According to the Strategic Plan of NOVA University Lisbon and aligned with the purpose of attracting, developing and retaining talent at NOVA, NOVA Forma was created, by NOVA Deans’ Council and validated, on October 18, 2018, by NOVA General Council.
NOVA Forma is a strategic platform comprising three areas - NOVA Doctoral School, NOVA Edu_Digital and NOVA Pedagogical Innovation.
This strategic platform has a central mission: to contribute to the quality of education at NOVA. This can be achieved through the promotion of interdisciplinarity and transversal and complementary training of students (from different study cycles), professors in their different pedagogical roles, researchers and non-academic professionals.
For more information, please contact: nova.inov.ped@unl.pt
NOVA Edu_Digital aims to:
NOVA Pedagogical Innovation aims to:
Previous goals are achieved through the following initiatives:
The Pedagogical Training for Faculty Course’s purpose is to promote:
At the end of this course, participants should be able to:
Throughout the course, each participant will have access to a set of recommended materials, exercises and forums.
These materials can be read collaboratively, through the Perusall platform, a tool that allows participants to make digital notes in the shared documents and conduct collective discussions.
This is one of the reasons why we recommend taking the course as a group, although it is possible to participate individually.
The course lasts for 2h30, in case the participant does not go through all the recommended activities and readings. Otherwise, a detailed analysis of the materials may take a few days.
Registration for this course is available through the following link:
When accessing the registration platform, you will have to take the following steps:
If you have a problem accessing the course or other questions, please conctact us through the following email: nova.inov.ped@unl.pt
This course aims to capacitate Program Coordinators to perform their roles more effectively. Given that these Coordinators represent an intermediate leadership structure of the different schools, their valorisation constitutes an important asset for the entire University. The course has two main goals:
For more information, please contact: nova.inov.ped@unl.pt
The Pedagogical Innovation Group (Grupo de Inovação Pedagógica) consisting of professors from the different NOVA schools / institutes. Its mission is:
PIN, Programa de Interobservação da NOVA (NOVA Interobservation Program), is a project from the Pedagogical Innovation Group which consists of peer-to-peer classes observation.
It is a multidisciplinary, voluntary and confidential program in which observers and observed give and receive feedback on given classes. To this end, trios of Professors from a different scientific fields observe and give feedback on concrete aspects of their peers’ classes.
Previously, participants receive training in observation and feedback techniques.
The goals are strictly formative and are not intended for any kind of evaluation.
This project is open to all NOVA Professors.
For more information on this and other projects of the Pedagogical Skills Development Group, please contact:
Paulo Costa – pcosta@unl.pt/ nova.inov.ped@unl.pt
NOVA Inovação Pedagógica created a digital library to help professors (and students) to find books, articles and videos related to teaching and learning. In the different tabs, there are different topics, namely:
The link to this platform is:
https://reitoriaunl.sharepoint.com/sites/NOVATeach
Note: It is necessary to log in to Microsoft, even with a g-mail or other account. You will receive a message: "We are sorry, but you do not have access." Then, you will have to click on the "request access" button. You only have to go through this procedure once. The next time you enter the platform NOVA Teach, you will have to use the same email to access.
Customized support following specific requests: