E-Portefolios 2.0 e históiras de vida: Instrumentos Pedagógicos de Empregabilidade

Date: 2007-2010

Designation of the atributed grade: Post-Doctorate - Fellowship at FCT - SFRH/BPD/44838/2008

Subject :E-Portefólios 2.0 e histórias de vida: Instrumentos Pedagógicos de Empregabilidade

Supervisors:

• Doutor Professor António Moreira, Associated Professor at Universidade de Aveiro
• Doutor Professor Maria Clara Ferrão Tavares, Coordenator Professor with Agregation at Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém
  

Name and type of teaching and training organization: Universidade de Aveiro

Explanatory:

The project "FLUIDS_ID: e-portfolios and life stories - digital contents for social inclusion and employability in RL and SL" questions different representations of final higher education students at national, European and Latin-American level, who seek jobs resorting to accessible and inclusive WEB 3.0 tools, made available to every citizen.

We created a space (http://w3.ese.ipsantarem.pt/fuidsid/) where we identified world experiments that generated good practices of employability, we adapted Kolb´s Experiential Learning Theory and developed the Puzzle Metaphor respecting the learning profiles of the citizen, with DublinCore metadata, where every student can insert e-portfolios and life stories, by selecting a profile of competences, impersonated by an avatar, defined under Kolb´s theory. We underline the fact that this platform will allow the inclusion of personalized videos with the machinima technique (used in Second Life).

We built the prototype in May 2007. It was awarded the 1st prize, and later on the 3rd, at the Poliempreende Competition (respectively at the regional and national competitions). Presently we propose: a) to study the way of rendering this platform inclusive to all citizen; b) to index the various profiles that are part of the platform to companies capable of giving them an employability response; c) to introduce innovative techniques at the level of video (machinima) so as to allow each citizen to build his/her own life story; d) to develop the platform for every student who finishes higher education, projecting its internationalization to Europe and Latin-America, with the goal of including the present study under the policies adopted worldwide :to create an e-portfolio for all until 2010; e) to promote research at post-doctoral, doctoral and master level, including the integration of young graduates in Research Integration Grants