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- Emergency remote teaching: challenges and opportunities in foreign languages applied to tourismPublication . Cardoso, Paula; Pires, AnaThe current paper intends to identify and analyse the challenges that both students and faculty have experienced during the process of moving online and that need to be turned into opportunities, in order to avoid replicating traditional teaching in an online environment. They are numerous and at several different levels. On one hand, students have experienced challenges such as time management, support and follow-up, communication and motivation, among others. On their turn, faculty have had difficulties in adapting the resources and, consequently, in mastering the necessary tools and skills, as well as the most suitable pedagogical strategies. On the other hand, assessment may represent a challenge on its own, both for students and faculty. By looking at the example of a Curricular unit of Foreign Languages applied to Tourism, the paper also aims to point out that the main opportunity lies in planning online teaching and learning activities as a conversational process between three axes: learning goals, learning strategies and assessment.
- I Give You MobilityPublication . Cardoso, Paula; Sousa, AnaFinal Report: The project entitled “I Give you Mobility” was created to address the need to bring mobility to the homes of users of the Home Support Service provided by the Private Institution of Social Solidarity, Fonte Santa , Centro Social da Serra do Bouro.
- OER, Open Access and Scholarship in Portuguese Higher EducationPublication . Cardoso, Paula; Morgado, Lina; Teixeira, AntónioThe 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 Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA). The main objective of the research is to identify and understand the awareness, knowledge and attitudes of scholars in Portuguese public Higher Education Institutions (HEI), regarding OER and OA and, in particular, to compare scholars’ awareness, attitudes and perceptions towards OER and OA in the context of their teaching and research practices. This will also allow us to represent the Portuguese reality and, consequently, position the Portuguese public higher education practices within the global panorama and also may be able to inform future decisions, whether institutionally, governmentally or even within a broader perspective. The current paper intends to present the research project and also to reflect the literature review carried out so far, in order to contextualise the research problem and also to describe the methodological procedures defined for the study.
- Perceções dos estudantes acerca do regime blended learning: estudo de casoPublication . Chagas, Laura; Cardoso, PaulaEste estudo incide sobre a perceção dos estudantes de dois cursos de mestrado de uma instituição portuguesa de ensino superior público acerca da modalidade blended learning, nomeadamente em relação às principais razões que os levam a optar por este regime, às perceções das suas vantagens e desvantagens, assim como as metodologias e ferramentas mais utilizadas pelos docentes. Através de uma metodologia quantitativa, os dados foram recolhidos a partir de um inquérito por questionário. Os resultados provisórios indicam que as perceções dos estudantes relativamente ao regime de b-learning são positivas. No que diz respeito às metodologias e ferramentas utilizadas, existe ainda algum caminho a percorrer no sentido de recorrer a metodologias e ferramentas mais diversificadas.
- Projetos de Inovação Pedagógica Skills4Future: Innovative practicesPublication . Santos, Maria da Graça Mouga Poças; Reis, Susana; Cardoso, Paula; Rosa, Marlene
- Proposta de utilização do ChatGPT em Metodologias de InvestigaçãoPublication . Pires, Ana Luísa; Cardoso, Paula; Chagas, Laura; Rafael, CéliaO presente artigo apresenta uma proposta de utilização do ChatGPT como ferramenta de suporte ao processo de investigação de estudantes de Mestrado. A integração da inteligência artificial em contexto educativo oferece novas possibilidades no desenvolvimento de competências durante o processo de investigação. A utilização proposta tem por base uma experiência exploratória, cujo objetivo é abrir pistas para a integração de ferramentas de inteligência artificial de forma a promover o pensamento crítico e a utilização de metodologias ativas em contextos tradicionalmente expositivos. Pretende-se contribuir para a discussão sobre considerações e recomendações para a integração da inteligência artificial generativa na educação.
- Redesigning English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) subjects during the period of emergency remote teaching: challenges and opportunitiesPublication . Pires, Ana; Cardoso, PaulaThe six undergraduate degrees offered by the School of Tourism and Maritime Technology in the scientific area of Tourism (Tourism, Tourism and Hotel Management, Marketing for Tourism, Restaurant and Catering Management, Tourism and Recreation and Event Management) have English subjects as part of their curricula. Designed under an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) framework, which privileges the needs of the learners, these subjects focus mainly on work contexts and interactions, providing practical language skills for tourism professionals. Given that contents, methodologies, and assessment are designed and planned to consider the type of language and discourse related to what the learners will need in their jobs, these subjects fall under the category of English for Tourism Purposes (ETP). Following the lockdown in March 2020, adjustments to online teaching and learning were implemented in those subjects in terms of teaching and learning methodologies, as well as in terms of assessment activities. Even though the teaching and learning contexts changed significantly, the aim of preparing students to perform specific job-related functions remained as one of the main concerns. Moving classes online was a challenging endeavor, but also created the opportunity to prepare students for their future participation in work-related online tasks. In this paper the authors describe the main adjustments made to ETP subjects and reflect on the challenges and opportunities created by the context of emergency remote teaching.
- Rubrics as Active Learning ToolsPublication . Cardoso, PaulaRubrics are traditionally considered as assessment tools that facilitate the learning assessment process, both for teachers and students. However, more than helping promote an assessment tool for authentic learning, it can be one of the main active learning tools. Students will not only read the assessment rubrics precreated by teachers, but they are invited to collaboratively create it, thus becoming even more engaged with their learning process right from the beginning. This idea will explain, step by step, how to successfully involve students into rubric building and reflect on their future learning, instead of only reflecting on their previous work.
- Scholarship e a identidade académica na Era DigitalPublication . Cardoso, Paula; Morgado, Lina; Teixeira, AntónioAs 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 conceito que descreve a multidimensionalidade das funções dos docentes/investigadores do ensino superior. Analisamos ainda as alterações que têm ocorrido como resposta aos desafios da sociedade em rede, das práticas digitais e do movimento global de abertura ao conhecimento, com particular destaque para as potencialidades que o movimento de abertura ao conhecimento poderá trazer para cada uma das funções académicas dos docentes/investigadores do ensino superior.
- Setting up operating indicators and ratios for independent hotelsPublication . Gomes, Conceição; Santos, Luís Lima; Malheiros, Cátia; Cardoso, PaulaHospitality managers need to optimize the decision making process. Therefore, hotel chains use operating ratios and indicators for their performance evaluation. The Uniform System of Accounts on Lodging Industry (USALI) provides a range of ratios and indicators for all hotel departments in its Part III. However, this information is prepared for hotel chains, given the fact that it is used to support information processing, standardization and comparability. Some of these ratios and indicators are used, on one hand, by public entities, and, on the other hand, to make comparisons among the hospitality performances of different countries. The Portuguese corporate structure is composed by micro and small enterprises. This fact has directed us to build a set of suitable ratios and indicators to be used on the management accounting of micro and small independent hotels, since it is possible to adapt USALI to the independent hotels. The research analyses the importance and the adaptability of USALI indicators and ratios in independent hotels. To accomplish the aim and objectives, the Portuguese case was analysed by conducting a survey to obtain data, which has then been submitted to a statistical analysis. The questionnaire was applied to hotels in the Leiria and Western regions (95 hotels) of the country. The sample was defined considering a percentage of independent hotels. It was concluded that, regarding operating indicators and ratios, the most frequently used per independent hotels are: room occupancy percentage, average daily rate (ADR), revenue per available room (RevPAR) and average occupancy per room. According to the findings, a tableau de bord was created, to be used by small and micro independent hotels.