Collaborative Networked Teaching at CEFET/RJ Brazil

Abstract – In the current scenery of markets opening and economical globalization, the enterprises have been facing great challenges to increase their efficiency levels and, like this, they maintain if competitive. In that context, the concepts of collaborative networked appear. The notion of network is nowadays a central issue in many fields including social sciences, communications, computer science, physics, sociology, anthropology and biology. A collaborative network is constituted by a variety of entities (e.g., organizations and people) that are largely autonomous, geographically distributed, and heterogeneous in terms of their operating environment, culture and goal. A large variety of collaborative network have emerge during the last year as a result of the challenges faced by both the business. Nowadays, several courses in the area of Collaborative Networked are already being taught or organized at different universities worldwide. In the long term, the role of education in this field may be relevant towards the establishment of the common knowledge and terminology required for the proper deployment of reference scenarios. In fact, during the last three decades, the information and communication technologies have been playing growing role in organizations, namely as an instrument to support integration and flexibility that collaborative networked need. A discipline of collaborative networked shall focus on the structure, behavior, and evolving dynamics of network of autonomous entities that collaborate to better achiev