Plenary Session - Keynote Speakers
(Monday, December 7^th 2009, 14:30 - 16:30)

Chair: Professor Mario Muñoz - University Carlos III of Madrid - Spain

Room: Manuel D'Oliveira

Mark Stiles - Staffordshire University - United Kingdom
Sustaining Innovation: Influences, Barriers and Possible Answers

Douglas Bernstein - University of Illinois - USA
Was it Good for You, Too?

Session M 1.1 - ICT Integration in Education: Experiences, Proposals and Case Studies
(Monday,  December 7^th 2009, 17:00 - 19:00)

Chair: Professor Mark Stiles - Staffordshire University - United Kingdom

Room: Manuel D'Oliveira

Carmen Alba Pastor and Ainara Zubillaga del Río
University Teaching using ICT: Training Level and Needs Perceived by Faculty Members

J. Ruiz-Carrascosa and J.M. Ortega Tudela
Integration of ICT in Primary and Secondary Schools in Andalusia (Spain)

Bette Chambers, Philip C. Abrami, Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden
Pulling It All Together: A Technology-Supported, Three-Tier Model of Reading Instruction

László Bognár and Tibor Fauszt
The Procedure Demonstrating Disorientation Based on Algorithmic Characteristics of Users’ Paths

Graham Morley
What is the Problem: Gender, Age or Experience? Issues for Primary Teachers with ICT

Ester Baiget and Montse Irun
Introducing Non Verbal Communication in the EFL Classroom: A Proposal

Session M 1.2 - Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Concerns and Early School Leaving
(Monday, December 7^th 2009, 17:00 - 19:00)

Chair: Professor Guillermo Pérez-Bustamante - University of Oviedo - Spain

Room: Stanley Kubrick

Efua Irene Amenyah and Etienne Bourgeois
Impacts of Evaluation Practices on Adult Learners’ Engagement in Training in Literacy Programs

Fátima Barbosa and Maria do Rosário Amaral
Narratives, Shared Cultural Values and Identities in Adult Education

Josje van der Linden and Henrieke Kuiper
Early School Leaving in the Netherlands - ‘Go round the back. That’s what we do.’

James Ogunleye
What about Europe’s other Adult Learners? A Transnational Comparative Study of Lifelong Learning Provision for People with Long-Term Mental Illness

María Pilar García and Francisco Ascón Belver
Use of Blended Learning with Senior Students

Session T 1.1 - Quality Assessment Systems, Learning Disabilities and Overcome Strategies
(Tuesday, December 8^th 2009, 09:00 - 10:30)

Chair: Professor Terence Karran - University of Lincoln - United Kingdom

Room: Steven Spielberg

Nahida Al Assi
College Students’ End-of-Semester Assessment of Instructors’ Performance: Whose Convenience is it When a Survey Questionnaire is the only Assessment Tool?! What can Empowered Heads of Departments do to Ensure Assessment Validity?

Luminita Moraru and Mircea Dragu
Sustainability of Higher Education in Romania through Developing the Quality Assessment System

Bárbara Marques, Isabel Huet and Nilza Costa
Approaches to Quality in Higher Education

Margarita Blanco and Vicente Bermejo
Why are Mathematical Learning Disabilities Invisible?

Seraphin D. Eyono Obono
Finding the Right Summative Assessment Mix for Learning Outcomes: An Algorithmic Approach

S D Nagowah and L Nagowah
Assessment Strategies to Enhance Students’ Success

Session T 1.2 - First Life Journeys and Early Intervention
(Tuesday, December 8^th 2009, 09:00 - 10:30)

Chair: Professor Douglas Bernstein - University of Illinois - USA

Room: Stanley Kubrick

M. J. González, M. Delgado, M. J. Barba and I. Martín
Early Intervention in Reading and Writing: A Longitudinal Study

Charlotte Ringsmose
Language and Learning in Pre-School

Tuula Merisuo-Storm and Marjaana Soininen
How Sixth Graders Comprehend Printed and Online Newspaper Text

Fernanda Nogueira, António Moreira and Ana Pedro
Civic Education in Basic School: Problems and Challenges in the Digital Age

M. Morgado and M.N. Pires
Reading the ‘Other’ Critically: An Analysis of Representations of the Moors and Arabs in Portuguese Children’s Books and Its Implications for Education

Session T 2.1 - Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages
(Tuesday,  December 8^th 2009, 11:00 - 13:00)

Chair: Professor Fernando Teixeira - Polytechnic Institute of Beja - Portugal

Room: Steven Spielberg

Annmarie Gorenc Zoran, Jasmina Starc and Marjan Blažič
Foreign Language CMC Interactions and Differences in Gender

Nahida Al Assi
Can the TOEFL be used as Teaching Material as Well as Assessment Tool in the Intensive English Program?

Rachel Hawkes
Talking to Learn and Learning to Talk: The Role of Teacher Talk and Behaviour Strategies in the Secondary Foreign Languages Classroom

Helena Menezes, Isabel Figueiredo-Silva, Isabel Oliveira, Teresa Gonçalves and Lorena Rodriguez
The CMC_E Project – An E-Learning Environment to Develop Foreign Language Competence in Companies

Sara Servetti
Another Way of Correcting and Revising Grammar: An Experiment with the English Indefinites

P. Jantrasakul
Native and Non-Native English Teachers in English-Mediated Program: Teachers’ Perspective

Session T 2.2 - Cooperative Learning Methods and Knowldge Management
(Tuesday,  December 8^th 2009, 11:00 - 13:00)

Chair: Professor Guillermo Pérez-Bustamante - University of Oviedo - Spain

Room: Stanley Kubrick

Patrícia A. Almeida and Francislê Neri de Souza
Patterns of Questioning in Science Classrooms

Guillermo Pérez-Bustamante Ilander
On the Use of Feature Films to Transmit Entrepreneurial Skills and Values

Reijo Miettinen
From the Culture of Control to Culture of Trust: Curriculum, School Governance and Democracy

Silvia Annen and Daniel Schreiber
The Recognition of Competences as an Institutional Economic Problem – Comparison of Selected National Approaches (France and Germany)

Rosa María Pons, José M. Serrano, Víctor M. Alcántar, Dolores Graciela Cordero, Clotilde Lomeli, Edna Luna, Salvador Ponce, Rubén Roa and Tiburcio Moreno
University Teacher Training Program in Cooperative Learning Methods

C. Lobato, P. Apodaca, M. Barandiaran, M. J. San José, J. Sancho and J. L. Zubimendi
Cooperative Learning at the University and Dimensions of the Competences of Teamwork

LUNCH, EXCURSION AND SOCIAL DINNER

Session W 1.1 - ICT and New Perspectives in Education
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 9:00 - 11:00)

Chair: Professor Mark Stiles - Staffordshire University - United Kingdom

Room: Steven Spielberg

Dorothy DeWitt and Saedah Siraj
Implementation of the Collaborative mLearning Module in Form 2 Science in a Malaysian Secondary School: Learners’ use of Communication Tools

Eleni Tsami
The Use of New Technologies in Teaching Macroeconomics at University in Relation to the Teaching of Microeconomics with the Traditional Mode

Stefano Martellos, Edwin van Spronsen, Dennis Seijts, Núria Torrescasana Aloy, Peter Schalk and Pier Luigi Nimis
Digital Identification Keys to Organisms and User-Generated Content - The KeyToNature Approach

Irfan N. Umar, Nur H. Kamal, Nurullizam Jamiat and Mona Masood
ICT Delivery Systems' Research Trends in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions: A Content Analysis

Sandra Côrtes Moreira and Ignácio Aguaded Gomez
Learning with 'Txting': A Portuguese Case Study

Session W 1.2 - Students' Skills Improvement, Assessment and Concerns
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 9:00 - 11:00)

Chair: Professor Stella Rodrigues - Federal University of Minas Gerais - Brazil

Room: Manuel D'Oliveira

Margarida F. Cardoso and Teresa Correia
Redesigning the Way Basic Biostatistics is Trained to the Undergraduate Degree in Aquatic Sciences: A Blended Learning Approach

Ana Paula Alturas and Bráulio Alturas
Same Content, Different Results: Differentiation in the Assessment between Different Groups of Students

Ana Mª Porto Castro and Mª Josefa Mosteiro García
Differences in Motivations According to University Courses

Raquel Suriá Martínez, Tomás Ordóñez Rubio and Domingo Martínez Maciá
Analysis of Psychological and Educational Counseling Demand at the University of Alicante

Mircea Dragu and Corina Dobrota
Considerations on Forming Didactic Skills in the Students of the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education of Galati, Romania

Session W 1.3 - Pedagogic Requisites and Quality Assessment in E-learning
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 9:00 - 11:00)

Chair: Professor Terence Karran - University of Lincoln - United Kingdom

Room: Stanley Kubrick

E. Katzlinger-Felhofer and U. Windischbauer
Development of Moderation Skills for Online-Tutors

J. Chalke
The Pedagogy of Different Learners’ Needs and the Uses of E-learning

Rosário Cação and António Dias de Figueiredo
Fitness for Use: Present or Future? Insights on Utility as a Primary Dimension of Quality in e-Learning

Liz Frondigoun and Helen Jones
Innovative Teaching: International Connections in the E-Classroom

Ana Balula and António Moreira
eAssessment: What, How and Why?

Plenary Session - Keynote Speaker
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 11:30 - 12:30)

Chair: Professor Mario Muñoz - University Carlos III of Madrid - Spain

Room: Manuel D'Oliveira

Terence Karran - University of Lincoln - United Kingdom
Quality Criteria in Educational Research: Is Beauty more Important than Popularity?

LUNCH

Session W 2.1 - Posters' Session
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 14:00 - 16:00)

Chair: Professor Fernando Ferreira - Polytechnic Institute of Santarém - Portugal

Room: Steven Spielberg

Antonio Miguel Pérez-Sánchez, Alfonso Maldonado-Aparicio, Patricia Poveda-Serra and María Luisa Pertegal Felices
Emotional intelligence, Personality and Motivational Styles - A Differential Analysis between Non Experienced Secondary School Teachers and Non Experienced Primary School Teachers

Alfonso Maldonado-Aparicio, Ana Belén Martínez Vicente and Elena Maldonado Llordén
Implication of the Self in the School Failure of the Children

Maureen Dawson
Promoting Staff Development in Learning, Teaching and Assessment through Communities of Practice

José Valero-Rodríguez, Nieves Gomis-Selva, Antonio Miguel Pérez-Sánchez and Alfonso Maldonado-Aparicio
The Measure of Multiple Intelligences in Primary Education (6 and 7 Years)

Betancor, M., Almeida, A., Ojeda, A., Domínguez, J., Villen, C., Hernández, I, García, A.
Digital ScoreSheet

Joyce Overfield and Carol Ainley
Evaluation of e-Portfolios in Raising Student Awareness of Personal Development Planning and Employability

Session W 2.2 - Technological Innovation and Multimedia in Education
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 14:00 - 16:00)

Chair: Professor Pedro Cravo - Polytechnic Institute of Beja - Portugal

Room: Stanley Kubrick

C. I. Reyes García and F. Sosa Moreno
The Seminar as Didactic Application of the Online Forum

Geoff Hilton
Students Making Science Videos: The Impact of Audience and Rehearsal

R. Maceiras, A. Cancela, A. Sánchez and S. Urréjola
Application of Multimedia Learning Objects in Postgraduate Course

Mark Dawes
Using Dynamic Geometry Software to Create Mathematical Proofs

F. M. Gómez-Campos, S. Rodríguez-Bolívar, J. A. López-Villanueva, A. Godoy, P. Lara-Bullejos, A. Luque-Rodríguez and J. E. Carceller
Three Dimensional Animations for Teaching in a Virtual Laboratory

Session W 2.3 - Teaching and Learning Strategies and Practices
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 14:00 - 16:00)

Chair: Professor Fernando Teixeira - Polytechnic Institute of Beja - Portugal

Room: Manuel D'Oliveira

Nahida Al Assi
The Reading Comprehension Strategies of Good and Poor Comprehenders through the Think Aloud Protocol

Eva Kless
Self-Guided Assignment As a New Way of Learning During Study

S.M. Rodrigues and R.H.F. Campos
Pedagogical Innovation And Educational Success: Implementing Strategies For Cognitive Enhancement Through Literacy For Pupils With Special Educational Needs In Brazil

López Z. Julieta and Arriaga R. Francisco Javier
Problems and Possibilities in Teaching Practices from Innovative Learning Environments

Irene Ng
Using CBAM (Concerns-Based Adoption Model) to Understand the Implementation of the SAIL Approach

Rosa María Hervás Avilés and Ángela Hernández Moreno
Tell me How you Learn and I Will Know How to Teach You. Learning Styles and Gender

Session W 3.1 - Teaching and Tutoring Activities and Teacher Education
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 16:30 - 18:00)

Chair: Professor Stella Rodrigues - Federal University of Minas Gerais - Brazil

Room: Stanley Kubrick

K. Kadi-Hanifi
Why is it Necessary to Keep Thinking about Learning as Teachers?

Maria Luisa Pedditzi
Teacher Stress and Quality of the Mediated Learning Experience

R. Maceiras, A. Cancela, A. Sánchez and S. Urréjola
Use of Active Learning in Higher Education

Lesley Scanlon
Education is so Meant to be about Doing’: Authenticity and Professional Learning in Teacher Education

Sara Azevedo and António Neto-Mendes
A Study on the Use of Private Tutoring in Secondary and Higher Education: Preliminary Results of a Questionnaire

Session W 3.2 - Economic, Social and Cultural Issues in Education
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 16:30 - 18:00)

Chair: Professor Fernando Teixeira - Polytechnic Institute of Beja - Portugal

Room: Steven Spielberg

Isabel Huet, Ana V. Baptista, Dayse Neri de Sousa, Diogo Casanova, Jeanne Schreurs, Danguole Rutkauskiene
A Cross-Cultural Study of Pedagogical Traditions in Four EU Universities

Helen Ebunoluwa Adebola, Jacinta Agbarachi Opara and Nkasiobi Silas Oguzor
Domestic Violence and its Consequences as Perceived by Women in Academics

Helen Ebunoluwa Adebola, Jacinta Agbarachi Opara and Nkasiobi Silas Oguzor
Perceptions of Rural Women towards Modern Family Planning Methods in Owan East of Edo State, Nigeria

Magdalena Moroşanu, Paul Ichim and Andreea Moroşanu
Theoretical and Practical Considerations of Food Habits in Galati District General Population

Maria Amélia Reis, António G. Ferreira, Amanda Rabelo, Graziela Pereira and Maria do Rosário Pinheiro
Gender, Sexuality and Culturality on Teachers' Training and Practices in Portugal and Brazil

Magdalena Moroşanu, Paul Ichim and Andreea Moroşanu
Correlations between Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, Physical Activity and Excessive Weight In Galati District General Population

Harshi Gunawardena, Nigel Bagnall, Steve Georgakis and Rachel Wilson
The Educational and Socio-Cultural Experience of Indian Students at an Australian Metropolitan University: Why Urgent Review is Needed

Closing Ceremony
(Wednesday, December 9^th 2009, 18:00)

Room: Steven Spielberg