Neste slideshow podem ver algumas imagens paralelas do dokeos e do moodle. O que se consegue imediatamente perceber é que o Moodle é um LMS mais complicado de entender mas também mais poderoso. O dokeos está a ser uma boa surpresa, na medida em que exige poucos conhecimentos dos utilizadores, já que rapidamente percebem como funciona. Caso não haja a exigência de funcionalidades mais avançadas, o dokeos revela-se, de facto, um óptimo LMS.

This powerpoint presentation was done for a conference which took place in Braga, Portugal. It’s in Portuguese but I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. I’ll be posting the pdf soon and eventually the translation to English.

Summary: In the last years one has seen a remarkable race in the world of search engines with Google controlling the market and others just trying to keep up. Nonetheless, the attempt at improving these systems dates back to the 40s. Search engines index the information that is available on the Internet to make it more accessible. By giving us access to the information, they are extending some of its power to the user. They organize the digital information from the most relevant to the least relevant using, for that purpose, seriation criteria. It is, therefore, necessary to develop searching strategies for us to create knowledge. If we compare search engines with our own cognition, we can see that there are similarities. This cognitive parallelism makes us reflect about the future of search engines. Will they, eventually, be able to think?