A disciplina de Análise e Visualização de Dados em Saúde, integrada na Licenciatura em Saúde Digital do Politécnico do Porto, explora novas abordagens pedagógicas centradas na tecnologia. Propõe-se a utilização do SAP Analytics Cloud como plataforma de apoio ao ensino de análise de dados em saúde, permitindo aos estudantes desenvolver competências práticas em Business Intelligence, visualização interativa e pre...
The growing demand for new products also increases the market supply. However, with high number of products released in the market each year, consumers may have a difficult time in finding if a particular product is exactly what they need. Therefore, companies need to formulate return policies in case the consumer intends on returning the product. When companies have consumer return policies, it draws more cust...
Nowadays, teaching institutions have been increasingly using workgroups. These practices imply that the students get involve in learning process and assimilate the knowledge acquired in class, as well as other skills and competencies. During the workgroup assessment, the teacher will have to assess the work itself, but also the performance of each element of the group involved in its development. However, not e...
Recently, Problem-based learning has been increasingly used, and with those practices, self and peer evaluation tasks have gained more importance. This method of learning assists learners in the acquisition of skills and competencies. In order to support self and peer evaluation tasks, there are some different software offers in the market. The ease use of them is demanded since these tasks are an important par...
ISCAP’s Information Systems Department is composed of about twenty teachers who have, for several years, been using an e-learning environment (Moodle) combined with traditional assessment. A new e-assessment strategy was implemented recently in order to evaluate a practical topic, the use of spreadsheets to solve management problems. This topic is common to several courses of different undergraduate degree prog...
SCAP’s Information Systems Department is composed of about twenty teachers who have, for several years, been using an e-learning environment (Moodle) combined with traditional assessment. A new e-assessment strategy was implemented recently in order to evaluate a practical topic, the use of spreadsheets to solve management problems. This topic is common to several courses of different undergraduate degree progr...
One of the most difficult issues of e-Learning is the students’ assessment. Being this an outstanding task regarding theoretical topics, it becomes even more challenging when the topics under evaluation are practical. ISCAP’s Information Systems Department is composed of about twenty teachers who have been for several years using an e-learning environment (at the moment Moodle 2.3) combined with traditional ass...
E-learning plays a significant role in education, and its importance increases day by day. Learning environments can take a myriad of distinct forms. Learning management systems (LMS) have emerged as an important platform to support effective learning environments. Learning management systems are used throughout higher education institutions (HEI) and the need to know and understand its adoption and usage arise...
The Internet plays an important role in higher education institutions where Learning Management Systems (LMS) occupies a main role in the eLearning realm. In this chapter we aim to characterize the Internet and LMS usage patterns and their role in the largest Portuguese Polytechnic Institute. The usage patterns were analyzed in two components: characterization of Internet usage and the role of Internet and LMS ...
A Web deixou de ser uma colecção de páginas HTML estáticas que descreviam algo do mundo. O desenvolvimento da tecnologia permite, cada vez mais, criar plataformas de acesso à Internet mais rápidas, mais eficientes em termos energéticos, aspecto importante no caso de dispositivos pequenos, e mais económicas fazem com que estejamos, nesta altura, a viver uma transformação tecnológica e social sem precedentes. Par...