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In this paper, we focus on online learning. Our goal is to point out the modern tools used currently in an online business, where the products or services are the online courses. The evolution of IT over the past years allows us to develop online learning, independent of the location and the number of people involved in the different activities (learning, teaching, management, etc.). We point out the necessary tools used for building such an online activity (web hosting, e-learning platforms, website-building soft...

The problem of developing a professional culture model is acute in the university language course which trains future professionals as prospective participants of cross cultural communication in a professional context. Such a model will help the educator to present a microcosm of the target culture which possesses systematic character of its organization and contents. Systematic approach and information-semiotic approach have been applied in the research to develop a methodological model of a professional culture....

The education of the social work and the recent history of the profession are approaching the 25th anniversary in Romania. The aim of the present paper is to offer a comprehensive review of the social worker profession in Romania. Although it describes the major milestones of the profession, it also points out the different problems the profession is confronting. The analysis incorporates three areas: educational, legal and societal. The paper concludes that despite of the experience accumulated, the education of ...

The present paper is radiography of the rights of the students in Romania, like a UE country, concerning the University Chart, the Education National Law nr1/2011, the internal university Regulations and the principle of the autonomy in the University in front with the quality management responsibility. The responsibility of legislation, the analyses of the terms social responsibility and the right definition of the Deming model PDCA for the demands of the social responsibility standard SA800 are good priorities. ...

The increased level of international contacts has led the education systems worldwide to further creation of the common international education space. The Russian higher education system, in its turn, following the modern tendencies continues providing foreign students with opportunities to study in Russia. Under the new conditions, the modern ways of improving the quality of education the foreign students get studying in Russia are being searched for. The pre-sessional stage of the higher education is thought one...

The problem of development of research competence of the younger generation, regardless of where they live is especially relevant for rural areas of Siberia and the Far East, taking into account the scale of these regions. As a tool to solve this problem, we offer a network research СЃommunity that brings together students and teachers of the Pedagogical University and the students and teachers of secondary schools. This paper presents the results of the investigation of the factors influencing the efficiency of t...

Background. In Romania, the current knowledge regarding primary school children psychomotor development has a had multi-gapped approach, due to the fact that, until 2011, physical education in primary schools was not taught by physical education teachers. The outstanding differences observed between the trained and untrained children show with accuracy that, although coordination abilities are largely genetically determined and are considered having a low prospects of changing through training, the development pot...

Distance training of translation skills provides a great variety of possibilities for future technical specialists and postgraduates. The aim of the study is to analyze the ways of mastering the speaking skills of technical specialists in a distant form with overcoming difficulties existing in modern teaching practice. The research is conducted based on educational program “Translator in the sphere of professional communication” which is successfully realized in Kazan Federal University in a distant form as we...

This paper explicates results of a cross-sectional study on internalized and externalized disorders conducted in 2014 with 314 adolescents from Croatia. The results show multiple significant differences with boys reporting more physical (p\textless,001) and verbal aggression (p\textless,01), delinquent (p\textless,001) and drug abusive behavior (p\textless,01), while girls report higher depression levels (p\textless,05). Older adolescents reported significantly higher physical aggression (p\textless,01) and delinq...

This article is devoted to research of functioning of the Tatar language as state one in the 20s-30s of the XX century. In work definite purposes and problems of realization of the Tatar language, the main stages of this process are allocated and characterized. Language functioning in national commissariats and public institutions, and also in various educational institutions of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR) has been studied. The main difficulties complicating functioning of the Tatar lang...

Group work and instruction are the most crucial points of teaching and learning. The usage of multimedia in instruction today has a great importance in school life. Orbis Pictus of Comenius and the Devew School have already proved this. This paper will deal with group work and the usage of short films in instruction in secondary schools. The research in this respect includes various different research techniques such as direct observation, surveys, experiments, etc. By the direct observation with participation we ...

The new technology transform creative processes into colecting fragments of data and re-asembling it into new pieces. The viewpoint from the material thinking pattern is changed into the immaterial one. The big amount of data presented in the virtual medium has a big impact to the creativity model used in design education. Under these circumstances, the tools used for the knowledge transfer have changed. I am going to present a model I have used with my students in my workshop in order to generate material solutio...

Introduction: In view of the growing popularity of e-learning as a method of education in the medical field, the applied educational tool of e-learning has become increasingly important. One modern example is the educational tool "the case of virtual patient with bedsores", which incorporated the use of e-learning with the regular curriculum. Objective: Assessment of the quality and effectiveness of teaching nursing students with the use of an educational tool in form of "the case of virtual patient with bedsores"...

Ethical education in Slovakia is one of the youngest school subjects in state curriculum. Authors of Slovak ethical education are Spain psychologist R. R. Olivar and Slovak educator Ladislav Lencz. Ethical education became part of the state curriculum for secondary education in 1993 and for primary education in 2004. The main problem of Ethical education in Slovakia is experiment which has never been evaluated and has never been described impact of the subject at pupils' personality. In this context, there was oft...

The linguistic landscape research of the city of Kazan presented in modern public signage and advertisements show a strong tendency to westernization. The сognitive and onomasiological analysis of the ergonyms, a class of urban toponyms designating social institutions collected in the city of Kazan from 2010 to 2014 demonstrated various lexical blends, †contamination' of the state languages (Russian and Tatar), appearance of new concepts which are likely to lead to changes in ideological and cultural values of ...

Values education is inseparable part of educational process. In this article, the partial results of research, which will be focused on Values Education of pupils from second grade of basic schools, will be summarized. One of the tools of this type of education is also reading the texts with stories with child and adolescent heroes. These stories provide young readers inspiration for dealing with their own life situations and crises, they provide them the source of motivation for adoption of important values and t...

The study aims to investigate the perception of the physical education teachers concerning the use of the audiovisual technologies in shaping the motor skills. This transversal research took place during the period 2009-2010 in schools of the urban and rural area. The use of the audiovisual technologies in order to optimize and improve the efficiency of the practice of physical exercises, and of the shaping of sports habits, was the subject of the elaboration and application of a survey addressed to the specialist...

Background: Experimental mathematics is a new area of modern mathematics. The main feature of this field is obtaining mathematical results by means of computer experiments. Many facts show that statements of problems in the field of experimental mathematics are effective tool of teaching gifted students at school and university. The purpose of present paper is to show that using computer experiments generates some problems that should be solved as soon as possible. Methods: We obtained the list of these problems b...

The main purpose of this study which is named †The Meaning of Human Rights and the Teaching of Human Rights in Elementary Education' is to analyze how the concept of human rights is approached, taught and passed on in training programs in Turkey. The study is made up of two main sections except the sections of †Introduction' and †Conclusion'. The first section the title of which is †Human Rights' analyzes the concept of human rights with its academic perspectives. The second section, The Teaching of Human ...

The notion of “academic leader” refers to all the roles a teacher should play in order to make teaching efficient, informing, dynamic, motivating, pleasant and stimulating for students who should be eager to discover more about the taught subject. The purpose of this methodological paper is to present nowadays academic teaching from the point of view of integrating modern technology and teaching strategies. Because teaching a foreign language involves the development of multiple skills, what are the techniques...

Nowadays, in a time of rapid expansion of large amounts of information, it is necessary to use information systems in almost all spheres of life, including the education process. Building a large information system is an extensive and complex process and is usually implemented through projects. Using information systems in educational institutions automates the delivery of teaching materials, facilitates information exchange and communication in general, and simplifies the recording and evaluation. In the last thi...

The purpose of the research was to develop and implement self-study support materials to facilitate the French for Specific Purposes (FSP) curriculum implementation in mixed-speciality groups of engineering students. The context in which the course emerges and characteristics of mixed-speciality groups of engineering students are given in the paper. It is concluded that students have to get the majority of work hours through self-study. The authors hypothesized that such self-study support materials should be deve...

Authors of the paper focus on research of written expressions of youngest language graphic system users; it means children aged 7 - 9. Conception of the research survey and its theoretical base is built on the present unsatisfactory state of the written expression of young generation that often misses thought and communicational coherence and thus whole meaningfulness. Our objective is to describe basic coherence means of text elements of pupils at elementary school who do not know all the syntactic rules and work...

The contemporary advanced world is representative of the increased interest in continuing professional education. The environment in which today's specialists work and continue their education is ever more volatile, more demanding, and more critical of possible mistakes; therefore, specialists are constantly forced to expand their knowledge and improve their occupational skills. In everyday life, the formal and non-formal learning ranks among the most common categories of continuing professional education, which d...

Elite Engineering Educational program (EEEP), implemented in Tomsk Polytechnic university (TPU) in 2004 creates the conditions for personal and interdisciplinary competencies formation and provide an opportunity to apply them in practice. The article contains analysis and recommendations to IT that can be involved in project activities while training technical specialists as well as monitoring of the competences formed during the educational process.

As part of this research we therefore wanted to determine which competencies are necessary to support inclusive environment. For the present investigation we used a research technique that we call "5P" (5positive features). In the three-member team, we have observed common teaching lessons in schools that are according to their school curriculum declared as inclusive schools. Simultaneously, these schools decided to cooperate with our faculty and to support arguments self-analysis and self-evaluation of the pedago...

Transdiscursive communication between an expert and nonexpert presupposes processes of special knowledge transfer and acquisition. Asymmetrical levels of communicants' knowledge cause ambiguity in term conceptualization during communication. This paper introduces direct metaphor as an efficient linguistic tool for term disambiguation and leads to improving transdiscursive knowledge communication.

In this paper, we introduce a summary of the terms of inclusive education in primary education. We present the selected results of a case study in which we focused on the conditions and processes of inclusive education in one outstanding school. In this paper we describe the research methodology of the whole research, but in the interpretation of the results due to the limitations of the paper we focus only on selected conditions (organizational) that have a significant impact on the quality of inclusion in the sc...

The Czech Republic has joined and actively pursued the outcomes of the UNESCO 2nd World Art Education Conference on artistic education, held in Seoul in 2010, and the follow-up documents. For over 10 years, the Czech Different Hearing programme has been implemented in the spirit of these outcomes. The programme is unique in the Czech Republic in terms of its focus, strives to find new ways of extending the traditional model of school and out-of-school music education to encompass activities aimed at nurturing crea...

Background: Studies on the modern society we live in reveal that people have an increasingly saturated cognitive environment but socio-emotionally deprived. Systematic analyzes of the educational process demonstrate, complementary, the maintenance of a gap between the educational cognitive environment and the socio-emotional environment, influenced by the social-familial context. Through this study we proposed the creation of an educational program by means of which to balance both areas, involving two of the key ...

The Faculty of Economics of the University of South Bohemia in ДЌeske BudД›jovice launched its own model of providing foreign language education two years ago. This model consists of three steps: entrance exams, which identify students with a lack of knowledge of languages needed for studying at the faculty, compulsory lessons with a final test, and optional courses focused on professional language (which means mostly economics and business). Teaching in compulsory and optional courses matches the international st...

In the field of education in Kosovo there are taking place various reforms. These reforms are closely connected with general development of science, technology, and information technology. Especially ICT (Information and Communication Technology) is being paid a special attention because today, without the use of ICT cannot be imagined an overall development of a modern society. Since the technology is accepted as something inevitable in the education system there are becoming preparation and rehabilitation effort...

The paper describes a psycholinguistic experimental research of word-to-word code-switches performed by native Komi-Permyak – Russian bilinguals learning a foreign (English) language in classroom settings. Peculiar features of switches between the three languages and their non-equivalent distribution in bilingual consciousness are discussed.

The article summarizes the best practices of integration of education and business as a decisive factor in Russia's transition to an innovative economy. The article reveals the mechanism of realization of partnerships and its benefits. The article examines the impact of cooperation between universities and business to improve the quality of engineering education in the road construction industry.

This article analyses traditional and modern forms and methods of higher education that are implemented as a common part of educational process at universities and colleges. The main goal of this study is to determine current priorities in these methods and forms and to characterise the role and importance of e-learning in the overall process. In order to conduct this analysis we had to find out to what extent the discussed educational methods are part of the scientific and research activities, i.e. to what extent...

Nowadays organizations, in particular the industrial ones cannot function effectively without a process approach to all activities. This requires the identification: definition, design, validation and planning processes in organizations. In this paper the authors develop a conceptual model for the quality and reliability validation of planning and designing processes.

The relationship between learning music and academic achievement has been discussed in numerous contexts. According to the literature, students involved in learning music obtain higher results in several school subjects. This study intends to examine the influence of musical training on the academic performance of pupils in schools providing specialized artistic education, controlling for socioeconomic status and intelligence. We analyzed the composite academic achievement score and the average marks in nine schoo...

With an ever-increasing need to integrate information and communication technology into the teaching process, examining the possibility of introducing computer games as a new aspect of teaching strategy and a new teaching tool in teaching history is particularly interesting from the aspect of modernization of the teaching process. It is an irrefutable fact that the modern generations of children, at any level of education, live in a networked world with technological development being its integral part. Computers,...

At the present stage of social development, when turning to the knowledge economy, a demand of the information society for full trustworthy and scientifically based official statistical data regarding social, economic, population and ecological processes increases. As a result highly-skilled experts in the field of statistics are required for the collection, processing and analysis of data. Russian statistics has a branched information network and 68 official statistical authorities are engaged in the statistical ...

The article describes the principle of founding of mathematical knowledge for linear algebra and analytic geometry in the plane and shows its using in the implementation of university students successive remote settlement projects. We apply these topics in mathematics (settlement projects "Arithmetic operations with matrices", "Solving systems of linear algebraic equations " and " Study of various parameters of an arbitrary triangle in the plane "). Information system, stages of learning mathematics and student's ...

In the Romanian literature, as well as in the world literature, one can see indications of existing concerns of that era. They relate to fashion, customs, but also to readings or literary concerns. Thus can be measured the high or low level of education and the psychological involvement of the author. It is the case of the characters in the work of Camil Petrescu, Romanian interwar writer (1894-1957), promoter of authenticity, as a policy of his novel. The present research sets sight on the characters from the two...

Formative assessment is essential in teaching and learning process. Tests play an important role as a tool for formative assessment, especially in the process of information retention in long-term memory. However, pen and paper format exhibits many constraints, such as time consumption in the correction and feedback, which difficults a systematic use. In this way, the online digital tests are presented as a viable alternative with clear benefits compared to pen and paper format. This study assumes a sequential exp...

The article is devoted to the questions of improving the quality of teaching mathematics using tasks of logical designing, which includes: a) separation into parts; b) classification; c) designing of the object with specified properties from certain parts; d) construction of logical schemes; e) making up programs of activities. The proposed method of teaching by means of logical designing was carried out through learning algorithmic actions by school students.

In this paper, the authors propose a conceptual model for measuring the performance of design and planning processes. Thus during the development of this research were carried out both graphical models and a mathematical model designed to optimize the activity measurement of these processes.

The present research paper presents the benefits of team working in higher education using as a case study a participatory student research-led project - Up-Tim project Retrofix for Solar Decathlon 2014 - from this perspective. Solar Decathlon (SD) is an international competition that challenges university students to design, build and operate solar houses. But it is more than that: it is about generating and sharing knowledge, linking university research with industry, the real market and society, raising social ...

The development of the common European Higher Education Area and the internationalization of higher education have led to challenges many higher education institutions (HEIs) have never encountered before. The evolving educational paradigm takes roots in significant changes in the political, economic, etc. systems of Latvia, first due to regained independence of the Latvian state and the change of its ideological paradigm in the beginning of the 1990-ies, later due to the accession of Latvia to the European Union ...

The text focuses on senior education which must not be ignored at present times characterized by ageing of population. The necessity of continuous and life-long learning and self-development, which has become a priority in the present system of education, is linked with the necessity of learning and speaking at least one foreign language. Teaching in courses in foreign languages given to seniors has to be adapted to the specific features of adult learners. The author presents her personal theoretical and practical...

The paper presents the results of the pilot study that was used to test the design of the full-scale experiment. The following research is going to be focused on evaluation of school subject (Ethical Education) and its influence on pupils´ prosocial behaviour. During preparation of our pilot study, we identified some issues. At first, there was no recent study in Slovakia that could prove effect of Ethical Education on pupil´s prosocial behaviour. And second, our research was focused on pupils in age 11 – 12 y...

During the last decade, the Romanian educational system was focused to the change of the content centered curriculum to the competences centered curriculum. Many initiatives have been made in terms of didactic strategies, teaching methods, type of resources, all of them having as main objective the increasing of the educational process quality. A lot of educational research studies have been made at the secondary education level not only in Romania, but also in other countries, concerning the needed premises of a ...

Smart mobile devices started to be affordable and the massive use on educational processes is expected in the near future. By the end of 2014, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on Earth. Contemporary educational level of social development approves the necessity of M-learning as a parallel method to the traditional methods of education. The main objective of the research is to identify the readiness of students in the Slovak republic to participate in the learning process usin...