professional development sessions for the improvement of teachers’ digital competence. The contribution was measured using a pre- and post-test. It uses the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu) as a guiding document and the DigCompEdu Check-In questionnair...

The objective of this article is twofold: (i) to provide a valid and reliable instrument to measure teachers' digital competence on the basis of the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (also referred to as DigCompEdu) and (ii) to examine the relation between in-service teachers' digital competence and personal and contextual...

Over the past decade, the societal impact of digital transformation, with the prospects of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, has led to an innovation imperative in European policymaking regarding higher education institutions (HEIs). However, not only is the institutional strategic planning of HEIs still understudied, as the individual perceptions of...

The e-books come from the research work of the Labour Observatory of Aveiro, in collaboration with the other partners of the Aveiro Steam City project, with the Aveiro companies in the ICT, Industry and Tourism/Services sectors. Together, they have developed, over the last few months, several research activities and information gathering on the eco...

The international society is involved in an active commercial and labour activity. The activity is based on the elimination of barriers and the dissipation of borders. Everyone wants their part of the European dream, but not everyone has equal opportunities and fair access. People with disabilities or other needs often encounter obstacles, includin...

The world has radically transformed over the past two decades. The digital, the mobility, the internet and the world wide web, the 3D prints (the home factory) among others are the technological boom that irreversibly transformed the way human beings are in the world, their perception of it and their interpersonal relations. The transition from the...

Over the past decade, the societal impact of digital transformation, with the prospects of a Fourth Industrial revolution, has led to an innovation imperative in European policymaking regarding Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This article examines Portuguese universities and polytechnic institutes, the two components of the national higher ed...

Digital literacy and access to web content is no longer just a luxury, for a privileged few, it is a the necessity for everyone. The evolution of society has led us to new paradigms of socialization, education and work, now based on the global Internet network. Those who don’t know, those who don’t surf, those who don’t communicate through the Inte...

English language teachers sometimes face a difficult dilemma when teaching learners with Special Educational Needs (SEN). On the one hand, they believe that each person should have the possibility of learning different languages, but on the other hand, they realize that they may not have the necessary skills to accommodate their course to these SEN...

The ability to facilitate the development of students’ digital competence has become an integral part of teachers’ professional demands. The focus on this area is relatively recent and therefore research available is limited. This paper aims at presenting students’ perceptions regarding teachers’ use of tablets to facilitate the development of thei...

This article presents results on the impact of the use of tablets in the development of lower secondary students' digital competence, regarding Information and data literacy and Communicaiton and collaboration, within the scope of a one-to-one (1:1) educational project. The case study adopted and adapted the European Digital Competence Framework fo...

A importância de orientadores e coordenadores de projetos académicos é amplamente referenciada na literatura da especialidade. De um modo geral, são apontados(as) como fonte de conhecimento e transferência de valores vários, como a integridade ou a ética académica. Este poster pretende ilustrar uma década de percursos diversificados na área da tecn...

Being digitally competent requires appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes towards the use of digital technologies for different aspects of today’s society. The role Education plays in equipping students with such competence is increasingly important, but despite the growing number of studies on the topic, little is known about the impact the u...

O Quadro Europeu de Competência Digital para Educadores responde à consciencialização crescente entre muitos estados membros europeus que os educadores precisam de um conjunto de competências digitais específicas para a sua profissão de modo a serem capazes de aproveitar o potencial das tecnologias digitais para melhorar e inovar a educação. (...)

Current trends and recommendations regarding one-to-one (1:1) educational initiatives suggest that they are efficacious ways to achieve innovative change in education, namely through the promotion of active and innovative teaching practices. From a constructivist point of view, tablet devices offer teachers the potential to adopt interactive studen...

This article presents lessons learnt about the implementation of an innovative 1:1 tablet initiative in three Portuguese lower secondary schools. We analysed 99 questionnaires, 7 focus groups, 3 interviews and 11 field notes. Findings reveal 15 external barriers that need to be addressed if such initiatives are to become sustainable and fully embed...

The EduPARK game is developed under a game-based learning methodology. It is designed for outdoor learning settings by employing geocaching principles and mobile Augmented Reality technologies. The game aims to develop users' authentic and autonomous learning about diverse interdisciplinary themes in a smart urban park. It integrates learning guide...

The level of European citizens' digital competence remains far from desirable for the needs of a highly digitized economy and society and the need for the EU to establish a comprehensive response to the digital skills deficit is rising. The creation of a common framework for the development and understanding of digital competence in 2013 was a step...

O Relatório Final do Estudo de Avaliação Externa à Reforma do Ensino Secundário de São Tomé e Príncipe (2009 – 2016) apresenta o estudo desenvolvido por uma equipa de investigadores da Universidade de Aveiro (UA), no âmbito do contrato de avaliação externa celebrado com o Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF) e o Governo de São Tomé e Príncipe (ST...

O ciclo de palestras UnderInvestigation tem por objetivo introduzir aos estudantes do primeiro ciclo as diferentes temáticas de investigação exploradas no nosso Departamento estimulando a sua curiosidade para as mesmas e criando oportunidade para que os mesmos se possam tornar atores ativos nesses mesmos trabalhos de investigação. Adicionalmente pr...

The Government of East-Timor has been supporting several approaches to empower national education, since its independence back in 2002. One of the priority areas has been the implementation of in-service teacher training programs in cooperation with higher education institutions from other countries, such as Portugal. In this paper the authors desc...

The EduPARK game is developed under a game-based learning methodology. It is designed for outdoor learning settings by employing geocaching principles and mobile Augmented Reality technologies. The game aims to develop users’ authentic and autonomous learning about diverse interdisciplinary themes in a smart urban park. It integrates learning guide...

Pretende-se apresentar o modo como está a decorrer a implementação da Reestruturação Curricular do Ensino Secundário Geral em Timor-Leste e que contempla atividades de formação contínua de professores. O estudo de caso qualitativo sustenta-se nas visões de três formadores portugueses, responsáveis pela formação contínua de (futuros) formadores timo...

Information and communication overload have gained a new dimension in today's digital world. The exposure to the volume of information being distributed has probably never been so high due to the rapid increase of communication channels at our disposal. Facing great volumes of information (and communication channels) may cause constraints in our pe...

Poster apresentado na 5.ª Edição do Teaching Day - UA

Relatório de atividades desenvolvidas durante o 1.º ano do estudo empírico " Avaliação do impacto do projeto EduLabs no desenvolvimento de competências digitais em alunos do 3.º ciclo do ensino básico " Margarida Lucas, dezembro 2016

This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non- human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses...

After 2002, Timorese authorities focused on the challenges of revitalizing the country’s education system. Since then, several international cooperation initiatives were undertaken, which enabled, for instance, the restructuring of the general secondary education curriculum. This article reveals the perceptions of Timorese policymakers of the new c...

This chapter presents a comprehensive view of the main activities and findings of a research project entitled TRACER-Portuguese Public Higher Education Use of Communication Technologies, which focused on how the information about the use of Communication Technologies in Higher Education Institutions can be collected, systematized, processed, and de...

This article aims to describe the implementation of Multimedia Technologies, a subject from the new Timorese General Secondary Education curriculum. Data was collected from several participants via document analysis, direct observation, interviews and focus groups. Results point to the need to equip schools with suitable infrastructures for impleme...

This paper examines knowledge construction in a distributed learning environment supported by social web tools. Research data was gathered from online asynchronous discussions in a first-year master's degree course in multimedia in education. Our analysis was modelled on a validated analysis model and results indicate that, despite a significant pe...

Com a presente publicação pretende-se descrever e interpretar o modo como decorreu a fase de avaliação (fase II) do projeto - Avaliação do impacte da Reestruturação Curricular do Ensino Secundário em Timor-Leste – um estudo no âmbito da cooperação internacional, financiado pela FCT (PTDC/MHC-CED/5065/2012). O estudo agora apresentado dá sequência a...

In-service teacher training is being implemented in East Timor in order to help Timorese teachers, who are ill-prepared to exploit new educational resources, as part of the restructuring of the secondary education curriculum in Portuguese. Such in-service teacher training has been implemented for all 14 disciplines, including the science and techno...

East Timor is undergoing a profound restructuring of its secondary education. For its success, it is crucial that foreign entities maintain their support regarding in-service training of secondary school teachers. In this context, we defined the following research questions: Under which conditions is in-service teacher training in Mathematics (Math...

After more than 400 years of Portuguese colonization and a 24-year period of Indonesian occupation, Timor-Leste became a fully independent state on May 20, 2012. Independence followed a period of extreme violence caused by the Indonesians, who destroyed homes, livelihoods and infrastructure and devastated schools before leaving the country. Since 2...

Impact Evaluation is attracting significant attention within several communities with interests at the convergence of evidence based policy and monitoring and evaluation, including assistance agencies, donors, policy makers, stakeholders, researchers and evaluators. When considerable amounts of resources are allocated to development projects and in...

When merged with new pedagogical practices the use of open social web tools as a means to mediate and support teacher training triggers a whole new set of implications for education and individuals. It is important for teachers, learners and other educational agents to think of themselves as co-learners in a social collective aware of their role in...

This chapter presents a comprehensive view of the main activities and findings of a research project entitled TRACER-Portuguese Public Higher Education Use of Communication Technologies, which focused on how the information about the use of Communication Technologies in Higher Education Institutions can be collected, systematized, processed, and de...

To understand learning processes we need to consider many different aspects that come into play within online learning environments, including mediating tools, learners’ actions, their engagement in online discussions and how such discussions unfold over time. Content analysis of asynchronous discussions is usually applied to study knowledge constr...

Research into the use of games in education is relatively new, but growing rapidly. Several authors suggest that these will gain widespread use in two to three years, but practical implementation is still rare and integration into the curriculum still seems unlikely. Games in education are described as inherently valuable, leading to a development...

This paper presents a learning analytic tool for visualizing interactions resulting from discussion posts and replies. The tool is a plugin that adds visualization capabilities to a software that supports the analysis of qualitative data. Its aim is to provide teachers and students with monitoring and feedback of knowledge construction dialogues ov...

Poster apresentado no Research Day - UA

No presente capítulo apresenta-se em detalhe as três fases de recolha de dados acerca do uso das TC nas IESPP realizada no âmbito projeto TRACER, no sentido de contribuir para uma visão global da temática em apreço, a partir da perspetiva dos dirigentes e responsáveis pelas TC no ES - perspetiva institucional - e dos docentes - perspetiva docente....

Resumo: A crescente utilização de tecnologias da comunicação para mediar processos de ensino e aprendizagem impulsionou o estudo da comunicação assíncrona enquanto atividade reveladora dos comportamentos dos alunos durante o processo de aprendizagem. Grande parte da investigação sobre este tema centra-se na aplicação de modelos de interação para an...

Special Education Needs refers to more than just to students with learning disabilities that impair their access to and participation in education. Many others struggle each day just to stay in school, focus on lessons or make sense about what is taught. Several students face underachievement and dropout because they feel that school is outdated, u...

The study of collaborative knowledge building processes in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) environments is an important research topic in the field of Education and the Learning Sciences. In the last five years, the emergence of new technologies and especially their introduction and implementation in educational practices has brought along new c...

Special Education Needs refers to more than just students with learning disabilities that impair their access to and participation in education. Many others struggle each day just to stay in school, focus on lessons or make sense about what is taught. Several students face underachievement and dropout because they feel that school is outdated, unin...

In this chapter we aim at understanding how social networking tools can impact teacher training and practice. Data presented relates to a case study conducted in a post-graduation course that employed social networking tools to create a distributed learning environment. Results suggest that the approach adopted enabled teachers to develop skills re...

This paper examines knowledge construction in a distributed learning environment supported by social web tools. Research data was gathered from online asynchronous discussions in a first-year masters degree course in multimedia in education. Our analysis was modelled on the Interaction Analysis Model and results indicate that, despite a significant...

This paper describes a case study conducted in a post-graduation course that employed social software to distribute its learning environment and to promote a different training experiment to attending students, mostly in-service teachers. It suggests an approach to teacher training that resorts to distributed knowledge-based systems and the communi...

This paper examines knowledge construction in a distributed learning environment supported by social web tools. Research data was gathered from online asynchronous discussions in a first-year Masters Degree course in Multimedia in Education. Our analysis was modeled on Gunawardena, Lowe and Anderson’s (1997) study and results indicate that, despite...