EATIS 2007 Conference Panel section on Virtual Universities
16 May, 2007 - Algarve
Moderator: Luis Borges Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa
Speakers:
Luis Borges Gouveia, UFP;
Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia, UFP;
Maria do Rosário Almeida (UAberta)
The Virtual University concept is again in the university agenda worldwide. As a result of a growing demand for new curricula and the need to train much more people both in quantity and quality, new strategies must be on place. The use of information and communication technologies, the hidden costs of e-learning, and approaches as blended learning place the open source collaborative learning environments at the centre stage. Among the open source offer, two initiatives are the most promising ones: Sakai and Moodle.
The panel will address a brief introduction to the virtual university issues (Luis Borges Gouveia) and presents the experience gathered from the use of Sakai at UFP (Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia) and Moodle at UAberta (Maria do Rosário Almeida).
Our presentation will focus on the adoption and implementation issues of an elearning platform which is an integral part of the University's strategy, and the basis of the Virtual University project (UFPUV) and the new platform proposal for distance learning (UAberta). In both UFP and UAberta cases, mainly oriented towards blended and distance learning. A time slot is schedule for discussion among all the panel participants.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Doctoral Consortium call for CISTI 2007
Doctoral Consortium
The CISTI Doctoral Consortium provides an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their work and to benefit from fruitful discussions in a workshop format. The Doctoral Consortium seeks to foster the exchange of new ideas, methods, and applications, and to provide graduate students with a place where they can, informally, present their work, discuss it, and gather feedback.
The Doctoral Consortium is open to current PhD students working in any of main conference areas. Applicants must submit a two-page abstract following the conference guidelines. Graduate students are encouraged to participate and to join the CISTI Doctoral Consortium. Selected applications will be distributed with the conference proceedings. The applications must state the area, school, and the current status of their research and clearly describe the problem or the study area being involved and why is it relevant to the work under development.
Applications must be sent to any of the co-chairs by
The Doctoral Consortium takes place on the morning of
Conference site: http://cisti2007.ufp.pt
Co-chairs:
Feliz , Gouveia, UFP, fribeiro@ufp.pt (Full Professor)
Luis Gouveia, UFP, lmbg@ufp.pt (Associate Professor)
Panelists:
Francisco Restivo, FEUP, fjr@fe.up.pt (Full Professor)
Oscar Mealha, UA, oem@ca.ua.pt (Associate Professor)
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
UFPUV - one portuguese Sakai flavour
One of the projects that I belong to is the Virtual University project at UFP.
It starts in October 2004 as a Sakai pilot and evolves as the local elearning platform for all the university, running as a production facility since September 2005.
Within these years of experience we support our community with the help of Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment and we have some aknowledgement of our effort.
UFPUV is the new Sakai spotlight at Sakai Foundation website (http://sakaiproject.org)
The full text can be read at the same site.
You can reach UFPUV and consult its Wiki at http://elearning.ufp.pt/wiki
It starts in October 2004 as a Sakai pilot and evolves as the local elearning platform for all the university, running as a production facility since September 2005.
Within these years of experience we support our community with the help of Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment and we have some aknowledgement of our effort.
UFPUV is the new Sakai spotlight at Sakai Foundation website (http://sakaiproject.org)
The full text can be read at the same site.
You can reach UFPUV and consult its Wiki at http://elearning.ufp.pt/wiki
Monday, March 19, 2007
Five years ago...
Today is an important day for those who are fathers.
I remember one of such days, when my first son make three years old. I was far away, as I was in my PhD Viva day at Lancaster University in England.
My son was in Portugal (as all the rest of my family). I found myself in a quite stressfull situation... as your may guess...
Five years ago was a special day as I finished the job: a four year path to enter my academic professional track. Since them, a number of events take place with high intensity. This is so true, that I am amazed how so little time has passed.
Anyway, five years later, the times are so challenging has the times that were already passed - which is nice! (and a good sign)
I remember one of such days, when my first son make three years old. I was far away, as I was in my PhD Viva day at Lancaster University in England.
My son was in Portugal (as all the rest of my family). I found myself in a quite stressfull situation... as your may guess...
Five years ago was a special day as I finished the job: a four year path to enter my academic professional track. Since them, a number of events take place with high intensity. This is so true, that I am amazed how so little time has passed.
Anyway, five years later, the times are so challenging has the times that were already passed - which is nice! (and a good sign)
Saturday, January 27, 2007
A Web quizz for those who love Matrix
Find out the Matrix character that best fit your profile can be funny for the movie fans...
My profile gives Morpheus, which may I confess, I like it!
Anyway try it...
My profile gives Morpheus, which may I confess, I like it!
Anyway try it...
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Wii, iPhone and the last mile for human interaction
Everyday, a huge amount of new gadgets are introduced around the world.
As described in Wikipedia, a gadget or gizmo is a device that has a useful specific purpose and function. Gadgets tend to be more unusual or cleverly designed than normal technology.
According to this definition, the gadgets proposed by both Wii and iPhone are important ones.
They provide a new perspective on how users can interact without taking the approach to the usual staff in the usual way.
They can be called innovative as both use some already available technology but within a new context and functionality. More important, they innovate in order to transform well know and usual (for us) day to day activities into new experiences.
Playing video games with a console and making calls can be considered for the developed world as normal activities that each family has already have some level of familiarity and from each, at least, one member can be considered an advanced user, with lots of experience using it.
OK, this may be true for the use of mobile phones, but remember that a high number of games consoles have been on use on developed countries from decades now.
Gesture and direct human interaction has been introduced in those two gadgets and this means that things will not be the same from now on. Both Nintendo and Apple provide two real innovations as they propose new ways of doing old things in a different way.
Nintendo Wii
http://www.wii.com
Apple iPhone
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
As described in Wikipedia, a gadget or gizmo is a device that has a useful specific purpose and function. Gadgets tend to be more unusual or cleverly designed than normal technology.
According to this definition, the gadgets proposed by both Wii and iPhone are important ones.
They provide a new perspective on how users can interact without taking the approach to the usual staff in the usual way.
They can be called innovative as both use some already available technology but within a new context and functionality. More important, they innovate in order to transform well know and usual (for us) day to day activities into new experiences.
Playing video games with a console and making calls can be considered for the developed world as normal activities that each family has already have some level of familiarity and from each, at least, one member can be considered an advanced user, with lots of experience using it.
OK, this may be true for the use of mobile phones, but remember that a high number of games consoles have been on use on developed countries from decades now.
Gesture and direct human interaction has been introduced in those two gadgets and this means that things will not be the same from now on. Both Nintendo and Apple provide two real innovations as they propose new ways of doing old things in a different way.
Nintendo Wii
http://www.wii.com
Apple iPhone
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Friday, November 24, 2006
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