RE-li-A platform for curating OERs

The Instituto Educadigital is launching a crowdfunding campaign to finance the creation of a platform for OER called RE-li-A. OERs are teaching, learning, and research resources that are in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free (re)use and remix by others. You…

Industry 4.0 and the technological unemployment

Autor: Sirlei Pitteri   The maturation of digital technologies (CITs) is deeply transforming the worldwide competitive scenario. In 2005 North-American journalist Thomas Friedman addressed this phenomenon as the triple convergence, in which three interconnected and simultaneous events took place: (1) technological innovations available and integrated at global level; (2) the…

Brazilian labor laws – theory and practice

Author: Sirlei Pitteri The ideological burden that Brazilian labor laws have endured along their 70 years of existence has been giving rise to hot debates among groups either favorable or contrary to adapting these laws into a heterogeneous job market, being modified by innumerous factors. The most recent attempt to…