Este estudo teve como premissa principal a análise das práticas de pesquisa e produção acadêmica dos docentes efetivos e dos colaboradores da área de Ciências Biológicas e Ciências Ambientais do IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. Traça os percursos metodológicos utilizados, tendo como suporte as abordagens bibliométricas e cientométricas. Analisa a produção gerada através dos Grupos e Linhas de Pesquisas oriundas da área analisada. Paralelamente, tece um apanhado teórico sobre a transdisciplinaridade existente na configuração da formação do corpo docente que atua nos Cursos de Técnico em Biotecnologia e Tecnólogo em Ciências Ambientais do IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. Abarca as temáticas da comunicação científica, das coautorias e das redes de pesquisa colaborativa, com intuito de traçar ponto de convergência com a produção intelectual gerada pelos pesquisadores analisados. Os dados apresentados foram obtidos por meio de consulta aos Currículos Lattes dos pesquisadores e dos Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq. O estudo está sendo ampliado com a análise das redes de colaboração institucional em âmbito nacional e internacional. Por fim, conclui-se que é necessário um aprimoramento desses estudos para consolidar o IFRS no cenário da pesquisa e da pós-graduação regional, nacional e internacionalmente. / This study had as main premise the analysis of the research and academic production practices of the faculty and employees of the area of Biological Sciences and Environmental Sciences of the IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. Traces the methodological paths used, supported by bibliometric and scientometric approaches. It analyzes the production generated through the Groups and Lines of Research coming from the analyzed area. At the same time, he presents a theoretical overview of the transdisciplinarity that exists in the configuration of the faculty formation that works in the Biotechnology Technician and Environmental Sciences Technologist courses of the IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. It covers the themes of scientific communication, co-authoring and collaborative research networks, in order to draw a point of convergence with the intellectual production generated by the researchers analyzed. The data presented were obtained by consulting the Lattes curricula of researchers and research groups of CNPq. The study is being expanded with the analysis of the networks of institutional collaboration at national and international level. Finally, it is concluded that an improvement of these studies is necessary to consolidate the IFRS in the scenario of the research and of the regional, national and international graduation.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T15:23:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2561530 bytes, checksum: a1d41fd6bed806649d21232868b6d22e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Among the various areas of knowledge, health sciences represent a branch in which the exchange of experiences among researchers has been crucial for improving the quality of life of populations. It is known that scientific journals have exactly this purpose, and therefore are adequate resources to the dissemination of science and technology and have the audience academics, scientists and researchers. This dissertation aimed to: map the internal collaborative network among teachers / lecturers and teachers / masters from scientific articles in the Graduate Program in Health Sciences UFAL in the period from 2008 to 2011. Make up the work three parts: the first contained the problem, justifications, objectives and even description of the methodological procedures adopted in the research. In the second, we present the theoretical framework of information science and scientific communication, the collaborative network science and information technology and scientific journals. The third presents the analysis and discussion of the data from the production of general and individual papers by the faculty of databases and journals. The research corresponded to the resumes of the 98 components of lattes PPGCS-UFAL (teachers and masters), between 2008 and 2011, identifying a total of 157 articles in the four researched. The information about the sources of indexing journal articles and occurrence in national and international journals were identified from the databases of SciELO and Virtual Health Library (VHL). The results showed that the network of internal collaboration among teachers is around 47.4%, ie, nine of the 19 teachers jointly published; collaborative network of students and involved 19% of all masters, ie, only 15 have published in co-authoring in PPGCS in the investigated period. It was felt that the collaborative network of PPGCS-UFAL has intensified, however, the production of articles not accompanying this evolution. / Dentre as diversas áreas de conhecimento, as ciências da saúde representam um ramo em que a troca de experiências entre pesquisadores tem sido decisiva para a melhoria de qualidade de vida das populações. Sabe-se que as revistas científicas possuem exatamente este objetivo, e, portanto, são recursos adequados à divulgação da ciência e tecnologia e têm como público-alvo os acadêmicos, cientistas e pesquisadores. A presente dissertação teve por objetivo: mapear a rede colaborativa interna entre os docentes/docentes e docentes/mestrandos a partir da produção de artigos científicos no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde da UFAL, no período de 2008 a 2011. Compõem o trabalho três partes: na primeira constam o problema, as justificativas, os objetivos e ainda descrição dos procedimentos metodológicos adotados na pesquisa. Na segunda, apresentam-se o referencial teórico sobre a ciência da informação e a comunicação científica, a rede colaborativa na ciência e a tecnologia da informação e os periódicos científicos. A terceira, apresenta a análise e discussão dos dados, a partir da produção geral e individual de artigos científicos pelos docentes e das bases de dados das revistas. O universo da pesquisa correspondeu aos currículos lattes dos 98 componentes do PPGCS-UFAL (docentes e mestrandos), entre 2008 e 2011, identificando-se um total de 157 artigos no quadriênio pesquisado. As informações acerca das fontes de indexação das revistas e a ocorrência de artigos em revistas nacionais e internacionais foram identificadas das bases de dados da Scielo e da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS). Os resultados evidenciaram que a rede de colaboração interna entre os docentes gira em torno de 47,4%, ou seja, nove dos 19 docentes publicaram em conjunto; e a rede colaborativa dos discentes envolveu 19% do total dos mestrandos, ou seja, apenas 15 deles publicaram em coautoria no PPGCS no período investigado. Percebeu-se que a rede colaborativa do PPGCS-UFAL vem se intensificando, todavia, a produção de artigos não acompanha essa evolução.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-08-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:26:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rodolpho_er_me_sjrp.pdf: 574275 bytes, checksum: 043fcbc5983dd0afa9401355ed6da3b8 (MD5) / A construção de Objetos de Aprendizagem (OAs) é um importante processo de Educação a Distância. Padrões têm sido definidos com estruturas de metadados para favorecer a reutilização e portabilidade dos OAs, como SCORM, LOM, ARIADNE, entre outros. Mesmo assim, a portabilidade entre diferentes sistemas de e-Learning requerem conhecimentos específicos. A dificuldade aumenta quando se direciona a diferentes meios digitais e de comunicação, como ambientes da Web e da TV Digital Aberta (TVDA) – um meio alternativo de acesso à Educação que vem sendo integrado à vida dos brasileiros. Nesse contexto, o principal objetivo deste trabalho foi a investigação de um novo modelo, OAX, para implementação de OAs com portabilidade para ambientes Web e para a TVDA. O modelo, baseado em metadados e codificação Base64, foi definido com base na estrutura SCORM. Para a criação e gerenciamento dos OAs, segundo o modelo OAX, foi proposta a arquitetura de um sistema de autoria, SOAX – uma aplicação Web, composta por quatro componentes, visando: encapsulamento do átomo de conteúdo OAX, armazenamento do conteúdo, aplicativos de gerenciamento/visualização de conteúdo e APIs (Application Programming Interface) de importação e exportação para padrões de OAs. O sistema SOAX foi projetado com a finalidade de atender educadores com conhecimentos básicos de Informática, de forma que pudessem construir os OAs preocupados apenas com os aspectos didático-pedagógicos. O sistema converte automaticamente os OAs para os formatos de padrões de OAs e para ambientes da TVDA. Está disponível uma versão beta do SOAX. / The construction of Learning Objects (LOs) is an important process for distance education. Standards have been defined with metadata structures to enhance the reutilizability and portability of LOs, such as SCORM, LOM, ARIADNE, among others. The portability between different systems of e-Learning requires expert knowledge. The difficulty increases when different digital media and communication environments are used, for example: Web and Open Digital TV (ODTV) – an alternative means of access to education that is being integrated into daily life of Brazilians. In this context, the main goal of this work was to investigate a new model for implementation of LOs (OAX) with portability to Web and ODTV environments. The model was defined based on the SCORM standard and was based on metadata and base64 encoding. The architecture of an authoring system (SOAX) was proposed for the creation and management of LOs, according to the OAX model. SOAX is a Web application and is composed of four components for: encapsulation of the OAX content atom, content storage, applications of viewing/management of content and APIs (Application Programming Interface) for import and export LOs for standards formats. The SOAX system was designed for educators with basic knowledge of computer. So they could concentrate efforts on didactic-pedagogic aspects of the LOs. The system automatically converts the LOs for the formats of the LOs standards and ODTV environments. A beta version of SOAX is available.

Este estudo teve como premissa principal a análise das práticas de pesquisa e produção acadêmica dos docentes efetivos e dos colaboradores da área de Ciências Biológicas e Ciências Ambientais do IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. Traça os percursos metodológicos utilizados, tendo como suporte as abordagens bibliométricas e cientométricas. Analisa a produção gerada através dos Grupos e Linhas de Pesquisas oriundas da área analisada. Paralelamente, tece um apanhado teórico sobre a transdisciplinaridade existente na configuração da formação do corpo docente que atua nos Cursos de Técnico em Biotecnologia e Tecnólogo em Ciências Ambientais do IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. Abarca as temáticas da comunicação científica, das coautorias e das redes de pesquisa colaborativa, com intuito de traçar ponto de convergência com a produção intelectual gerada pelos pesquisadores analisados. Os dados apresentados foram obtidos por meio de consulta aos Currículos Lattes dos pesquisadores e dos Grupos de Pesquisa do CNPq. O estudo está sendo ampliado com a análise das redes de colaboração institucional em âmbito nacional e internacional. Por fim, conclui-se que é necessário um aprimoramento desses estudos para consolidar o IFRS no cenário da pesquisa e da pós-graduação regional, nacional e internacionalmente. / This study had as main premise the analysis of the research and academic production practices of the faculty and employees of the area of Biological Sciences and Environmental Sciences of the IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. Traces the methodological paths used, supported by bibliometric and scientometric approaches. It analyzes the production generated through the Groups and Lines of Research coming from the analyzed area. At the same time, he presents a theoretical overview of the transdisciplinarity that exists in the configuration of the faculty formation that works in the Biotechnology Technician and Environmental Sciences Technologist courses of the IFRS Campus Porto Alegre. It covers the themes of scientific communication, co-authoring and collaborative research networks, in order to draw a point of convergence with the intellectual production generated by the researchers analyzed. The data presented were obtained by consulting the Lattes curricula of researchers and research groups of CNPq. The study is being expanded with the analysis of the networks of institutional collaboration at national and international level. Finally, it is concluded that an improvement of these studies is necessary to consolidate the IFRS in the scenario of the research and of the regional, national and international graduation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T14:52:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nilson Santos Costa.pdf: 955701 bytes, checksum: 32b64aae5f4201f9b4db958e974f82df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-03-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / One of the difficullties when building an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) is the domain model definition. This must be the result of knowledge acquisition from an experts, usually a teacher. This thesis presents the definition, modelling and implementation of an authoring tool. This tool, named authoring, provides cognitive evaluations to organize a knowledge set within an intelligent tutoring system. Through this tool, the knowledge (domain) of an Expert will be available for Mathnet System. This happens due to the edition or creation of an Expert authoring into a specific domain (knowledge). By the measures, it is possible the automation of a good curricular choice to the next phase to be some proposed by the peer, simulating the teacher s experience, in order to minimize the learning process and provide the use of many pedagogical strategies. Thus, the modelling and implementation of the authoring tool acts as a mechanism of creation and test of knowledge (domain). / Uma das maiores dificuldades na construção de um Sistema Tutorial Inteligente (STI) é a construção do Modelo de Domínio. Este deve ser o resultado da aquisição de conhecimentos a partir dos especialistas, geralmente professores da área e de pedagogia. Este trabalho apresenta a definição, modelagem e implementação de uma ferramenta de autoria. Esta ferramenta, denominada de autoria, terá medidas cognitivas para ordenar um conjunto de conhecimento para um Sistema Tutor Inteligente (STI). Com esta ferramenta, será disponibilizado o conhecimento (domínio) de um especialista para o sistema Mathnet1. Isto ocorrerá mediante a edição ou criação de uma autoria do especialista em um domínio específico (conhecimento). Por meio destas medidas será possível a automação de uma boa escolha curricular para a próxima etapa a ser trabalhada com o aprendiz (aluno), simulando a experiência do professor, a fim de minimizar o tempo de aprendizado e possibilitar a utilização de diversas estratégias pedagógicas. Desta maneira, a modelagem e implementação da ferramenta de autoria servirão como mecanismo de criação e testes de conhecimento (domínio).

To end the use of a digital technology one must go througha process that research entitle information systems (IS)discontinuance. Prior research has developed phases andactivities that can be implemented in the IS discontinuanceprocess, but this knowledge is limited and has not beencompiled. This study purpose is therefore to create a modelof the IS discontinuance process and in it identify furtheractivities. To accomplish this, a real IS discontinuance hasbeen studied, who has had different circumstances andstakeholders than of previous studies. The discontinuanceprocess has occurred at a large organisation whomanufacture vehicles and the study has been conducted incollaboration with this organisation. The studied IS inquestion is an eLearning authoring tool. Information aboutthis discontinuance process has been collected throughsemi-structured personal interviews with five participantswho are employees at the organisation. The collected datahas been analysed and interpreted in comparison to atheoretical model of the IS discontinuance process, whichcontains phases and activities. The result of the analysis andinterpretation is an iterative model of the IS discontinuanceprocess with phases and activities, of which 34 are newfound activities. A big part of these activities can be relatedto the new circumstance and stakeholders within thestudied discontinuance process / Att sluta använda digitala teknologier sker genom en processsom forskningen benämner sominformationssystemsavveckling (IS-avveckling). Tidigareforskning har tagit fram faser och aktiviteter som kangenomföras i IS-avvecklingsprocessen, men denna kunskapär begränsad och har inte sammanställts. Denna studie syftarsåledes att skapa en modell av IS-avvecklingsprocessen och iden identifiera ytterligare aktiviteter. För att realisera dettahar en verklig IS-avvecklingsprocess studerats som haft ettannat förhållande och intressenter än i tidigare studier.Avvecklingen har skett hos en stor organisation somtillverkar fordon och studien har genomförts tillsammansmed dem. Avvecklingen harutförts på organisationens eLearning författarverktyg.Information om avvecklingen har samlats in genomsemistrukturerade personliga intervjuer med fem styckenrespondenter som är anställda hos organisationen. Deninsamlade datan har analyserats och tolkats i jämförelse meden framtagen teoretisk modell för IS-avvecklingsprocessensom innehåller faser och aktiviteter. Resultatet av analysenoch tolkningen blev en iterativ modellen för ISavvecklingsprocessen med faser och aktiviteter, varav 35stycken nya aktiviteter hittats. Stor del av dessa nyaaktiviteter kan kopplas till det nya förhållandet ochintressenterna i avvecklingen.

The research is exploring the liminal space of aporía within the experience of film. How can film be a poetic experience and inviting philosophical thinking? Motivated by the works of filmmaker Chantal Akerman, I have come to investigate the gap within the filmic narrative of character creation. With the obligation to create an ethical relationship to my audience, I take a closer look into the aesthetics of mimesis in storytelling. Proposing that there is a shared created gap of nothingness, which works as a portal of reflection between audience and art where the aporía take place, I am influenced by the philosopher Merleau-Ponty´s phenomenological image of the chiasm. The research is accordingly discussing the actor as the embodied surface of this interplace. The liminal space is the journey of the pre-reflective mind working with the unknowable. My thesis tries to show how the image of the thinking actor can hold a space for one shared experience. Departing from a background of actor and writer, the use of writing art throughout the research is a description of different ways of expressing my artistic language; as in writing, filming, directing or acting. The research is situated within the artistic research and the material of focus is art film, ethical philosphical thinking and my own practice with an essay film of 12 minutes, [Her]barium. The locus of the discussion is my own embodied conciousness, as a spectator and in the position of filmmaker.

Thesis (M.Tech.: Information Technology)-Dept. of Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, 2007 xv, 150 leaves, Annexures A-J / Over the years, computers have been introduced to many South African classrooms in an attempt to improve education, and this is true for Previously Technologically Disadvantaged (PTD) schools in Kwazulu-Natal with learners whose first language is isiZulu. However, frameworks of computer learning vary widely and there is a crucial need to understand how specific situational conditions either facilitate or constrain the implementation of computer-supported learning in these schools. This thesis discusses research undertaken to document the process of introducing localised OpenOffice.org.za software with an isiZulu interface into Information Technology education at PTD schools in the KwaZulu-Natal province. The thesis also documents the process of introducing a dual language medium in Information Technology at the Durban University of Technology. The study investigates the English language as one of the possible causes of the lack of understanding of computers by English second language learners.

University students learning object-oriented programming (OOP) encounter many complexities. This study undertook empirical research aimed at analysing learners’ interactions with the Alice visual programming environment, which seeks to engage and motivate learners to grasp concepts of OOP, whilst creating animated movies and video games. A mixed-methods approach was employed, using questionnaire surveys and interviews to investigate learners’ experiences with Alice and their understanding of OOP. Findings indicated that learners lacked problem-solving abilities; were unable to grasp programming concepts on an abstract level and spent insufficient time practicing programming exercises. Alice proved to be an effective tool in helping to address these challenges and in improving learners’ grasp of OOP. Learners found Alice to have good usability. Furthermore, test and exam results revealed a statistically significant difference between performances of learners who had been taught Alice in comparison to similar learners who were not exposed to the Alice intervention. / Computing / Information Systems / M. Sc. (Information systems)

多選題測驗試題已證明能有效地評估學生的學習成效，然而，以人為方式建立題庫是一件耗時費力的工作。藉由電腦高速運算的能力，電腦輔助產生試題系統能有效率地建置大規模的題庫，同時減少人為的干預而得以保持試題的隱密性。受惠於網路上充裕的文字資源，本研究發展一套克漏詞試題出題系統，利用既有的語料自動產生涵蓋各種不同主題的克漏詞試題。藉由分析歷屆大學入學考試的資料，系統可產生類似難度的模擬試題，並且得到出題人員在遴選測驗標的方面的規律性。在產生試題的過程中導入詞義辨析的演算法，利用詞典與selectional preference模型的輔助，分析句子中特定詞彙的語義，以擷取包含測驗編撰者所要測驗的詞義的句子，並以collocation為基礎的方法篩選誘答選項。實驗結果顯示系統可在每產生1.6道試題中，得到1道可用的試題。我們嘗試產生不同類型的試題，並將這套系統融入網路線上英文測驗的環境中，依學生的作答情形分析試題的鑑別度。 / Multiple-choice tests have proved to be an efficient tool for measuring students’ achievement. Manually constructing tests items, however, is a time- consuming and labor-intensive task. Harnessing the computing power of computers, computer-assisted item generation offers the possibility of creating large amount of items, thereby alleviating the problem of keeping the items secure. With the abundant text resource on the Web, this study develops a system capable of generating cloze items that cover a wide range of topics based on existing corpra. By analyzing training data from the College Entrance Examinations in Taiwan, we identify special regularities of the test items, and our system can generate items of similar style based on results of the analysis. We propose a word sense disambiguation-based method for locating sentences in which designated words carry specific senses, and apply collocation-based methods for selecting distractors. Experimental results indicate that our system was able to produce a usable item for every 1.6 items it returned. We try to create different types of items and integrate the reported item generator in a Web-based system for learning English. The outcome of on-line examinations is analyzed in order to estimate the item discrimination of the test items generated by our system.