Paula Morais

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Paula Morais

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Concluiu o Doutoramento em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em 2002 pelo(a) Universidade do Minho. É Professora Associada na Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, lecionando e fazendo investigação nas áreas de desenvolvimento de sistemas de informação e tecnologias de informação na educação. Afiliação: REMIT - Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies. DCT - Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia.

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REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies

Centro de investigação que que tem como objetivo principal produzir e disseminar conhecimento teórico e aplicado que possibilite uma maior compreensão das dinâmicas e tendências económicas, empresariais, territoriais e tecnológicas do mundo contemporâneo e dos seus efeitos socioeconómicos. O REMIT adota uma perspetiva multidisciplinar que integra vários domínios científicos: Economia e Gestão; Ciências e Tecnologia; Turismo, Património e Cultura. Founded in 2017, REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies is a research unit of Portucalense University. Based on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective it aims at responding to social challenges through a holistic approach involving a wide range of scientific fields such as Economics, Management, Science, Technology, Tourism, Heritage and Culture. Grounded on the production of advanced scientific knowledge, REMIT has a special focus on its application to the resolution of real issues and challenges, having as strategic orientations: - the understanding of local, national and international environment; - the development of activities oriented to professional practice, namely in the business world.

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The Centre for Excellence in Teaching (CET) at Portucalense University: goals, strategies and expected outcomes
2018-06 - Mesquita, Diana; Morais, Paula; Fernandes, Sandra; Fernandes, Sara M.; Abelha, Marta; Albuquerque, Ana Sílvia
This paper presents part of the change process carried out at the Portucalense University (UPT), Portugal, aimed at promoting student centred teaching and learning. To attain this goal, the Centre for Excellence in Teaching (CET) was created to support academic staff development, provide pedagogic training for teachers, create pedagogical resources and enhance the dissemination of best practices and teaching quality at UPT. The preliminary results of the implementation of the activities developed by the CET reveal a positive participation and involvement of academic staff, according to data collected through an online questionnaire to participants. Teachers showed interest in developing active learning strategies and openness to change their teaching practices. Some examples of the activities implemented by teachers, in the first semester of 2017/2018, are briefly presented in this paper.
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Social responsibility and career education: An international case study
2018 - Costa-Lobo, Cristina; Menezes, José; Campina, Ana; Caramelo-Gomes, José; Morais, Paula; Jesus-Silva, Natacha; Formosinho, Maria das Dores
Corporate Social Responsibility and career education emerge in a context of a society where the importance of the ability to anticipate change, adapt to new circumstances, and invent new business practices is explicit. Career education has been presented as an effective response to the requirements of adaptability, flexibility, and continuing education. This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted at an international leading food group. Documentary analysis and discourse analysis techniques were used to examine how corporate social responsibility and career education are valued by this international group. The sample of this investigation is composed by the Director of the development area, by the Coordinator and two Social Assistants of the Social Emergency Fund. The success and effectiveness of this international group are marked by ambition, ability to resist difficulties, sharing of values, spirit of unity and team sense. In addition to internal training, it directs investments for external training by promoting actions such as participation in seminars and congresses worldwide and the creation of partnerships in various areas of management with prestigious teaching entities. Findings indicate the creation of a training school, with initiatives for internal and external training, in partnerships with prestigious teaching entities. Of particular note is the Management Trainees Program, developed for more than 25 years, characterized by building a career by obtaining knowledge and skills acquired in the combination of on-the-job experience and a training program.
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A framework for characterizing knowledge management systems.
2005 - Pinto, Mário Paulo; Morais, Paula; Lopes, Filomena Castro
This paper presents a framework for characterizing knowledge management systems (KMS). The framework has a descriptive nature and aims to be useful both to characterize and to drive KMS implementations, facilitating the identification and selection of appropriate tools according organization needs. A review of KMS categories was made to identify their underlying assumptions and purposes, and a systematization of intellectual capital (IC) measurement models was developed with the purpose of identifying the main components normally used to measure IC and to analyse if those measures are addressed by KMS.
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Information management and knowledge management: are portuguese organizations feeling the difference?
2010 - Morais, Paula; Lopes, Filomena Castro
Although there are some works trying to clarify the difference between Information Management, IM, and Knowledge management, KM, the distinction between those concepts is far from being well understood in the business community. This lack of clarity increases with the fact that some KM literature authors use the two terms indiscriminately, others argue that KM includes IM, and still others define them independently, but relating them. For instance, some authors say that KM has two ages, the first corresponding to IM, aiming to store, explore and transfer explicit knowledge; the second aiming to explore, improve communication and innovation, focusing the need to manage tacit knowledge, moving from transmit to learn, becoming a social activity and not only a technological one. Nevertheless there is a growing interest in KM and organizations say they are doing it, and even in many large, and some small, organizations a new corporate executive is emerging – the chief knowledge officer, CKO. Are they different from the chief information officers, CIO? Are organizations really making KM? Is there, in practice, any difference between KM and IM? To provide some answers to these questions, this paper presents empirical evidence of how IM/KM is practiced in some Portuguese organizations. Based on an exploratory study conducted in four Portuguese organizations, the paper describes the practices that are being developed in those organizations, discussing them in order to answer the questions: How do organizations interpret the concepts of IM/KM, do they think they are different? Which IM/KM processes they develop? Which computer based systems are used to support those processes? Who leads IM/KM and which skills are necessary to those executives?
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Implementing a Business Information System to improve the quality assurance mechanisms in a Portuguese higher education institution
2019 - Lopes, Filomena Castro; Morais, Paula
Higher education institutions (HEIs) face, nowadays, enormous challenges to be competitive in a global world. The competitive environment means that HEIs, like other organizations, must be concerned with evaluating and monitoring their strategic objectives. Business Information (BI) systems combine different sources of information, from different information systems (IS), with analytical tools to present competitive information to planners and decision makers. In this way, BI systems emerge as tools that allow institutions to create future competitive advantages. This paper presents a case study of a Portuguese HEI, describing the implementation of a BI system to support the quality assurance system, and to improve its future strategy. This study focuses on one of the three HEI mission vectors: Teaching and Learning. As a result of this work, it was possible to parameterize the BI system, and to identify the digital information missing in the IS, and the necessary developments to collect it.
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Learning data structures: Same difficulties in different countries?
2016-11-20 - Pérez-Sánchez, Beatriz; Morais, Paula
Data structures have been a core discipline in Computer Science studies. Several difficulties related to teaching and learning of these contents have been detected by the academic community. With the aim of obtaining a better knowledge about these situations we present the conclusions obtained after evaluating the results achieved by the students of the subject Programming II, in the first course of the Degree in Computer Engineering at University of A Coruña, UDC, (Spain) and the students of the subject Data Structures where similar contents are taught in the Computer Science Degree at Portucalense University, UPT, (Portugal).
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Transitions from higher education to labour market: Observatory of internships in business organizations
2017 - Magalhães, Miguel; Costa-Lobo, Cristina; Morais, Paula; Lopes, Filomena Castro; Fernandes, Sandra; Freitas, Isabel Vaz de
The main objective of the present study is to present a proposal for an observatory based on the impact of Curricular Internships in business organizations, internships in higher education, with the overall goal to provide a better understanding of the transition process of students from higher education to the labour market. In this paper, besides the bibliographical revision carried out, preliminary results from an ongoing empirical study carried out with students enrolled in the Management Bachelor degree at the Portucalense University, Portugal, will be presented. This study aims to provide evidence for the development of an Observatory based on the impact of student curricular Internships in business organizations. Data collection was based on the analysis of results from student evaluations achieved in the Internship course, in the academic years of 2014/15 and 2015/16, of the Management degree at UPT. For this, the evaluation results of students provided by the Curricular Internship Advisor, through an Evaluation Form completed at the end of the internship (evaluation criteria focus mainly on the assessment of transversal competences) and the evaluation results based on student ’s final grade achieved in the internship course (as a result of the evaluation of the internship report, its presentation and public discussion), were considered. Based on the statistical analysis carried out, results show that the average results obtained in both academic years are very similar. In 2014/15, the average evaluation was of 4.4 points, while in 2015/16 the average achieved was 4.5 points, based on a five-point Likert scale. Findings obtained from this Observatory contribute to widen the analysis of its effectiveness in terms of future research and actions in regard to the transition of Higher Education pathways to the Labour Market.
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O teu mestre: A distance learning platform (results)
2019 - Azevedo, Daniel; Morais, Paula
We live in a an age of change regarding mentalities and a consequent time of change in the learning processes. In this sense, it is necessary to create new methodologies and alternative practices to learn, teach and, more importantly, to learn how to learn. In recent years there has been a widespread commitment to use Information and Communication Technologies as a tool to support teaching. It is in this context that this work is inserted. The aim is to validate a digital educational resource of school that will be able to contribute to the aid of students of traditional education and also of those hospitalized and/or prevented from being present in the classroom. The proposed model was validated through a case study developed during the second and third periods of the 2014/2015 school year, involving special education students, in a hospital context, students of Mathematics A of the 12th grade of a Porto school and high school mathematics teachers.
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Improving learning outcomes in an Object-oriented Programming Course, using a flipped classroom
2020-11 - Morais, Paula
Object Oriented Programming has been a core discipline in Computer Science studies. However, students often have difficulties in learning subjects related to programming. The reasons for these difficulties are well described in the literature and are mainly related to the abstract nature of the subject. To improve the learning process, different teachers are using different active learning methodologies, such as flipped classroom, project-based learning, and peer instruction. This paper describes an experiment conducted to improve the learning experiences of the students attending an Object-Oriented Programming course, form the first year of an Informatics B.Sc. curriculum, using a flipped classroom methodology. One of the learning outcomes in this course aims that students understand the concepts and constructs intrinsic to the object-oriented programming paradigm. Two fundamental concepts arise, the concept of class and the concept of an object. From experience, it is notorious the difficulty students have in learning those. The experiment took place during a class, divided into two moments: at moment one, students were expected to explore the topics, which were then discussed and worked on at moment two. As a final objective the students, who were organized in groups, produced a poster, summarizing the two concepts. The posters were posted on the classroom board. As in the gallery walking strategy, students in groups move through the posters and interact and share knowledge. After the class students were asked to answer an anonymous questionnaire aiming to know their opinion on the use of these pedagogical strategies. Two kinds of results were observed: first, the posters and knowledge sharing moment allowed to recognize that students achieve the desired learning outcome. Second, from the questionnaire answers, it was evident that the use of this methodology was well accepted by the students improving their engagement.
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Comparando el enfoque docente para una materia de programación en centros universitarios con colaboración internacional.
2015 - Pérez-Sánchez, Beatriz; Morais, Paula
En este trabajo se presentan las conclusiones extraídas tras evaluar los resultados académicos obtenidos por los estudiantes en la asignatura de Programación II, del primer curso del Grado en Ingeniería Informática de la Universidade da Coruña (Galicia, España). El estudio realizado permite evaluar aspectos como el rendimiento y el éxito, también investiga las razones del fracaso, y se cuestionan ciertas directrices docentes establecidas. Con el objeto de ahondar en las causas de los problemas detectados, y persiguiendo el conocimiento de otros enfoques docentes para los mismos contenidos, se presenta una comparativa con los resultados alcanzados por los alumnos en la materia, Estruturas de Dados, que imparte contenidos análogos en la Licenciatura de Informática en la Universidade Portucalense (Porto, Portugal). Ambas entidades colaboran desde hace algunos años gracias a la movilidad de personal docente en el marco del Programa de Aprendizaje Permanente Erasmus. Dicho programa pretende la transferencia de conocimiento y experiencias entre el profesorado gracias a la realización de tareas docentes en otros centros de referencia.

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