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DEVELOPING NARRATIVE INTELLIGENCE - KEY DIMENSIONS IN TRAINERS’TRAINING PROGRAMS
Authors: Csorba Diana
Published: February 2023

Most arguments and points that describe the quality of training programs demonstrate that narrative art plays a central role in the discourses and practices of training and change. The paper we propose supports an enthusiastic viewpoint that aims to reveal few basic guidelines of a plea for narrative art and a set of reasons supporting the importance of developing narrative intelligence through training programs for trainers. Throughout the paper we address few possible interrogations:
What is a story/narration that calls for an action? What goals could be aimed by including a story/narration in a training session? What is narrative intelligence? What is known about narrative intelligence? How can it be developed/improved? Is narrative intelligence only a useful communication tool, or can it be used as an evaluation criteria for the effectiveness of all forms of communication directed to action? How to insert narration in a training session? How can you call to action using the art of narration? Is there a secret language of the trainer? How can it be cultivated? What other functions/roles can perform stories/narration used in a training session?
In this paper I want to describe some of the properties of a world of “reality” constructed according to narrative principles and their force to act in educational space. In doing so, I have gone back and forth between describing narrative mental “powers” and the symbolic systems of narrative discourse that make the expression of these powers possible. It is only a beginning. My objective has been merely to lay out the ground plan of narrative realities and possible ways to develop narrative intelligence to teachers.
EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES CONCERNING THE PROCESS OF TEACHER TRAINING FOR PROMOTING EXCELLENCE
Authors: Cuc Claudia maria
Published: February 2023

The motivation for choosing this theme is centered on the concrete applicative size, at the level of the elaboration of a coherent counseling program, aimed at training educational counselors from a scientist-practitioner type of perspective, which is adequate for the necessities and the psychological profile adapted to the real clients’ needs, those of children with high aptitudes in Romania, who represent an informational vacuum in the Romanian educational system in what concerns the applicative dimension of the counseling services involved in promoting excellence; it is necessary to raise awareness in what concerns the fact that the best way of understanding counseling in this area involves the integration of the paradigms concerning the counseling of talents in a more eclectic way. The purpose of the research is that of identifying the qualitative and quantitative aspects involved in the continuous training of counseling teachers working in centers and offices of pedagogical support in order to provide appropriate psycho-pedagogical counseling services for gifted children, approach which is presented as necessary to optimize the psycho-individual potential of each gifted child. During the investigation there have been used qualitative and quantitative research methods: the survey based on the semi-structured type of interview as well as the questionnaire-based survey. The results target: a radiography of the level of training in the case of school counselors in the Romanian schools, in order to conduct specific activities for promoting excellence, for creating a space suitable for the adequate development of specific skills in the case of each gifted child, stimulating the parents’ interest in becoming more knowledgeable in what concerns their children' s psycho-pedagogical features and much more effectively involved in the education of gifted children. The research findings have been obtained through a diagnostic study, which indicates in a comprehensive and exhaustive manner the issues that circumscribe the psycho-pedagogical counseling activities designed to promote pedagogical excellence in Romania, being considered the size of continuous training of teachers in relation to quality results in advising and promoting excellence.
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STUDENTS WITH FACEBOOK
Authors: Marhan Ana maria , Popa Camelia
Published: February 2023

Thousands of preadolescents and adolescents are using social networking sites, and especially Facebook, on a daily basis. Given the public nature of most user profiles, as well as of the many social connections established online by young students and adolescents, it becomes obvious that integrating the richness of information provided by these websites into the pedagogical and counseling practice is currently a must. This paper intend to look at how the public "walls" of Facebook allow parents, teachers or counselors to develop further awareness on the evolution of a particular students or a group of students. Facebook's rich information allows a better understanding of students thinking and behaviors, since specific attitudes are openly expressed in their own words, or rather with "likes", or "dislikes" kind of labeling, while their interests and concerns became apparent by by analyzing the content they disseminate. Facebook virtual "walls" also provide further information on student skills (technical, artistic), or personality characteristics (sociability, narcissism, extraversion, openness to experience, lack of taboos, agreability), or creativity (as demonstrated by the original web contend they generate). Their involvement in volunteering activities (social activism), or their skills in developing relationships with peers (that one can appreciate by the size of their personal social networks) and their strategies in exchanging information (i.e., sharing photos with friends) provides also important data that may support the educational work. Representations of youth identity, in the post-modern sense of identity construction, can be assessed based on the self-presentations available on Facebook, by observing the types of photographs made public, or the frequency of profile information updates. Nevertheless, protecting the integrity of students' personal and social spaces, disregarding they are real or virtual, denouncing any "invasion" of unwanted or dangerous friends, establishing rules of ethics in teacher-student communication, and detection of particular problems in youth life (depression, anxiety, irritability or other kind of adolescentin “emergencies”) are important lines of action for the education counselor. Moreover, the concept of "pedagogical web" shows that the special relationship that teens and adolescents have with new media can be further capitalize on in the educational and/or counseling process in order to support a harmonious development of students personality.
CONTRIBUTION OF THE TERTIARY EDUCATION IN RESEARCH AREA
Authors: Muresan Mihaela , Gogu Emilia
Published: February 2023

The authors present the results of a desk and direct observation research concerning the mission of the tertiary education in research area. The paper reveals the place and role of the universities in the development of the science, technologies, research and innovation, based on a statistical data analysis, between 2005 and 2010. The study encompasses both sides of the academic activities, i.e. research and education, focusing on the role in knowledge creation. The higher education institutions have a continuously enlarged and concrete involvement in research, innovation and knowledge transfer activities. Simultaneously the academic area has a major role in the people’s education, contributing to the development of new competences and skills for a better knowledge management. Besides these strong points, the authors have identified also some weaknesses and possible improvements. The contribution of this paper consists in emphasising the role of the universities in the knowledge society and in suggesting improvements related to the academic research processes for increasing the universities role in the knowledge society.
USING SOCIAL NETWORKING IN ESL CLASSROOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION – A CASE STUDY
Authors: Turkmen Hediye gamze
Published: February 2023

University students in Turkey face a lot of problems while learning a second language. One of the most significant problems is that the students lack motivation and urge to study a second language, especially when instructors use traditional teaching techniques that decrease student autonomy and limit interaction in a language classroom. Under these conditions, pedagogic issues and practical applications to solve motivational and autonomy problems become topics of heated debate. In Gediz University, an institution which encourages new learning programs and exploration of eLearning options, a selected group of pre-intermediate students have started to utilize a social networking website (Edmodo.com) as a language learning device. Edmodo.com, a popular website that allows free private microblogging in the classroom was chosen for this case study due to the fact that it is simple and can be used by all students regardless of their computer skills. A special mix of technologies was brought together and a tailor-made program was developed to adapt the present curriculum, meeting the needs to increase especially vocabulary and reading skills. During the research that lasted two months, the students were asked to organize groups in their classes and socialize on the Internet while doing assignments and various other activities. After a brief of overview of social networking and language learning opportunities, this paper discusses motivational benefits, the changing role of teachers to strengthen student autonomy and team work where necessary and adaptation issues being faced during the research, while presenting a case study and an analysis of the feedback taken from the questionnaires.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRAINING NEEDS OF STUDENTS
Authors: Turturean Monica , Turturean Ciprian
Published: February 2023

The purpose of the study is to identify the training needs of students and ways in which higher education aims can be achieved.
The study is based on data obtained from the application of a sample survey which studies the opinion of students regarding the quality of education process. The sample survey was applied to a non-probabilistic sample. Students were randomly selected from two universities: \\\\\\\"Alexandru Ioan Cuza\\\\\\\" University of Iasi and \\\\\\\"Stefan cel Mare\\\\\\\" University of Suceava.
The investigative technique used was the auto-questionnaire survey administered in group.
The sample size was 446 students (257 students from „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi and 189 from „Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava. Each student completed simultaneously two non-standardized questionnaires.
The results of the study were very interesting and unexpected and we will show some of them below: there is a student dissatisfaction regarding the way in which the higher education level is done, which involves: conditions (material and not only) provided by universities (13.2%), lack of interest from students and teachers too, poor practice, tense relations teacher-student (12.4%), a moral profile of teacher less appropriate to its mission, courses contain too old information or inconsistent with market demands, etc. A very interesting aspect in is that students have not very different opinions, although they are part of different universities with different profiles, which means that it is a state of dissatisfaction overall, although in different situations, students expressed their satisfaction regarding some teaching activities, related to how they are evaluated, etc.
As a conclusion, it is useful to know that this study may be a part of a more complex research conducted at national level. Thus, significant differences were recorded can be a basis for future studies, surveys, in which can be proposed various hypotheses that could explain there results.
WEB 3.0 IN EDUCATION
Authors: Chiseganegrila Anamaria
Published: February 2023

The emergence of Web 2.0. has marked a change in how the Internet users benefited from a number of tools that allowed them to browse for information, exchange data, collaborate and interact with others. Web 2.0. has been a turning point in human interaction via computers, fostering social networks and even more personal environments for educational purposes such as PLEs or VLEs. Now, a leap forward is represented by Web 3.0., which should provide computers with the possibility to extract meaningful information from the Internet so that the inordinate number of data obtained after one search will be filtered, contrasted, and collated to better suit users’ needs. The advancement will consist in the fact that the search for information will not be just a sheer display of websites, chosen based on the key words entered, but meaningful information tagged with descriptors like mailing addresses. The implication for users are numerous as the new websearch could function as a personal learning assistant and may help one reduce the amount of time spent looking for relevant data, be it educational or otherwise. Thus, the users interested in learning will be assisted by an agent, which will select the required information, and tailor it according to the individual learning needs. In this paper, the concept of Web 3.0 will be examined to find its possible educational uses and benefits. Moreover, the author will look into the impact of Web 3.0. on course design, on the one hand, and on the learners’ ability to identify and attend several courses provided by institutions, on the other hand.
THE QUALITY OF ASSESSING IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF LEARNING
Authors: Tascovici Daliana ecaterina , Dragomir Robert gabriel , Isbasoiu Eliza consuela
Published: February 2023

The present paper’ aim is to present several aspects connected to the quality of the assessing in the university system of learning. First of all, we spoke about the assessing in general in the educative act. Then, we restricted the sphere to the formative assessing and its specifications.
Within the second part of the paper, we exposed and described our contributions to the field.
First of all, we presented the flux scheme in the process of the formative assessing, with its specific actions: the defining requirements of the formative assessing, the modalities and criteria for the formative assessing, the elaboration the necessary materials for assessing, the validation of the elaborated materials, starting participants’ selection, the participants selection and validation, the organizing and taking the formative evaluation, the archiving the documents, the analysing the formative assessing process and improving the process.
The identification data sheet of the formative assessing process contains the process code, the process name, the process scope and the responsible person.
The entrance in the process is another aspect we depicted. Here are its specific issues: the entrance code, the entrances in the process and the targets.
The fourth aspect presented speaks about the intern and extern risks.
The process outputs contain the output code, the process outputs and the performing indices.
The last aspect presented is the scheme of its interfacing with other processes, comprising the upstream and the downstream involved processes.
In the end we drew the conclusions and presented a plan of improvement the quality of the formative assessing process. The plan contains a few categories, namely: the problem description, in brief, the cause analysis, the corrective actions or the preventive actions proposed, the deadline and the responsible person, the implied resources, the measuring or the monitoring required method.
KNOWLEDGE DATABASES FOR E-LEARNING SYSTEMS
Authors: Andronie Mihai
Published: February 2023

Technological developments in areas such as databases and advanced data analysis techniques, but not only are directly reflected in a variety of activities, among which worth mentioning are the information and communication technology assisted learning processes, generally known as e-learning.
With the development of knowledge databases, people interested in their own education can more easily access information they are interested in, in a shorter period of time with a higher efficiency. Knowledge data bases combined with advanced data analysis techniques can be a very important factor to improving the technology assisted learning processes carried on by learning institutions such as universities. It is possible to design and implement algorithms that, by evaluating a person’s knowledge in a particular field of study can select the exact themes one needs to study, optimizing in this way the educational processes that are carried on and reducing the time needed for tuition programs. Using powerful tools such as advanced data analysis techniques it is possible to better correlate the content of a course to each student, customizing it in order to increase the efficiency of the learning processes. Universities and other educational institutions can now offer students the opportunity to quickly access exactly the information they need, when they need it.
In this paper are explored the possibilities to apply advanced data analysis techniques, also known as data mining techniques, to improve e-learning platforms in order to offer the students customized courses and to increase the efficiency of e-learning systems, offering the students more flexibility.
TOWARDS THE SECURITY OF THE E-LEARNING IN THE OPEN SOURCE CLOUDS
Authors: Copie Adrian
Published: February 2023

In the last years, Cloud Computing was adopted as a large scale technology in various domains of activity and e-learning is not an exception from this rule. In the meanwhile, many universities have developed now their own private clouds in local datacenters, for training and educational purposes by using open source technologies like Eucalyptus, OpenNebula or Nimbus on the infrastructure service side, or other solutions like Apache Hadoop on the platform as a service side. Together with the public interest information stored in the private cloud, there is a lot of confidential data involved in the E-learning process, like exams, students personal data and many more, that must be safely kept inside the boundaries of the private cloud. In the absence of a strong security management, a single vulnerability could contaminate the entire private cloud and could lead to data and application exploitation, together with the perturbation of the entire E-learning process. We highlight that the main threats for the private cloud security are the data interception during the transfer to and from the cloud, and the unauthorized access of the data in the cloud. The specific architecture of the private cloud, involving virtualization and multitenace introduces new approaches in safety consideration. This paper explores the challenges that face the open source cloud and reviews the general and particular threats existent in such environment closely related to the E-learning activities. Some comparisons with existent standards are also emphasized. As a conclusion we offer possible solutions and recommendations for a safe and highly available E-learning process.
ONLINE IMPLEMENTATION FOR MANAGEMENT STRATEGY PLANNING AND POLICIES
Authors: Mostafa Mohamed , Eid Emad el din , Eid Mohamed
Published: February 2023

By implementing of management strategy planning and policies software we can analyze, monitor, measure, control and report the efficiency and effectiveness of the planned strategy outcome, the ideal definition for this software category is the tools enhance collaboration and coordination between different levels of members, resulting in faster identification and resolution of issues. The implementation will cove so many areas like Human Capital Management, Regulatory Compliance, Management Excellence Objectives, Process Evaluation and Continuous Improvement, Project, Budget and Performance Tracking.
The implementation strategy will start by creating an action plan for the roles and regulation then build Corporate, Division, Group, Strategic, Section and Team Plans, then get your plan into everyone\\\'s todo list, finally monitor your Plan\\\'s Progress by reviewing the automatically updated charts of progress as people contribute and complete actions and tasks, and review results and outcomes and build optimized templates to reuse in
the future.
The use of strategy management planning and executing software not just to follow up planning execution but to get full visibility into strategy plan and portfolio status, and to choose the right work to do in the first place. This helps you achieve the full value of plan portfolio management.
Mainly the problem in any management strategy plan execution lack visibility into what Leaders and teams are doing, making it difficult to make informed decisions, by automated the action we get real-time visibility into what people are working on, when that work will be done, and how things are really going .
Steps to lead your plan your team, your organization to success, first Action Plan Template on Paper, then Breakdown large Strategic Plans into separate Action Plans, then Create a ToDo list from relevant actions, finally Updating and timely Feedback.
DESIGNING THE MILITARY ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED LEARNING SYSTEM
Authors: Roceanu Ion , Popescu Virgil daniel
Published: February 2023

ROI is an economical concept apllied into a many fields to measure efficency of some actions or activities. Education and training domanin has a own rules to measure the results and to see if the objectives were fulfilied or not, all concentrated arround the concept of educational efectiveness. Speaking in terms of technologicaly based learning, besides the educational effectiveness many managers and decisions makers want to know if the investenment into a new system is efficient or not. This paper will try to explain the role of the economical view into the decision making process in the dducation and training domains with focus on the return of investemnt metrics. Since the e-learning technologies entered into our life a questions is persistent- It is worth to be implemented? The answer is not simple and is not bipolllar, yes or not! Return of investement could be a strong suport in decision by providing an economical point of view. But also, we encounter another question - education is only money? As conclusion, the ROI has to put onto the some formula both educational efectiveness in terms of knowledge or skills aquisition and the money spent for that. Of course that as in any economical calculation, there is an marginal efficency and this has to be taken into consideration, also. Finally, the paper will bring into atention a study case and a proposal for a calculation. The study case is National Defence University experienced based and is adult learning in the military field oriented.
MODERN CAD/CAM APPLICATIONS- INTUITIVE AND EFFICIENT
Authors: But Adrian , But Eniko
Published: February 2023

In this paper, based on an example, it shows how to create a NC program assisted by computer.
It highlights the role of graphical programming, ease of interacting with the computer, easy to send commands to echelon operations yet leaving to the human programmer the freedom to intervene and impose their views of creatively.
Using this freedom of action, the programmer can optimize the processing operation. It can get different processing times, applying different processing strategies. You can also change the cutting tools parameters.
Comparisons can be made before the process through advanced 2D and 3D simulations.
Are given opportunities to import the CAD file or drawing graphics effectively use the facilities offered by the CAD capabilities of the software.
Follow the raw part defining, establishing and implementing the clamping systems.
Using the database of the program can select the cutting tools or we can create others.
Using specific post processors for different machine tools will be developed the NC program.
Another advantage of the program is how to spread from computer to program NC machine tool, or from computer simulations which verify NC program designed.
After more than five year experience and practice with KELLER CAD/CAM software are present the advantages and disadvantages. Methodology adopted to prove the efficiently of the CAD/CAM software presented was the cases analyzed with their results and one real application with the impact efficiently in industrial area.
The ease with which the programmer is able to transmit information, to obtain a correct NC program has led to the successful implementation of this software in our teaching process.
FEATURES OF E-LEARNING AT THE FACULTIES IN SERBIA
Authors: Popovic Virdjinija
Published: February 2023

Development of E-Learning and Distance Learning in the world has reached one of the turning points. This paper explores which universities and colleges in Serbia has built appropriate platform on world's leading e-learning platform model. Also, how are analyzed and implemented all aspects of distance learning, development of information and communication technologies (almost daily, get a new form), multimedia technologies and interactive elements and contents. The main part of paper is about how is developed the complete software solution by Serbian multimedia and interactive platform for distance learning. The Academic Net of Serbia (AMRES – Akademska mreža Srbije) is the national research and education network of Serbia, offering to it's users modern information-communication services and Internet connection. AMRES is the most significant scientific, research and educational resource and a carrier of the Information Society development in Serbia. It's considered to be the most advanced network in our country, with over 150 connected institutes and more than 150.000 active users. Presents one of most important national-research and educational resource and carrier of Information Society development. It also provides a number of advanced IT services mainly to researchers and scientific community. The AMRES connects 126 various institutions: Universities (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac), several high schools, scientific institutions (e.g., SANU – Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Students Cultural Centre, and other. There is also, GOOD OLD AI Research Network, which is internationally recognized network of award-winning researchers, engineers, and students interested in the broad fields of applied artificial intelligence and software engineering. It is situated at the University of Belgrade. Research focus include intelligent tutoring and learning, service-oriented architectures, model-driven engineering, semantic technologies, intelligent reasoning, intelligent agents, natural language processing, knowledge representation, knowledge discovery, and ontologies, AI-based music and visualization.
Good examples of E-Learning in Serbia are a training program for students (E-learning program) in field of democracy and human rights. E-learning program consists of 10 lectures of 45 minutes, which are available to users via Internet. Program duration is 90 days and it is essential that students have good access to the Internet, or fast and stable internet connection to be able to follow whole program. Lectures consist of video and audio presentations, power-point presentations, practical examples and exercises. The results are Students E-learning Projects (Tolerance as a prevention of peer violence, Letter to a woman, Protection of personal data).
Distance Learning Project- which is applicable in Serbia through Distance Learning System, fully satisfies, in some segments and provides significantly opportunities to applicable standards, is defined by accreditation for education institutions in Serbia.
AN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE INTEGRATION OF POWERPOINT AND VISUAL E-LEARNING TOOLS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
Authors: Chisiu Georgiana
Published: February 2023

Visual literacy is most of the time limited to an information transmission mode. This research paper underlines that this is an extremely restricted pedagogical use. Visual literacy is also most of the time confused with Power Point, which is indeed a very powerful and flexible teaching and learning tool. Nonetheless, we aim to complete this perspective by offering a complex framework of visual literacy practices. Besides offering a set of good practices in using visual materials with engineering students, we have engaged the effects of Power Point and Visual delivery systems.
This quasi-experimental exploratory study examined the effect of Power Point and visual intervention in teaching presence and social presence on engineering students. In this research, we test whether using Visual materials in an engineering course enhances student short-term memory, long-term memory, and attitudes toward class presentation and the instructor. The experiment worked with two groups of participants.
The group called "D" was engaged in a course that did not use visual materials, such as Power Point. Feed-back was provided after each course and at the end of the term. The second group involved in the experiment was called "DD". Power Point and visual intervention occurred during each course. Feedback was provided firstly immediately afterwards, and secondly at the end of the term.
The findings suggest that the use of visual materials has benefits in course design, facilitation, and assessment, while also serving as a mental map of the course. The results led us to conclude that Power Point and visual materials improve also reviewing performance. The improvements are due to the construction of cognitive helping maps.
THE MEASUREMENT OF COMPUTER ATTITUDES IN BLENDED LEARNING COURSE AND ATTENDANCE COURSE. CASE STUDY: CZECH REPUBLIC
Authors: Priban Tomas
Published: February 2023

Information age is around us and more and more people are forced to live and work using information and communication technology. Because of this fast changing society and workplace, it is very important for citizens and employees to understand and be able to use the technology around them. But the question is when we can say that a person is computer literate and when we cannot. For everyone that line is somewhere else and unfortunately there is no uniform definition. Question of knowledge and skill evaluation of students is very current nowadays, which is proved by current effort of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Czech republic. It wants to initiate evaluation of students in fifth and ninth grade besides initiation of state graduation exams. The issue of evaluation is a cynosure even in foreign countries. That is proved by existence of several institutions, which are specialized in this issue. Since the testing and measuring of computer literacy to be held on living people, it is important to take into account their personality and their attitude to computers, because their attitude to the computers can significantly affect the overall results. This study focuses on a comparison of attitudes to the computers in blended learning course and attendance course depending on their study results. For measurement was using the czech version of computer attitude scale (CAS) questionnare, which first appeared in the works of Loyd and Gressard (1984) and Loyd and Loyd (1985). The CAS has been used with a variety of adult populations, for example Nash and Moroz (1997), Busch (1995), Varank (2006), etc. Simultaneously strong relationship between computer skills and attitude to computers is appeared in literature (Garland, and others, 2003).
THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF MILITARY CONFLICTS IN THE FUTURE AND THE NEED FOR TRANSFORMATION IN THE MILITARY
Authors: Gabor Gabriel , Muresan Doina
Published: February 2023

In the future, war will mainly settle in the sphere of the politics and economics and will have as general purpose to aim at major economic projects, such as: control over strategic raw materials, from the point of view of their exploitation, access routes and trade markets; restricted access to high performance technologies; political and military control over some of the world's "hot spots" etc.. Basically, war will become an informational confrontation based on the use of certain mechanisms of distribution and combination of ways and means to support the conflict, falling within the politics area and hardly requiring any use of armed means. Transformation is a strategic imperative. At NATO member states defense ministries level, modernization needs to be shaped and influenced by the imperative realities specific to the competition in the information age. This is the age when power will directly depend on such aspects as: increased information dissemination capacity, easy access to information and increased decision-making speed.
Military transformation involves changes in the doctrine, organization and structure of forces, capabilities, business intellingence, training, education and procurement, human rtesources management and budgetary programming which become the main areas where modernization of the military occurs.
The strategies that define transformation cover three major areas: military culture, capabilities planning and capabilities transformation. NATO's credibility degree is and will also be depending on its military capabilities. Therefore, the final goal of the military organization transformation is to create new military capabilities that enable the armed forces to carry on operations across the entire spectrum of conflicts
SIMULATION AND SOLVING DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES THROUGH E-LEARNING
Authors: Esi Marius costel
Published: February 2023

The dynamics of social reality reveals methodological explanations regarding the role, the functions and the use of educational culture. The existence of an assumng process of some well-defined managerial strategies implies highlighting the manner in which a cultural dimension becomes pragmatic at the social level. In these conditions, contexts, conditionings and requirements in defining and explaining the educational culture are significant. Methodological issues brought into question reveal an explanatory approach that legitimizes assumptions regarding the acceptance of E-learning within the educational culture. The issue of assuming a learning situation is becoming one of major importance given that it is performed at the level of educational activities. Therefore, educational actors involved in this process are in contact with didactic methods designed to facilitate the learning process. It is about students and teachers using in practice the new learning technologies through a new teaching methodology, methodology that has in the center of its own area of concern the e-learning paradigm. However, not every time educational media prove their usefulness in the work carried out. For this purpose, we focus this analysis on the relationship between simulation and solving educational activities in relation to the new learning technologies (especially the teaching resources as e-learning). Moreover, we take into account, within this approach, the ways of dealing and explicitation of certain problematic didactic situations / contexts encountered during the educational activities compared to behavior of the actors involved these activities. Therefore, we believe that efficiency and quality of e-learning in contemporary education depends mainly on the ways of assuming didactic strategies related to new technologies of learning.
E-LEARNINGS FOR SOFT SKILLS IN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES
Authors: Urs Dana sorana
Published: February 2023

POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY BUCHAREST - FILS - CCLM
Splaiul Independentei No 313, Bucharest, Romania,
danaurs2002@yahoo.com

Abstract: Most technical universities in the western world have already included the soft skills in their educational programs as a priority, although their main educational focus is still on developing the technical / hard ones. The interest of the Romanian educators towards developing the soft skills is, however, in its infancy. Even if these have become the main topic of the courses in communication taught lately, the methodology used is still according to the classical "ex-cataedra" pattern of teaching. One could add to this the almost total neglect of some basic components of the soft skills, viz. those dealing with the student's personal development, self- awareness, self control, perception of oneself and of the other etc.Among the possible reasons could be that their teaching has an interdisciplinary character that challenges teachers to enlarge their strictly linguistic domain and include new items like improving self awareness, increasing self-fulfillment and satisfaction, releasing psychological blocks, releasing stress etc. On the other hand, students, who are open and interested in such training, have never been exposed to organized educational systems of soft skills such as self-awareness.
The present paper aims, therefore, at suggesting ways of using some possible e-learning based techniques for developing the so far ignored aspects of soft skills acquisition by the students of technical universities. The ideas underlying the chains of original tasks which have been created are based on the research conducted by the author and several foreign language teachers in the Politehnica University of Bucharest.
RESEARCH ON THE ADEQUACY OF THE FORMS OF TRAINING TO BENEFICIARY'S NEEDS AND ANALYSIS OF THE ASSESSMENT OF MILITARY STUDY PROGRAMS' EFFECTIVENESS
Authors: Bursuc Catalin , Teodorescu Cristian , Neagu Andreea
Published: February 2023

The effectiveness of a program of studies is reflected in how beneficiaries appreciate its effects. In the research beneficiaries are considered to be the heads / the commanders of the staff that attended military education programs. Beneficiaries will express their opinions on the increase in their staff's professional performance and efficiency after graduating training programs.
The research uses two questionnaires as instruments: the first one is addressed to the beneficiary, the second one is addressed to the graduates. In this way, the tools allow a comparative analysis of how effective are perceived the training programs organized in "Carol I" National Defense University.
Questionnaires' organization captures variables that characterize the educational process and it respond to the training that the Ministry of Defense needs. The tools applied aim also the promptness of the educational institution in updating its contents in response to the challenges of a society being in a full integration process into supranational structures. Another variable that is the subject of this research in the change in labor efficiency in completion of a study program. This variable is mediated, being registered as the perception basses have on the subordinates that have graduated study programs. Although it may seen a subjective treatment of the problem, this approach is integrated in the staff's evaluation process in accordance with the regulations governing the human resources domain in the Romanian Army.
The investigated population is the staff of the General Staff, as the main structure beneficiary of training programs.
The way the sample was designed does not allow generalization of the results to all the graduates. Following the research one can formulate qualitative conclusions with mid-level generalization, which gives stability and justify the research approach.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP VERSUS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN E-LEARNING
Authors: Dina Razvan , Onete Bogdan cristian , Vlad Denisa elena
Published: February 2023

The exponential development of online education systems has determined that the world's great universities enlarge their offer by giving, for those who are interested, free online courses, without any restrictions regarding previous learning. The courses are only an introduction to the presented subject, offering only the basic terms. Therefore, we can consider that it has been created a new form of corporate social responsibility, but also a new form of social entrepreneurship. Corporate social responsibility is viewed as a source social progress, because of those companies allow appreciable resources and expertise for this kind of activities in benefit society, but this type of practices could be seen as a competitive advantage for those who undertake this concept.
Entrepreneur from any domain are interested to create activities which may have a positive impact on society, in this context universities from United States of America choose to open his expertise for anybody who what to learn. We want to see if this opening could be viewed as a social entrepreneurship and how can be seen in report with corporate social responsibility and which is the connection between social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility. For this purpose we made a research among The Bucharest Academy of Economics Studies students, this way, we could find out their opinions about their openness to such forms of education. In the same time we wanted to know how does the new generation suite the greatest international universities' educational offers and if the celebrity of this universities is more important than the educational offer given by Romanian universities. We also wanted to find out if the fact that these courses do not offer a national certification influence their decision or not.
PERSONAL AUTHORING AND MEASURING ITS ASSESSMENT IN AN E-TESTING ENVIRONMENT - A CASE STUDY
Authors: Zheliazkova Irina , Borodzhieva Adriana
Published: February 2023

Some earlier researchers in the field of domain-independent web-based teaching systems focused on the process of authoring, tools for its support, and their main requirements (flexibility, adaptivity, sharing, and reusability) are Vassileva, 1995; Murray, 1999; Devidzic, 2001; Aroyo & Dicheva, 2004. As testing is a crucial part of each teaching process to put a web-based teaching system into the real practice to great degree depends on the acceptance of the corresponding testing subsystem by the teachers' community. In this connection measuring the author's personal assessment in e-testing presents of interest from both theoretical and practical points of view. With this aim during the first semester of the current academic year at Ruse University a natural experiment was carried out. Its results are presented and discussed in this paper structured as follows: 1) A detail description of the participants and organization of the experiment, in which the developer of the authoring tool of an e-testing environment was playing the role of an instructor, and master degree students the role of the authors of the e-tests on the lecture course "Intelligent Teaching Environments"; 2) Description of the structure and contents of the test word document, prepared by each student; 3) Short instructions for uploading the test by means of the authoring tool; 4) Raw data including time and collected in an Excel table; 5) Proposed analytical model for the e-test author assessment and its graphical interpretation; 6) Verification of the model computing the correlation with the six-points scale marks, given by the instructor, and 7) Benefits of embedding the proposed model in the authoring tool for e-testing.
CONTEXT BASED GENERATION OF WEIGHT AND STRENGTH FOR KEYWORDS OF TECHNICAL PARAGRAPHS
Authors: Pujari Nitin , Harekal Vikyath , Saikiran A , Hebbar Akshay , Raje Neha , Manisha G
Published: February 2023

Abstract: Technical and other knowledge is associated with human minds and contemporary persistent storage media such as disk, ROM, and cloud based storage. The quality and complexity of such knowledge is not calibrated as a metric and usually is not made available as a cognitive input to end consumers of such knowledge. Traditionally, the evaluation of one?s knowledge is determined by probing the knowledge acquired with relevant questions and assessing associated answers in that context. In the case of knowledge represented as technical paragraphs, the evaluation is carried out based on the semantics of the relevant answer given in the question's context. It is empirically observed that the evaluator judges semantics of the context based answer by examining the quality of technical keywords and the connectors used and represented by the respective language in which it is written. This is understood to be achieved naturally by associating cognition based weight and strength, whose formal definitions are introduced in this paper, to the keywords in that context. This paper attempts to automate the process of associating weight and strength to the technical keywords of a paragraph in the respective domain and sub-domain knowledge context represented by valid and relevant technical literature. This is achieved by parsing the technical paragraph. Subsequent to parsing, the keyword tokens are mapped to the knowledge base and domain based classification of keywords is carried out. This classification is used as the basis for associating weight and strength to these technical keywords. This methodology has been tested out on variable size technical paragraphs in homogenous and heterogeneous domain-sub domain context. Consistency of similar patterns of technical weight and strength were observed.
LET'S PLAY AS ARCHITECTS IN THE CITY! USE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES DURING THE PILOT PHASE
Authors: Ulrich Catalina , Nedelcu Anca
Published: February 2023

The paper critically examines the experience in implementing an innovative pilot project from students and learning facilitators' perspective. It highlights examples of modeling innovative practice through research and teaching with emergent technologies in a frame of Let's play as architects in the city! project launched in 2012 as optional subject-matter for the third and fourth grade of elementary school. Developed by a group of architects (Grupul De-a arhitectura) and implemented in partnership with the University of Bucharest and Architects' Order, the project has an interdisciplinary approach and involves architects, teachers and University faculty and students. Project aims to make primary school students acquainted with basic concepts from architecture and urbanism by direct observation, neighborhood exploration and creative use of data gathered through a variety of ICT tools.
Firstly the paper explores young students' textual engagements with mobile technologies and the changing nature of literacy in the context of being involved in an engaging complex activity. Project activities provide contextual learning experiences and rich exploration and discovery of the connected nature of information in the real world. Specific assignments reinforce skills development, use of mobile technologies and articulation to school curriculum: reading, writing, math, technological education, civic participation, arts and digital skills.
Secondly the paper investigates the perceptions of learning facilitators' on the use of mobile technology for project implementation. Architects and teachers will provide narrative information on the balance between planned and unplanned in using new technology for classroom and outdoor activities with elementary school students, between types of emerging collaboration encouraged by use of mobile technologies. Instructors will reflect not only on strengths but also on the challenges in implementing this integrative learning approach.
Thirdly, the evaluation of project implementation during the pilot phase will allow changes aiming at making of the extended phase a platform of quality education. Experiences gained in the frame of Let's play as architects in the city! could provide genuine examples about ubiquitous learning, where learning opportunities and experiences are dramatically changing (Burbules). Therefore we expect to stimulate research efforts that focus on key areas like mobile learning, new literacies (e-texts) and engaging faculty and students in the pursuit of digital perspectives to research and teaching.