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The COVID-19 pandemic brought about new challenges to schools' organization leaderships and to school leaders. This study, of qualitative nature, aims at understanding the impact occurred in the area of school management, in pandemic times, from the leaders' perspective, in Portugal. The investigation question is: what prevailed during the remote school management of the leader's team amidst the COVID-19 pandemic time? The sample is a video, with 2 min and 47 s, done by the Leader of a Cluster of Schools, in the North of Portugal, within the context of activities related to affection, promoted by the group of Schools' Libraries, entitled "Month of Affections”, when COVID-19 lockdown was mandatory. The content analysis was done using the webQDA® software. All ethical rules were accounted for. The main results are: (i) adaptation and remote management;(ii) challenges to leadership and (iii) vision for the future. It was concluded that, due to the mandatory social distance, the Leader chose for an active and creative virtual presence (re)qualifying his leadership. The concept of this remote leadership kept the organizational balance, leading his co-workers to achieve the defined objectives. The remote leadership will have to be a dialogical field in the Public Policies of the Ministry of Education and Science in Portugal. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The outbreak of COVID-19 caused a major international public health crisis and led to the imposition of social distancing measures to contain the spread of the virus. In this context, the use of telehealth skyrocketed as the only way to deliver healthcare to patients during a lockdown was remotely. The countries of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula were severely hit by the pandemic and the prospects and challenges associated with widespread adoption of telehealth are unique. The goal of this systematic literature review is to explore how telehealth has been used during the pandemic to prevent, diagnose, treat and control diseases in Ibero-America. Thus, we sought to identify the main keywords, themes, theoretical frameworks and methodologies used by researchers in this area. We used several tools for bibliographic management like Rayyan, VOSViewer and NVIVO and followed the PRISMA protocol. Our analysis of themes showed the existence of 3 nodes within the literature: students, teachers and education. After searching in 6 databases, 1826 articles were found. After excluding the duplicates (231 articles), we screened and read the titles and s of 1595 articles. Only 119 articles met the inclusion criteria. Finally, after a full-text analysis, a final sample of 106 articles was selected for analysis. Spain and Brazil are the countries who have produced the greatest volume of research in the region. The public sector is the largest funder of research on this topic by far especially at national level. Our findings show that the research output in the region of Ibero-America (Latin America and Iberia) on this topic is still relatively small when compared to regions like North America. Copyright © 2023 by Author/s and Licensed by IADITI.
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Few industries were more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic than tourism. One of Europe´s leading tourist destinations, Porto had undergone a major tourism boom until the start of pandemic. Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) is one of the many emerging technologies that has great potential for tourist operators. Using this technology, they can create innovative tourism products that will help them recover from the present crisis. As a result, in this study, we will empirically test the latest version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to explore the factor leading to the adoption Mobile Augmented Reality in Tourism (MART) in Porto. In doing so, we aim to contribute to growing literature on the topic of Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR). The originality of this study lies in the use of an extended UTAUT model with greater predictive power and the exploration of the moderative role of gender, age and experience. To the data obtained from a random sample of 201 respondents who voluntarily answered an anonymous online questionnaire, we applied structural equational modeling and partial least squares (SEM-PLS) analysis to test the model. Our findings show that habit, hedonic motivations and facilitating conditions are the determinants of the use of MART. Copyright © 2022 by Author/s and Licensed by IADITI.
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Before the pandemic, the city of Porto had undergone a boom in tourism and emerged as one of Europe´s most attractive and smartest destinations. Few industries were more disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic than tourism. In the post-pandemic world, mobile augmented reality (MAR) has become increasingly important, yet research on this emerging technology remains scarce. In this study, we will empirically test the UTAUT-3 model to understand the adoption of mobile augmented reality in tourism (MART) in the city of Porto, Portugal. Unlike most IS studies in the field of tourism, this study uses the latest version of the UTAUT model that has superior predictive power. To test this model, SEM-PLS analysis was applied to data obtained from a survey with 101 respondents. We found that respondents do not seem be influenced by prices, the opinions of others, the usefulness nor the effort it takes to use MART. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The promotion and dissemination of cultural heritage, exhibited in Portuguese national museums, are of great importance, mainly in its educational aspect, but also as a foundation for the perpetuation of memory, both for the population in general and, above all, for children, adolescents and young adults. In this article, the main objective is to investigate the digital adaptation, resulting from the technological innovation implemented in six Portuguese national museums, namely in their educational services, as a way to overcome the problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic, problems that were aggravated during periods of lockdown and closure of these museums. We also intend to analyse the problem of accessibility to digital information and to understand how the institutional web contents of these educational services of the museums under study, which depend on the Direção Geral do Património Cultural (Directorate General for Cultural Heritage), comply with the accessibility requirements contained in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as set out in Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and the European Standard EN 17161:2019. The final analysis revealed several weaknesses that affect the interest and motivations of users, given the wide range of museum product offerings. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The SARS-COV 2 disrupted all sectors of the economy and education was no different. We saw a shift in educational paradigm: new technologies were developed, others revised, and new learning formats created. The goal of the present article is to analyze, based on the results obtained from an internal survey, the educational practices used in an IHE of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the pandemic. The methodological structure contemplates a brief literature review, a contextualization of the complex educational environment of Brazilian society and a quantitative analysis of secondary data. As a result, the data we presented allows us to gauge the wide variety of tools utilized and the several distinct forms of the diffusion of teaching used by professors. To maintain the effectiveness of this learning process and to absorb/transmit the necessary knowledge, extra effort from students and professors is needed as well as a redesign of personal and institutional processes. We concluded that the new process that emerged from this period, if well-adjusted and understood by all parts, can reinvent the global education ecosystem. To that end, the introduction of new tools and a cultural shift of institutions, professors and students will allow the constructing of new educational spaces. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.