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U-TRACER® - o uso das tecnologias da comunicação no ensino superior - uma ferramenta de visualização de informação para o contexto do ensino superior público português

机译:U-TRACER®-通讯技术在高等教育中的使用-用于葡萄牙公立高等教育的信息可视化工具

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Information Visualization is gradually emerging to assist the representation andcomprehension of large datasets about Higher Education Institutions, makingthe data more easily understood. The importance of gaining insights andknowledge regarding higher education institutions is little disputed. Within thisknowledge, the emerging and urging area in need of a systematicunderstanding is the use of communication technologies, area that is having atransformative impact on educational practices worldwide.This study focused on the need to visually represent a dataset about howPortuguese Public Higher Education Institutions are using CommunicationTechnologies as a support to teaching and learning processes. ProjectTRACER identified this need, regarding the Portuguese public higher educationcontext, and carried out a national data collection. This study was developedwithin project TRACER, and worked with the dataset collected in order toconceptualize an information visualization tool U-TRACER®.The main goals of this study related to: conceptualization of the informationvisualization tool U-TRACER®, to represent the data collected by projectTRACER; understand higher education decision makers perception ofusefulness regarding the tool.The goals allowed us to contextualize the phenomenon of informationvisualization tools regarding higher education data, realizing the existing trends.The research undertaken was of qualitative nature, and followed the method ofcase study with four moments of data collection.The first moment regarded the conceptualization of the U-TRACER®, with twofocus group sessions with Higher Education professionals, with the aim ofdefining the interaction features the U-TRACER® should offer. The second datacollection moment involved the proposal of the graphical displays that wouldrepresent the dataset, which reading effectiveness was tested by end-users.The third moment involved the development of a usability test to the UTRACER® performed by higher education professionals and which resulted inthe proposal of improvements to the final prototype of the tool. The fourthmoment of data collection involved conducting exploratory, semi-structuredinterviews, to the institutional decision makers regarding their perceivedusefulness of the U-TRACER®.We consider that the results of this study contribute towards two moments ofreflection. The challenges of involving end-users in the conceptualization of aninformation visualization tool; the relevance of effective visual displays for aneffective communication of the data and information. The second relates to thereflection about how the higher education decision makers, stakeholders of theU-TRACER® tool, perceive usefulness of the tool, both for communicating theirinstitutions data and for benchmarking exercises, as well as a support fordecision processes. Also to reflect on the main concerns about opening up dataabout higher education institutions in a global market.
机译:信息可视化正在逐渐兴起,以帮助表示和理解有关高等教育机构的大型数据集,从而使数据更易于理解。毫无疑问,获得有关高等教育机构的见识和知识的重要性。在这一知识范围内,需要系统理解的新兴和迫切领域是通信技术的使用,该领域对全世界的教育实践产生了变革性的影响。本研究的重点是直观地表示关于葡萄牙公立高等教育机构使用方式的数据集通讯技术对教学过程的支持。 ProjectTRACER针对葡萄牙公立高等教育环境确定了这一需求,并进行了国家数据收集。本研究是在TRACER项目内开发的,并与收集的数据集一起使用,以概念化信息可视化工具U-TRACER®。该研究的主要目标涉及:信息可视化工具U-TRACER®的概念化,以表示由projectTRACER;了解高等教育决策者对该工具有用性的认识。这些目标使我们能够将有关高等教育数据的信息可视化工具现象情境化,认识到现有趋势。所进行的研究是定性的,并遵循了案例研究的方法,其中包括四个步骤:数据收集。第一时刻考虑了U-TRACER®的概念化,与高等教育专业人士举行了两次焦点小组会议,目的是确定U-TRACER®应该提供的交互功能。第二个数据收集时刻涉及提议代表数据集的图形显示,其阅读效果已由最终用户进行了测试。第三时刻涉及了由高等教育专业人士对UTRACER®进行的可用性测试的开发,从而产生了该提议该工具的最终原型的改进。数据收集的第四时刻涉及对机构决策者进行关于U-TRACER®有用性的探索性,半结构化访谈。我们认为,这项研究的结果有助于两个反思时刻。让最终用户参与信息可视化工具概念化的挑战;有效的视觉显示与数据和信息的有效沟通的相关性。第二个是关于U-TRACER®工具的利益相关者的高等教育决策者如何看待该工具在传达其机构数据和进行基准测试以及支持决策过程方面的实用性的反思。还要反思在全球市场上开放有关高等教育机构数据的主要问题。

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    Carvalho Marta Pinto de;

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