The placements and internships are one of the main paths to get professional background and some skills for students, especially in areas like informatics and computer sciences. The European-funded VALS project tries to promote the virtual placements and establish a new initiative in virtual placements called Semester of Code. This initiative binds higher education institutions, students, companies, foundations and Open Source projects in order to create virtual placements and solve needs that they have in relation with those placements. This paper introduces some projects about virtual placements that other institutions and companies perform, also the paper describes the needs, opinions and considerations about the virtual placements for each stakeholder involved in the placements, to finally explain the design decisions and actions behind the Semester of Code, and how they are intended to get better virtual placements and successful results.
Abstract. This demo paper presents Confer, a tool being developed by the Layers project to support collaborative learning in professional settings. The tool is developed though an innovative process, which combines inputs from theory with analysis of current practice and user feedback on proposed innovation. It guides and supports groups of practitioners through a process of progressive inquiry.
Introduction: In the 21 st Century, medical personnel require electronic and written communication skills in order to communicate with colleagues and patients. These specific skills are seldom taught, as communication skills' teaching and assessment currently emphasises face-to-face, verbal communications. This study aims at teaching some skills required for electronic communication, and evaluating the process. Methodology: We used a specific platform to teach 188 medical and health sciences students, working in groups, to develop e-posters that run as mobile apps, and evaluated the process in terms of resource demands, students' experience (through an online survey), and e-poster quality. Results: From 188 students, a total of 144 students submitted 30 accessible e-posters, and 71 students participated in the survey. The resource demand was equivalent to resource demand for teaching paper poster design and creation. Despite technical problems not related to the platform, the students were able to produce acceptable quality eposters with reasonable effort. Discussion and Conclusion: This study indicates that it is possible to teach medical and health sciences students the basics of e-poster design, and extend their communication abilities into the realm of electronic communication. This bodes well to prepare them to take their place as e-poster creators in a broad range of spheres, especially for academic conferences and patient communication.
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