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Online assessment using different tools and techniques in higher education
Paula Lopes, Ana; Baptista Soares, FilomenaAssessment can be a crucial component in the teaching and learning process and should measure or certify results. Online assessment means using the technology to provide assessment which can be diagnostic, formative or summative and can be considered a valuable tool in higher education as it allows teachers, on one hand, to have quick access to students’ performance and, on the other hand, students can receive ...
The Significant Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on supply chains
Paula Lopes, AnaAs the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world, the existence of disruptions in demand and supply have become more severe, conducted by containment measures taken by countries and affecting different sectors around the world. Although businesses and workplaces are restarting activities in some countries, with containment measures gradually being lifted, overall consumer demand is expected to remain low, a...
Application of a decision-making tool for ranking wellness tourism destinations
Paula Lopes, Ana; Rodríguez-López, NuriaAbstract: One of the tourism industry’s segments with the strongest growth rates today is health tourism. Health tourism includes two subgroups: medical tourism (traveling outside one’s country of residence for the purpose of receiving medical care, such as surgery and health services) and wellness tourism (travel to specific locations for health promotion in a preventive way). The economic strength and sustain...
Student's perceptions of flipped classroom approach: results from an educationa...
Paula Lopes, Ana; Baptista Soares, Filomena; Bentabol Manzanares, María Amparo; Esteban, Ana; Muñoz, Maria Del Mar; Ruiz, Maria DoloresThe Flipped Classroom model is well known and recognized, and its popularity seems to keep increasing. In this pedagogical model, the transmission of conceptual knowledge is left to individual tasks outside the classroom while the contact hours, inside the classroom, are completely opened to problem solving, active and peer-assisted learning. The purpose of this work is to describe an educational innovative exp...
Multicriteria Decision Support Model for Selection of Fiberglass Suppliers
Rodrigues, Celina; Paula Lopes, AnaThis chapter presents a real case of a decision problem in supplier selection of one of the main raw materials of a wind blades industry. The study considered all currently qualified suppliers according to considerably rigorous standards and specifications and one in qualification process. It is a complex choice, given the strategic importance of the product and the multiplicity of criteria to be considered, bo...
Students international competition: promoting engagement and social skills
Baptista Soares, Filomena; Paula Lopes, Ana; Bocanet, Vlad; Brown, Ken; Cellmer, Anna; Kierkosz, Igor; Labanova, Oksana; Serrat, Carles; Uukkivi, AnneSix Higher Education Institutions (HEI), from different European countries (Estonia, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain) joined forces in 2018 to launch a shared Erasmus+ Project under the Key Action - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices. The project's “heart and soul” was to provide an online course on fundamental mathematical themes that would serve as a base for the speci...
Evaluation of Implementation of Gamification, Game-Based Learning, and Active M...
Rojas-de-Gracia, María-Mercedes; Esteban, Ana; Bentabol, Maria; Rodríguez-Ruiz, María Dolores; Bentabol Manzanares, María Amparo; Paula Lopes, AnaThe use of the flipped classroom at HE has been very popular in recent years. However, recently a series of studies are appearing that question in a certain way the usefulness of this methodology to improve student learning. To shed more light on this dichotomy, this study has been carried out, which presents as its main strengths the fact that it is a longitudinal investigation, with a large sample of students...
The use of social networks as a tool for flipped classroom methodology: a pract...
SOLER PORTA, MARIANO; Rojas-de-Gracia, María-Mercedes; Paula Lopes, Ana; Esteban, Ana; Baptista Soares, Filomena; Bentabol, María J.The objective of this project is to continue improving the quality of the teaching-learning processes and to encourage motivation, thus achieving less dropout, for this we are going to continue applying the FC (Flipped Classroom) adding, as a novelty, the use of SN (Social Networks), in different ways: as interactive and the effective tools for the development of the FC; to evaluate the different networks avail...
Online engineering mathematics course: development and implementation of a succ...
Baptista Soares, Filomena; Paula Lopes, Ana; Cellmer, Anna; Uukkivi, Anne; Serrat, Carles; Pantazi, Chara; Feniser, Cristina; Safiulina, ElenaAccording to the New UNESCO global survey studying the effect of Covid-19 on higher education (2021) the pandemic has had an impact on higher education systems in terms of access and quality of teaching and learning. Covid-19 has caused the suspension and cancellation of teaching activities and its major impact on teaching and learning is the increase in online education. The Engimath - Mathematics on-line lear...
A decision support tool for supplier evaluation and selection
Paula Lopes, Ana; Rodríguez-López, NuriaThe supplier selection process is considered one of the most relevant decisions in supply chain management due to its effect on the product quality and on buyer performance. Supplier selection is often unstructured, and is generally based on the lowest-price proposal. However, this type of selection involves a high risk, sometimes resulting in project delays, poor quality of acquired goods, and large financial ...