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The main objective of the paper is to evaluate the current stage of realization of the visa dialogue among the European Union and the Eastern Partnership countries. The article presents the general provisions regarding crossing the Schengen boarder by citizens of the Eastern Partnership countries who possess the "C" type visas which allow for travelling through all Schengen countries for...
The research studies among Polish Internet user point that there is a significant discrepancy between the range of net usage understood as a share of net surfers in a population and the level of their basic IT competences. The results of "Social Diagnosis" form 2011 allowed for more detailed analysis of this phenomenon.
Teaching is an important element of academic libraries activity. Internet and e-learning platforms support this process. The author of this publication is trying to answer the question whether the use of modern tools for e-learning by Polish academic libraries is an incidental phenomenon or is a practice. She also presents the methods of introducing online courses to academic libraries' offer.
This article presents an educational wiki project the author led throughout the academic year 2011/2012 parallel to the course Introduction to the Cultural Studies at the University of Gdansk. As a result of the project the site http://wiedzaokulturze.wikispaces.com was created by a group of sixty students of Cultural Studies on a free web hosting service Wikispaces. Every week the students shared...
The following article presents the rules of the publication of electronic documents models in the Central Repository of Electronic Document Models on ePUAP platform. The paper is a kind of step by step instruction on how to publish electronic documents models in this repository. Moreover, the law aspects of the electronic documents models is discussed. The author explains also how institutions can...
The basis of e-learning are proper intellectual resources supported by IT resources. Yet, it is the logistics of online classes, which influences their quality and attractiveness. The paper presents selected practical solutions for supporting e-teaching, which have been already tested as they were implemented few years ago at the Wrocław University of Technology and Czestochowa University of Technology.
The article presents an image of online consumers, diagnosed on the basis of individual in depth interviews conducted with e-customers. Afterwards, the image is compared with a picture of online consumers that emerges from available statistical data. It allows formulating a few marketing tips for e-retailers.
It is not common to think that shorter college courses produce better learning outcomes, but a recent, local study of over three years of data in Introduction to Philosophy courses at Houston Community College suggests that this may in fact be the case. In this study, we compare various term-lengths, from the traditional 16-week semester down to 5-week summer sessions and 3-week mini-sessions in both...
The article describes the project of evaluating the competences and qualifications which are required by employees among university graduates who enter the job market. The paper enumerates the project objectives, presents research methodology and reveals the results. Finally, the authors discuss the conclusions that can be drawn.
The following article focuses on the concept of school motivation in the context of a specific situation of e-teaching. The author presents the results of the research on the expectations and motives declared by the e-students as well as the methods used by the author to motivate the distant studies participants.
The aim of the article is to present the reflections on the role of trust in the context of human capital management as well as to point to the positive and negative aspects of trust, which influence the functional areas of an organization as well as the business processes occurring in the practice of management.
The aim of the paper is to introduce, basing on Sarah Sarasvathy's works, the logic of effectuation and to juxtapose it to causation. Effectuation is a way of thinking that is practiced by expert entrepreneurs. Effectual entrepreneurs do not predict the future but perceive it as possible to control due to their actions.
The market of long-term employee training programs in the current plethora of initiatives co-financed from European funds is a difficult one - particularly vulnerable to intense competitive stimuli and the fluctuations in demand. Is it possible to manage a program that seeks to maintain a relatively stable scale over the years in such circumstances, primarily based on reputation within the local market?...
The aim of the article is to present the literature review of the newest and the most important articles dedicated to the entrepreneurial education. Articles included to the research were published in the scientific periodics belonging to the Entrepreneurship Journals Rankings in the years 2000-2010.
The Machinima is a technique of creating animated films in virtual environments. The article presents it as an educational tool, which can be applied by both, the teachers and students of so called 'YouTube generation'.
Educational failure is an inseparable element of the didactic process. However, it is taken into consideration mostly in the context of primary and secondary school learning, rarely in higher education and hardly ever - in academic distance education. The paper's goal is to gather and to systematise rather distributed remarks relating to educational failure in distance learning. The authors suggest...
The objective of the present research work was to analyze the activities undertaken to design and select trainings for SME employees. The companies' rising interest in investing in human capital, the growing use of the EU support funds within the Sectoral Operational Programmes in Poland after 2005 accompanied by a dynamic increase in the number of enterprises providing professional trainings brought...
The inclusion of elements of knowledge management in the process of collecting and archiving data, its archiving and further appropriate description can improve the quality control of these processes and help them optimize the use of data mining techniques. However, for such solutions to be possible, it is necessary to continuously build among the staff the awareness of the possibilities provided...
The first part of the article provides an introduction to this article. In the second section there are included the theoretical basis and terminology for EU structural policy and regional policy, as well as tools for its implementation. The third chapter presents the EU operational programs and support possibilities offered within them for the Polish universities. The fourth part contains a description...
Efficiency is one of the most important problems of modern logistics, both at the operational and strategic level. Increasing the level of efficiency of the logistics process can be achieved in many ways. One of the most effective manners is to make decisions based on analysis performed by information management systems. In this paper the authors present the idea of using specific tools, supporting...
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