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Introduction
Associate Professor at the School of Tourism and Maritime Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.
PhD in Education (specialised in Distance Education and eLearning).
Current research interests: Open Education, Open Science, Pedagogical Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Languages and Tourism.
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This research aims to explore the use, perceptions, and challenges associated with generative AI (GenAI) among higher education students. As GenAI technologies, such as language models, image generators, and code assistants, become increasingly prevalent in academic settings, it is essential to understand how students engage with these tools and th...
A myriad of types of artificial intelligence (AI) systems—namely AI-powered site search, augmented reality, biometric data recognition, booking systems, chatbots, drones, kiosks/self-service screens, machine translation, QR codes, robots, virtual reality, and voice assistants—are being used by companies in the tourism and hospitality industry. How...
Co-creation processes are crucial in education, both as tools for pedagogical innovation and to address higher education institutions' social responsibility. This chapter presents a project that took place at the Polytechnic of Leiria, as part of a broader initiative that brought together 13 Portuguese Polytechnic Institutions, the Portuguese gover...
This chapter will address results of LE@D's project “Teaching in Times of Emergency: Digital Transition,” which focused on the experience of rapid digital transition to an “emergency teaching,” a scenario quite different from distance education. Through a mixed methods approach, data was collected through an online questionnaire applied to students...
This proposal is part of an ongoing research and presents the results on the perceptions and pedagogical practices experienced by students from various higher education degrees in Portuguese higher education institutions, during the period of social confinement determined by the Portuguese Government, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objectiv...
O contexto desta experiência envolveu estudantes de licenciatura da área do Turismo, do 2º ano, uma unidade curricular de Inglês III. Foi decidido desenvolver atividades enquadradas num novo paradigma educativo, dado um conjunto de necessidades identificadas neste perfil de estudante, nomeadamente a sua motivação e o desenvolvimento da sua autonomi...
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...
We theoretically revisit the concept of scholarship as a concept that describes the multidimensionality of faculty’s functions, as proposed by Boyer in 1990. We compare Boyer’s model to Portuguese law on the four dimensions of Higher Education faculty (research, teaching, knowledge transfer and management), with particular attention given to the po...
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...
Gamification, Active learning and game based learning.
The present paper is part of a PhD research, which is being developed in the scope of the Doctoral Programme in Education, specialisation in Distance Education and eLearning at Universidade Aberta, the Portuguese Open University. The theoretical framework for the research is Open Education, particularly the specific fields of Open Educational Resou...
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The evolution of the Web 2.0 technologies and the affordances offered by digital and networked forms of content and communication have promoted the birth of emerging digital environments, which, in turn, reflect new practices and behaviours by individuals in a university academic context.
This paper discusses how the social, networked and particip...
I am delighted to present the first e-book of the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN).GO-GN is a worldwide network of PhD researchers and their supervisors in the field of OER, MOOCs, and Open Education. It has been initiated in 2012 and is coordinated by the UNESCO Chair in OER at the Open University of the Nether-lands.The idea behind GO-GN is to...
