email: apa@ci.uc.pt

 

 

 

 

Ana Paula Afonso

is a Doctoral student in Educational Sciences, major in Educational Technology, at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. Alongside with her doctoral studies, she is a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Psychology, a Research & Development unit of the same Faculty, since 1999. She obtained her Master degree (M.Sc.) in Educational Sciences, major in Educational Psychology, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2000. She graduated in Educational Sciences, in 1996, at the same University. Her main scientific areas of research interest include Educational Sciences, Educational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management, Web-based Learning; Learning Communities, Systems Information. Her most significant publications are:

  • Figueiredo, A. D.; Afonso A. P. & Cunha, P. R. (2002). Learning and Education: Beyond the Age of Delivery. In UMIST (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education – ICEE2002. Manchester, UK: UMIST. (in press).

  • Afonso, A. P. (2002). E‑Learning in Portugal. Educational Technology & Society, 5 (2), pp. 172-174.

  • Afonso, A. P. (2002). Models for the Development of Learning Contexts: managing learning and knowledge in virtual environments through learning communities. In IEEE (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education – ICCE2002, Vol. II (pp. 1504-1505). Los Alamitos, California : IEEE Computer Society.

  • Afonso, A. P. (2001). Comunidades de aprendizagem: um modelo para a gestão da aprendizagem. In Dias, P. & Freitas, C. (Eds.). Challenges 2001. (Proceedings of the II International Conference on Communication and information Technologies in Education, pp.427‑432). Braga: Universidade do Minho. (In Portuguese: Learning Communities: a model for the management of learning).

  • Afonso, A. P. (2001). Models for the Management of Knowledge in Educational Sites. In Khosrowpour, M. (Ed), Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy (Proceedings of the 12th Information Resources Management Association International Conference, pp. 1195‑1196). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

  • Afonso, A. P. & Figueiredo, A. D. (2000). Web-based learning and the role of context. In IEEE (Eds.), Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues (Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies – IWALT 2000, pp. 270-271). Los Alamitos, California : IEEE Computer Society.

  • Afonso, A. P. (2000). Recommendations for the conception of web-based educational servers. In Restivo, F. & Ribeiro, L. (Eds.), Web-Based Learning Environments (Proceedings of the European Conference WBLE'2000, pp. 132-134). Porto: FEUP Edições.

  • Afonso, A P. (2000). Modelos para a Gestão da Aprendizagem em Ambientes Virtuais. Tese de Mestrado. Coimbra: pp. 245. (Master thesis, in Portuguese: Models for the Management of Learning in Virtual Environments).