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In the digital society variety of technological tools became available that bring the new tutoring student-centred ecosystem enhancing professional English L2 teaching/learning skills and abilities. The work aims at adopting technology in education (EdTech) by comparing the advantages and limitations and addressing experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches by developing English communication skills for graduates. The pre-experimental phase recognised and mapped the most effective an...

One of the important elements in the preparation of future teachers in the field of mathematics is the analysis of the pupil's solution. These analyses include the analysis of the video recording of the pupil's solving procedure and the monitoring of the pupil's thought processes. We do not always have a video recording of solving the task (GDPR, video file size, time space, etc.). Therefore, in the preparation of future teachers in the field of the first grade of elementary school, we tried to replace the video r...

The study provides an overview of the pedagogical role of board games. In every section of it argues for the importance and role of them: in the first part it presents a short historical overview by offering evidences and examples of how they were used in different eras, starting from a couple of thousand years B. C. Another part of the article deals with the development of game theories and the perception of using board games for pedagogical aim. As it concludes from this section, these thoughts and ideas are als...

Culture enables sustainable development, it is a driver and enabler of sustainable development. In the context of globalization, cultural exchanges are increasing, the role of language as a carrier of culture is more and more evident. Many countries even include it in the national strategy, and it became an important government action. Confucius Institute is an important platform for Sino-foreign cultural exchanges and mutual learning. And the same of the other cultural institutes which have been mentioned in this...

Covid-19 had tremendously affected the way how people learn. As a general tendency, the sector of adult education has transformed towards digitization offering a wide range of online adult education programmes, including in geosciences. Due to the Covid-19 related restrictions, educational institutions offering adult education programmes were forced to develop their strategies on how to adapt to the new reality. Within this study, a comparative analysis of three adult education institutions representing Latvia, Po...

As law enforcement officers work in the system person-person they must possess the ability to stop conflicting parties’ opposition, resolve conflicts on the basis of the rule of law. So developing conflict managing skill is crucial in professional training of future law enforcement officers. The article purpose is to identify the impact of the pedagogical conditions of the development of future law specialists’ ability to resolve conflicts on the level of this skill development. Research methods were the follo...

Sustainable development goals in education foresee availability of education among others. Availability of educational services exactly near to living place is significant for reaching sustainable development goals. Although, availability of educational services near to living place requires investments and clear understanding of possible demand for the services in the future. Depopulation at regional level is the issue, which complicates availability of education near to living place. As a result, regions need to...

The work aims to apply a divergent and convergent approach in teaching professional English focused on developing verbal creativity within the training of communication skills for university students. The research involved 50 students of economics in an experimental group with a divergent approach (N = 25) and a control group with a traditional convergent approach (N = 25) at the University of Zilina in an engineering study within an 8-week experiment. Before/after the experiment, verbal creativity in topic-based ...

It is important to identify the intentions of young people to start a business and the factors that influence them, as well as to find an explanation that leads to entrepreneurial activities and the emergence of new businesses. Entrepreneurial intentions are important in the context of individual career development. Identifying an individual's entrepreneurial intentions is important because it focuses on activities that could add value to both the individual and society in the future, as well as create new jobs. E...

Developing personal responsibility is crucial in all spheres of life. Since young people represent the future of the world and are the most active part of population it is topical to develop students’ responsibility and Physical Education classes have great potential for it. So, the article is dedicated to the problem of developing university students’ responsibility in Physical Education classes. The purpose of the article is to verify experimentally effectiveness of the methodological instruments of partners...

Taking a risk and making a decision are two important factors in starting a business. Studies show that young people are at high risk. There are a number of factors that can contribute to this phenomenon, including both biological and environmental effects, but decisions may be influenced by prejudices about the immediate benefits over the longterm benefits. Achieving long-term goals is always associated with uncertainty, as it cannot be assumed that all the circumstances that may arise in the future will be known...

The article authors reveal the specific features of music education in Waldorf school. Based on theoretical methods (synthesis and analysis of scientific and educational sources) and empirical methods (observation, survey, conversation, study of the academic results of schoolchildren’s activities etc.), the general tendencies of modern Waldorf education, as well as the specific features of organizing the educational process in Waldorf school and music education, in particular, have been identified. The general t...

Before the pandemic that burst out in 2019, most language teachers noticed that students learn more efficiently when they combine classroom learning with learning outside the classroom. In Romania, this concept is quite new when we think of higher education, where students have been accustomed to learning in more formal environments, such as labs or classrooms. As for learning a foreign language outside the classroom, there are no studies that report on the effectiveness of learning outside this so-called safe env...

Modern global challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which have been exacerbated by the martial law imposed in Ukraine for almost six months, have determined distance learning technologies with the help of information and communication technologies to be the only alternative to traditional education. The article is devoted to the analysis of synchronous and asynchronous learning technologies in the practice of distance teaching of geographical disciplines in higher education institutions. The article substant...

Today's competitive environment requires managers who are able to identify and distinguish false information and critically analyze information. Today's businesses are driven by a knowledge-based society, and the more critical the thinking, the better the knowledge. Information literacy helps young people to become more critical of the information they receive, while business information literacy can significantly improve decision-making processes. Information literacy is considered to be the ability to critically...