Ana Dias

Our article starts with the sentence “Learner variables are often neglected in the development of educational products and systems.” We do not affirm bluntly that: “nobody is concerned with pedagogy.” Instead, we say that the hype today is digital technology, and this has pushed ...

Relatório reúne evidências acerca de domínios e critérios de qualidade no e-Learning a nível internacional, com ênfase particular no que diz respeito à utilização de normativos legais e de manifestos orientadores, como é o caso dos referenciais de boas práticas. De uma forma transversal, pretende-se dar a conhecer os processos que permitem a validação de cursos e instituições que operam com qualidade no e-Learning. Neste sentido, a pesquisa efetuada procurou também, para além dos processos acima indicados, identificar as principais etiquetas ou marcas/selos de qualidade nacionais ou internacionais atribuídas a instituições ou cursos de e-Learning e prémios que visam reconhecer boas práticas neste domínio.

In this paper we discuss the concept of ecological strategy in relation to cognitive artefacts that reflect the expressive power of learners engaged in the development of significant knowledge paths. Our experiments show that learners strive to make sense of the fragmentary information surrounding them and in this endeavour they may benefit from the creation of knowledge maps, i.e. branched structures of knowledge that depart from a central node, a starting point or a homepage. In the course of creating these fractal hyperspaces on the Web, with integration of varied multimedia materials, the range of cognitive strategies used during the learning process becomes evident, both at individual and collective level. Perhaps ecological strategies may encourage a new research approach regarding the study of knowledge construction within complex hypermedia environments.