Multimedia Resources as a Complementary tool of Teaching and Learning. Case Study of a Game Designed to Teach Immunology Contents.

In 2003 the University of Porto recognized the potential of internet based learning systems and in that year started a project to implement the use of learning management systems (LMS) in classes based on a blended-learning model. The implementation of this project at universities large as the University of Porto (U.Porto) was a complex process that necessarily involved a large number of actors, so it was necessary for the University to define new ways to resolve their constraints. One of th...

Data Curation at U.Porto: Identifying current practices across disciplinary domains

The University of Porto is currently concerned with the curation of and the access to the scientific data generated by its researchers. There is a growing awareness of the fragility of digital archives, and researchers feel that they need to keep their data assets alive as the scientific infrastructure becomes more sophisticated. The possibilities of scientific impact derived from open datasets are also becoming evident to them. As a result of an identification task, we present a preliminary ...

Management of research data at Porto University: from research needs to curation workflows supported on a data repository

"TALOE - Time to Assess Learning Outcomes in E-learning"