Purpose – The study investigates meaningful learning among higher education students using concept maps (CM) as a learning strategy. The main goals were to understand whether the introduction of CM produced changes in students’ academic achievement and intrinsic motivation (IM). Design/methodology/approach – In this quasi-experimental study, academic achievement was collected using achievement tests made in-cla...
Conscientes das exigências colocadas às Instituições de Ensino Superior e às competências que os seus docentes são chamados a desenvolver, é objetivo deste artigo discutir um modelo de formação pedagógica de docentes do ensino superior, feito à medida, para dar resposta a necessidades específicas de um grupo de docentes – Coordenadores de 1.º Ciclo e de Mestrado Integrado – da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Desen...
Objective: to analyze the challenges in the formation of the workforce, emphasison the medical category, that respond to the new needs generated by the demographic, epidemiological transition, by the new technological incorporations and demands of the users of the health services in Portuguese speaking countries. Methods: the paper based on literature review, the reading of the preparatory documents for t...
Aware of the demands placed on Higher Education Institutions and the skills that their teachers are called to develop, the objective of this article is to discuss a model of pedagogical training for higher education teachers tailored to meet the specific needs of a specific group of teachers-Coordinators of 1st Cycle and Integrated Masters-Universidade Nova de Lisboa. An exploratory case study was developed. Th...
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This paper reports a joint reflection on teaching physiology, a discipline of the 2nd year of the Master in Medicine (MIM) in Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The present reflection was undertaken by the Departments of Physiology and Medical Education of FCM; the paper is based on the concurrence of pedagogical options undertaken by the professor of physiology and the perspectiv...