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The recent years are the time of increase in enforcement of the laws from owning copyrights. The number of court cases related to breaking the copyrights is increasing and there appear new legal offices specializing in this area. The amount of detected cases of plagiarism in the scientific environment is growing. One of the indirect effects of this phenomena is signing of multilateral treaty ACTA...
The article describes opportunities and obstacles related to the application of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Poland. It is based on the authors’ experience with creating and managing Open AGH, the OER repository for AGH – University of Science and Technology in Krakow. Among others the article discusses a survey on OERs, which was conducted in October 2010 among AGH teachers. Diagnosis of...
The article discusses a hybrid system which supports distant education. The system combines two environments – the space of a three-dimensional virtual world and an Internet-based e-learning platform. The former environment is the virtual world of Second Life or OpenSim. The latter is a Moodle-based platform that is integrated with the virtual world. The article presents a general description of the...
The aim of the review presented in the article is to show that the theories derived from a current research on information systems are powerful and predictive models that work well explaining different activities on the Internet. The paper first presents the theory of planned action by Ajzen (1985), technology acceptance model by Davis (1986) and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology...
The aim of the article is to present the organizational structure, the model of functioning and the offer of Centre for Distance-Learning OKNO PW. The author describes the promotional activities of this unit, which create its image and prestige. The role of OKNO PW in university’s organizational structure, the conditions of the Centre’s functioning are also described. The author focuses as well on...
Until recently the electronic platform, known as ePUAP, through which entrepreneurs can handle official matters via the Internet, has not been very popular. It was considered that the main reason was the requirement to have payable qualified electronic signature. Thus so called trusted profile, which is a free equivalent to an e-signature, has been launched. A new method of confirming the identity...
Online teaching and learning has grown exponentially in the past decade which has transformed higher education globally. Service learning is an experiential, educational activity that offers credit to student participants and a service to community-based stakeholders. It has the potential for greater depth and breadth of experience as it often involves social, cultural, and other aspects of the community...
The paper presents the results of the research concerning diverse areas of secondary school students' online activity, their evaluation of their own technological competences, their perception of certain Internet phenomena and net surfers' behavior. The research focused also on the ways of modern technology use in education. The anonymous online survey was participated by 561studentsform all over...
In the current knowledge-based economy, which deals with many challenges, entrepreneurship may be a vital strength determining the economic, technological and social development. The aim of the studies presented in the article was to diagnose the level to which the students of selected higher education institutions form Cracow can be characterized by entrepreneurship.
The current activity of an organization and its chances of future stable development are inextricably linked with the process of proper decision-making, which should enable to achieve the established goals. Due to the complexity of the surrounding in which the modern organizations are functioning as well as the pace of the occurring changes causes, the skills of making proper decisions in the right...
Internet is undergoing constant changes. In the 90s it was the time Web1.0, currently the term Web 2.0 is used. In the course of next few years, we will function in Web 3.0 dimension. The icons of modern Internet are such services as Google, Amazon or eBay. Some of them earn on advertisement, other get income from selling diverse products and services. Due to their great sizes, in order not to share...
For more than a year Moodle e-learning platform has had a new developing line 2.x. The fact that the most used version (1.9) has been discontinued makes an upgrade an unavoidable process in near future. For many involved in e-learning projects this means a necessity to familiarize with the changes brought by the new version of Moodle system.
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