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Information overload is a major concern that retrieval systems face. Information is ubiquitous and information resources are frequently used as educational resources, available from many distinct sources. The main issue is to get just the right piece of information that might satisfy our specific needs. Many of these sources organize their resources on a given ontology. However, these are static and do not allow for personalization. This fact degrades the value of the service if there is no easy mental mapping between user specific needs and the general source ontology. Organizing educational resources according to particular needs might increase users' satisfaction and save their time. In this paper we present a methodology to filter and organize information resources according to users' interests, based on content text, granting users with a personalized edition of the resource, especially tailored towards their specific needs. Our experimental results confirm that it is possible to automatically personalize document resources with high precision at a reduced editor workload. We believe that the application of this methodology in an educational setting might contribute to build - or complement - and maintain educational resources and greatly improve their usefulness. Our methodology may be applied to explore and organize a repository of learning objects, according to specific objectives, thus working as a courseware semi-automatic editor. Students themselves might use such a tool to build a course on a specific competence; or to help them collect a set of learning objects that might help in understanding a given concept or how to apply a given technique. Whenever a user, or group of users, wants to be kept informed on some topic, an automatic resource compilation system can be of great value. We may imagine some potential interested parties: organizations, associations and specific interest groups, commercial companies trying to gather information on their market, news wire services, students interested in some subject, to name a few. Nowadays the problem is not to obtain information but to organize it and to extract its intrinsic value in due time. An automatic system, which adapts to user information needs, may be very valuable and potentially interesting to private as well as to professional users. In our work we pretend to automate the content retrieval task in order to reduce editorial effort while improving end-user satisfaction.

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Enhancing the performance of education systems and reinforcing the international attractiveness of Europe's higher education is one of the flagship initiatives of the Euro 2020 strategy. Multinational Undergraduate Team Work (MUTW) is a capstone project course unit focused on improving the employability of students, which is one of the main priorities of the European Higher Education Area for the decade of 2010 to 2020. The purpose of the MUTW project is to create an environment which encourages the development of students' soft skills, such as teamwork and communication, in an international setting by means of an innovative instruction paradigm to improve such skills without expensive and extensive curricular changes. This book is drawn from the experiences of the first phase of the MUTW project during the last two years (September 2009 till October 2011). It consists of 10 chapters, covering areas such as motivation, state-of-the-art approaches, communication and negotiation, report writing and oral presentation, open source software, team communication, pilot experience and outcomes and challenges.Providing a comprehensive view of the MUTW paradigm and its surroundings, this book will be of great value to any institution wishing to set up a similar course unit, as well as being of interest to all those involved in multinational collaboration within the education field.

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Soft skills are getting more and more valuable contributing to improve the employability of students. In the modern economy the need to work with people from different countries and cultures arises very frequently. In this scenario, team work and communication skills in an international environment become highly valuable assets. Nevertheless, despite their value, these skills are usually not trained in undergraduate degrees. MUTW courses fill in this gap without demanding for costly curricula changes. In this chapter we analyze the results from the first MUTW pilot edition. This edition of MUTW involved 21 final-year undergraduate students from 11 higher education institutions belonging to nine European countries. Students were organized in two teams, one with 9 and the other with 12 students, to develop their capstone project. The main outcomes confirm our hypothesis that MUTW improves team work and communication skills in an international setting. The main benefits of MUTW-like projects for the main stakeholders are discussed along with the challenges one is expected to face during such a course unit.

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We believe that a set of tools and curricular activities involving students from different countries, collaborating to complete projects that generate relevant outputs to the community, might improve both students' enthusiasm and their team work and communication skills. That is the mission of the Multinational Undergraduate Team Work project (MUTW). The MUTW methodology is devoted to create and manage future international teams of students who will collaborate in order to develop a solution for a given engineering problem. The methodology encompasses all the timeframe of an edition of MUTW, including preparation of the students' project and its deployment by the teams ofstudents.