bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
USING ONLINE INSTRUMENTS TO IDENTIFY STUDENT INTERESTS, ABILITIES AND VALUES - RELEVANT RESULTS FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING AND LESSONS LEARNED
Authors: Mardar Sorina , Risnoveanu Adriana , Mustata Marineladi
Published: February 2023

The ProSCOP project, implemented by "Carol I" National Defence University in 2015, has proposed for relevant stakeholders, among other activities, professional counseling and career guidance. The latter were dedicated to 180 bachelor and master students enrolled in five study programs organized in Bucharest and Brasov. In order to better understand the tasks ahead, the counseling team has designed and administered a questionnaire for identifying student counseling needs at the beginning of the project and a questionnaire for identifying interest, abilities and professional values in the second phase of the project. If the first questionnaire has been administered in the 'pencil and paper' format, the second one was administered online due to several reasons: the target public was no longer accessible in one location, there was not much time for administering and the team needed some automated tool that could provide easy processing facilities and database management.
The paper describes the online experience of the counseling team, while emphasizing the lessons learned, the advantages and disadvantages of such a research strategy and presents some relevant results concerning student interests, abilities and values towards a future place of employment that were further used in the counseling itself.
As expected, the online use of the questionnaire provided the efficiency in terms of time and effort that the team needed. By generating an automated database the team could readily use the raw data in statistical software tools such as SPSS without major interventions on the data. A major downsize of the strategy was the lack of direct contact with the respondents who sometimes did not understand the purpose of the question and/or left the possible answers unchecked.
NEW CULTURE OF LEARNING AND NEW LEARNING OF CULTURES: RETHINKING METHODOLOGY AND POTENTIAL OF E-LEARNING
Authors: Popovic Diana
Published: February 2023

In the information society digitalized data are all around us, which means that the world cultural heritage is nearer then ever. For using this treasure and making it circulate, the only condition is to have digital competences. That's why educational system has to be oriented in that way, making huge possibilities of ICT available to students during the learning process. So, new education has to be doubly oriented: toward implementation of technology, in order to facilitate transfer of knowledge, and toward process of acquiring knowledge itself, which implies appropriate pedagogical methodology i. e. new patterns of learning, using different internet sources, from e-books or e-media to e-games. The fact is that the teaching/learning process has to reflect constant dynamic changes of world and new rules of life, especially when students are 'digital natives'. It provokes a new culture of learning. The aim of this paper is to discuss how to create adequate e-learning environment for better learning about different cultures. As an example we describe e-learning strategies used in courses of French and Francophone Literature and Culture, at the Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. New pedagogical methods are based on innovative types of learning in a way not only to increase students' knowledge, but to make them understand cultural values, to incite critical thinking and motivate them for further research. The students' response to activities and their answers to questionnaires make us believe that such learning has two dimensions: an explicit one (concrete knowledge about cultural goods), and also a tacit dimension, which is much more important to be recognized and applied, and is related to understanding cultural frames in question, in other words, to discover why is something important to life and society.
WEB RESOURCES FOR BUSINESS ENGLISH
Authors: Sandiuc Corina , Alibec Camelia
Published: February 2023

The main objective of our paper is to present an overview of internet resources offering a broad variety of free resources for the teaching and learning of business English. The websites mentioned are some of the most popular business English sites on the web, designed to be of assistance to both students and teachers, that is they provide lesson plans, teacher designed activities and many other resources that complement and extend learning beyond the classroom.
We have compiled a list of more than 30 links to free web pages related to business
English, for which we further offer reviews, thus exploring the variety of these excellent resources that can be found on the Internet for sustaining active learning. We have also organized these resources according to criteria regarding the main topic areas dealt with, in an attempt to structure our analysis of these websites in conformity with their similarities.
We believe that English teachers should keep themselves up-to-date with the helpful resources that can be found on the www, because the web offers invaluable information both for educators and for self-learners. The job of the teacher is that of guiding students towards self-education, self-development and self-assessment, assisting them throughout their endevours.
Our aim as English teachers is not only to help students acquire skills and data present in the curriculum, but also to further develop these skills in the spirit of life-long education. Integrating technology into the classrooms enhances student motivation and teaching effectiveness, ultimately resulting in better education and increase of knowledge.
USING OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING AND RETRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
Authors: Tonkonog Victoriya , Timchenko Tatyana
Published: February 2023

The efficiency of enterprises of any form of ownership and industry sector largely depends on the qualification of staff, their professional level. The system of educational support of small and medium business is designed to provide the business sector educational programs directed on the increasing of the competence level of staff in accordance with the needs of employers.
The education market or the market of educational services (ES), aimed at training, retraining and advanced training in modern Russian conditions is represented by various government and non-governmental educational institutions, from institutions of additional professional education to training and coaching centers.
According to the Monitoring data of the Economics of education, for the period 2011-2013, the number of students in Executive education programmes in 53% of organizations implementing programs of additional professional education has increased. This situate implies a strong demand for the program of this segment of educational services.
Thus, businessmen have the problem of finding educational services, which, on the one hand, are responsible for the needs of current and future development of the company and on the other hand, which provide personnel development, training and retraining of the personnel, taking into account the specifics of the business without interruption of production..
The results of the author's sociological survey allow us to draw some conclusions, confirming the desire of the managers and owners of small and medium businesses regularly use the services of additional professional education in distance learning.
Distance learning has great prospects for development, because it justifies itself and is really comfortable. Currently, distance learning programs use the most advanced techniques. Despite the fact that this form of learning is innovative, the number of users is steadily growing. For small and medium-sized businesses, this means that training programs for owners, managers and employees will be more affordable.
TEACHING, LEARNING AND SHARING. CASE STUDY REGARDING THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR COURSE ENHANCEMENT
Authors: Visan Andreea maria , Logofatu Bogdan
Published: February 2023

If we look in the past at the evolution of society and education, we can resume that for generation the access to education was available just for some classes of the society and that there were relevant differences between poor and rich countries. Those times had changed, society has evaluated and the development of the new technologies had provided the path to a new revolution. Today we are facing a new challenge: the globalization of education.
Teachers, students and administrative staff from all educational institutes must respond with solutions to all new situations because, when we are facing a new innovation a day, there is no discoverable precedent we can follow. So, maybe, the solution is to be creative and open mind.
As a response to the globalization it is essential to build social connections between learners.
This paper is aiming to analyze the social media phenomenon and its role in the educational process. The goal is to analyze the utility of social network in the educational process.
In the case study we are going to present we had set up a private class community on a social media platform, a community that it is use to share ideas, opinions, to learn about thing you didn't know you don't know. Social networks, through their options, are developing a great path for students to find out their voice and to engage with the community. They provide great opportunities for teaching, learning and sharing. Even more, one of the basic element of social networking is the user profile - which gather information about age, gender, areas of interest, lifestyle, etc - can provide information for the teacher with which he can guide the students in forming an identity in the online environment. Also, through students post it can be developed a small network of strong links related to the course theme.
Social network are promoters of self-expression, communication and collaboration, self-assertion and personality. All these aspect and more will be presented in the paper, but we must mention that we are still learning how to best use it to enhance the learning experience with students and how to adapt it to best learning outcomes.
FACING ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN THE PROVISION OF ELEARNING BY ROMANIAN HEIS
Authors: Ciachir Lilian , Vochin Oana alexandra , Motataianu Alexandru
Published: February 2023

According to the EU 2020 strategy, one of the objectives for Romania in the field of education is that at least 40% of the population aged 30 to 34 years to complete tertiary education (university and non-university). In 2013-2014 only 23.8 % of the population is in this situation and the goal set was to reach 26.7%.
Due to the fact that the number of pre-university students is estimated to decrease by 40% between 2005 and 2025, the number of traditional students is also declining. Second chance education could be considered as a solution to tackle the discrepancy between the policy goal and the real trend observed in the last few years, and eLearning appears to be an appropriate medium to encourage non-traditional students to enrol for further education and successful finish tertiary education.
In Romania, only about 60% of universities are involving eLearning solutions in their current education offer. On the other hand, for the moment being, there is no Romanian HEI offering full eLearning study programs. However, there is a great diversity in Romania combining face-to-face with elements of bended learning and eLearning.
Romanian universities have always been concerned with ethical aspects of their activities and many of them adopted codes of moral or ethical conduct. In some universities the principles of ethical conduct are implicit provisions of their charts or mission statements (e.g. Transilvania University of Brasov or West University of Timi?oara).
As the practice of eLearning is becoming increasingly applicable in the study programs offered by Romanian universities, the ethical dimensions of the student-teacher relationship and the responsibility for the quality of learning outcomes turns into a real challenge:
- Students for cheating and plagiarism attempts;
- Professors for their responsibility in quality assurance of the educational resources for eLearners;
- Students and professors for their co-responsibility for the quality and relevance of the eLearning outcomes.
As the Romanian society perceives high corruption in individual and institutional behaviour, the ethical challenges in the field of higher education merit a closer attention. Another strong argument is offered by the frequent complaints of plagiarism in doctoral theses, which let us understand that in lower levels of higher education there are also practices against the code of ethical conduct adopted in HEIs. In this context, examples of good practice in overcoming ethical shortages in the provision of eLearning and in the evaluation of the learners should become a focus point in preparing for enhanced eLearning and blended learning (UK, etc).
The purpose of this article is to analyse the status quo of the ethical challenges in the provision of eLearning by Romanian HEIs and to suggest recommendations to solve existing or potential ethical problems in the delivery of blended and or eLearning programs.
MANAGING VIRTUAL TEAMS IN BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATIONS: A SWOT ANALYSIS
Authors: Codreanu Aura , Vasilescu Cezar
Published: February 2023

Bureaucratic organizations are more often than not perceived by outsiders as thriving on paper overload and lack of accountability to the detriment of simplicity and time lined decisions. On the other hand, employees of bureaucratic establishments have no easy task in producing the stacks of paper by which to make sure that their share of responsibility is well documented and justified. What is more, the same employees are overloaded with work while their motivation is not necessarily boosted by the resource constraints that these organizations have to face. Such a conundrum can and has already apparently been solved by the use of information technology in streamlining the processes inherent of any organization and tackling the resource scarcity that has become the cliche of the day. Nonetheless, the cultural gap between the very essence of any bureaucratic establishment and the impetus of technology that requires and proposes at the same time new working solutions for increased efficiency and effectiveness needs to be first bridged. Virtual teams may be a solution and a tool in this respect by which both the demands placed by the stakeholders of bureaucratic organizations on the latter's performance can be met and the difficulties encountered by their employees can be overcome. To implement it, its use, misuse and disuse should be thoroughly investigated. Furthermore, a comprehensive understanding of the general features underlying the foundation of bureaucratic organizations needs to be acquired. To this end, this article proposes two SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses. One is to focus on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats raised by the the use of virtual teams in bureaucratic establishments like the ones in the defense area. The other is to highlight the same dimensions from the perspective of the current challenges that defense establishments need to tackle as a result of both overt and covert variations within their external and internal environments. In the end, the analyses are to be overlaid in order to highlight the best means by which bureaucratic establishments can benefit from the use of virtual teams in excelling at their processes and overall performance.
MOOCS AS A PROMOTER OF GENDER DIVERSITY IN STEM?
Authors: Grella Catrina , Meinel Prof. dr. christoph
Published: February 2023

A very high number of learners take part in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) anywhere and at any time. Some researchers give a broad overview about typical learners in MOOCs, but many questions about social, cultural and ethical dimensions of eLearning are not answered yet. Notwithstanding the above, there are a lot of worldwide initiatives for supporting girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Nevertheless in some countries, especially in Western Europe, we are still far away from gender parity in STEM.
In line with these two aspects this paper focuses on 100.000 learners from more than 190 countries (data collected since 2012 and enhanced with survey data) who take part in MOOCs on computer sciences offered by the online learning platform "openHPI". Our primary interest concerns to the following research questions from a sociological point of view: Who takes part in STEM-MOOCs (selectivity)? Which factors influence the successful participation of men and women in STEM-MOOCs and under which conditions are MOOCs able to promote gender diversity in STEM (e. g. second-chance education and re-entry into the labour market)?
The aim of this paper is to raise the potential of MOOCs to educate underrepresented groups in specific fields like women in STEM by analyzing the learning behavior of different kinds of people and giving recommendations for further MOOC offers.
Therefore we analyze eLearning in MOOCs in regard of the following social, cultural and ethical dimensions:
o age, gender, socio-demographic background, subject field, working experience, social interaction among students (in the forum and in learning groups) and between students and teachers/tutors;
o country of residence, values, gender roles;
o fairness (e. g. in behalf of peer assessment) and conformity with regulations (e.g. concerning the communication via the forum).
We report new results of our multivariate statistics and give recommendations for attracting more women to take part in STEM-MOOCs, e. g. with regard to the role of teachers, course design, learning materials, examples and speech geared to a diverse target group and a suitable learning environment for a very heterogeneous group of learners.
AWARENESS IN EEDUCATION GIVEN BY STRATEGIES AND INDICATORS
Authors: Gaftea Viorel
Published: February 2023

This paper put in attention the changes in strategically view of eEducation forms at actually stage of development for software solutions, internet communications capabilities, new technologies used in learning, training processes through electronic means. eLearning process is transforming from classical lessons and exercises in electronic forms to new type of services, oriented to improving of digitals skills and livelong learning, not only to accumulate information, but to learn where we find it and how we correlate and use.
Domain references in the strategic documents and measurement indicators put in evidence the status and the orientation in eLearning, orientation of the software solution used and society needs. Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI 2015) of European Commission conclude that Romania needs to address its digital skills gap. This process has a unique solution eEducation. The "Digital Dividends World Development" 2016 presented in the Conference "The Future is Here - The Digital Revolution for Governments and Managers", held at February 09, 2016 by the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) and the World Bank, show trends and area of interest in actual developments of the technology and society.
eLearning solution must be oriented to improve knowledge and access referring to data revolution, electronic Encyclopaedia, based on Digital Skills, Safer Internet and Cyber security. The main conclusion refers to today the strategic goal of moving to the digital literacy and competence of people in context of Single Digital Market and Multilingvism society.
New paradigm of eLearning and software solution must be cognitive, technical and social knowledge and to be a supplemental educational resource in and outside of the classroom.
RELATIONS BETWEEN LEARNING ANALYTICS AND DATA PRIVACY IN MOOCS
Authors: Ivanova Malinka , Holotescu Carmen , Grosseck Gabriela , Iapa Catalin
Published: February 2023

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), as a new educational trend, attract worldwide a huge number of learners giving them appropriate knowledge according to personal needs.
Learners are stimulated to be active participants and facilitated to create distributed learning communities through: sharing opinions and setting preferences; analyzing, annotating and translating learning materials; participating in interactive gaming exercises; communicating with other participants, tutors and guest lectures; preparing and submitting practical assignments; group working and peer rewieving; proposing other useful (open) educational resources; publishing insights on different Social Media platforms.
Therefore, during participating in Massive Open Online Courses a wide variety of students' personal and activity data are collected and used for different purposes by tutors, hosting platforms and possible third party actors, such as universities or companies. Part of this big data is processed by the Learning Analytics modules, in order to understand and optimize the learning process.
The questions that arise are:
- What kind of students' private data are shared and why?
- What are the privacy models provided by MOOCs?
- What data is needed for Learning Analytics modules?
- Are there any third party actors processing the students' data and why?
- Which are the relations between Learning Analytics and Data Privacy?
- Is it possible for the learners to be protected?
The paper is looking for answers of the above placed questions summarizing and analyzing the current projects and practices, best learning cases and research standpoints. The findings are used for development of a model presenting a possibility to ensure data privacy in MOOCs.
The analysis, model and conclusions indicate the positive features and bandgaps in the area of data privacy in the context of MOOCs. They could be used in the form of directions for developers of MOOCs with aim to guarantee data privacy of learners.
INTEGRATED TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE TO OVERTAKE RELATIVITY IN EDUCATION
Authors: Vlasin Ioan
Published: February 2023

Relativity in education has as main source the culture of the educating tutors.
In this context culture is understood in a broader sense from using the language to traditions and daily habits. Firstly, it depends on the society, country which develops it and to which local specifics are added.
A second important source of relativity is set by the cultural level of those who propose it an who decide about it. The teams where David Logan was member identified five cultural levels organized in "tribes" - groups smaller than 150 people. These have speech topics statements from "Life is sucks" - meaning a total lack of adaptation to "Life is great" - denoting full adaptation.
Relativity overtaking imposed by the cultural specificity can be achieved if it is observed that all cultural products, including values, are in the end means, tools through which (individual or group) human needs can be satisfied.
The conflicts mediation, disregarding their nature, succeeded by Marshall Rosenberg and relative to the human needs is a proof in this sense. The three fundamental needs are: the need of autonomy, the need of competence and the need of relatedness (SDT).
Relating to these needs there can be identified the sense and the limits of each cultural product, including school disciplines. The capability of the person or of the group to satisfy the needs generates attitudes and preferences for a certain cultural level.
The attitude is changing depending on the instruments the human has in order to handle a situation. The jump from a cultural level to another is accomplished by familiarization with the instruments that allow a better situation handling.This is how the second source of relativity is overtaken.
The eLearning context can be created and integrated using this new approach, to be in touch with the basics of human real life.
ONLINE CONTEST BASED ON INTEGRATION OF ACTIVITIES, ADAPTABILITY AND STUDENTS COOPERATION USING ILIAS LMS
Authors: Vlasin Ioan , Chirila Ciprianbogdan
Published: February 2023

Generally, learning management systems (LMS) offer the possibility to create lectures and test together with their analysis.
In order to achieve a better overview of the preparation activity content integration is very useful. This is achieved by lectures and tests structuring together with a calculus of the structure scores.
Thus can be obtained an overview of the preparation that can be lad out on domains or disciplines and analysed in details for quality assessment.
In the context of an ISJ Alba Iulia project where 15000 students from 3 to 12 grade were enrolled such a lectures and tests integration was implemented based on the Ilias LMS.
The scores were computed separately on dimensions like Learning and Evaluation, in detail, from the levels of key competence domains, on disciplines, on lessons and on tests.
The lessons and tests were grouped on levels in the context of specialized tools for which they offer the preparation and evaluation activities. The students has a permanent record of the accumulated scores from the total score that could be queried to the lessons level.
For the created contest the LMS was extended with facilities to be able to create interactive and adaptive lessons, student cooperation by sending invitations etc.
The integrated approach was well received by the students because the activities resemble to a game where the scores are obtained by solving the proposed tasks.
Although the contest period was short the students achieved a double score that the one needed to achieve the prizes.
Thus, this approach seems to be a useful tool for student motivation.
A BLENDED-LEARNING APPROACH TO ESP TEACHING: DESIGNING A VIRTUAL PLATFORM
Authors: Mihaes Lorena clara , Dimitriu Anda , Bocianu Irina
Published: February 2023

The demand for English courses particularly tailored to specific needs is ever growing in today's higher education system. We teach a generation of undergraduate students who will most likely use English as a medium of instruction for their master's degree, whether they decide to apply for one in Romania (the University of Bucharest offers 20 such programmes) or abroad. A greater emphasis, therefore, should be laid on meeting the competence standards required by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, so that, upon graduation, the student will be an independent user of general English and have a good mastery of the terminology of his field of study. Since the undergraduate English course spans anywhere from two to five or six semesters, during which time the instructors have the task of bringing students with various language levels up to the same proficiency par - when they would ideally be able to apply for the abovementioned postgraduate programmes, a solution to the problem is offered by digital technologies, which can complement the traditional teaching methods already in use. Based on students' answers to a questionnaire which led us to conclude that not only are they conversant with the new technologies, but they also consider that their language skills would improve, should the virtual medium be used during the in-class activities, we have devised a rough draft of an online platform specifically designed to facilitate the students' access to and assimilation of information through online applications.
Therefore, the present article will firstly take into account both the prospective advantages and specific obstacles the implementation of this project would presuppose and will then overview the structure of the online platform we have envisioned, arguing with clear examples of assignments done in class for the prototypical B1 student, as compared with the variety of exercises a student can find online, that the integration of an e-learning platform could greatly simplify and accelerate the teaching/learning process.
E-RESOURCES IN THE LEARNING PROCESS OF BUSINESS ENGLISH
Authors: Talmacian Elena
Published: February 2023

The purpose of this paper is to prove the importance of including online resources on the list of teaching/ learning materials for students who are in the process of training in order to become future economists. The need to find the most accessible e-resources and e-captures of economic English which are in close connection with worldwide economic realities led me as a teacher of Business English to online Business English articles.
This paper is going to focus as well on the students' feedback regarding the use of such a tool during our Business English seminars. The target students are first year undergraduates with The Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Faculty of Cybernetics. The gain of such a practice is multiple. Students feel connected to the online economic world, have the opportunity of learning Business English terms and expressions with high frequency, discover economic domains in which they may be interested in the future together with the Business English economic terms and expressions specific to them. Another challenging part of the use of e-articles in numerous online Business English magazines or publications is the fact that the students have freedom of choice as long as the respective article is an economic one. Finally, e-articles are the starting point of the oral delivery of the article summary that each student has to experience in front of his colleagues.
The results of this research make us believe that students who prepare for economic careers perceive these materials as being extremely useful for their future professional training. Thus, they represent a valuable part of the e-learning resources which should not be neglected in the learning/ teaching process of Business English.
RRDTOOL. USAGE MICRO-APPLICATION OF PARALLEL COMPUTING FOR TEMPERATURE MONITORING
Authors: Isbasoiu Eliza consuela
Published: February 2023

RRD Tool (the acronym for round-robin database tool) aims to deal with time series data, such as network bandwidth, temperatures, CPU load etc. The data are stored in a database round-robin (circular buffer); such storage system footprint remains constant over time.
It also includes tools to extract RRD data in a graphical format, for which it was originally intended.
There are links for Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, PHP and Lua. An independent full implementation and Java are called: rrd4j.
RRD tool supposes variable data, during periods of time of a different length. This interval, usually named footprint is specified when a RRD file is created and it can be no longer modified further on. As data cannot be always available, RRDtool interpolates any transmitted data in order to fit the internal established footprints.
The value for one before interpolated stage is named point for primary data (PDP). PDPs multiple can be consolidated according to a consolidation function (CF), in order to form a point of consolidated data (CDP). The typical consolidation functions are the following: medium, minimum, maximum.
After the data were consolidated, the resulted CDP is stocked into a round- robin (RRA) archive. Such an archive stores a fix number of CDPS; it also specifies the number of PDPs in a single CDP and the proper function CF.
We realized the application for a real scenario. The role of this application is to monitor the temperature on four equipments connected to the internet. The access time for each equipment differs from one another. This aspect determines different time for responses to the interrogations.
The application was implemented in php.
HANDS-ON SIMPLE PHOTOCELL DEMONSTRATION TO EXPLORE SOLAR ENERGY CONCEPTS
Authors: Korganci Nuri , Miron Cristina , Dafinei Adrian , Antohe Stefan
Published: February 2023

The development of clean and renewable energy is the one of the important challenges that scientist will confront in the near future. To get involved the young generation in learning solar energy seems to happen much more difficult, though. Accessibility of some of the materials through home or school-based experiments could be one of the main reasons why they are not eager to learn. Even the research currently made on semiconductors for solar energy conversion indicated the same result. On the other hand, dye sensitized solar cells (DSC) which are used for the electricity production from solar radiation are both cheap and easily accessed compared with the conventional photovoltaic cells. For these reasons, an experiment has been developed by using ordinary and harmless products for the construction of a dye sensitized solar cell that has the similar construction used in natural photosynthesis. The conversion of solar energy to electrical energy can be displayed through the usage of this simple and easily assembled construction. To check the utility of DSC on teaching solar energy conversion a project was realized. The aim of this project was to supply a cheap and an easily accessed hands-on exercise for high school students. Students were both given a short outline about the basic measurements related to photovoltaic cell performance and shown the characterization of this performance. They were also suggested to utilize these concepts for their demonstrations. Different simulation studies were carried out with various temperatures and irradiations. The checking of the attained model was realized by using theoretical model via MATLAB software. The data showed that the simulated values have a likely pattern as the actual values of the experiment do.
LEARNING PHYSICS BY BUILDING COMPUTER MODELS - MOVEMENTS ON INCLINED PLANES
Authors: Marciuc Daly , Miron Cristina , Barna Emil stefan
Published: February 2023

This paper presents a methodology developed by the authors for a comprehensive study at high school level of some topics related to the movement on an inclined plane. The approach is interdisciplinary, aiming to develop students' mathematical and programming skills and improving the ability to use their knowledge of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, simultaneously and in conjunction. The activities are finalized by the development of computer models by the students. The VPython programming language is used for the numerical modelling of the motion of the projectiles launched at different angles on an inclined plane, thus obtaining a visualization of Galilei's parabolas. A navigable three-dimensional model is achieved, by exploiting the facilities of Visual package, with its graphical functions and procedures, and by using operations with vectors. For analytical modelling we used the GeoGebra mathematical software, and in this way we obtained a simulation of Galilei's theorem of chord, with generalizations inferred through the study of the implemented mathematical model. The GeoGebra software allows simultaneous work with algebraic and geometric representation of mathematical concepts, providing a visual intuitive support that fosters the understanding of abstract concepts. To facilitate the understanding of analytical mathematical model for movement on an inclined plane, we used a GeoGebra representation of the distance covered by the mobile as Riemann sums for speed versus time function. Thus, understanding the equation of motion becomes accessible to students in the ninth grade, even if they have no knowledge of integral calculus. By the graphical visualisations, the computer offers the student feedback throughout the activities of implementation on the computer of the mathematical models. Constructivist learning principles are applied naturally, supported by a constant confrontation between the meaning assigned to mathematical relations and the obtained images on the computer.
WIKISPACE CLASSROOM - A COLLABORATIVE E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR THE TEACHING OF PHYSICS
Authors: Oprea Marin
Published: February 2023

As a physics teacher, I constantly strive to integrate in my classes the modern concept of virtual teaching. Therefore, I seek to offer my students web tools that are designed to enhance their comprehension on the subjects being taught and to extend their learning abilities. A powerful tool which can perform this role is Wikispace Classroom, an online platform designed to transcend the conventional boundaries of teacher-student interaction in class. To be more precise, a wiki is a website where both students and teachers can post textual, visual or audio materials which can help with the learning process.
In this article I will show how I have managed a Wikispace Classroom to substantially improve my teaching of physics. I gave every student the opportunity to design his own ,,online portofolio", consisting in assignments (PowerPoint presentations, Excel worksheets for data analysis, projects etc.) and to post it on a personalized webpage within the wikisite. Moreover, in order to assist the students with their revision, I posted many helpful materials which summarized the main ideas of the lessons. The website also includes a range of tests that the students can take in order to pre-assess their knowledge before an actual test is given in class. Moreover, they are able to access their updated grades as the school semester progresses and to improve their performances accordingly. Moreover, a wikispace collaborative e-Learning platform is also a great way to convey useful pieces of information about science conferences, physics contests, school seminars or other aspects which may be of interest.
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF CLOUD-BASED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY CURRICULA
Authors: Stamatescu Iulia , Stamatescu Grigore , Arghira Nicoleta , Calofir Vasile , Fagarasan Ioana , Iliescu Sergiu stelian
Published: February 2023

Preparing and disseminating knowledge in the field of industrial automation technology for the training of future engineers and researchers poses specific challenges for leveraging cloud-based solutions in an eLearning context. This relates mainly to the need of enabling access to real or simulated hardware and processes besides courseware and handbooks with exercises and examples. Also, going outside the closed environment of the laboratory, teaching practices and outcomes can be vastly enhanced by cloud environments which incorporate mutual knowledge from various stakeholders in the learning process, curated by the end-users. The methods and tools that enable such an approach are reviewed from an industrial automation perspective along with alternative paths to educational achievement in this field. Student engagement is also tracked and analyzed by using specific tools and platforms in order to best tailor the content and delivery method to their benefit. We discuss the key-points, achievements and program structure of the recent collaboration between the Laboratory of Industrial Information Systems within the Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest and the Phoenix Contact Corporation to enhance teaching materials and improve collaboration among partner institutions at the university and student level, on related to topics such as programmable logic controllers, human-machine interface, industrial communication networks and supervisory control and data acquisition programs (SCADA). An outlook for program development and means to increase the impact of such initiatives, by leveraging novel paradigms in eLearning and software for education, are also presented and evaluated.
MODELING MEDIATION PROCESSES IN EDUCATION
Authors: Mocanu Mariana
Published: February 2023

The complexity of the educational system lies in the blending of the three forms of education: formal, informal and nonformal, that involve stakeholders with different interests and manifestations. The main actors are the "learner" and the "teacher", but the aquisition of learning outcomes is influenced by several external factors, that are described in the paper.
A brief survey of the Romanian education systems depicts the issues that can generate conflicts. Conflits in the educational environment can generate a wide range of situations, sometimes with severe effects. It is important to identify both the mechanisms of conflict generation and the best problem solving method. The conflicts are classified according to various criteria, and a database for conflict patterns is developed. Like in other conflict situations, to solve conflicts in education, in their different phases, stakeholders can call on mediation processes, that offer sustainable results and are easily accepted by the parties in conflict.
The paper proposes an ontology model of educational processes highlighting potential causes of conflicts, and their interference with the mediation process. The educational processes are modeled in form of workflows. A set of states are defined for each class of persons. Conflicts are also described by a set of parameters, their values being changed through the interaction of stakeholders, in different phases of the workflows.
This model underlies an application that monitors both conflicts, and the results of the mediation process applied to these conflicts and issues warnings (alerts) if conditions that can lead to conflict are identified, based on stored patterns.
NEXT STEPS IN PREPARING FOR GEOINFORMATION SOCIETY. A TENTATIVE FOR STRATEGIC EDUCATIONAL APPROACH.
Authors: Ionita Angela , Baloi Aurel , Visan Maria
Published: February 2023

Next steps in preparing for Geoinformation Society.
A tentative for strategic educational approach.

Angela Ioni??1, Aurel B?loi2, Maria Vi?an2
1 Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence ,,Mihai Dr?g?nescu", Romanian Academy
2 Intergraph Computer Services s.r.l. Rom?nia

The Knowledge Society with its many facets including Spatially Enabled Society and Government or Geoinformation Society is the new step in the evolution of Information Society associated with a new characteristic named creativity. In this society there is a continuous and intensive demand for competence in order to overcome the barriers in relation with resources, knowledge and skills, institutions, attitudes and beliefs, assessment, and an imperious need to create a new culture. In different studies has been highlighted the large range of obstacles hindering the distribution of geoinformation and GIS throughout different education systems in Europe. Though Geoinformation has been mentioned as a priority in the IST (Information Society Technology) research programme, in any document's of different policies or action plans there is no any mention of it as priority. More than, no mention concerning any ideas in connection with education in order to assure the appropriate amount of skills and to create the competencies. This indicate a major gap in policy making largely created by the subsidiary nature of education in the European activities with deference to national policies and programmes. Romania is not an exception. This paper examines the outcomes in terms of curriculum opportunities and realities for the use of geoinformation in schools and in teacher education and in research. The importance of professional development for teachers and the widespread use and implementation European standards is specifically highlighted. In additional will be presented the targets for next, short, medium and long term in order to create the premises of a new culture connected with geoinformation and their applications in the new step of society.
STUDY ON THE EFFICIENCY OF USING A WEB APPLICATION IN LEARNING THE DANCE TECHNIQUE, BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
Authors: Mihaiu Costinel , Gulap Monica
Published: February 2023

Dance Sport is part of the educational offer of Physical Education and Sports Department of the University of Bucharest, being one of the most popular sport disciplines among the students of this institution.
The number of physical education lessons provided in the curricula of the non profile faculties is 1/a week for the first two years of study, as optional subjects.
The approach of sports dance in physical education lessons involves the establishment of the themes which exclusively aim the initiation into this sport, with the compliance of all the teaching principles and the methodological requirements.
The dance lesson with students lasts 100 minutes, from which 25 minutes represent the first part of "general warming" with "harmonious physical development", which included the study of classical dance, while the themes from sports dance are allocated 60 minutes.
Regarding the training methods used to acquire the specific content of dance in physical education class, we mention that the verbal methods are doubled by the intuitive and practical methods, the teacher manifesting the autonomy in choosing and combining them.
Our practical experience of over 15 years in the field has demonstrated that acquiring the technical content specific to dance, in terms of exercising within a lesson per week, is done quite slow, reality that has led us to implement in our educational approach the benefits of the development of modern technology.
In this regard, we propose in the present work to emphasize the efficiency of using of a web application in the faster acquiring of the technical dancing figures by the students from the University of Bucharest, participating in physical education lessons (dance). We mention that the students from the experimental group had access (by supplying a password) to the application dansuri.site88.net which offer them, in the form of animations and some descriptive tables, the information about the technique learned at the practical lesson.
Also we specify that the above mentioned application was presented in another study which highlighted its importance in developing the dance technique, revealed by the interventions and the favorable opinions of the specialists in the sphere: coaches and athletes.
OBJECTIFYING THE EXECUTION TIMES OF WEIGHTLIFTING ATHLETES - CLEAN AND JERK EVENT -
Authors: Muraretu Daniel constantin , Petre Razvanliviu , Teodoru Marian daniel
Published: February 2023

. This study brings to discussion the recording and analysis of execution times (from the moment when weights leave the platform until the upper limbs are stretched with barbell above). The study is part of an extensive research that aims, in a first phase, at all categories of athletes participating in weightlifting competitions. Recording and measurement were performed using the AviSynth software program consisting of: video camera - JVS digital camcorder, electronic computer, tripod, laptop, video monitor and video tapes. In this regard, our research presents the recording and analysis of execution times in the clean and jerk event, for some top weightlifters at the European level, participants in the European Weightlifting Championships of 2009, held in Bucharest, Romania. Hypothesis.Identification of execution times for the clean and jerk event provides the opportunity to compare the athletes and consequently to make correlations and observations on the achieved performances. Objectives.1. To check the possibilities of using computerized imaging technique in the barbell lifting technique for the clean and jerk event. 2. To identify the execution times in weightlifters for the clean and jerk event, by recordings and measurements performed with the AviSynth software program. Subjects. The research included ten male weightlifters (aged between 21 and 33 years) from different countries, namely two athletes from Romania and athletes from Poland, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, Russia and Albania, with one athlete each. Conclusions. Analysis of the research results has emphasized some aspects related to the execution technique of clean and jerk style, among which we mention: average execution speed for the three statutory attempts; average execution speed for each attempt; the ratio between barbell weight and execution speed.