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THE IMPACT STUDY OF ETWINNING PROJECTS ON SCHOOLS IN ROMANIA
Authors: Unknown Unknown
Published: February 2023

The article presents the impact study of eTwinning projects in Romania, particularly assessing effects in terms of pedagogy, teacher professional development and pupil learning, and analysing the factors that contribute to, or constrain, successful participation in eTwinning projects. The study provide a good understanding of the eTwinning action using a wide range of methods in qualitative research: interviews with eTwinning teachers in the school, interviews with non-eTwinning teachers and Head teachers/heads of department within the school, focus groups with eTwinning project participants among school pupils, focus groups with representatives of parents of pupils involved in eTwinning project(s), interviews with representatives of local education authorities, local communities impacted by the school and/or eTwinning activities. The research explores the views of participants in eTwinning in 3 schools at different stages and levels of involvement, from newcomers to experienced eTwinners. The study shows an interesting teachers’ opinion with regard to the need of technology integration in the learning process. In order to visualize project impact, teachers expect: to increase their knowledge on other cultures and to analyze different formal educational system in a practice oriented situation. Teachers can design and use ICT based tools for transforming and improving the teaching of disciplinary content. They improve the ability to deal with some new themes and subjects. They are very interested to use a new methodology for school subjects, based on ICT usage. Teachers can use teaching strategies that focus on student achieve (The learner centered approach). Students learn in an appropriate learning environment, by reflecting about learning to learn, different learning styles and how to use them in professional life. They organize their work cooperatively in partnership; They communicate effectively across cultures and build successful cross cultural relationships; They express their ideas-opinions by creating multimedia products. The benefits of eTwinning for the school are: increasing openness to European cooperation; adding a new element in the supply of school curriculum; better parental involvement in school activities.
CHANGES IN ADULT INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN PARADIGM
Authors: Richiteanunastase Elenaramona , Staiculescu Camelia , Cace Corina
Published: February 2023

Instructional design/ designing training activities for adults is an activity that requires the anticipation of the steps that will be covered in the training process. This includes anticipating the objectives, content, methods, resources and assessment instruments in the context of a training activity.
The analysis of the main instructional design models highlights a paradigm shift in the design training activities for the adults through a shift from product-centered design models (centered on the learning outcomes), to process-centered models (centered on the components of the training process) and mixed models (centered on the learning outcomes but also on the pedagogical conditions in which they occur).
Based on this categorization, the paper covers the most common instructional models of design used in adult education: taxonomic models centered on the learning objectives - B. Bloom, L. Anderson, Krathwohl, E. J Simpson, T.S Baldwin, process-centered models - ADDIE model, Kemp model, mixed models –Merrill, Gagne and adaptive instruction models. The models of instructional design are covered in a critic but constructive manner, following their advantages and disadvantages and their possibilities for implementation.
In the final part of the paper we address to the need of conceptualization of the concept of \\\"blended learning” and the need to develop a specific instructional design model in the light of the new perspectives and challenges that may appear. Blended learning is used to describe a solution that combines several different delivery methods or the learning that mixes various forms of organizing activities such as face-to-face classrooms, e-learning, and self-paced learning.
BUSINESS IINTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION
Authors: Berta Doraanca
Published: February 2023

In order to steer their internal organization, companies are experiencing mountains of data need to obtain information about the processes and people within the organization, the companies’ environment, and other factors that influence their business. Business Intelligence (BI) provides support for delivering this information and helps organizations achieve this focus giving the complete vision to learn from the past, monitor the present and gain an inside into the future. Nowadays, on the market there is a wide range of software rather included in the term "umbrella", products that are nothing but a combination of decision support systems, query and reporting tools, online analytical processing (OLAP) and also, forecasting and data mining systems. To discover at first hidden informations that are received from a data warehouse, BI uses a variety of algorithms to establish relationships between different data and variables. The effectiveness of these tools is quite high given that have began to appear BI solutions that not only serve the economic profile organizations but also other types of organizations to which we wouldn’t think, like education. In this article we propose to prove that Business Intelligence solutions can be successfully used also in education. Educational environment need this software because Business Intelligence combines data gathering, data storage, and knowledge management with analytical tools to present complex, useful and competitive information about students, results, performance and interesting correlations between different educational variables. BI solutions include the latest and most advanced technologies to support decision making and covers all information resources necessary to support decisions. They allow the models offered to make calculations and highlight the knowledge, while the final decision-maker appreciates reporting to reality and taking decision, even in education.
LEARNING BY PLAYING. USING COMPUTER GAMES IN TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
Authors: Constantinescu Roxanasorina
Published: February 2023

Today’s students are totally different from the previous generations. They think, act, communicate, and even learn differently. Many of them know how to work on a computer, especially how to play games, before knowing how to read or write. There is no doubt about the educational role of the computer. More and more teachers have become interested in the potential role of the computer to support and motivate pupils’ learning not only in computer science classes, but also in languages, arts, social sciences and many other classes. Teachers try to adjust their teaching methods to the new realities so that they might create a successful and motivational learning context close to students’ every day life. The students’ interest in computer games should be addressed in the classroom, as they are an important part of their lives. Thus, the knowledge will be achieved faster, better, in a more pleasant way, and for a longer period of time. The learners will have the opportunity not only to use the existing games, but also to create their own ones to fit their own individual learning needs. The method is supported by learning theories, such as Constructivism which strongly recommends the teachers to be aware of the experiences, the knowledge and the skills the pupils have when they come to school.
The paper examines the role that the computer games might play in teaching, learning and practicing English grammar. The paper focuses on: advantages and disadvantages of using computer games in the classroom, types of games, teaching and learning strategies, the roles of the teacher and of the students in game based teaching and learning classes.
E- LEARNING TOOLS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Authors: Andronie Iustin
Published: February 2023

E- Learning techniques have emerged as powerful tools for distance learning applications used by learning institutions like universities that offer distance learning solutions to the public. For e-learning tools to work efficiently, it is of major importance to have the possibility to measure in a real time all the performances of the information and communication technology systems involved (servers, databases, connections etc). Such an approach makes solving potential problems much easier, by diagnosing and treating the causes in a short time so that the users of the system are minimally affected.
Among the parameters of modern e- learning systems that have to be continuously monitored are the content usage, database usage, disk usage, communication bandwidth occupied, web host latency, web page hit number per month, CPU utilization per application server, total number of users etc.
The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of e- learning systems monitoring by taking as an example the Black Board learning platform used by a university with a considerable number of students. By analyzing the above mentioned parameters for the given learning platform, system administrators can solve problems efficiently and can even anticipate future issues by taking into account the current parameters. For example, by observing an increase in the disk space usage for the past period of time, the disk space can be better dimensioned to avoid future problems. The presented case study e- learning platform offers the possibility to visually interpret the parameters that are monitored, over a longer time frame, being an advantage over other parameter monitoring methods.
CLOUD COMPUTING AND ITS APPLICATION TO BLENDED LEARNING IN ENGINEERING
Authors: Porumb Cosmin , Porumb Sanda , Hoza Ionut , Orza Bogdan
Published: February 2023

The education process in engineering means theory and practice, individual study, group-based projects or experimental work that involves equipment, simulation/emulation software packages and laboratory applications. In order to develop e-learning platforms for higher and postgraduate education in engineering, new methodologies should be taken into consideration: project- and problem based learning, virtual laboratory (remote access to laboratory infrastructure and task evaluation) or remote assistance for diploma projects and mobility grants.
This paper presents new blended learning methodologies and the manner they can be customized for higher and postgraduate education in engineering by using the cloud computing paradigms.
The article is organized as follows: after a suggestive introduction, the related works and proposals are presented in Section II. Section III is dedicated to the blended learning models for higher and postgraduate education. Several important aspects are taken into consideration: how to improve the retention factor in the individual study, how to provide remote access to laboratory infrastructure and applications and how to support fundamental and applied research activities within individual, group-based projects or international partnerships. Section IV starts with the technological aspects and continues with the deployment diagram of the blended learning platform for technical education and continues with the elastic cloud environment presentation. The experimental results, especially the platform deployment for “Economic and Exact Sciences” and “Applied Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology” domains, including the blended learning support, practice and assessment processes, are highlighted in Section V of this paper. In conclusion, the authors underline the importance of SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) concepts in higher and postgraduate education by presenting a complex scenario for extending legacy e-learning systems in order to support blended learning capabilities.
EUROPEAN DOCTORATE IN TEACHER EDUCATION
Authors: Iucu Romita , Schratz Michael
Published: February 2023

The present paper describes an innovative initiative regarding the European Doctorate in Teacher Education (EDiTE), financed in the framework of LLP Erasmus Program, piloted by five European universities and highly supported by European Network on Teacher Education Policies (ENTEP). The EDiTE initiative developed collaboratively by University of Innsbruck, University of Bucharest, Eötvös Loránd University, University of Lisbon, University of Lower Silesia represents a unique construction, aiming to optimize the use of doctoral study programs in shaping researchers and teaching professionals; the approach proposed stimulates and enhances progression of scientifically qualified teacher educators to meet the needs of the wider European labour market (teacher mobility), towards a transversal teacher education strategy. It generates an advanced European-level specialist qualification, a new generation of professionals working across national boundaries. It lends added value to the European Higher Education Area with the full cooperative development of an integrated course of study by academic leaders. Additionally, the project aims to establish the basis for a transnational community of discourse and practice by multilingual transfer of intercultural knowledge and experience. The authors consider the in depth presentation of this generative model relevant to a wider audience interested in reflection on teacher education and teacher education policies in Europe. ENTEP develops its activities in the field of teacher education policies, but, according to its understanding"it is neither a decision group nor an expert group. It is an advisory group or reference group that acts as a sounding board for the European Commission and individual member states.
STUDENTS CAUGHT IN BETWEEN: ORIGINALITY AND THE TEMPTATION OF "CYBERPLAGIARISM"
Authors: Nedelcu Anca , Ulrich Catalina
Published: February 2023

Nowadays information technology represents a significant tool for assisting students in improving their achievements in many legitimate ways. In the same time, frequently enough, the same devices can become dishonest friends for some students who exploit them for evading their academic assignments. Such cases of academically dishonest uses of information technologies are influenced by a wide range of reasons. Ignorance or confusion over the nature of originality, unclear rules regarding academic dishonesty, underdeveloped moral reasoning, unsatisfactory teaching environments can be some of these reasons. In some other cases, students cheating practices seem to be "the easy way out", while creativity and originality represent a more demanding option.
The present paper attempts to explore such practices of technology-enabled cut and paste plagiarism. The fact that more and more tech savvy students can "copy, paste and send" academic papers represents a real concern taken into consideration by the two authors. The issue of cyber plagiarism is considered a serious threat to academic integrity; in the same time, starting from the assumption that internet-based plagiarism undermines the educational goals established in a certain context, consequences on students' performances and development are also considered.
In approaching this issue, the two authors combine their own teaching experiences in an action research type approach and they critically analyse "cyber cheating" existent in their students' graduation papers. For an in depth understanding of the phenomenon, a collection of investigations are revised and compared. The aim of the study is not only to identify dishonest practices identified over the past years in "ready-to-go" papers received, but also to find efficient addressing solutions.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE AFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION BY THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE FOR THE DOWN SYNDROME AFFECTED CHILDREN
Authors: Florin emil Verza
Published: February 2023

In our work we have formulated the general objective to develop affective communication in the children with Down syndrome by presenting educational software that motivate the desire to communicate and interrelate with others which can be a trigger vector to stimulate speech and expression of attitude towards the surrounding world. Therefore, we formulated two hypotheses: 1. Considering the love of the children with Down syndrome for animals and their ability to imitate others, we assumed that educational software facilitate children's desire to interact through nonverbal communication and through an expression of a state of mind based on simple verbal structures dominated by prosodic elements; 2 We assume that learning affective communication generates a progress in the direction of understanding the world around them and becomes a catalyst factor for their desire to learn. In order to decipher these purposes we conducted a research on a group of 30 children with Down syndrome aged between 8 and 10 years. We used in the therapy program, through the educational software, several activities involving different animals in different situations and several children who expressed a positive attitude towards them using petting, touch, gesture, intonation and verbal exclamation, short words which expressed appreciation and the animals responded using characteristic sounds and "words" of thanks. In the next step we followed subjects undergoing investigation in real situations in order to verify that those things acquired through educational software extend to everyday circumstances. After applying the above tests we found out that the two hypotheses were tested, this fact meaning that the educational software have contributed to shaping the affective communication and to performing a significant leap in diversifying their attitudinal expression towards the surroundings. We discovered that there was an increased desire to have contact with others and to express preferences using more verbal expressions similar to human characteristics.
NEEDS ANALYSIS ON USING ICT IN TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS
Authors: Fat Silvia
Published: February 2023

This article presents an example of NA, a valuable tool for designing an efficient teacher training program associated with ICT in education. The purpose of a Needs Analysis is to review the teachers' learning needs in the training program, including the professional development of teachers by using advanced ICT tools. The purpose of this NA is to identify the current or perceived digital skills, interests and cognitive attitudes of a number of teachers involved in a project at the national level, named 'The School, an active member of the Information Society'. This interesting project shows a new potential of technology for innovative and successful teaching approach with the potential to supply teachers with new digital skills for teaching practices. Project mentioned is a national initiative, developed by specialists in the education and IT experts. NA offers important dates for general survey of the project. NA was planned to reveal the following objectives: diagnosing the impediments encountered by teachers, during this complex and continuous integration ICT process; identifying the level to which various subjects could benefit from the advantages of technology; indicating the type of ICT influence on designing the teaching strategies; defining the expectations of teachers with regard to the future teacher training program. Also, the purpose of NA is to determine the value of different Romanian ICT programs. NA has not only an informative purpose, it is a structure of reference for improving other initiatives in the area of teacher training, including curriculum design. Our results show that Internet, wiki pages, and on-line collaborative groups can be useful tools for research, teaching, and communication. Teachers have competence in computer usage, acknowledging the fact that pupils become very familiar with technology.
BLENDED LEARNING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING: SUCCESSFUL APPROACH OR JUST A TRENDY ONE
Authors: Ionita Mirela , Asan Doina
Published: February 2023

The mixture of learning sequences that take place both face-to-face and on-line, referred to as ?Blended Learning?(BL), is a rising trend in foreign language learning. By examining BL innovations, and comparing them to those in the traditional approaches, this article tries to discriminate empirically, within the inventory of teaching strategies, between the structural changes and the ones made pro forma, in order to identify the elements that actually promote the learning of foreign languages by the generation shaped in the spirit of digital technology, as opposed to techniques that may be attractive, and focus on games, but only manipulate the desire to acquire the language, and represent a secondary, if not a complementary factor in reaching the planned teaching target.
On the basis of an Austrian theoretical model, this article argues that the e-learning component is indispensable to modern foreign language learning, in both stages of BL, i.e. face-to-face and on-line, and wonders whether the massive use of e-learning in modern foreign language teaching is the trend to follow in the future, in order to ensure success in building and developing the learners? linguistic competencies.
On the basis of an Austrian theoretical model, this article argues that the e-learning component is indispensable to modern foreign language learning, in both stages of BL, i.e. face-to-face and on-line, and wonders whether the massive use of e-learning in modern foreign language teaching is the trend to follow in the future, in order to ensure success in building and developing the learners? linguistic competencies.
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN PERFORMANCE TESTING FROM UNDERGRADUATE TO POST-COMPULSORY EDUCATION
Authors: Nicolaescu Cristina
Published: February 2023

This paper is heavily drawn from my research-based teaching activity applied to university students of English with the help of Web technologies, by using quality assurance findings. Since online learning is a complex educational process, I will only address the assessment stage, which may give a clear image of the pedagogical techniques' efficiency, the one that signals the need of changes for a presumable improvement. First I choose to start with the hypothesis that undergraduate compulsory education is or should be designed and made use of by academic staff as the preparation basis for the alumni e-learning in post-compulsory continuing professional education. The project on lifelong learning I've been working on provides concrete outcomes of adult learners in the form of formative and summative assessment, on the purpose of emphasizing how the shift from higher education level to a career-making advancement. I will give an account of both strategies and methods following a stage-based structure from goals to achievements. The investigation into strong and weak factors of the process will further mark the beginning of a deeper analysis. The successful review becomes the reference point within the proposed quality assurance activities with relevant general conclusions. This paper is also meant as an attempt at demonstrating why educators should be quality-oriented in their mentoring. It is my hope that the tested guidelines, in compliance with the Common European Framework, will be a source of inspiration and further research in contemporary adult education, based on the syllabuses for English studies for a more efficient assessment of language competence.
THE IMPACT OF ICT ON THE VISUOMOTOR PRECISION OF STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
Authors: Simion Elena , Folostina Ruxandra
Published: February 2023

Problem Statement: The article aims to broach an issue less studied in Romania namely the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) in improving the learning process and in stimulating the cognitive development of the children with mild intellectual disability.

Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of the ICT on the cognitive development of students with intellectual disability, especially on the visuomotor precision.

Research Methods: In this research a group of 90 students with mild intellectual disability representing the experimental sample and a comparative group of 90 students with mild intellectual disability took part to an experiment including interactive media lessons. The members of both groups attend special schools. The participants are boys and girls in almost equal percentages and with the age ranging from 10 to 16 years and an IQ between 50 - 79. The NEPSY tests were used for a broader research, but only the results obtained to Visuomotor Test will be presented in this paper.

Findings: After analyzing the results gathered we could see that there are some differences between the two groups concerning the visuomotor abilities. The results of the experimental group regarding the visuomotor abilities, after they used ICT in their learning process, are higher than the control sample, who did not used ICT in their learning.

Conclusions: Data obtained in this research allowed us to conclude that integrating information and communication technology into teaching of children with special educational needs might help their rehabilitation and social inclusion.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE CORE CRITERIA USED TO DEVELOP QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR E-LEARNING IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONS
Authors: Dobre Iuliana
Published: February 2023

The higher education world is changing consistently and deeply following the direction given by the governments? educational programs, leading educational organizations, by the information and communication technology advancements, and last but not least by the individual contributors naming here specialists, researchers, teachers and students all together. Also, the work force market requirements have an important role in determining the strategies which will be implemented by the higher education organizations when organizational, administrative, financial decisions are made by the responsible functions. One of the new terms brought by new direction was ?quality? term, a term which very rapidly has become a very important one. Initially, the Quality Management Systems were specific to manufacturing domains. Soon such systems have become compulsory to many other areas. Today, around the world, the higher education organizations are looking to design, develop, implement and continuously improve their Quality Management Systems having as a ultimate goal to support a significant increase of all over performances. Even the educational systems have their own balances/checks or measurement scales which were used to prove the teaching and learning effectiveness there has appeared the necessity to rather guarantee the effectiveness of teaching and learning than to prove such effectiveness. One of the pillars supporting the fundament of a Quality Management System is taken by the core criteria used to design and develop the system.
This paper is looking to put at-a-glance some of the Quality Management Systems developed for E-learning by different higher education centers around the world focusing on the core criteria used. Also, the article provides the author own view about the core criteria as a leading parachute for developing efficient Quality Management Systems for E-learning.
POSSIBILITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL LITERACY OF THE JUNIOR GRADES STUDENTS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL
Authors: Stepic Gordana
Published: February 2023

Digital media are inevitable and inseparable part of our present and particularly the future. They largely define our ways of learning, working, communication and entertainment. Among other things, the ubiquity of Internet, the media which is constantly developing and introducing new functionality, has contributed to this. Internet is an integral part of lives of most children since early age. Children's use of Internet is diverse and variable.
For children who grow up with digital media is often a priori considered to understand them, and know how to use them in a functional way. Contrary to this, there are empirical evidence that suggest that some students need more time and effort to learn the different aspects of digital literacy and it has increasingly been emphasized the importance and the need of parents', friends' and teachers' support in this field. The digital gap which is observed in terms of access to computers and Internet has decreased, but there are more evident differences in the pupils' ability of Internet use with increasing availability of digital media and their acceptance in education. There are two important questions which are imposed. The first one is what the role of education is in developing digital literacy and the second is role of digital literacy in the lives of young people.
Defining digital literacy is the starting point for its measurement and giving support to students in its development. The main objective of this paper is to discuss the origin and the development of the concept of digital literacy. We tried to point out the structural elements of this concept and its relationship to other, similar concepts. We discuss, based on a review of relevant literature, the needs and opportunities of digital literacy in the lower grades of primary school.
TOWARDS A WEB-BASED COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC MEASUREMENT LABORATORIES
Authors: Ionita Anca daniela , Olteanu Adriana , Niculescu Cristina
Published: February 2023

Modalities of learning have changed dramatically in the last two decades, as well as our sources of information and the ways we interact with information. Our school practices - how to teach, who instructs, where is the training made, who is instructed - have also changed significantly. The Internet technologies have introduced support for many novelties - among them, Web-based communities that gather together teachers and students with similar objectives, irrespective of their geographical location. In this context, in engineering laboratories, an important concern is to perform experiments with a variety of equipment, apparatus, and measuring instruments. This determines potential common interests of the involved people, like: sharing suggestive descriptions of instruments, reusing them into practical lessons, and interchanging measured data conforming to a common format. The paper describes a Web-based application developed with these requirements in mind. In order to allow community contributions and still preserve the coherence of the learning content, a general solution is to apply knowledge engineering. Thus, we defined an ontology that contains two important parts: I) one regarding the structure of the learning objects, based on concepts like Technical Background or Task and II) another one that refers to the instrument description, including classes for data, instrument setup, experiment settings etc. and specific relationships between them. Instruments are characterized as groups of parameters, defined according to this ontology, which is used by a Web editor for allowing any member of the community to respect similar structure and style. These characterizations can be further used for: a) generating visual models of instruments, b) defining lessons, i.e. generating Web pages with guidelines for students' practical work, and c) parsing data originated in non-homogeneous formats, for integrating them into a central repository, and make them accessible to the others. A teacher can reuse instrument descriptions existing in the system, can refer to available lessons, or can edit specific tasks that have to be performed, according to a pre-defined template. A student can get advantage of measurements performed by distant colleagues, and use their data for advanced processing, even if he or she has no access to the equipment necessary for acquiring those data. Our system can also be used in conjunction with typical Learning Management Systems implemented in universities.
A VIRAL CHANCE - ELEARNING BRANDS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
Authors: Malureanu Alex , Malureanu Cosmin
Published: February 2023

Successfully developing the jet engine which is your brand identity on social networks can be a tedious endeavor, but the rewards clearly outweigh the costs. A little thrust now has a great impact later. By embracing new communication channels early on, we can prepare our brands not for social failure but for social success. Each new opened channel builds upon the success of the ones before it, so it becomes easier and easier to expand further into social space.

Connecting with the very people that use your products is a great way to generate more sales and nurture fidelity. Releasing product features to the members of your community, testing their reactions and then applying the results to better tailor your products is one of the perks of a great product community. By keeping your clients and partners in the loop, continuously collecting feedback, you have a deeper understanding of what your product should be and should become.Building a product community is the best thing that you can do to market your eLearning content, but the process of building a product community on a social network is harder or easier based on the maturity of the social network. Entering a social network when its virtual space is not yet saturated with other brands is a paramount point that must be dealt with fast.

The goal of this paper is to reveal the strategies needed to win friends and followers on social networks and get your eLearning products known to the world. By employing different tactics based on each social network strong points we can create much more value for our companies.

We target in this paper: tracking tools, developing a master plan, building the community and generating engagement.
SMALL STEPS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING TOWARDS THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Authors: Matei Marian , Georgescu Mircea
Published: February 2023

The association between cloud computing and education might seem to be incomprehensible, mostly because only a small number of users and publishers alike belong to the education domain. Cloud computing commonly relates to the business environment, as a means of enhancing efficiency. But universities are also interested in increasing efficiency during times of economic crisis and especially when it lasts. Furthermore, the idea of applying cloud computing in this field arose from the perspective of collaboration and stronger relationship between institutions located in different areas of countries. There are several issues that occur and make educational parameters unattainable. Such a list could include small classrooms, lack or resources, short-handed staff, lack of adequate teachers. This is the scenario where cloud computing can be utilized in order to improve education standards and activities. The end result will be to curb the above problems and instead, boost performance. Regarding the benefits and risks of cloud computing, educational institutions can mitigate risks by carefully selecting the provider and by closely monitoring the evolution of the process. As for the benefits, an important advantage derives from the possibility to ensure efficient and inexpensive data management, flexibility and better security for IT departments. Due to the use of cloud computing, educational institutions acquire powerful software and massive computing resources when and where they are necessary. It is important to reiterate the education philosophy if we aim to point out the place that cloud computing deserves in the current area of education. The essence is knowledge which brings advancement, achievement and success.
ICT IN ECONOMICS EDUCATION - MEANS TO FOSTER COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
Authors: Paduraru Monica elisabeta , Staiculescu Camelia , Richiteanunastase Elenaramona , Mihaila Alexandru robert
Published: February 2023

A good teacher must develop a wide range of basic professional skills, such as designing learning activities; learning process management and monitoring; assessment for learning activities; ICT integration and use in education; knowledge of students' characteristics and learning styles, counseling and personalized teaching; classroom management; institutional development and school-community partnerships.
ICT integration and use in education is a professional skill required in several areas of the teaching process: designing and implementing learning situations, assessing student learning, research, communication, etc.
The use of ICT in educational activities stems from the early stages of ICT and Internet development. Processing information using computers was initially related to research and only later to the educational process. In recent years, ICT have become a key element that upholds a modern educational approach in an advanced society, whether it is classical education (which requires attending classes) or whether it is distance learning (both within the institutional educational system and the alternative systems of continuing professional development).
Students attending the Academy of Economic Studies can opt for pedagogical and methodological training by enrolling in courses at the Department for Teacher Training in order to prepare for a teaching career. By attending this psycho-pedagogical module the students gain the professional knowledge and skills required for a teaching profession.
In this paper the authors aim to address the topic of ICT in economic education from the perspective of collaborative learning and to present a study on ICT use by Economics students preparing for a teaching career in terms of ICT integration into the design and implementation of educational activities in teachers' daily practice. The study is based on a survey questionnaire addressed to third-year bachelor's students and second-year master's students who, in addition to specialized training, have opted for pedagogical training courses.
Data collection, processing and analysis enables the authors (a) to determine the extent to which the respondents use ICT in the design and implementation of educational activities and their view on the significance of information technology as a tool for learning (b) to make a series of recommendations aimed at developing ICT skills in Economics students that are also training for a teaching career.
CREATING AN INTEGRATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING CONCEPTUAL MAPS IN PHYSICS LESSONS
Authors: Cziprok Claudia daniela , Miron Cristina , Popescu Florin
Published: February 2023

We believe that Ausubel's cognitive learning theory provides a strong basis for improving teaching and learning. This work presents the combination of constructivist epistemology, Internet use and CmapTools, a software toolkit for building conceptual maps to deepen the concepts of "gas laws". Conceptual maps are a powerful tool not only for perception, representation and archiving of knowledge, but also to create new knowledge. It is essential to helping students understand that all concepts are somehow related to each other and to select cross-links as specific as possible and identify the most appropriate linking words to connect concepts, http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/rid=1L77HZZH0-JJS3VW-1S6Q/0.Harta%20conceptual%C4%8. Students who are involved in the construction of conceptual maps of physics are engaged in a creative process, and this can be challenging, especially for students who have spent most of their lives in learning by heart. The CmapTools Software Toolkit brings together the strengths of concept mapping with the power of technology, the Internet and World Wide Web. The software not only makes it easy for users to build and modify concept maps, but allows users to build their remote collaboration and publication, so that anyone can access with links to resources, to explain their content and other information for created conceptual map. CmapTools software tool can serve as a basis for a new kind of integration of Internet resources and all classroom experiences, physical laboratory, and outside them. If it is used in conjunction with conceptual maps designed to support learning, it provides a new educational model. In this present work we used activities that allow students to construct their own structure of conceptual map using a list of concepts also mapping activities that are required students to complete the gaps in the structure of incomplete maps to assess the connections they make between important concepts. Workspace is public. It can be seen at the IHMC Public Cmaps CmapServer under "Claudia Cziprok/Legile gazelor" folder (http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/rid=1L81NZX99-11RWV1J-1SB4/3.Legile%20gazelor).
TOWARDS INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF LEARNING
Authors: Albeanu Grigore
Published: February 2023

Intuitionistic fuzzy sets are defined in 1983 by Atanassov as a generalization of some existing models like fuzzy sets, interval-valued fuzzy sets and L-fuzzy sets. From applicability point of view, the intuitionistic fuzzy modelling provided new vistas in artificial intelligence, expert systems, neural networks, data bases, and decision making, to mention only the main tracks. The usage of intuitionistic fuzzy models in Learning (levels of learning evaluation [1, 7], e-Learning quality evaluation [4, 6], machine learning algorithms [3, 5, 6], quality evaluation [2], etc.) has begun recently.
This paper describes the usage of intuitionistic-fuzzy way of thinking and modelling to investigate the Bloom's educational objectives.
The first section establishes the aim of the paper and outlines the most important aspects of intuitionistic-fuzzy modelling: state of the art, intuitionistic-fuzzy sets, intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and operators, and applicability.
The second section considers the cognitive domain and presents the usage of intuitionistic-fuzzy approach on Bloom's categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Applicability, Analysis and Synthesis, and Evaluation.
The third section is dedicated to the usage of intuitionistic fuzzy machine learning from machine architectures (in general neuro-intuitionistic-fuzzy structures) to their performance evaluation.
Finally, concluding remarks on the power of intuitionistic fuzzy approaches to enable creative ways of thinking in research and development are provided.

Keywords:

Levels of Learning, Machine Learning, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Models and Strategies, e-Learning

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STUDY ABOUT THE EFFICIENCY OF WEB-BASED TOOLS USED FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS' TRAINING
Authors: Stanescu Monica , Stoicescu Marius
Published: February 2023

In the training of specialists in Physical education and sports field, the utilization of Web-based tools represents a relatively recent methodological approach. In the context in which a part of the students attending the initial preparation program participate in performance sports training, but the specialists involved into an educational process don't have any more the opportunity to take part in presential continuing training sessions, we think that we should initiate a new methodological approach to the process of building-up specific competences.
The present paper aims at checking the efficiency of a Web-based tool utilization to build up the planning competences of the future physical education teachers.
In this context, in order to design and develop the training activity, we used the exeLearning software, a tool that facilitates the creation and administration of the specific contents, but also the construction of some knowledge self-assessment questionnaires.
The learning object was used by 80 students in the final year of their psycho-pedagogic training program, participants in the Computer-Assisted Instruction course. Following the application utilization, students were asked to draw up a planning document and to express their opinion about the used tool efficiency. To this purpose, we created and administered an opinion questionnaire made up of 12 items grouped in 4 categories - attitude toward the utilization of such learning tools, benefits and difficulties related to the utilization of the created learning object, possible directions of application to different study disciplines (bachelor's level), effects on the learning efficiency. Answers were correlated to students' competence level resulted from their evaluation in the Computer-Assisted Instruction exam.
The conclusions of this paper highlight the possibilities to use the Web-based tool in the training of the future specialists in Physical education and sports field and they are accompanied by a series of proposals the application of which would bring real benefits to students.
THE EVALUATION OF THE SPORT TRAININGS EFFECT ON CHILDREN'S BALANCE USING AMTI NETFORCE CELL
Authors: Ciocoipop Dumitru rares , Borosbalint Iuliana , Barbos Ioan petre , Ghertoiu Dan mihai
Published: February 2023

Technology nowadays makes a huge impact on education in all its aspects. It can provide objective data in fields of study where subjectivity was a concern. In this respect we aim to demonstrate using technology that practicing sports on a daily basis have a positive influence on psycho motor development of children. Among the psychomotor components we choose to study balance. We used an Amti netforce cell to evaluate the balance of 1st grade pupils. This platform records the projection of the mass center of the tested subject on three axes. There are different stances used to evaluate balance. The experiment hypothesis is that the practice of sport like activities daily during the school week will improve the balance of children. In the experiment we consider two groups. A control group who performs physical activities normal for a 6 to 7 years old child and the experimental group who performs sport activities daily at least from Monday to Friday as a duty because they are enrolled in a sport program school. We need the control group in order to be able to identify the aging related psycho motor development. The duration of the experiment was one year. We evaluated both groups using Amti NetForce cell at the beginning and the end of this period. The collected data is statistically analyzed in order to see if there is a significant difference between the final and initial moment of the experiment and between the two groups. We expect to prove our experiment hypothesis so offering an objective proof of the positive influence of sports on the psycho motor development of children and implicitly of their education