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Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides opportunities for collaboration both in the classroom and beyond. Started in 2008 and gathering momentum over the past two years, now an online phenomenon, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) reunite different perspectives over a globalized online learning. The paper analyses the use of OER and MOOCs in different study cases in Romanian universities...
The higher education should be oriented by social demand and it is essential to improve knowledge application ability. The application ability of students can be developed through a variety of ways. Making use of the project team work from design, developing projects to winning national award is a kind of attempt to cultivate application ability in practice. This paper first discussed some problems...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of recent developments of Information Technologies in Education (ITE), particularly in higher education, to answer students and teacher's needs, according to the real time rapidity characteristics of the process of learning and teaching. The internet, mobile computing, social networks and many other advances in human communications have become...
This study has been directed to disclose the attitudes of academic staff in Libyan universities towards Internet-based learning and training. The research for this study has been conducted using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings suggest that faculty members have positive attitudes towards integrating the Internet into the teaching process and an expectation that this will dramatically...
The paper analyzes data of the questionnaire collected from 282 respondents who have graduated from the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, since it was established in 1993. The analysis mainly focuses on the quality of study programmes, course of study and competences which graduates developed and reached within the study.
One of the aims of higher education is to help students to become autonomous learners. The paper discusses issues connected with teaching language learning strategies for students receiving advanced language training and their impact on learner autonomy. The results of teaching the course intended to provide this need are given.
Every student arrives with full digital competency from secondary school to higher education. Is it a true statement? Teachers and professors in higher education expect that according to the National Curricula, students start to learn ICT - info-communication technology - in primary school and improve them in secondary education. It would be a theoretical situation but the reality is totally different...
This paper addresses the role of engineering PhD education in developing teachers in higher education. Efforts have been made to find out, how PhD education can help teachers in developing different teaching skills and what additional is required. It has been found that teaching is a facilitation of the learning process, which requires dedication, efforts, skills and above all one's own will to improve...
Gamification is gaining an increasing interest, also in the field of instruction and training, thanks to its promise of engaging and motivating users. This paper presents the experience of a gamified short course on promotion of entrepreneurship that we have designed and executed for Electronic Engineering students. The short course relied on an extensive use of serious games for business and featured...
The paper discusses aspects of capacity building for ICT in higher education that include infrastructure development, teacher training, technical support, pedagogical change, and content development that is important to ensure the success of the strategic policy outlined in the paper. Also discussed are the key initiatives taken by Lebanon in particular to ensure adequate capacity building for effective...
To ensure the quality of education, the measurement of educational outcomes is important. In this paper, we report on the results of the educational achievement surveys that college students responded. In particular, we focused on the comparison of educational outcomes in liberal arts education and professional education, to consider the impact on learning activities.
This paper presents and discusses a conceptual framework designed to analyze how higher education institutions are using advanced communication technologies to support learning. The focus is on the institutional perspective and the paper includes a review of literature and a proposal of a model of analysis, supported by two main concepts -- institutional framework and use, whose dimensions and components...
China is a big textile and apparel producing country. She is facing much severer challenge and competition than before after joining the global economic system. The need of more professional talents is increasing in textile and apparel industry. At the same time, more and more new technology appears and digital technology is one of them. It brings new opportunity not only for apparel industry but...
One key aspect of technology management is managing relationships with technology vendors. This paper presents a model for measuring strategic alignment between a firm and its Information Technology (IT) vendors. A survey instrument based on the model was used to measure strategic alignment between an IT department and its vendors at an American University. Overall, alignment of the IT department...
TecDigital is the e-learning project of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC). This paper describes the main characteristics of TEC Digital as a successful case study of e-learning integration in higher education in Costa Rica. In particular, the paper describes TEC Digital objectives and organization, development stages, instructor involvement approach, projects and training, institutional...
This work presents the curriculum of the Master's Degree in Electronics Engineering (MDEE) that will be submitted to the competent bodies of the University of La Laguna, as a proposal for a new MDEE that complies with current Spanish regulations.
This paper researches into web-based teaching and learning self-directed platform. It can be described as three aspects: strategy analysis, infrastructural framework, and design method and visualization technology. Firstly, the three kinds of strategy relationship among different elements of web-based teaching and learning self-directed platform is discussed for strategy analysis, secondly, the infrastructural...
This paper is mainly concerned with talent-training mode, method, together with the harmonization and combination of related curriculum teaching in modern computer hardware design. It is found that the innovations of teaching contents, teaching materials, experiment-based innovative curriculum are strongly required in practical teaching. Of course, the contents and forms of the teaching contents should...
With fast pace taken towards globalization in higher education in China, recent years have witnessed the steadily growing number of foreign students coming to China pursuing for their advanced academic degrees. Based on the firsthand teaching and administering experience, the authors deliver this paper aiming at sharing some points in teaching basic computer course including curriculum design and...
This paper describes the research and practice on long-term guarantee system of teaching quality in local colleges. Construction of long-term institution, firstly, it needs develop teaching quality standards in every aspect which must be completely specification, scientific and practical; secondly, it also need to build an efficient, perfect teaching quality monitoring and guarantee system. In this...
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