Dr. André Correa research question focused on “what are the pedagogical mediation skills for biology teachers to integrate ICT into their educational practices efficiently? His finds shows that pedagogical skills for teachers to encourage and motivate students supported by digital technologies are essential to promote the construction of knowledge.

Currently he is an associate lecturer at University of Santa Cruz in Bahia. He was also an associate lecturer, responsible for introducing ICT to pre-service teachers in Science Education at UNESP. He holds BSc in Biology from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), master and doctoral degree in Science Education also from UNESP.

André Correa was a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Okada at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) and participated in various projects:

1.“21st century education” (by Telefonica Foundation) as part of the group COLEARNERS21,

2.“weSPOT ( working with social personal open technologies for inquiry based learning)”, responsible for the first pilot in Biodiversity in Secondary Schools,

3.OER & Social Networks, member of the Scientific Committee

Correa is currently a research collaborator of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU).

His interests include skills and competences for the use of Information and Communication Technologies applied to science teaching for the 21st Century.

Team:

Dr Cintia Rabello, Dr Mikroyannidis, Dr Alexandra Okada

Publication:

Mikroyannidis, A., Okada, A., Correa, A.L. and Scott, P. (2020) Inquiry-Based Learning on the Cloud, in eds. Lee Chao, Handbook of Research on Cloud-Based STEM Education for Improved Learning Outcomes, pp. 291-310, IGI Global

Corrêa, A. L., & Caldeira, A. M. D. A. (2017). Proposta de competências necessárias para o ensino de Ciências e Biologia em atividades mediadas por TIC. Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, Florianópolis, Atas do XI ENPEC Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências. Santa Catarina: ABRAPEC.

Mikroyannidis, A., Okada, A., Correa, A.L. and Scott, P. (2016) Inquiry-Based Learning on the Cloud, in eds. Lee Chao, Handbook of Research on Cloud-Based STEM Education for Improved Learning Outcomes, pp. 291-310, IGI Global

Corrêa, A. L. (2015). O ensino de ciências e as tecnologias digitais: competências para a mediação pedagógica.

Correa, A.L., Rabello, C. and Okada, A. (2014) Reliability of web-based information in inquiry projects, EC-TEL 2014 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Graz, Austria, Springer

Correa, A.L. and Okada, A. (2013) Co-Inquiry game about Biodiversity in the Garden, International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Dr. Raquel Kowalski developed a novel educational approach to design and design practice supported by project-based learning for Responsible Research and Innovation.

This study was developed at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University under Dr. Okada supervision.

Dr. Kowalski holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, a master and doctoral degree in Education from the Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR).

She is currently a lecturer at PUCPR. She is a researcher of Design in school of Architecture and Design at PUCPR and also at FAE in Curitiba/Brazil. Her research interests includes: technology, design and education.

News:

ENGAGE wins the 2017 OER & Project Awards for Open Education Excellence!

Team:

Dr. Alexandre Costa, Dr. Claudio Kirner, Dr. Patricia Torres, Dr. Alexandra Okada

Project:

ENGAGE, CONECT

Publication:

Okada, Alexandra; Kowalski, Raquel Pasternak Glitz; Kirner, Claudio and Torres, Patrícia Lupion (2019). Factors influencing teachers’ adoption of AR inquiry games to foster skills for Responsible Research and Innovation.Interactive Learning Environments, 27(3) pp. 324–335.

Kowalski, Raquel P. G. Metodologia de projeto para o ensino de design: uma proposta de aprendizagem colaborativa na perspectiva da pesquisa e inovação responsáveis. Tese doutorado – Pontifícia universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2018.

Torres, Patricia Lupion; Santos, Katia Ethiénne Esteves dos; Kowalski, Raquel Pasternak Glitz and Okada, Alexandra (2017). Experience of Environmental Education using Responsible Research and Innovation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in the European Project Engage.Revista Diálogo Educacional, 17(55) pp. 1530–1554.

Torres, P., Fialho, N., Kowalski, R. and Okada, A. (2016) Responsible Research and Innovation for the Media Facebook: Community Involvement in the Study on Agrobiodiversity, Creative Education, 7, pp. 2141 – 2150

Okada, A., Costa, A.M., Kowalski, R., Torres, P., Nakayama, M. and Souza, K. (2016) Open Educational Resources for Responsible Research and Innovation: a case study with Brazilian universities and schools, International Conference on Responsible Research in Education and Management and its Impact. London 2016

Priscila Costa está completando a pesquisa de doutorado com foco em Políticas Públicas Educacionais e Redes Sociais da Internet: perspectivas de associações. Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar as associações entre atores presentes nas Redes Sociais da Internet com potencial de favorecer a formação de políticas públicas educacionais. Priscila completou sua visita na Open University 2018 – 2019 e defesa será em breve

Luziana Quadros está desenvolvendo a pesquisa de doutorado sobre Educação em Rede para Pesquisa e Inovação Responsáveis. O estudo visa compreender os elementos essenciais para formação de redes de parcerias para promover aprendizagem e construção do conhecimento apoiada por mídias. Sua visita na Open University foi adiada por causa da pandemia.

Dr. Cintia Rabello examined teachers’ professional development to foster key competences in the digital age.

Her study was developed at the Open University – Knowledge Media Institute under Dr. Okada’s supervision. Dr Rabello is Bachelor of Arts (Portuguese-English) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Bachelor of Arts (Portuguese-English) from Universidade Santa Úrsula. She holds a Master degree in Educational Technology in Health Sciences by the Center for Educational Technology for Health (NUTES-UFRJ) with the dissertation entitled Learning in Distance Education: Difficulties of Biological Sciences Degree Students in Blended Learning Modality and PhD in Linguistics Applied by the Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (PIPGLA-UFRJ) with a thesis entitled Digital technologies and higher education: an experience of teacher’s professional development at UFRJ.

Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages ​​at the Institute of Letters of the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and researcher at the Center for Critical Studies in Languages, Education and Society (NECLES) and Research Center on Language, Education and Technologies (Lingnet / UFRJ).

Dr Rabello is a research member of the Colearn Learning Community at the Open University – UK. Her research interests focuses on foreign language teaching and learning, teacher training, digital technologies, digital culture, online education and social networks.

Projects:

weSPOT

Team:

Dr Andre Correa, Dr Giselle Ferreira, Dr. Alexandra Okada

Publication:

RABELLO, C. R. L. Tecnologias digitais e ensino superior: uma experiência de desenvolvimento profissional docente na UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro: 2015. Tese (Doutorado em Linguística Aplicada). Programa Interdisciplinar de Pós-Graduação em Linguística Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

RABELLO, C. R. L.; OKADA, A. . Coaprendizagem e desenvolvimento profissional docente em ambientes abertos massivos. Revista e-Curriculum (PUCSP), v. 12, p. 2095-2118, 2014.

CORREA, A. L.; RABELLO, C. R. L.; OKADA, A.. Reliability of Web-Based Information in Inquiry Projects. In: 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 2014, Graz. Open Learning and Teaching in Educational Communities, 2014. v. 8719. p. 385-390.

OKADA, A.; RABELLO, C. R. L.; FERREIRA, G.. Developing 21st century skills through colearning with OER and social networks. In: European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN), 2014, Oxford. Book of Abstracts: Challenges for Research into Open & Distance Learning – Doing Things Better? Doing Better Things. Budapest: European Distance and E-Learning Network, 2014. p. 121-130.

Dr. Sonia Pinto investigated inclusive education in network to foster digital literacy. She developed a CPD model based on Social Network and Knowledge Mapping to foster ICT skills to enable the (re)construction and sharing of knowledge by disadvantaged youth of Telecentros in Brazil.

This study was developed at the Open University – Knowledge Media Institute under the supervision of Dr. Okada. Dr. Pinto is graduated in Pedagogy at the Catholic University of Salvador – Bahia and holds a Master’s Degree in Education and Contemporaneity at the University of Bahia (UNEB) and a Doctoral degree at the Federal University of Bahia – Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Knowledge Diffusion (DMMDC-UFBA).

Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bahia. She coordinated a project on digital literacy with young people at Telecentros.BR, which is a program of the Federal Government of Brazil whose aims focus on digital inclusion and social innovation for disadvantaged learners. She was a visiting pos-doctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute – Open University – UK (KMi-OU) and examined students’ argumentation during ENGAGE project under the supervision of Dr. Okada.

She is currently a member of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and was a representative of the Digital Literacy Training Programme of the Secretary of Digital Inclusion of Brazil Government. Her research interests include the areas of digital literacy, inclusion, scientific literacy, networked learning, knowledge mapping, education and technology and distance learning.

News:

• An inspiring conference for the majority of science educators

• 13th PCST 2014 in Brazil: Inquiry Based Learning and Science communication through weSPOT

• Best Paper

Projects:

weSPOT, ENGAGE, CONNECT

Team: Dr. Sonia Pinto, Dr. Karine Rocha, Dr. Okada

Publication:

Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2015) Key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in two open platforms: a massive portal (EDUCARED) and a personal environment (weSPOT), Open Praxis International Journal, 7, 1, International Council for Open and Distance Education

Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S., Pinto, S. and Okada, A. (2014) A utilização de REA na Universidade Aberta do Brasil, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, Lisboa-Portugal

Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2014) Competências-Chave para coaprender em ambientes abertos massivos, RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Superior a Distancia (AIESAD)

Okada, A., Pinto, S. and Ribeiro, S. (2014) Scientific Literacy through co-Inquiry based on non-formal and informal learning, PCST2014 – 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference, Salvador-Brazil

Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Barros, D., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2014) Competencias-clave para coaprender y coinvestigar en la era digital en entornos abiertos y massivos, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Open Educational Resources and Social Networks, 2nd edition, 933162227, S. Luis: EDUEMA

Pinto, S., Ribeiro, S. and Okada, A. (2013) Formação em rede para inclusão digital de educadores de telecentro, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, 6 – 7 de Dezembro de 2013, Lisboa-Portugal

Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2013) Competências-Chave na era digital para coaprendizagem e coinvestigação, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, Lisboa-Portugal

Okada, A., Pinto, S., Ribeiro, S. and Serra, A.R.C. (2013) Desarrollo de competencias esenciales en la Cibercultura con co-aprendizaje basado en co-investigación, Sexto Congreso Internacional de Aprendizaje y Cibersociedad, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Dr. Karine Souza examined the impact of networks on the economy (e-economy sector, especially creative economy) including the educational innovation in mobile and ubiquitous territories. She developed a model to foster skills for co-entrepreneurship and social innovation.

This study was developed under Dr. Okada’s Supervision at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, where Dr. Souza collaborated to the weSPOT European project by developing a co-inquiry on entrepreneurial learning with students and lecturers from Portugal and Brazil.

Dr. Pinheiro holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Planning from the University of Ceara (UECE), doctoral degree in Educational Technology from the University of Minho – Portugal, post-doctoral degree in Social Sciences at Aveiro University in Portugal and a BA in Linguistics from UECE.

She worked in the deployment of Educational Technology Centers (NTE) with PROINFO, a Program from the Ministry of Education in Brazil and was an advisor for Public Policies in Education and Technology. Her experience includes managing ODL programs, acting on the themes of digital inclusion, virtual environments, instructional design, articulation of technological projects and entrepreneurship networks.

Currently, Karine Pinheiro coordinates the Digital Design Agents (UFCVirtual). She is also an international researcher member of the Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU).

She received an ICT award from the Ministry of Culture (BR) for Notice Creative Economy in the category of Training Creative Skills for the “Brazil RiverWalk Project” in partnership with the University of Michigan (USA). Her research interests includes: digital inclusion, entrepreneuship network, instrucional design.

News:

First thesis using weSPOT: ICT and Entrepreneurship – new paradigms…

Projects:

weSPOT

Team:

Dr Andre Correa, Dr Claudia Machado, Dr Bento Silva, Dr Alexandra Okada

Publication:

Souza, K. ; Machado, A. C. T. . (2018). Redes Sociais: itinerância no âmbito da unidade curricular de Didática. INDAGATIO DIDACTICA , v. 10, p. 151, 2018

Souza, K; Silva, R.; Abreu,P. (2018) Ciência na praça: um diálogo com a responsabilidade e inovação na pesquisa. Revista e-curriculum, v. 16, p. 315, 2018.

Okada, A., Costa, A.M., Kowalski, R., Torres, P., Nakayama, M. and Souza, K. (2016) Open Educational Resources for Responsible Research and Innovation: a case study with Brazilian universities and schools, International Conference on Responsible Research in Education and Management and its Impact. London 2016

Souza, K., Okada, A. and Silva, B. (2014) Competences For Co-Entrepreneurship: contribution to the understanding of the concept for Entrepreneurial education, International Congress on Education, Innovation and Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Silvar Ribeiro investigated the process of managing knowledge to support distance education using educational mapping technologies.

This study focused on the collaborative network management of the Brazilian Open University System using knowledge mapping. This study was extended during his post-doctoral research centred on the development of key competences in the digital age. Both studies were supervised by Dr. Alexandra Okada at the Knowledge Media Institute – Open University – UK (KMi).

Dr. Ribeiro is Associate Professor of the Multi-Institutional and Multidisciplinary Doctorate Program (DMMDC-UNEB / UFBA / LNCC / UEFS / IFBA / SENAI); Coordinator of Laboratory of Profissional Development UNEB-DCHT-XIX; Leader of the Research Group Management Education Science and Technologies for Social Inclusion and Vice-Coordinator of the Research and Extension Center of the University of the State of Bahia – Department of Human Sciences and Technologies – Campus XIX, municipality of Camaçari.

Dr Ribeiro holds BSc in Pedagogy from the Catholic University of Salvador – Bahia, a master degree in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, doctoral degree from the Federal University of Bahia at the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Knowledge Diffusion (DMMDC-UFBA).

Ribeiro is a research member of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and was a representative of the Digital Literacy Training Programme of the Secretary of Digital Inclusion of Brazil Government.

His interests includes: responsible research and innovation, technologies of information and educational management, dissemination of knowledge, digital inclusion, educational resources, open education and online learning.

Team: Dr. Sonia Pinto, Dr. Karine Rocha, Dr. Okada

Projects: weSPOT, ENGAGE, CONNECT

News:

An inspiring conference for the majority of science educators

13th PCST 2014 in Brazil: Inquiry Based Learning and Science communication through weSPOT

Best Paper

Publication: Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2015) Key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in two open platforms: a massive portal (EDUCARED) and a personal environment (weSPOT), Open Praxis International Journal, 7, 1, International Council for Open and Distance Education

Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S., Pinto, S. and Okada, A. (2014) A utilização de REA na Universidade Aberta do Brasil, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, Lisboa-Portugal

Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2014) Competências-Chave para coaprender em ambientes abertos massivos, RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Superior a Distancia (AIESAD)

Okada, A., Pinto, S. and Ribeiro, S. (2014) Scientific Literacy through co-Inquiry based on non-formal and informal learning, PCST2014 – 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference, Salvador-Brazil

Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Barros, D., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2014) Competencias-clave para coaprender y coinvestigar en la era digital en entornos abiertos y massivos, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Open Educational Resources and Social Networks, 2nd edition, 933162227, S. Luis: EDUEMA

Pinto, S., Ribeiro, S. and Okada, A. (2013) Formação em rede para inclusão digital de educadores de telecentro, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, 6 – 7 de Dezembro de 2013, Lisboa-Portugal

Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2013) Competências-Chave na era digital para coaprendizagem e coinvestigação, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, Lisboa-Portugal

Okada, A., Pinto, S., Ribeiro, S. and Serra, A.R.C. (2013) Desarrollo de competencias esenciales en la Cibercultura con co-aprendizaje basado en co-investigación, Sexto Congreso Internacional de Aprendizaje y Cibersociedad, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Ribeiro, S., Okada, A. and Rocha, C. (2013) Gestão Colaborativa em Rede: Mapeamento das Práticas Inovadoras no Processo de Institucionalização da Educação a Distância na Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Poster at Challenges 2013 – VIII Conferência Internancional de TIC na Educação, Braga, Portugal

Dr. Izabel Meister examined the construction of knowledge through social networks supported by data visualisation with recommendations for distance education and pedagogical architecture of virtual teaching and learning environments.

This study was developed during her PhD internship at the Open University KMi under the supervision of Dr Alexandra Okada.

Dr Meister is currently lecturer at the Federal University of São Paulo-UNIFESP, which is an Institution part the Open University of Brazil – UAB.

She holds a master and doctoral degree in Education, Art and Cultural History, BSc in Architecture and Urbanism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (1991) with Specialisation in Communication Theory and Practice of Audiovisual (1998) and BSc in Technology Management and Publishing from United Metropolitan Colleges (2004), São Paulo.

Dr Meister is a research collaborator of COLEARN (OU-UK), researcher of EDUTECHI Group on Education, Technology and Hypermedia (UPM Brazil) and CEMRI Center for the Study of Migration and Intercultural Relations (OU PT).

Team:

Dr Daniela Barros, Dr. Alex Mikroyannidis, Dr Suzanne Little and Dr Alexandra Okada

Project Collaboration:

OpenScout

News:

• The third edge: knowledge in social networks, book launched in Brazil

• KMi in the top ORO charts

• Congratulations to Dr. Izabel Meister

• OpenScout successfully completed

Publication:

Meister, I.(2014). Terceira margem: o conhecimento nas redes sociais. São Paulo: Ed Mackenzie.

Okada, A., Meister, I., Mikroyannidis, A. and Little, S. (2014) ‘Colearning’ – Collaborative Open Learning through OER and Social Media, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Collaborative Open Learning through OER and Social Media, 2nd edition, ISBN 9788582270295

Okada, A., Meister, I., Mikroyannidis, A. and Little, S. (2014) Coaprendizagem através de REA e Redes Sociais, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Open Educational Resources and Social Networks, 2nd edition, 9788582270295

Okada, A., Meister, I., Mikroyannidis, A. and Little, S. (2014) Co-aprendizaje atraves de REA y Medios de comunicacion Social, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Open Educational Resources and Social Networks, 933162227, S. Luis:

EDUEMA

Okada, A., Meister, I. and Barros, D. (2013) Refletindo sobre avaliação na era da co-aprendizagem e co-investigação, 1st International Conference on Assessment and Technologies in Higher Education – CATES 2013, Portugal

Okada, A., Meister, I., Mikroyannidis, A. and Little, S. (2013) Coaprendizagem através de REA e Mí­dias Sociais, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Open Educational Resources and Social Networks: colearning and professional development, ISBN 9788582270226, S. Luis:

EDUEMA

Okada, A., Meister, I., Mikroyannidis, A. and Little, S. (2013) ‘Colearning’ – Collaborative Open Learning through OER and Social Media, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Open Educational Resources and Social Networks, ISBN 9788582270226, pp. 368, S. Luis: EDUEMA

Meister, I. P. (2012). A tecitura do conhecimento nas redes sociais: habitat das inteligências coletivas.

Okada, A. and Meister, I. (2012) OpenScout Tool-Library: integrating people, resources and stories, Journal – Contemporary education and technology (IST) – Training for virtual environments: curriculum and educational processes., 1, 2, pp. 86-96

Okada, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Meister, I. and Little, S. (2012) ‘Colearning’ – Collaborative networks for creating, sharing and reusing OER through social media, Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education, Cambridge, UK

Meister, I., Okada, A. and Mikroyannidis, A. (2012) An OER collaborative environment: Openscout Tool Library and Colearn Community, IADIS International Conference e-Society 2012, Berlin, Germany