bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
FROM TEACHING TRIP TO EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
Authors: Maxim Ioan
Published: February 2023

Teaching trip, as organizational form of teaching, is situated at the border between formal and non-formal education. An adequate teaching scenario for a teaching trip can definitely place this activity in the field of formal education. In educational terms, non-formal educational trip shade make it an attractive, dynamic and consistent activity, strongly influenced by technical memo elements, which combines intuitive scientific argument, rigorously and systematically. The paper aims to implement in a unitary teaching scenario, attractive and spectacular elements specific to the educational trip with the ones of formal teaching, leading to a logical project of educational software, which constitutes a turning point in the designing learning programs. Teaching scenario for the learning program allow the student, intuitive initially, to approach scientific context of the lesson, afterwards using traditional teaching methods and procedures, as exposure, demonstration, explanation, it to be presented the lesson included Sciences, systematically and organized. Learning program creates a virtual scientific space and allows the student to explore and discover new content elements in a logical and intuitive context. Prospective manner places the student at the center of cognitive context, maintaining and feeding their interest to scientific content. The logical sequence of content elements generates a visual slide show in lesson scientific virtual space. This script element of didactic scenario is inspired by the trip didactic. The teacher, who intervenes with rigorous explanations backed with arguments as audio, video or text format, is the student guide in the virtual space of lesson. A rebound in similar contextual frame offers the possibility of implementation, in learning program, to sequential feedback and formative assessment. New manner of learning programs design, presented in the paper, allow sensible removal of student-centered instruction paradigm and near to the resource-based learning paradigm.
OPENED EDUCATIONAL SPACES
Authors: Maxim Ioan
Published: February 2023

We define an opened educational space, as a context of scientific content that can be associated with different approaches, at several disciplines. The opened educational space is used as an integrative and unifier auxiliary teaching, for various disciplines in the curriculum and it allows increasing and accelerating the formation of transversal skills. The opened educational space is a digital auxiliary teaching, with educational valences specific of learning programs. It implements in different and unitary teaching scenarios, the elements of scientific content specific to a discipline, in a real situational context, intuitive, common to several disciplines. This manner of design, outlines the characteristics of a transdisciplinary educational software. The teaching scenario for the learning program, afferent to each discipline, allows to the student to approach scientific context of the lesson in an interdisciplinary context, without affecting the rigor and consistency of approach monodiciplinare. In this way, it creates a scientific context that allows students to explore and discover new elements of scientific content in an interdisciplinary context, logical and intuitive. The student is placed in the center of the cognitive context. The manner of approach maintains and supplies its interest to the approached scientific content. In this way, it outlines skills that enable the student to adapt to the dynamics and complexity of reality, in the diversity of contexts in which the reality is manifested. There are also targeted, professional or extra-professional skills, schoolar or extracurricular skills, formal or non-formal, local or global, familiar or unfamiliar skills. The knowledge system, the abilities, the habits, the formed and attitudes skills, "cross" the professional or different disciplinary fields, being present in each of them, but being specific to neither of them. These are the defining characteristics for transversal skills. This manner of designing the training process allows the teacher a concentration of resources in the direction of rising the formation, internal and external components of the involved skills. It is noticed a sensitive and visible nearness by the resource-based learning paradigm, through the integrating and unifying character of their exploitation.
STUDENT WEB SERVICES AND NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE EDUCATION PROCESS AT THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN NOVI SAD
Authors: Pralica Dejan , Barovic Vladimir
Published: February 2023

The aim of this paper is to show how much students use Student Web services to communicate with their teachers and the student registry, that is if they are familiar with the new digital technologies in the education process. The Strategy for the Development of Information Society and The Strategy for Education in Serbia till 2020 generally support the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education and the promotion of the Academic Network of Serbia in four largest cities, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis and Kragujevac. The results of this research were based on the case study of "media departments" at the Faculty of Philosophy (Media studies) and the Technical College (Web design, Graphic design and Multimedia) in Novi Sad. The questionnaire was filled out by two hundred and twenty-two students who participated in this research, with the confidence level of 95%.
Almost all participants use the student Web services, while 73% of them think that the use of this new digital technology only partly improves the students' communication with their teachers and the student registry, compared to the "traditional" method of "face-to-face" communication. The students use the Web services mainly to register for exams and pay tuition fees. The communication with the teachers is mostly done via e-mail, followed by "face-to-face" communication. If offered, the participants would agree to take some courses "online" and they would like to have the course materials available on the Web. The paper also offers ideas for the improvement of student Web services and the use of new technologies in the education process.
EXAMPLE OF GOOD PRACTICE TO SUPPORT THE TRAINING OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING PROFESSIONALS
Authors: Serbanescu Laura
Published: February 2023

This article submits for discussion the findings of a research conducted in 2013 about the good practices that supports the training of university teaching professionals. We used as a research method the survey based research. Without representing a panel sample, the selected subjects in the two samples belong to a small population, represented by university teachers that participated in the training program. The analysis targeted both participants present at the various organised events regarding training and exchange of experiences, as well as other specialist's categories that could have informed themselves regarding the project products, regarding educational resources initiated and executed during the project. The respondents of the two research phases are 604 teachers from 48 universities and, respectively 600 respondents from 49 universities. The purpose of the paper is to measure the impact degree of the main activities of the training program organized on a national level that aim to perfect the didactic competences of university teachers that participated. The methodological design of the research is structured around the following questions: What are the most relevant events presented in the project judging on the utility brought to the participants? What is the main motivation of the teachers' participation at the training courses? How do participants evaluate the e-learning portal used as a supplementary source of information? The obtained results indicate the fact that the training courses brought significant and obvious value. The second component that could produce favourable effects is the e-learning and informing. Other two event categories - national conferences and summer academies - have received similar evaluations and came third place. Regarding the participation motivation of teachers at the training courses, the following reasons were listed: program accreditation by the Ministry of Education, development of teachers' competences, the innovative aspect of the training program.
INNOVATIVE SCADA TEST BED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Authors: Stamatescu Grigore , Stamatescu Iulia , Arghira Nicoleta , Fagarasan Ioana , Iliescu Sergiu stelian
Published: February 2023

In the context of growing interest from students but also from industrial companies for a solid preparation in the field of industrial information systems with applications in the energy field, extractive industry, chemical plants and automotive systems, universities have to keep up with this demand and, appropiate resources at hand, should stay ahead of the curve in offering facilities that enable competitive education. The paper introduces the development and implementation of a modern medium-scale laboratory concept in support of engineering education and research in the field of SCADA systems. The main distance process monitoring and control concepts are discussed, along with practical skills for developing applications for solving real-world projects as elements of efficient knowledge transfer. The key infrastructure levels are described: field equipment level, remote monitoring and human machine interface level, engineering/development level, communication and network level and IT backbone. We emphasize the integration of the common platform, achieved by leveraging standard based approaches which allow interconnection of hardware and software from different manufacturers. Modern intelligent and software-intensive industrial solutions require a systems perspective with can only be grasped with applied learning and up-to-date teaching methods. By developing a robust IT infrastructure architecture, on-line learning as well as a remote laboratory approach are also enabled. The laboratory was developed within the Industrial Information Systems group at the Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics, UPB, and it is envisioned that, by means of standardized interfaces, the federation of such test bed with similar developments from academia and industry will be opened up.
E-LEARNING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT NEW SKILLS IN SECURITY OF INFORMATION FIELD : E-CYBER SECURITY COMPETENCE
Authors: Stanica Olivian
Published: February 2023

The emergence of threats of attacks in cyberspace requires from all governmental or non-governmental security measures and protection of critical infrastructures are vulnerable to these means. Therefore to find solutions, including training and education of computer users in the XXI century is imminent. E-Learning is required to be developed and generalized to all computer users a new security culture and a new e-cyber security competence.
Why is needed to develop a new e-cyber security competence because, in 2014 we are talking about e-crime, e-terrorism or e-war in cyberspace.
E-cyber security culture must include training / awareness / education organizational competence users (be they experts, business people or simply beneficiaries ICT) data protection, proper use of procedures for the use of cyberspace. In other words it is about the formation of ethical and moral skills that enable citizens, according to their aspirations and belonging to a modern and civilized society. The problem to be addressed in other areas such as economic security, social, food, environmental, industrial, military, etc. Today, the cyberspace identified four major threats: spam - unsolicited e-mail messages that users upload mailboxes worldwide, bugs - undiscovered software errors that lead to data corruption and security vulnerabilities, attacks type "denial of services" - users are deprived of resources and services (personal HDD or the entire network bandwidth) and malicious software - viruses, worms, trojans and spyware programmes.
Therefore e-Learning could be a good option in order to develop new cyber security skills of the users in a variety of ways and new e-Learning technologies could be integrated into the mainstream of education and training programmes.
SHARING STUDENTS' RELATIVE PERFORMANCE FOR REINFORCING MOTIVATION
Authors: Yadin Aharon
Published: February 2023

This paper describes an experimental study that was performed among undergraduate students in their third year out of four required for their Software Engineering degree. The study's main purpose that stems from Maslow's motivational theory (self-actualization) was to explore possible motivational increase through self-grades comparisons. For that reason, a small Excel tool was provided with relative performance comparison graphs. Each student could enter his or her ID number and receive a two graphs figure. One graph represents the average class grades for all assignments and the second graph represents his or her assignments' grades. All assignments were individualized and personalized, so every student got a different set of assignments. In addition to the personal feedback, every student received for each assignment the tool provided a self-comparative assessment. Using this assessment, each student could judge his or her relative performance as compared to the class average. As part of the study, a 56 Methods in Software Engineering students were divided into two groups. Students in one group (the test group) were able to access the Excel tool while the students in the second group (the control group), did not. The study revealed that the grades of the four assignments in the test group gradually increased while on the control group the average grades remained very close. For the first assignment, the control group's average grade was higher by one point compared to the test group. In the second assignment, the trend reversed, and the test group's average grade was higher by two points. The difference between the groups increased further, and in the fourth assignments the average grade of the test group was higher by 7 points compared to the control group. Furthermore, while the course average grade of the control group was similar to the grades in previous years, the course average grade in the test group was higher by 2 points. Students' reflection supported these findings as some students expressed their views regarding the importance of their relative performance. The paper concludes with a discussion on the results and future follow-up directions.
EDUCATIONAL MANAGERIAL GROUP - BETWEEN ACADEMIC TUTORIAL AND MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN DISTANCE LEARNING
Authors: Almasan Beatrice , Alexe Maria
Published: February 2023

The subject of this article immerges from a large project of construction, implementation and evaluation in distance learning. The project itself is the result of 14 years of experience and know-how of Bucharest University Distance Learning Department. The research question concerns the importance of group manager's task inside the distance learning process. Is this role still crucial in developing the distance learning process? A sequential question, derived from the main one concerns the evolution of his role and the design of the group manager's task and communication channels developed with the students.
The analysis, which has as a background a series of best practices developed by CREDIS Department, tries to offer theoretical arguments for the importance of this role and designs research lines and main stages concerning the subject. Briefly these are:
- A documentary stage concerning literature of the domain in Romania and abroad.
- Analysis of ethical and moral implication of different types of communication
- The design of the ideal profile of the group manager
- Methodology leading to the profile development.
- A stage of identifying students' need and their perception of different actors implicated in the described project.
- Brief overview of CREDIS experience as examples for best practices.
In order to achieve an accurate analysis of the group manger's profile some methodological approaches and way of designing the curricula are going to be listed. The study leads to the conclusion that a combination of academic and managerial tutorial activity represents the key to success, as well as the background for developing the21st. century learning system.
STUDENT'S MANAGEMENT USING INFORMATIC TOOLS
Authors: Mureanu Alina , Nicula Mihaela , Stanvlad Rodica
Published: February 2023

The aim of this paper is to present the experience gathered during the years in managing students' enrolled in distance learning programs and part time learning programs.
Distance learning is a modern way of education, in which technology and human resources interact and create an environment for study, communication and collaboration. During the past years, also part time education is increased as number of students. The new Law of Education (1/2011) states the type of programs which can be organized by a higher education institution. Bachelor programs can be organized in: full time, distance learning and part time education programs. Master degree programs can be organized in full time and part time programs.
The ODL Department organizes both distance learning (for bachelor degree programs) and part time (for master degree programs). From the description found in Law of Education, for the mentioned programs there are two common points: separation between students, didactical and administrative staff and the existence of technology in delivering content and information to the students.
The students enrolled in these programs are affected in a different measure from the computer mediated interaction. In order to reduce negative consequences, a very good coordination, organization and communication must be ensured.
The manager is the person who can suggest a certain type of pedagogical approach of the virtual classroom to the teachers, based upon the experience of the previous years. Using modern tools, the manager can administrate virtual classes, overcoming the barriers related on time and space. The educational platform makes possible communication, collaboration and sharing resources.
RELEVANT AXIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF CONTINUOUS FORMING PROGRAM OF THE 'BLENDING LEARNING' TYPE FOR TEACHERS IN THE PRIMARY SYSTEM
Authors: Csorba Diana
Published: February 2023

The projection and implementation of the national continuous training programs for the teaching staff for the Romanian schooling uses formulas of blended learning more and more often. The virtual educational environment that has been created implies respecting the specific exigencies of such an environment which also has to satisfy several needs of a real professional training. Since the beginning of this century, the directions of innovation and the Romanian Reform of primary education have focused towards the integration of an interdisciplinary vision in the construction of knowledge and the child preparation for all the scholar solicitations in the context of the preparatory class.
The SWOT Analysis for the integration of the training program for the teaching staff from the primary educational environment from 2012 and 2013 had shown a heterogeneity ensemble of psycho pedagogical conceptions, educational practices and especially essential arguments which sustain the necessity of creating flexible scenarios which are adapted to the Romanian educational reality. The construction of this training program is based on the idea of integrating the principles of the pedagogy of diversity? The educational community hosted by the platform and the debate forum from the internet has been formed in the main context to fulfill the needs to educate this categories professional in perfect concordance with the pedagogical practices.
This research synthesizes the conclusions of an investigation dedicated to the way that the training program for teaching staff from the primary educational environment has supported the adequate treatment of diversity in its multiple manifestations. The most important aspects of this research are focused towards the evaluation of the concrete modalities in which the principles of the pedagogy of diversity can offer systematically occasions for personalizing the online learning process. The investigation has appreciated the concrete level of promoting the standards of inclusive learning in the active construction and exploration of the online learning.
SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ON PRIMARY EDUCATION CYCLE CHILDREN'S SECONDARY SOCIALIZATION
Authors: Langa Claudiu
Published: February 2023

Socialization can be understood as the fundamental process of transmitting culture and social organization to the next generations, thus ensuring the continuity, stability and perpetuation of society. (Schifirne?, 2004, 67). Within European societies and not only them, family is, or should be, the most important socialization agent. Lately, alongside school and the group of friends, social media became an important factor in the socialization of young generations, as the interaction of the young through socialization networks increases so quickly. Parents should supervise them carefully but because of their lack of time and sometimes ignoring the impact of socialization networks on the child's socialization process, they leave small school age children much too free. One of the real problems is that more and more children use network socialization web sites but many of them do not take the necessary measures to protect online.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the weight of online socialization networks in the socialization process of primary education cycle pupils, the time spent by children on such networks and online computer games, the parents' manner of supervising the computer activity, the parents' management of the children's leisure time.
The general working hypotheses of this study are: 1. There are significant differences between the pupils in the urban environment and those in the rural environment as regards the time spent on the computer on socialization networks. 2. There are significant differences between the parents of the pupils in the urban environment and the parents of the pupils in the rural environment as regards the supervision of the children's computer activity.
The methodology used in this investigative approach is the questionnaire applied on a group of 125 pupils from primary school from urban and rural areas and their parents. The questionnaires were applied through the teachers at such classrooms.
The Findings and Results of this study have aimed at the verification of research hypotheses. The working hypotheses have been confirmed following data processing and interpretation.
PROJECT BASED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING FOR ADULT EDUCATION
Authors: Muresan Mihaela
Published: February 2023

The paper is aimed at emphasizing the role of the project based learning using collaborative web environments. The research is based on the implementation of both andragogy and cybergogy paradigms in a specific learning context. The project based learning has been identified as an appropriate method for the adult education and for valorizing the web tools facilities. Besides fostering cooperation and active learning, project-based learning methods facilitate creative and innovative approaches in solving problems and using knowledge in a concrete environment. The appropriateness of the method for the adult education, according to the principles of the andragogy, as well as the synergy with the cybergogy principles has been also revealed. The project based learning, as a collaborative method, has been applied in adult education, as a pilot research implemented at the ICT discipline, within the framework of a bachelor program, organised in the Faculty of Education Sciences in a private university. The intense use of the web space and tools for collaborative work has been also emphasized. The methodological approach encompasses desk research, implementation of new learning methods, direct observations of the learning process, organization of a survey for analyzing the participants' feedback in relation with the innovative approach and the identification of the strong and weak points of the project based learning using collaborative web tools. In addition, the contribution of the new methodological approach to the development of the students' transversal competences has been also emphasized in direct connection with the increased graduates' employability. Thus, the paper summarizes the results of the research activities carried out during the educational process and presents the outcomes resulting from the implementation of the pilot module integrating project based learning and collaborative web tools, focusing on the students' perspectives about the advantages of the whole process.
THE USE OF ICT WITHIN THE ROMANIAN SCHOOL GUIDANCE COMMUNITY
Authors: Tibu Speranta
Published: February 2023

The potential of using ICT in guidance is very big, but the real integration into the practice is still unknown in Romania. The articles presents the results of a quantitative study on the use of ICT in the Romanian school guidance community, based on Anthony Barnes`(1) distinction in relation to the way in which ICT can be used in such a context: as a resource, as a medium and/or for the development of further resources. 130 practitioners from 41 Romanian counties, plus Bucharest, participated in an online survey during November 2013-January 2014. The research questionnaire has been developed based on the instruments developed within international ICT Skills 1 and 2 Leonardo da Vinci projects (2). Results are discussed in relation to earlier Romanian studies and initiatives on the same topic (Stanescu, 2000; Jigau, 2002; ICT skills 1 and 2 project, 2005-2009). Some short overview on the policies and legal provisions for the guidance system is offered, as well as discussions on the initial training and continuous professional development of counsellors. Conclusions are drawn in relation to the most frequently used tools, as well as on the access on ICT in rural versus urban schools in which practitioners are working. Difficulties and obstacles mentioned by respondents are analysed together with good practices, in order to offer a comprehensive picture related to the daily practice on using ICT in guidance and counselling in Romania. Trends, future challenges for guidance counsellors and recommendations are drawn with the view of improving policies and practices in the field.

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(2) *** ICT Skills 2.ICT Tools and Training for e-Guidance practitioners. ASTER Scienza Tecnologia Impresa S. Cons. p. a, Publishing House, Bologna, Italy, 2009.
SYSTEM OF MANAGERIAL INDICATORS USED IN ELEARNING FOR THE PERFORMANCE GROWTH OF A NEGOTIATION PROCESS
Authors: Nita Mircea aurel
Published: February 2023

: Performance negotiator reaches success in negotiation process by following the steps of an algorithm from beginning till the end, with the ability to keep concentrated, to be aware of his position and other partner in negotiation frame. Negotiator should also develop ability to integrate and harmonize the negotiating partners' interests at their own without harming their and his Inner Self coherence. The quantification of the dynamic of a negotiation process, refers to the system of indicators and indices which are used for analysis of a phenomenon and, especially to analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of a process. The present paper underline the importance of desingning a grid of indicators and parameters in negotiation (25 indicators are described, from a total number of 63), which through generalisation, may become standard parameters for any negotiation activity and an instrument for any type of organization which include job description for negotiators, too. The system of indicators is the result of practical experience in applying the proposed indicators and indices within a network of many sales negotiators from a profit-oriented company. It is especially important that every manager, on every hierarchical level, establish a set of objectives that he must reach and also define a set of adequate indicators which would permit him to assess the reaching of those objectives. In the end, every negotiator has his own set of individual objectives as a check list. This set of standard parameters has been designed and used for monitoring the daily, weekly, monthly, yearly performance of a sales negotiator with direct applicability in training for e-learning, by the help of simulate and modeling.
INFLUENCES OF THE EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK FOR QUALIFICATIONS ON E-LEARNING PROGRAMS
Authors: Silvestru Catalin ionut , Silvestru Ramona camelia , Silvestru Dragos stefan , Lupescu Marianernut
Published: February 2023

Standardization of competences provided by education provided both by traditional means and via e-learning systems becomes a prerequisite for Romanian education, given the need for ensuring appropriate correlations of the National Framework of Qualifications with the European Framework of Qualifications, with impact also on the competences provided in the educational systems. As such, , it becomes compulsory to review the training programs provided in order to bring these programs in line with the National Framework of Qualifications, correlated also with the Code for Occupations from Romania and with the competences established at European level, in order to enable free movement of labor force. Education becomes strongly connected with the labor market, and as result of using e-learning, brings students closer to a knowledge and information society.
We shall conduct a case study on the e-learning platform from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, focusing on elements required to be adjusted in the e-learning platform, while taking into account the requirements of correlating with the National Framework for Qualifications. We shall provide also statistical data with regard to the number of students in economic studies trained by traditional means and the ones trained using e-learning platforms. Based on studies and analyses already conducted, using the e-learning platform is the most appropriate approach in providing education for post-graduate studies and Masters programs, as well as for lifelong learning training courses.
Recommendations will be made in relation to changes in methodology employed in the design of the e-learning courses, based on new competences set within the European Framework of Qualifications, as well as possible improvements in using software used for creation of learning objects.
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE APPLICATIONS TO THE KINESITHERAPY OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY
Authors: Necula Dana , Marcu Vasile
Published: February 2023

Cerebral palsy is a chronical posture and movement disorder caused by wounds of nervous central system.It is a non progresive disorders and performence by plasticity of brain.
Aime of the work.
The present work propose the study of the ways of psyhomotricity like integrates the motor and mental elements beend that determines individual behaviorr troughproper execution of documents in response to various factors, in operationalizing of pysical therapy objectives for cerebral palsy to children.
Objectives.
The study of motor behaviour has an important place in many aspects an mental manifestations to children, because it is predominant in the body activities.
Operationals objectives are clearly formulated targets and strictly tailored on a physical therapy session.
Matherial and methods.
The study was comprised of 23 children aged 5-12 years old with cerebral palsy. Harow taxonomy has 6 level in the psihomotor domain, voluntar human mouvement can be observed and belongs to the aquisition domain- reflex movement medullar, fundamental movement inborn engrams, perceptive skills kinesthesia, physical qualities, dexterity movement and non verbal comunication
- Lokomotor Pro 6 Walking therapy provide robot assisted to improve walking and coordination
- XBoxKinect like controller free gaming ho response to voice how child move
- game with water hoses that allow free movement
- Foot 3D scsnner is bassed on laser light which enables the acquisition of precise and reliable digital data of the foot
- play in CAT dispositive in the mirror
Psyhomotrity elements are - body schema engrams, dynamic coordination,segmental and overal, balance, perceptual motor, coordination and rapid movements.

Rezultats and discution
Psyhomotricity helps the child during kinetic program to form movement system that can adapt to the environment, develops and improves perception and motor skills, develops motor engrams and improves coordination.
Conclusions
Operational objectives are clearly formulated targets and strictly tailored on a physical therapy session.
Movement education ensure the balance of child, control of entire body, psyho-mental and integration in psyhosocial enviromment.
Knowing the personality and cognitive skills to children with PC gives advantage of reaching an operational objective and enjoyable working attractive method for little men.
E-LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY OF TRANSFER BASED ON VIDEO COMPUTERIZED ANALYSIS OF SPORTS TECHNIQUE OF ACROBATIC EXERCISES ON FLOOR IN WOMEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
Authors: Potop Vladimir , Grigore Vasilica , Timnea Olivia carmen
Published: February 2023

This paper is meant to reveal the content of e-Learning and transfer technology of the key elements of sports technique of acrobatic exercises on floor in women's artistic gymnastics.
This scientific approach has led to an ascertaining experimental study that has used the following research methods: 1. Analysis of methodical-scientific literature. 2. Video recording of gymnastics exercises. Use of computerized programs: "Pinnacle Studio", "Kinovea" and "Physics ToolKit". 3. Postural method of movement orientation. 4. Statistical method, by means of "KyPlot" computerized program. The research was conducted from 16th to 18th of November 2012 in the town of One?ti, during the Master Romanian Championship attended by 8 athletes aged 12 -14 years; all of them are components of the Romanian national junior team.
Results. Highlighting and identification of the biomechanical characteristics of sports technique key elements (LP - body launching posture, MP - multiplication of body posture, flight maximum height and CP - concluding body posture - landing) of acrobatic exercises in women's artistic gymnastics at the level of juniors aged 12 to 14; the efficient use of e-learning and transfer technology that deepens the understanding of the phasic structure of sports technique will allow the processing of the modern training programs for their learning.
Conclusions. The use of modern research methods for the video computerized analysis of sports technique key elements of the acrobatic exercises on floor in women's artistic gymnastics is also the basis for the measurement, analysis and assessment of the kinematic and dynamic structure in other sports branches with complex coordination exercises.
THE BENEFITS OF E-LEARNING FOR DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND CROSS-CULTURAL AWARENESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Authors: Catana Elisabeta simona
Published: February 2023

The following theoretical paper evinces the benefits of e-learning for developing the engineering students' communication skills and cross-cultural awareness in order to enable them to successfully live and work in our multicultural 21st century society. The complex character of social relations in our globalized multicultural society, marked by diversity and sensitivity to respecting certain values, codes and etiquettes, urges the teachers of foreign languages in a technical university to focus on developing the engineering students' knowledge and understanding of other cultural values, rules of communication and conduct, stimulating their interest in brushing up on the studied foreign language for a successful future career. In order to attain this objective, the paper attempts to demonstrate that traditional English language courses and seminars in a technical university must be complemented with e-learning. The main argument is that our society has become too complex and sensitive to communication approaches and requires teachers and students to pay more attention to the appropriate ways of coping with cultural differences regarding the manners of communication and behaviour. The paper evinces the following benefits of e-learning: enabling the students to obtain more information tips for successfully approaching different cross-cultural communication issues when meeting foreign interlocutors in a multicultural environment, and enhancing their foreign language knowledge and creativity through provocative tasks. Groups of students of different nationalities in a technical university will be assigned a series of e-learning tasks urging them to demonstrate their knowledge and creativity in order to promote their cultural values on their blogs, to put forth and enlarge upon their national etiquette, writing detailed cultural tips for foreigners visiting their country. Thus, e-learning enables the engineering students to acknowledge cross-cultural differences in order to build long-term professional relationships across cultures. Moreover, it also keeps us to be up-to-date with the latest communication issues we can encounter in our society. Therefore, the paper will enlarge upon some necessary e-learning skills for developing the students' knowledge of a foreign language and for acknowledging cross-cultural differences. Building on the students' creativity through e-learning tasks, we prepare them for coping with a complex society wherein knowledge and understanding of cross-cultural differences in order to achieve unity in diversity must be our specific and overriding objective.
ORGAN MUSICAL ART AND ITS ELEARNING DIMENSION
Authors: Felician Rosca
Published: February 2023

One of the most dynamic musical instruments in terms of electronic dimension is concerned and practical possibility to apply in eLearning systems is classical organ. The dynamics of this development started in the 1960s when, for the first time the classical organ in its jazz format was invented in America and then in Europe.
Today. building electronic (digital) organs from transistor and lamps with sound generators organs to digital organ has become widely spread. Digital organs have reached extraordinary professional performances in which the sound diversity and natural sounds are copied and rendered with great fidelity. Famous makes from Europe and America have started to develop independent intonation and sound application systems. All these aspects as well as the practical applications in which acoustic research could be involved by applying digital systems that exist in Romanian research to organ music are likely to open new horizons for the application of research (and learning) to the field of electro-sound that could be naturally followed by the introduction of eLearning systems in musical education.
Starting from this development principles in digital systems of classical organs, there are multiple learning variants through eLearning system.This is very effective, especcialy for disabled persons. The learning system can be eassily addapted to different methods, for example the situation in wich the teacher is fallowing from distance the student, or the situation of direct hearing memorization. All this things are possible because of the digital organ's abbilities to reproduce very easily musical scores, that can be memorised by persons with visual disabilities. Another interactiv system can be developed by using the research on sound, till the dimension in wich it resemples most with natural sound. Here interfeers the acoustic research. It is well known that visual disabled persons have superior hearing abbilities. They can distinguish different sonorities and qualities of the sounds. A basic research in this domain with qualified personnel and researchers speccialized in vizual dissabled persons is possible and can be applied in Romania.
SPELL CHECKERS FOR ROMANIAN LANGUAGE: EXAMPLE OF AUTOCORRECT AND ARCHEUS
Authors: Spariosu Laura
Published: February 2023

The aim of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of spell checkers for Romanian language.
In computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone, capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine.
Some critics of technology and computers have attempted to link spell checkers to a trend of skill losses in writing, reading and speaking. They claim that the convenience of computers has led people to become lazy, often not proofreading written, doing nothing but a simple pass by a spell checker. On the other hand, supporters claim that these changes may actually be beneficial to society, by making writing and learning new languages more accessible to the general public. Also, they claim that the skills lost by the invention of automated spell checkers are being replaced by better skills, such as faster and more efficient research skills. Other supporters of technology point to the fact that these skills are not being lost to people who require and make use of them regularly, such as authors, critics and language professionals.
Bearing all that in mind, it is the intention of the author to prove if the use of these programs is an effective shortcut to a good text checking. Therefore a corpus of 30 sentences, 30 phrases and 20 texts in the Romanian language will be proofread using the spell checkers AutoCorrect and Archeus. A success rate per each category of mistakes detected will be calculated and the research results will be presented statistically.
THE BENEFITS OF E-LEARNING THROUGH WEBQUESTS. A CASE STUDY
Authors: Alibec Camelia , Sandiuc Corina
Published: February 2023

The new educational environment triggers new approaches to education. In this context, e-learning becomes a prerequisite for the education of the future, a means to ensure success in building and developing the learners linguistic competencies. This study argues that, together with face-to-face teaching methods, e-learning is an indispensable component to modern foreign language teaching and business communication teaching. The aim of this article is to analyze the impact that e-learning has on the students' English language acquisition by focusing mainly on applying webquests in the process of teaching. Our case study targets the second year students who attend part time courses within the Mircea cel Batran Naval Academy, the Faculty of Port Management, and concentrates on the students' learning of Business English.The starting point of our research is the Advanced Distributed Learning platform (ADL) in the Naval Academy, which constitutes the medium for implementing our teaching resources.
We have used the WebQuest as a main teaching aid because it combines the theoretical aspects of language learning with the effective use of the Internet to promote individual self-study practices, emphasizing the importance of combining authentic tasks with Internet resources to develop critical thinking skills. The authentic tasks comprised in the WebQuests motivate students and increase their contribution and involvement in the learning process. These tasks are designed to help students practice what they have learned during the English classes, and encourage them to become involved in self-study projects, such as the compilation of a short Business English Dictionary. The students will be using their English skills along with the technological input to complete the WebQuest. They are given the responsibility of choosing the content of their dictionaries, which will eventually be presented to their colleagues and to the teacher. The best work will be published on the ADL platform. In this way, the newly acquired theoretical information is filtered through the students' critical thinking, undergoing an important transformation within learners themselves.
SMART PHONE APPS AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS
Authors: Vulic Tatjana , Mitrovic Marta
Published: February 2023

The market of smart phones experienced tremendous expansion during the mid and late 2000s and greatly influenced the changes in all spheres of life. Since mobile technologies continue to evolve, no one is able to predict with certainty the future shape of communication channels and which one will be preferred by the young.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the attitudes of young people, particularly students of the Faculty of Philosophy, and to analyze different ways of obtaining information. Basic research instrument was a questionnaire specially designed for the purpose of this study. The survey was conducted on a sample of 159 students: 70 respondents from the Department of Journalism, 45 respondents from the Department of Sociology and 44 respondents from the Department of Psychology.
The results have shown that all participants (100%) own at least one mobile phone, and 80.56% own a smart phone. From the group of students who own a smart phone, most of them identified it as a primary device through which they get information. In accordance with the established hypothesis, the survey results show that journalism students are more interested in following the news, while students from other Departments are more appealed to entertainment information (social networks, music...). The results reveal their preferences: the most popular news application is "Blic", which is Android application from one of the most popular daily newspaper, and which was the first of its kind on the market, while only 20.69% use the application of Serbian Public media service. The research reveals that young people do not use any media application from the region, even though there are almost no language barriers for monitoring news (Bosnia and Croatia), but it is encouraging that 10% follow the news through the application of BBC and CNN network.
COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON SOUND LOCALIZATION ACCURACY IN THE FREE-FIELD AND VIRTUAL AUDITORY DISPLAYS
Authors: Balan Oana , Moldoveanu Alin , Moldoveanu Florica , Negoi Ionut , Butean Alex
Published: February 2023

The following paper aims to present a comparative study on the audio localization accuracy (directional judgment, absolute spatial perception and the rate of front-back confusions- situation in which the listener perceives the sound coming from the front as coming from the rear and vice-versa) in both free-field and virtual sound source conditions.
Sound localization experiments in the free-field rely on the use of loudspeakers for delivering the auditory information to the listener. On the other hand, virtual auditory displays are based on 3D sounds (resulting from the filtering of a particular sound with the Head Related Transfer Function corresponding to the direction of the sound source in space) that are rendered to the listener through a pair of stereophonic headphones. 3D sounds are used in a wide range of applications, as they can simulate the perception of an external sound source in real-world hearing conditions and generally increase situational awareness. Nonetheless, they can introduce several localization errors (caused primarily by the use of non-individualized Head Related Transfer Functions), such as poor performance in the median plane (for vertical localization) and an increase in the rate of front-back confusions, especially for the directions of 0 degrees (to the front region) and 180 degrees (to the rear).
As a result, we intend to include in our research a comprehensive psychophysical evaluation, interpretation and analysis of the accuracy of free-field and headphone-presented stimuli in order to bring to light the audio localization particularities that differentiate audio discrimination performance under the two presented conditions.
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