Betina Magalhães Bitencourt

A expatriação e o seu papel estratégico nas empresas internacionalizadas

This paper analyses the strategic role of the expatriation in the internationalization of the company. Expatriation should be minded as the result of a broader organizational strategy, representing one of the ways to articulate international and local strategies. A case study made on the Alpha Company has been presented in which 21 interviews were performed with professionals of the area and expatriates/repatriates. Alpha company has very emphasis in the world scenario and has a expatriation program of 12 years, nevertheless, has a lack of polices and more structured practices, due to its internationalization has been taken a larger dimension as the company was ready to deal with. It is pointed, however, that the same process have permitted several growing possibilities for professionals and the company as has presented many challenges to be overcome, like enhancement of the process training, repatriation planning, valorization and retention of the repatriate

AVALIAÇÃO DA APRENDIZAGEM NO ENSINO SUPERIOR: DESAFIOS E POTENCIALIDADES NA EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

Learning in higher education has been discussed in social and academic debates due to the considerable increase in the number of admission spots in public universities. One relevant factor in this debate is the learning evaluation, which is related to the new context of higher education both in Brazil and in the world: the rise of distance learning. This new mode of education has been raising relevant questions, since teaching and learning in virtual environments have their own characteristics and challenges, mainly because of technological transformations that are shaping human and social relations over the past decades. These considerations are the research subject of this study, which aims to analyze traditional forms of evaluation, as well as its current trends, through an analysis of its applicability in the contemporary context of distance learning in higher education. The goal is to show that the evaluation is a mechanic and formal instrument, which is neither appropriate nor sufficient for the new demands in terms of learning. With the spread of distance learning, new forms of evaluation are needed, whether in the classroom or distance education, so that the evaluation process constitutes a genuine educational tool and allows the demonstration of the construction of knowledge, in the wider possible way, through the selection of the most relevant instruments to each type of knowledge. Keywords: Traditional Method of Learning; New Trends in Learning Evaluation; Classroom Education; Distance Learning. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14244/19827199607