Hybrid teaching, which integrates traditional in-person learning based on students’ perspectives where online learning offers a flexible approach to education, combines the benefits of technology with face-to-face interactions. Moreover, teaching and learning in a hybrid way met several challenges for both teachers and learners, including technological problems, time management, communication difficulties, and ...
Traditional approaches in the competitive recruitment landscape frequently encounter difficulties in effectively identifying exceptional applicants, resulting in delays, increased expenses, and biases. This study proposes the utilisation of contemporary technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and chatbots to automate the process of resume screening, thereby diminishing prejudices and enhancing communi...
Universities must have the aspiration to become key institutions in this new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), as generators of knowledge, science and research, promoting the democratisation of knowledge. Also, management in Higher Education must increase faculty readiness for e-learning changes, particularly since e-learning remains essential to maintaining curriculum delivery during emergencies and crises....
Este artigo apresenta o design e a implementação de um chatbot em dois cursos de licenciatura numa Universidade de Ensino a Distância (EaD) em Portugal, utilizando um software de desenvolvimento de chatbots. O objetivo é abordar a seguinte questão de investigação: como pode um chatbot ajudar as equipas de coordenação de curso a gerir o crescente volume de pedidos de informação nos seus cursos de EaD? O artigo e...
Fake news spreads rapidly, creating issues and making detection harder. The purpose of this study is to determine if fake news contains sentiment polarity (positive or negative), identify the polarity of sentiment present in their textual content and determine whether sentiment polarity is a reliable indication of fake news. For this, we use a deep learning model called BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representatio...
Educational chatbots are digital tools designed to assist learners in various educational settings. These chatbots use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms to simulate human conversation and respond to user queries in a way that facilitates learning. They can be integrated into various educational platforms such as learning management systems, educational apps, and websites to provi...
This study was initiated in a time of unprecedented uncertainty, as lecturers and educational institutions across the world tried to manage the move to online education. It started with lecturers’ perspectives of their performance during the COVID-19 pandemic to identify innovative teaching strategies beyond the priority of emergency teaching. The main goal was to identify the occurrence of more permanent chang...