x Virtual Private Network –VPN, it enables a computer to
send and receive data across shared or public networks as
if it were directly connected to the private network, while
benefiting from the functionality, security and
management policies of the private network [24];
x Voice over Internet Protocol –VoIP, that provide HEIs
those required for transport of voice traffic based on
existing network infrastructure mechanisms [25].
Thirdly, the FCCN (in Portuguese, Fundação para a
Computação Científica Nacional) Services presented by IPG
are:
x FileSender, that is a web based application that allows
authenticated users to securely and easily send arbitrarily
large files to other users [26];
x Zappiens, that is a site registered as a trade mark in the
National Institute of Industrial Property of aggregation
and visualization of educational, scientific, cultural or
artistic multimedia content produced preferably in a
school environment and in Portuguese [27]; and
x “COLIBRI” Multimedia Collaborative Environment,
which offers sophisticated tools for conducting classes,
meetings or group work for teachers and students through
the Internet [28].
Finally, as other online services, the IPG presented for
example the email, once IPG provides email accounts to all
students, teachers and staff based on:
x Google Apps that is a cloud-based productivity suite that
provides basically all Google services that are currently
available with a Google Account. Besides email, it is
possible to get contacts, calendar and other Google
services (see Fig. 11);
Figure 11. Email of IPG: school year 2013/2014.
x Videoconference, that is a tool through which a
conference is conducted between two or more participants
at different sites by using computer networks to transmit
audio and video data; and
x Interactive Whiteboards, which is an instructional tool
that allows computer images to be displayed onto a board
using a digital projector.
In resume, the e-learning platform Blackboard includes as
potential benefits [29]: increased availability - Blackboard can
be accessed from the internet at anytime and anywhere;
students can retrieve all of their course materials including
assignments, lecture notes, slides, internet hyperlinks, and
audio/visual aids; quick feedback - there are two principal types
of feedback provided to students: faculty-initiated feedback and
automated feedback; improved communication - there are
several features of Blackboard that allow for communications
with students, as for example the announcements, discussions,
virtual classroom and email; tracking - the Blackboard tracks
student usage of courses and posts these results in the course
statistics area. Teachers can obtain statistics on all students or
individual students within the course. Individual assignments
can also be tracked. Date and time stamps are included in the
Last Submitted/Modified section of the submitted assignment,
allowing for easy identification of late assignments; skill
building - there are several additional skills that are promoted
with the use of Blackboard, providing the ability to include a
calendar for each course in which a student is enrolled, thus
optimizing students’ efforts to match course expectations.
Current entries for each course are displayed in the Welcome
area that the student sees after login. All documents posted by
the teacher can provide start and end dates and times. The use
of these dates and times for all documents, including tests and
assignments, encourages students to allocate time efficiently.
Specifically, through the Blackboard platform the students
of the IPG access to the home page of IPG and each one school,
courses (as the duration, qualifications, learning objectives,
methodologies, incoming profile, output profile, career
opportunities, programme and course director), IPG
information’s(as the welfare services, item health services,
item food, item accommodation, item scholarships, item sports
and culture, among others), Guarda city information’sand IPG
contacts, as well as of each one her school.
However, as [30] pointed out, the mere possession of so
many resources is not sufficient to achieve competitive
advantage. The teachers, students and staff must continuously
have new professional education sessions that suggested the
focus of offering more information and exchange new ways of
doing the tasks and obligations mitigating the error through the
process of learning. Also, [31; 32] argue that the learning
process promoted by the experience recognizes that IPG may
constant learn from errors, poor outcomes and failure and off
course this is a challenge that needs to be explain for the experts
in ICT learn more effectively than other organizations through
such failures.
IV. CONCLUSION
The paper focus in advocating the importance of the recent
developments on Information Technologies in Education (ITE),
particularly in higher education, to answer students and
teacher’sneeds, according to the real time rapidity
characteristics of the process of learning and teaching. Also, the
authors argue that the improvement of knowledge and skills of
students, over the time they study in IPG, grow other join
effects of the learning-by-doing process, because they are
familiarly with ICT and constant improvements in those best
practice in the field of modernity of the Education. The results
show that the HEIs, in general, and IPG, in particular, face
constant and new challenges, not only to equip students with an
adequate education in their field of study, but also to arm them
with the skills and knowledge required to leverage technology
effectively in the workplace. The globalization and the increase
of the business competitiveness have raised the need for
organizations to select qualified technicians with expertise in
different but complementary areas.
For students, the extensively use of the Information
Technologies in Higher Education oblige them to deal with
some real-life knowledge and skills which enables students to
be comfortable with new challenges and reducing the level of
embarrassingly on their job.
For teachers, these Information Technologies in Higher
Education reduce the over-stressing of teaching mere theory
and increase the usefulness’ of real-world best practices. At the
same time, all these introduce strong needs of new pedagogical
strategies design to achieve this interdisciplinary knowledge.
For firms, these Information Technologies in Higher
Education are essential to reach social and economic
sustainable development and thentransform the students with
new intellectual capital that keep knowledge and skills
highlighted to increasingly endorse the competence of firms.
For the society, these Information Technologies in Higher
Education emerge new forms of globalization, reduce the
asymmetry across regions and countries and because it became
popular is crucial to generate new applications and business that
it will attract new firms with new products and services.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors wish to thank José Ángel López Pérez of
Universidad de Seville (Spain). Also, the current version is a
publication supported by the Project PEst-OE/EGE/UI4056/2014a UDI/IPG, finance by the Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia, and the authors are members of
the Centro de Investigação de Contabilidade e Fiscalidade.
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experiences for countries in transition, Collis, B., Nikolova, I. and
Martcheva, K., France: Paris, 1995, pp. 11-23.
[3] Moursund, D., “Introduction to Information and Communication
Technology in Education”. Oregon (Eugene): Teacher Education, 2005.
[4] Bae, J. and Koo, J. , “ Information loss, knwoledge transfer cost and the
value of social relations”, Strategic Organization, 6(3), pp.277-258, 2013.
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America”, inInformation and Communication Techonolgies in
Education. The School of the Future, Taylor, H. and Hogenbrik, P.,
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Technology Capability and Firm Performance: An Empirical
Investigation”, MIS Quarterly, 24 (1), pp. 169–96, 2000.
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Enable 21st Century Schools IT”, The Information Technology &
Innovation Foundation, July, pp. 1-15, 2009.
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Prospects, 27 (2), pp. 207-222, 2000.
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Technology Education and Development, Lazinica, A. and Calafate, C.,
Croatia: InTech, 2009, pp. 107-121.
[10] Kanovsky, I. and Or-Bach, R., “A Gradual Process for
x Virtual Private Network – VPN ช่วยให้คอมพิวเตอร์สามารถ ส่ง และรับข้อมูลผ่านเครือข่ายสาธารณะ หรือใช้ร่วมกันเป็น ในขณะที่ถ้ามันถูกเชื่อมต่อโดยตรงไปยังเครือข่ายส่วนตัว เกียรติยศจากการทำงาน ความปลอดภัย และ นโยบายการจัดการของเครือข่ายส่วนตัว [24]; x ด้วยเสียงผ่านอินเทอร์เน็ตโพรโทคอล – VoIP ที่ HEIs ที่จำเป็นสำหรับการขนส่งจราจรเสียงตาม ที่มีอยู่เครือข่ายโครงสร้างพื้นฐานกลไก [25] ประการ FCCN (ในโปรตุเกส Fundação พารามี Computação Científica Nacional) บริการที่นำเสนอ โดย IPG คือ: x FileSender ซึ่งเป็นโปรแกรมประยุกต์เว็บตามที่ช่วยให้ ผู้ใช้ได้อย่างปลอดภัย และง่ายดายส่งโดย ไฟล์ขนาดใหญ่ผู้ใช้อื่น ๆ [26]; x Zappiens ซึ่งเป็นเว็บไซต์จดทะเบียนเป็นเครื่องหมายการค้าในการ แห่งชาติสถาบันของทรัพย์สินอุตสาหกรรมของการรวมกลุ่ม ทัศนศึกษา วิทยาศาสตร์ วัฒนธรรม หรือ มัลติมีเดียเนื้อหาศิลปะควรผลิตในการ ในโรงเรียนและ ในโปรตุเกส [27]; และ x "COLIBRI" มัลติมีเดียร่วมกันสภาพแวดล้อม ซึ่งมีเครื่องมือทันสมัยสำหรับการดำเนินการเรียน ประชุมหรือกลุ่มงานสำหรับครูและนักเรียนผ่าน เน็ต [28] ในที่สุด เป็นบริการอื่น ๆ ออนไลน์ IPG ที่นำเสนอสำหรับ ตัวอย่างอีเมล เมื่อ IPG ช่วยให้อีเมล์ของบัญชีทั้งหมด นักเรียน ครู และพนักงานตาม: x Google Apps ที่คือเมฆที่ใช้ผลผลิตที่ มีพื้นทั้งหมด Google บริการที่อยู่ มีบัญชี Google นอกจากอีเมล์ เป็น สามารถดึงผู้ติดต่อ ปฏิทิน และอื่น ๆ Google บริการ (ดู Fig. 11); รูปที่ 11 อีเมล์ของ IPG: โรงเรียนปี 2013/2014x Videoconference ที่เป็นเครื่องมือที่เป็น ดำเนินการประชุมระหว่างคนสองคน หรือมากกว่า ที่เว็บไซต์อื่นโดยใช้เครือข่ายคอมพิวเตอร์ในการส่ง ข้อมูลเสียง และวิดีโอ และ x กระดานโต้ตอบ ซึ่งเป็นเครื่องมือสอน ที่ช่วยให้คอมพิวเตอร์ภาพจะแสดงบนกระดาน ใช้เครื่องฉายดิจิตอล ในประวัติการทำงาน แพลตฟอร์มอีเรียนกระดานดำมี ศักยภาพประโยชน์ [29]: สามารถเพิ่มพร้อมใช้งาน - กระดานดำ เข้าถึงได้จากอินเทอร์เน็ตได้ตลอดเวลา และที่ใดก็ ได้ นักศึกษาสามารถดึงข้อมูลทั้งหมดวัสดุและส่วนประกอบของหลักสูตรรวมทั้ง กำหนด การสอน ภาพนิ่ง อินเทอร์เน็ตเชื่อมโยงหลาย มิติ และ จอภาพและเสียงช่วย ความคิดเห็นด่วน - มีสองชนิดหลัก ข้อเสนอแนะที่ให้แก่นักเรียน: เริ่มต้นคณะผลป้อนกลับ และ ผลป้อนกลับอัตโนมัติ ปรับปรุงการสื่อสาร - มี กระดานดำหลายคุณลักษณะที่อนุญาตให้สำหรับการสื่อสาร กับนักเรียน เป็นตัวอย่างการประกาศ สนทนา ห้องเรียนเสมือนและอีเมล์ ติดตาม - เพลงกระดานดำ นักเรียนใช้หลักสูตร และลงรายการบัญชีผลลัพธ์เหล่านี้ในหลักสูตร สถิติพื้นที่ ครูสามารถหาสถิติเกี่ยวกับนักเรียนทั้งหมด หรือ ศึกษาภายในหลักสูตร กำหนดแต่ละ สามารถยังติดตาม วันและเวลาอยู่ใน Last Submitted/Modified section of the submitted assignment, allowing for easy identification of late assignments; skill building - there are several additional skills that are promoted with the use of Blackboard, providing the ability to include a calendar for each course in which a student is enrolled, thus optimizing students’ efforts to match course expectations. Current entries for each course are displayed in the Welcome area that the student sees after login. All documents posted by the teacher can provide start and end dates and times. The use of these dates and times for all documents, including tests and assignments, encourages students to allocate time efficiently. Specifically, through the Blackboard platform the students of the IPG access to the home page of IPG and each one school, courses (as the duration, qualifications, learning objectives, methodologies, incoming profile, output profile, career opportunities, programme and course director), IPG information’s(as the welfare services, item health services, item food, item accommodation, item scholarships, item sports and culture, among others), Guarda city information’sand IPG contacts, as well as of each one her school. However, as [30] pointed out, the mere possession of so many resources is not sufficient to achieve competitive advantage. The teachers, students and staff must continuously have new professional education sessions that suggested the focus of offering more information and exchange new ways of doing the tasks and obligations mitigating the error through the process of learning. Also, [31; 32] argue that the learning process promoted by the experience recognizes that IPG may constant learn from errors, poor outcomes and failure and off course this is a challenge that needs to be explain for the experts in ICT learn more effectively than other organizations through such failures. IV. CONCLUSIONThe paper focus in advocating the importance of the recent developments on Information Technologies in Education (ITE), particularly in higher education, to answer students and teacher’sneeds, according to the real time rapidity characteristics of the process of learning and teaching. Also, the authors argue that the improvement of knowledge and skills of students, over the time they study in IPG, grow other join effects of the learning-by-doing process, because they are familiarly with ICT and constant improvements in those best practice in the field of modernity of the Education. The results show that the HEIs, in general, and IPG, in particular, face constant and new challenges, not only to equip students with an adequate education in their field of study, but also to arm them with the skills and knowledge required to leverage technology effectively in the workplace. The globalization and the increase of the business competitiveness have raised the need for organizations to select qualified technicians with expertise in different but complementary areas. For students, the extensively use of the Information Technologies in Higher Education oblige them to deal with some real-life knowledge and skills which enables students to be comfortable with new challenges and reducing the level of embarrassingly on their job. For teachers, these Information Technologies in Higher Education reduce the over-stressing of teaching mere theory and increase the usefulness’ of real-world best practices. At the same time, all these introduce strong needs of new pedagogical strategies design to achieve this interdisciplinary knowledge. For firms, these Information Technologies in Higher Education are essential to reach social and economic sustainable development and thentransform the students with new intellectual capital that keep knowledge and skills highlighted to increasingly endorse the competence of firms. For the society, these Information Technologies in Higher Education emerge new forms of globalization, reduce the asymmetry across regions and countries and because it became popular is crucial to generate new applications and business that it will attract new firms with new products and services. ACKNOWLEDGMENTThe authors wish to thank José Ángel López Pérez of Universidad de Seville (Spain). Also, the current version is a publication supported by the Project PEst-OE/EGE/UI4056/2014a UDI/IPG, finance by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, and the authors are members of the Centro de Investigação de Contabilidade e Fiscalidade. REFERENCES[1] Lazinica, A. and Calafate, C., “Technology Education and Development”. Croatia: InTech, 2009. [2] Moonen, J., “Communication and Information Technologies as Change Agents”, in Information technologies in teacher education: Issues and experiences for countries in transition, Collis, B., Nikolova, I. and Martcheva, K., France: Paris, 1995, pp. 11-23. [3] Moursund, D., “Introduction to Information and Communication Technology in Education”. Oregon (Eugene): Teacher Education, 2005.[4] Bae, J. and Koo, J. , “ Information loss, knwoledge transfer cost and the value of social relations”, Strategic Organization, 6(3), pp.277-258, 2013. [5] Machado, A. L., “ Current status and perspectivesfor education in Latin America”, inInformation and Communication Techonolgies in Education. The School of the Future, Taylor, H. and Hogenbrik, P., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 1-20. [6] Bharadwaj, A.S., “A Resource-Based Perspective on Information Technology Capability and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation”, MIS Quarterly, 24 (1), pp. 169–96, 2000. 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Prospects, 27 (2), pp. 207-222, 2000.
[9] Martín-Blas, T., “E-Learning Plataforms in Physics Education”, in
Technology Education and Development, Lazinica, A. and Calafate, C.,
Croatia: InTech, 2009, pp. 107-121.
[10] Kanovsky, I. and Or-Bach, R., “A Gradual Process for
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