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A trainer working with adults ought to know the rules of adult education as well as to know how to use them in practice, which would undoubtedly facilitate achieving training goals. The author of the article refers to the history of research on adults' learning capabilities and presents the methodological guidelines for the specificity of adult education and adopting proper methodological solutions.
After the time of relatively easy creating and using asynchronous electronic trainings, the challenges of modern academic didactics and rapid development of ICT have caused the increase of quality requirements for new e-learning courses. Professional production of such electronic trainings is costly and requires the cooperation of many specialists: the authors of e-learning content, instructional...
Digital libraries are nowadays dynamically developing repositories of valuable electronic resources (digitized or born digital). It's important to create the standards of their evaluation. The article presents chosen aspects, criteria and indicators of such evaluation.
The overriding aim of education for balanced development is to change consumers behavior. This means encouraging consumers to change their lifestyle, namely, egocentric attitude into ecocentric one and to make choices taking into account other peoples' needs as well as environment protection. Major help in that endeavor are diverse educational services. One of them is Dolceta portal, which contains...
Managers managing storage, seeking to maximize profits, are looking for solutions to reduce the high costs associated with storage. To ensure customer satisfaction, services must be provided at a very high level, which translates into costs associated with this. Market forces the use of modern technologies. They allow tracking inventory in real time and enable to increase productivity. Supervision...
The author of this article not only attempts to identify the most important causes of knowledge asymmetry within network organization by presenting the complexity of this issue but also indicates the reasons for knowledge disharmonious development. Being focused on the negative results of knowledge asymmetry the author shows that synergic effect within the net of relations may be achieved through...
The article presents the topic of Enterprise Risk Management as a modern approach to risk management in an enterprise. In the following study ERM has been treated as a starting point for creating new conceptions of risk management, focusing on using risk as a key factor of an enterprise development. The author points to the role of ERM in the evolution of a different approach to management of whole...
Popularization of knowledge about intellectual property protection, especially referring to the rules of obtaining industrial property laws, plays a vital role for strengthening the competitiveness of Polish economy. The author of the article defines the term 'property' from the perspective of law sciences and discusses organization's resources that are subjected to protection under intellectual property...
The aim of the article is to present the chosen practical aspects of crowdsouring - one of the new conceptions of innovations management in companies. The author presents its intangible features (transparency, diversity, prioritizing, motivating process), which she exemplifies by selected cases. In the initial parts of the article the author discusses traditional ways of innovative process in enterprises...
The authors discuss the models for effective use of computational technologies to create adaptive learning environments that are evidence-based to improve educational outcomes while authenticating the learner. Their subsequent research meanders along a complicated path that explored four areas: (1) the boundaries between the unconscious and the conscious; (2) possible use of the unconscious mind for...
E-learning is still nearly not present in Polish humanities. Although there are full online studies in humanities available abroad, the local perspective is characterized - in the best case - by the simplest form of blended-learning. Considering once again the advantages of online lecture provides a chance to improve this situation. Lecture is an organizational form of learning that can be easily...
Professional knowledge management becomes nowadays a key factor of successful running a farm business. The following article focuses on ways of gathering professional knowledge by modern farmers and its sources as well as on the ways of this knowledge functioning in agriculture. The author concentrates on the ineffectiveness of farmer trainings, collective and local character of agricultural knowledge...
The paper focuses on Web 2.0. Its aim, however, is not providing an analysis of the very concept, but rather giving an overview of the possibilities of these technologies application in didactic and scientific work. The authors discuss also the range of the technologies implementation in diverse academic environments.
In this article the most important aspects of e-learning platform OLAT from the point of view of communication between teacher and students by means of blogs during a course are discussed. The study is based on author's personal experience gained by using the platform as well as on information available on the Interne
Employees' diversity, if properly managed, can be a source of success and incommensurable benefits for an organization. The article defines the concepts of diversity and identity. Moreover, the paper discusses diversity management nature , its objectives as well as enumerates its advantages.
The use of new media has enabled broad access to educational environments creating innovative opportunities for learning and teaching. Experiential learning provides a particularly important educational framework when facilitated through the use of the Internet to engage geographically dispersed students as they participate in career education. This approach to facilitating learning has become increasingly...
The paper presents the potential of the business model of cloud computing and also provides a comparative analysis of e-mail access costs in traditional and cloud computing model. Moreover, the paper identifies the problems with maintaining own IT infrastructure exemplified by the case of public university - the Warsaw School of Economics.
The article aims at explaining why nowadays employees' relevant competences are believed to have such significant role. It also describes the ways employees can improve their competences in order to establish their position on competitive job market.
The paper identifies the problems concerning innovations in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In the first part of the article the authors discuss definitional issues and characterize innovations in SMEs. The following part of the paper focuses on describing the factors and barriers influencing innovations in such types of enterprises.
In todays' marketing strategy understanding and creating consumers' experience is vital. Among other tools marketers can use metaphors in their quest for gathering information. In this article the author discusses advantages and limitations of using metaphors as a research technique. The discussion is based on the presented results of the survey aiming to gain an inside view of internet users' experience...
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