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This chapter presents and discusses best practices and future trends in the use of Communication Technologies (CT) in Portuguese public Higher Education Institutions (HEI), from a literature review between 2008 and 2013, triangulated with the opinion of Higher Education teachers, using interviews. This contribution emerges from the project “TRACER—Portuguese Public Higher Education Use of Communication Technologies”, which aims to contribute towards the characterization of HEI according to their adoption and use of CT in educational contexts.
The literature review reports best practices, although with different approaches, such as the frequency and satisfaction of using CT as learning support, the design of teaching strategies, the roles and responsibilities of students and teachers, among others. Current trends indicate the progressive integration of CT, namely Web 2.0 and LMS/VLE tools, in teaching and learning processes, containing a potential for innovation, as well as motivation. Future trends are related to the increasing use of CT for educational processes, highlighting the growing incorporation of mobile devices, used at the service of collaboration between educational actors. Training for the pedagogical use of CT is stated as relevant, considering the fast technological change and principles advocated by the Bologna Process.
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We thank all the contributions from the members of the project “TRACER—Portuguese Public Higher Education Use of Communication Technologies”. This study was developed with National Grants, under the support of FCT—Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, project no. PTDC/CPE-CED/113368/2009COMPETE:FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-014394.
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Pombo, L., Morais, N.S., Batista, J., Pinto, M., Coelho, D., Moreira, A. (2016). The Use of Communication Technologies in Higher Education in Portugal: Best Practices and Future Trends. In: Marcelino, M., Mendes, A., Gomes, M. (eds) ICT in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22900-3_1
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