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This paper mainly discusses about Alibaba under economic new normal “double eleven shopping festival” reasons for the slowing growth rate. We mainly analyze it from the following five dimensions. The first one is intensifying competition between the E-business in shopping festival double eleven. Ali is no longer a monolith. Second, Market education has been completed, consumers tend to be more rational...
The introduction of cyber physical systems into production companies is highly changing working conditions and processes as well as business models. In practice a growing discrepancy between big and small respectively medium-sized companies can be observed. Bridging that gap a university smart factory is introduced to give that companies a platform to trial, educate employees and access consultancy...
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) favor better scenarios for teaching and learning processes. Personal Learning Environment (PLE) improves the educational process. Under the computational and ubiquitous learning approach, a ubiquitous PLE model (uPLEMO), an example of a PLE design for teachers and its application in courses are presented here. Results of such model were very positive...
Education is a key component of society and is directly tied to its prosperity. In recent years we have seen changes in the labor market as a consequence of the development of information technology and globalization. This implied a major transformation in the structures of career and work. Therefore, the educational and careers services faced the challenge of responding to a wide range of different...
This paper describes a collaborative experience in the initial development of hyperlocal services for marginalised communities in Southern Africa. Problems specific to urban, peri-urban and rural contexts were identified in collaboration with local community members and NGOs in South Africa and Angola. Selected topics were presented to a group of volunteer developers for initial proof-of-concept application...
A good scholar evaluation system is very important for students to select advisors and majors and for government to get a good policy of the educational resource. The factor of scholars should be the most important parameter in the various college rankings, however, it seems not appear in the college ranking since it is difficult to evaluate it. In this paper, we propose a new evaluation system for...
This paper describes a system-on-chip design module, suitable for post-graduate students of electronics and computer engineering and for PhD students as a training course; it covers both analogue and digital design skills and flows, with emphasis on the use of industry standard tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics. The course is designed using the constructive alignment method; it...
Software engineering education has to deal with different challenges nowadays in Hungary. While the number of job offers in this field is continuously increasing the students' interest in programming shows a declining trend. The recognition of the problem led to several initiatives trying to address the existing lack of software engineers and student motivation in programming. This paper reports some...
This paper illustrates searching of the way towards a modern approach to teaching at secondary vocational technical schools as sources of future experts in various engineering areas. It touches the propagation and modernization of electronic teaching aids and engaging collaboration with industrial companies, technical universities and international cooperation among the schools.
The importance of developing critical information literacy skills in higher education is now well recognized. The ability to locate and evaluate needed information in a timely manner, now commonly done through the Internet, is increasingly viewed as one of the most important 21st century skills. Therefore, universities worldwide are developing curriculum which integrates information literacy development...
In this contribution a process and a way for a standardized documentation are proposed for the creation of gamified and competency-based learning activities. Furthermore the application of the process and its documentation is described by using an exemplary learning activity which was created, implemented and evaluated. The findings indicate, that the use of gamification design elements for learning...
Recent studies show that many companies have successfully adopted agile methodologies. In this paper the authors present results of their quantitative and qualitative studies, showing that only experienced companies apply agile collaboration practices properly. The studies also suggest that successful professional agile teams tend to use more collaboration practices and consciously live the agile...
Engineering Design is the driving force in many engineering programs with little emphases on the other considerations such as feasibility, financial, environmental, social, and regulatory aspects despite the major push by ABET. This course in Engineering Practice focuses on addressing the above concerns in a one credit course that is required of all juniors in a team setting. The paper explains the...
A notable gap exists between the competencies that employers in the UAE want entry-level engineers to exhibit and the knowledge, skills and attitudes these fresh engineering graduates from UAE tertiary institutions are able to successfully demonstrate. Inadequate preparation of engineers in key competencies has been cited as one of the main threats to the sustainable development of the region. Misalignment...
Agile methodologies like Scrum or Extreme Programming have come a long way over the last fifteen years. Recent quantitative studies show that many companies have successfully adopted agile methodologies. It was found that in agile software development, experience leads to collaboration. It could also be shown that successful professional agile teams tend to use more collaboration practices. In 2013,...
The last two decades have witnessed an enormously rapid development of computer technologies which have undoubtedly affected all the fields of human activities, including education. In fact, computer science is one of the most evolving profile study programmes at technical universities nowadays. This article thus focuses on the description of the key content courses, curricula and degrees offered...
Companies are currently calling for more and more graduates with good management and planning skills. But, studies show that rising student numbers lead to a high dropout rate. Thus, strengthening the study skills of the students plays a key role in reducing this dropout rate and should be a key objective of every education system. In particular, universities have the power to improve the study skills...
Workshop is one of the most important practical training processes in current colleges design education activities. At present, there are mainly two design workshop models for colleges: one is held by some colleges on the occasion of the academic meeting opportunity, and the other one is held by creative industrial parks or creative corporations. However, neither of them could be conducted in a normalized...
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the use of big data has the potential for application in the Higher Education (HE) sector in Oman in addressing part of their current challenges. Higher Education institutions in Oman are facing challenges relate to enhancing the learning experience, improving educator effectiveness, providing appropriate and effective learning methods tailored to individual...
In article the main questions of new aspects management methodology the reproduction of human capital. Showcased institutional aspects of information and knowledge as one of the most important economic resource in the modern economy, and analyzes the main approaches to the management of intellectual capital.
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