Diogo Casanova

Pedagogical traditions in EU universities: challenges and opportunities

Both the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna Process have brought enormous challenges to higher education (HE). The universities in the European Union have already implemented the Bologna guidelines and those of the neighbouring countries were forced to follow them. Taking this into account, we intend to present an output of the first phase of the European project Western/Eastern Teacher Education Network (WETEN). In this paper, we will focus the situation of four European universities on the implementation level of some Bologna guidelines, accordingly to three specific dimensions: 1) the development of a learner centred educational model; 2) the implementation of ICT enhanced learning; 3) HE teachers training.

The new institutional portal of UA methodology of development

A university institutional portal is a step forward in managing information for the vision of a university directed to its public. Knowing the importance of this tool, the University of Aveiro (UA) developed in the last years its institutional portal. In this paper, we look for describing the diverse steps in the implementation of this application, since the necessary survey of requirements, followed by i) the necessity of development and integration of information subsystems; ii) the development of an institutional image and identity, and iii) the involvement of the university community at the final stage of the process. We also aim to describe the diverse phases of the Portal implementation until its launching.