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One of the first artifacts produced by a massive multi-year education transformation effort has been the launching of a one-of-a-kind program focused on transdisciplinary studies that goes well beyond conventional notions of disciplines. One of the main thrusts of the transformation was to intentionally and repeatedly integrate STEM and Humanities learning and outcome assessment of skills and abilities...
Models and main principles of cooperation between the social partners of the state, business and society in the process of educational projects realization are formulated. The ways of developing mechanisms and instruments of cooperation between social partners in the institutional environment of are offered.
There is a strong need to make research more efficient resulting in more impactful outcomes, across the world and more so in developing countries. To improve research outcomes and impact on practitioners, effectiveness of student researchers (SRs), research supervisors (RSs) and communication of research findings need improvement. The study attempts to find out 1. Can Lean help improving these elements?...
The shortage of young engineers presents a structural problem that deflates growth and innovation and causes high value losses for the economy. To achieve sustainable success in securing new recruits, prospective students from working life are highly relevant for the universities, because they act at the crossroads of Engineering and Business. Although the offer of studying programs alongside work...
This paper describes a theoretical foundation and a successfully implemented curriculum that satisfies traditional disciplinary requirements, as well as interdisciplinary and innovation focused learning experiences via a thematic approach. Our work contributes an example of successful integration of business and engineering curriculum using foundational themes transcending disciplinary boundaries...
The purposes of this research were develop and determine the quality and efficiency and to compare the students pre-test and post-test achievement in learning by development of Web-Based instruction for review on conditional sentences or if-clause. The samples of 60 students for the research were for the cluster random sampling from students in second semester in academic year 2015 at computer department...
This study examines 341 tertiary teachers' pro-industry professional cognition and its influencing factors to serve as a school reference for adjust industry 4.0. The results show that teachers' industry experience has a significant direct effect on tertiary teachers' pro-industry professional cognition, and "teaching innovation self-efficacy has a significant effect on pro-industry professional...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
Globalization, preparation of educational process and education of students for their future life are nowadays important topics. World Economic Forum makes since 2001 comparison of the countries all over the world in the Global Competitiveness Index. The article proposes to describe the situation in the field of technology level in the connection with higher education in the Czech Republic. We will...
Informatization involves the intensive use of information in all areas of society and has a significant social and economic impact. In this article, we construct a set of systematic, objective, and effective informatization performance evaluation models, and utilize quantization methods to evaluate China and the world's informatization development. We have shown the applicability of the informatization...
Content industries go through a demanding time adjusting to the digital age, revamping their business processes when sales of paper documents are not an option any more. Formal standardisation is facing the same challenges as organisations like ISO and CEN see sales of publications as their core business. This paper presents a case study from European pre-standardisation. CEN Workshop on Learning...
The world of today is not looking for innovations that are mere incremental but those that are disruptive. Aakash, the Low Cost Tablet (LCT) initiative by Indian govt. was launched in 2011 amidst dominance by the likes of Apple, Amazon, and Samsung etc. Single most objective of this initiative was affordable ICT learning tool for the 220+ million students. LCT like Aakash can be seen as a disruptive...
In this paper some directions of innovation activity in the system of engineering education are analyzed. The scheme of innovative engineering education is suggested which takes into account different technologies and directions of specialist training. Unless additional measures for protection of interests of the national education are taken, Russia's accession to the WTO can have more negative than...
Recent studies emphasize the needs of a wider set of skills engineers require than ever thought. In this paper, authors report on a systematic literature review on this issue. Findings of the review are spanned over two main folds: 1- A conceptual ontological framework of engineering skills in the context of generic- and employability- skills of KBS and KBEs citizens and workforce, and 2- A global...
Social media tools are used by firms to create and capture business value. In this study, we synthesize emerging literature on social commerce, social media, and the diffusion of innovation to identify the role that organizational, managerial and environmental characteristics of SMEs play in the adoption of Twitter. To test the model, we administered a survey to 453 SME mangers from the United States,...
This article outlined the ideas of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, and then researched the innovative ability of undergraduate, by designing innovation ability evaluation index system and evaluation criteria, constructing fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model, and used an empirical analysis to evaluate of student innovation ability; finally put forward ideas for the evaluation of the results.
Innovation is a basic requirement for human being civilization progress, Educational and administrational innovation is the necessity for both externally social and economic development, and internally spanning-mode development of education system itself. Educational and administrational innovation must conform to the object of modernization to realize sustainable development. Against the backdrop...
In the process of economic globalization, the increasingly complex business environment makes the enterprise survival and development at the same time facing the opportunities and challenges. Through the use of ecological theory, the problem of enterprise ecological niche is analyzed in the paper, and then appropriate ecological countermeasures are proposed, that is enterprises should find their own...
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