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This paper describes the implementation of the problem-based learning (PBL) method in the Advertising and Public Relations course of the 2nd year of the Marketing degree. PBL is considered a global approach that has been recognized by academics. The results showed that the PBL methodology has similar results among different groups. All groups of students were strongly motivated, except for only one group that did not show this evidence because they did not have enough attendance to take advantage of having teacher mentoring. In general, all students were able to improve collaboration among their peers, as well as communication skills. They also showed evidence of active and autonomous work. Innovation and creativity were evident in the results. In conclusion, the PBL approach can influence students in a positive way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, facing the development of essential competences, presents an experience report in the context of Pedagogy of Projects that was developed in a State School located in the city of Várzea Grande - MT. In Project Pedagogy, it is important to highlight that the student is the center of the process and the teacher becomes the mediator for the pedagogical actions to take place. With the development of social communication skills and abilities for students to be able to speak and write, to know the radio phonic language, to stimulate creativity and self-management, as well as to value the teamwork and the development of speaking in public, we opted to let the students be the protagonists of the radio, assembling the schedule, organizing the daily script, choosing the playlist and doing the presentation of the radio. Thus, the objective of the study was to reflect on the importance of Project Pedagogy in the development of students' competences and of the graduate students that were of the Pedagogical Residency Program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to changes in the demographic, and the consequent aging of the population, it is essential to disseminate ways of bringing health knowledge to the elderly population, primarily to provide active and healthy aging. Thus, this paper reports the experience of actions designed at sharing information about aging with residents of the city of Uruguaiana-RS, Brazil. For this, from the creation of the "HappyAge" project, a partnership was established between an Academic League and a local radio station, as this media reaches different segments of the population and has a prominent role in the democratization of information. The actions were carried out weekly, in a dialogue format, between two students and the radio broadcaster. The chosen topics included themes such as hypertension and diabetes, as well as less explored subjects such as mental health and sexuality in the elderly. The topic definitions occurred together with the teachers involved in the project. At the end of the project, through interaction with the listeners, via digital communication platform, it became evident that there are beneficial effects to the general community when health knowledge is shared. Furthermore, the academics involved were also positively affected, since they deepened their communicative abilities and knowledge construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Steadily, individuals and organizations take available resources in - or accessible through - the digital environment to solve their problems. This demands the mobilization of competences to search and change information, and also to interact with another people in that environment. From a review of literature, this paper discusses: 1) the terminology around the concept of infocommunication competences; 2) the concept in itself; 3) a proposal to get related the competences intrisic to the digital environment. One consider that they can be organized in terms of operational, and information and communication competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: people with autism have impairment in important areas of development such as reciprocal social interaction, communication skills and imaginative capacity. Objective: the aim of this article is to present an update on the autism from the evolutionary background. Method: research sources were books and academic papers about current issues involving the development of people with autism and evolutionary theory. The online sources for research were: Scielo Sagepub BVSPsi and, in special, publications from 2000 onwards. The web portal Google Scholar was used for searching specific items, such as those listed among the references of other articles. Discussion: through the presentation based on extensive arguments to a comprehensive review of the literature (mainly international and current), it was proposed to demonstrate that explanations about the presence of atypical behavior on a basis considering the dimension of human species allow us to take a more global view of the phenomenon (taking into account general aspects of development and autism). Furthermore, considering the history that each experience during development allows us to identify how each person updates the potential that has been produced by long of human evolution. Conclusion: It has been concluded that autism can be better understood if it is taken into account aspects of the phylogeny (survival value for species) and ontogeny (the history of each individual). In effect, this conception allows us to have a more holistic and complex understanding of autism and its relationship with human development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes a project development towards the design and implementation of a University model to infer and analyse the performance quality of the human resources working on the Foundation/University Fernando Pessoa (FFP/UFP). This project also aims the identification and management of the key competencies, based on academic and administrative staff, for an effective productivity enhancement. The implementation of such model, including the underlying information system architecture, should act as a trigger to promote the FFP/UFP as a leading higher education institution. A set of activities were already undertaken in order to fulfil the management model implementation, in which the project group team has been seeking for innovative and multidisciplinary development methods to allow visible and productive results for the Institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]