Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology

Chapter 1: Relevance analysis for the offering of a Doctorate program in Computer Science in Ecuador.- Chapter 2: Epistemological justification for the offer of the Master's degree in Information Security in Ecuador.- Chapter 3: Sustainable learning and the difficulties of integral child development: Case study in children of an educational center in Cuenca, Ecuador.- Chapter 4: Student Academic Behavior Attributes: First Phase.- Chapter 5: Good teaching practice. Teach through role play.- Chapter 6: Diagnosis of Brain Tumors using a Convolutional Neural Network.- Chapter 7: Safety and Occupational Health Management System in mining to reduce fatal accidents in the Mining Industry.- Chapter 8: Understanding the Dynamics of Gross and Informal Employment clusters.- Chapter 9: E-government and the fight against corruption in Latin America.- Chapter 10: MENTORING AS A TOOL FOR STRENGTHENING MANAGEMENT COMPETENCES.- Chapter 11: Critical thinking in postgraduate degree work at the Israel Technological University, Ecuador.- Chapter 12: Parallelism of Physical and Simulated Industrial Communication Network Development. etc.

Anabela Mesquita is Professor at the Porto Accounting and Business School/Polytechnic of Porto since 1990, Vice Dean between 2007 and 2018, President of the SPACE European network, Member of the Algoritmi Research Centre (Minho University), and Former Director of CICE (Research Centre for Communication and Education). She is Member of MAERA and President of the External Evaluation Committee for the A3ES (Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation in Higher Education) in the area of Executive Management. She has been (and is) involved in many European and national research projects both as Researcher and as Coordinator. She has published numerous papers in various international journals and conference proceedings. She is Member of the Programme Committee and Scientific Committee of several national and international conferences. She serves as Member of the Editorial Board and Referee for IGI Global. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Information Resources Management Journal, isCo-editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction and Associate Editor of Helyion. She has also been Evaluator and Reviewer for Erasmus+ National Agency and European Commission projects. Her interests include education, e-learning, technologies and information systems, knowledge management, innovation and intellectual capital.

António José Abreu Silva is Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto and received Post-doctorate in Information Technologies and Systems, at the University of Coimbra, Department of Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Ph.D. in Software Engineering based on reusable components with Human-Machine Interface applications, at the University of Vigo, Master in Management Informatics at the University of Minho and Degree in Informatics Applied Mathematics by the Lusíada University. He is currently Lecturer