The U.Porto e-Learning Café: Learning Spaces and the Path of Self Education

On the European Higher Education Area "learning" is a key word as well as individual responsibility and engagement with self education. Universities are facing demanding challenges mainly due to the rising of life-long-learning needs, to significant cuts on public budgets and to&#x...

E-learning UP: Challenging the traditional academics for web-based Teaching & Learning

a pilot project of e-learning at our University which we have called: "E-learningUP|2003: a pilot project for implementing e-learning at Universidade do Porto" [1]. This project progressed gradually, starting from the perception phase of what e-learning is, followed by the development&#...

The University of Porto e-U project

Students and staff from higher education institutions in Portugal expect nowadays to be able to access both the Internet and their campus intranets using wireless technologies. This nomadic broadband service is offered presently to the academic community across the country as a result&#...

A Gestão de Informação de I&D e o Acesso Aberto na Universidade do Porto

The University of Porto has an integrated information system that supportsdifferent aspects of its activity, such as administration and management, education,research and development and university extension. It was in 1996, inthe Faculty of Engineering, that began the registration of the scienti...