AcademiaUP: Empowering Distance Education at University of Porto

In recent years, there has been a growing demand for online. University of Porto (U.Porto), established an unit of Educational Technologies 20 years ago and after an accumulated experience in providing an Learning Management Systems (LMS) to support face-to-face teaching and learning (T&L), in 2016, the U.Porto developed AcademiaUP, a portal and a LMS platform for the delivery of e-learning and blended learning courses. Based on LMS Moodle, AcademiaUP considers the specificities of deployment...

High Stake Exams With Byod At The University Of Porto: Bypassing Constraints

University of Porto (U.PORTO) is a traditional higher education institution with more than 30 000 students enrolled. Nine years ago, the first final exam using computer was conducted with quite success through Moodle's quiz activity. Since 2009 the technical conditions and infrastructure were improved in such a way that we've found difficulties increasing the number of exams taking place. This year alone more than 15 000 quiz submissions were made on the first semester. Actually, these constr...

Time to Assess Learning Outcomes in E-learning. Overview of a European Multilateral Project

The Ibero-American SIR of Higher education SIR Iber 2015