Social and educational technologies in professional education

Educational competencies or education for professional competence?

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[Biosafety education: educational contributions to the health professional education].

The research, accomplished in the period 2004-2005, had as general objective to analyse teachers and students' perceptions of the biosafety teaching-learning process in secondary courses of the health area. The data were collected at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation courses in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 82 students and 12 teachers have participated on the study. It was a teorical-empirical research with...

Critical professional education about information and communications technologies and social life

Looking back over the 1990s, it is easy to see the widespread troubles of many ventures that depended upon advanced IT applications, including business process re-engineering projects, enterprise systems, knowledge management projects, online distance education courses, and, famously, some of the dot-com businesses. These “troubles” vary from substantial underperformance (i.e. projects that wer...

Educational Technologies in Medical and Health Sciences Education

Social Semantic Web technologies and tools and their educational applications

Learning technologies have already started to make use of both Social Web (or Web 2.0) and Semantic Web principles, techniques, approaches and tools. Recently, researchers and developers have started to combine these two worlds, thus giving rise to the Social Semantic Web. Consequently, the world of learning technologies turns itself more and more to the Social Semantic Web as one of its key su...