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IMPROVING TRAINING METHODS FOR INDUSTRY WORKERS THOUGH AI ASSISTED MULTI-STAGE VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATIONS
Authors: Butean Alex , Florea Adrian , Olescu Marco leon , Tocu Nicolae adrian
Published: February 2023

For industry workers in the manufacturing space, the most time-consuming and less-productive process is represented by the multitude of training stages. For each new process / module / change in the manufacturing flow, there is a need for another customized training stage. For demanding industries (automotive, toys factories, household appliances, etc) where customization is the key to sell more products, the time spent for preparing, designing and training people for new scenarios represents an important parameter that influences the production cycle efficiency. The current paper presents a solution to improve the measured performance on a new custom given task added to an existing scenario, using a multi-stage virtual reality (VR) simulator. The simulator acts as a digital twin for a physical testbed that offers 20+ parts to build the end product. To prove the performance of the solution, the first experiment uses a realistic multi-layered toy car as the end product. Both activities (real and virtual) are favoring the exploration of the building process, allowing the user (trainee) to discover multiple solutions that should lead to the same final result. The course of actions is supervised by an adaptive AI algorithm that compares the progress made by previous attempts (successful or not) with the ongoing attempt of a user and offers real-time guidance. Aside from using a gamified lego-like experience, the described approach contributes to the training process by offering personalized contextual suggestions, advices and tips. The article contains a serious state of the art study, current version specifications and objectives, details regarding the architecture of the solution, development components, results, comparative experimental tests and conclusions.
CONSIDERATIONS FOR SPECIALIST TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES PROTECTION
Authors: Roman Daniel
Published: February 2023

Changes and progress of contemporary society, is one of the decisive factors regarding the way to address every single scientific field. In this context, the critical infrastructures protection, that became an international priority, brings to the fore the constant the need of adapting the education system and training of specialists in this field. On the other hand, the cultural heritage of the population living in the places that are affected by natural hazards such as: earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions or other natural calamities, and man-made disasters such as: fires, military conflicts, terrorist attacks and other industrial incidents compel the authorities to take the best measures to limit damages and casualties. Critical infrastructure protection is not an exclusive domain, its theoretical and practical background becoming a valuable resource for all security systems. For this, the critical infrastructure protection specialist is not just a system officer because he has the qualities of an analyst, planner, and decision maker. In order for these qualities to exist simultaneously, this implies designing management systems for education in accordance with the risks and vulnerabilities of contemporary society in order to create the possibility of materializing the negative events with a major impact. The challenge of this article is to draw attention of the decision makers on the need to transform the education systems designed to increase the level of population security culture and the role of the critical infrastructure protection specialist. In this regard, I point out that predicting the future of a society is very difficult and can be greatly improved by exploiting databases and using expertise in the field of critical infrastructure protection. Formalizing social security systems to achieve this objective involves the gradual transition from individual work to a new form of work, respectively the collaborative network. Based on these considerations, I anticipate the training of a critical infrastructure protection specialist in the context of new development of the national security systems/ defense systems against any threats or dangers.
DESIGNING A DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM ON 3 AXIS: EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND PERFORMANCE
Authors: Vlasceanu Giorgiana violeta , Boiangiu Costin anton , Deaconescu Razvan adrian , Prodan Marcel , Avatavului Cristian , Rughinis Razvan , Mocanu Irina
Published: February 2023

Technology advances to make life easier for people. We tend to surround us with devices as small as possible and with the highest computing power. The need for data access from everywhere is an important detail. As a consequence, digital documents have been gaining ground on printed ones and for some sectors, the latter were even replaced.
The need and the obligation to preserve the written cultural heritage, represented by books and valuable documents, some of them rare and even unique, forced us to imagine a system that protects the patrimony but makes it also accessible. In order to make books easily available to the public and at the lowest possible risk for the protection of the originals, we came to the idea of designing and creating an efficient digitization system of these records.
The current article presents the proposed architecture of a Document Image Analysis System that will process the information with individual modules for each type of operation. The main scope for such tool is to recognize information from the documents and extract them for electronic use. The flow of operations are indicated by user, some steps can be eliminated depending on the user's desire and needs.
In order to design an efficient Document Image Analysis System, we need a 3 axis approach: Education - involving students that can receive tasks for replacing modules and validating their homework, Research - performing various tests and Performance - testing the module interconnection and enabling the system to be extremely configurable.
No matter what axis is considered, the main scope is the flexibility of the system - performed by individual modules as physical binaries or collection of binaries that are linked via scripts. Each module is designed to accomplish a certain major task by executing several sub-tasks whose results, in most cases, are subject to an intelligent voting process that produces the module's output data.
ADABI: AN ADAPTIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM BASED ON BAYESIAN INFERENCE
Authors: Ionescu Anata flavia , Sburlan Dragos
Published: February 2023

Student assessment holds the essential role of informing both the instructor and the learner of the extent to which they have attained the established learning objectives. As computerized assessment became lately widespread and effective in academic environments, issues such as the optimal degree of automation and the trade-offs between the pedagogical and technological aspects in designing assessment systems require special attention. This paper introduces an adaptive web-based assessment system - AdABI, designed to address such issues by: (1) allowing teachers to define their multiple-choice tests, to set their evaluation criteria and the examination schedule, and to view the results of an assessment; (2) allowing the students to take examinations for the courses they are enrolled in and to view their personal results; (3) creating and automatically updating the student's profile after each examination; (4) adapting the student's future examinations based on the inferred profile. The adaptive behaviour of the testing and evaluation module is implemented through a Bayesian network by means of which the system is able to deliver personalised tests to the student. More precisely, the system infers three characteristics (tendency to guess the answers, adaptability, and fatigability) for each particular student based on the student's answer patterns, and adapts the question types and the order of the questions in future examinations so as to counterbalance the student's characteristics. Consequently, by controlling for the student's profile in examinations, AdABI may attenuate the bias induced by the learner's answer patterns. This way, it may ultimately provide a premise for fairer evaluations.
THE ROLE OF DISGUST AND FEAR IN THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND PROPOSAL OF A COMPUTERIZED INTERVENTION
Authors: Pascal Simona alexandra , Nedelcea Catalin , Podina Ioana roxana
Published: February 2023

Disgust represents an important emotion in the maintenance of anxiety symptoms, especially in phobias, but it is disregarded in the assessment of symptoms, even if studies show that disgust could change their manifestation. So far, the main emotion studied in specific phobias is fear, which is almost always provoked, persistent, and accompanied by the avoidance of the phobic object. Children exposed to a frightening event are at risk to develop specific phobias. Once developed, it may be maintained by cognitive biases and can interfere with daily activities. In the light of these issues, the current research provides a summary of the relevant studies made on emotions in children and adolescents with anxiety symptoms and the main implications in educational environment. Relevant research made on both emotions emphasize that even if fear has a more essential role in anxiety disorders, disgust also has an impact on specific phobias reactions; these two emotions have different relative influence in phobias. The aim of this research is to propose a computerized intervention for managing emotions in adolescents. The intervention is based on virtual exposure to stimuli related to specific phobia described in DSM-5 (animals, injury, situational). It is a computerized version of exposure technique protocol and participants will be gradually exposed to those stimuli that increase the level of disgust and fear. Using this application for managing emotions, the intervention aims to increase adaptive behaviors that could be used by participants in phobic situations. Also, theoretical and practical implications in educational environment will be discussed.
A VERY PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR SYSTEM ENGINEERING CURRICULUM
Authors: Pascu Mihail , Pietraru Radu nicolae , Olteanu Adriana , Nicolae Maximilian
Published: February 2023

Practical applications in engineering higher education have a very important place. Unfortunately, the laboratory instrumentation required to implement practical applications has a high cost and is highly specialized (it can only be used for certain laboratory work). For this reason, there is a tendency for many hours of practical applications to be converted into theoretical seminar classes. Another reason that supports this trend is the much larger effort of training hours for practical applications and a greater need for support staff. Regardless of motivation, this trend has a major negative impact on the training of future engineers. The past few years have brought to the attention of teachers a series of low cost and multi-disciplinary hardware platforms such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi or NodeMCU. These platforms can be the basis for designing cheap and easy to use laboratory instruments and may be an alternative to classical laboratory instrumentation. The first advantage of this solution is to obtain a multi-disciplinary solution, a hardware platform that can be used to several disciplines. The second advantage is the possibility of acquiring the platform by the students due to the extremely low cost. In this way the practical training will not only be limited to laboratory hours. This article aims to outline a set of practical examples for several disciplines in the system engineering curriculum validating an inexpensive and multi-disciplinary laboratory instrumentation solution. The proposed hardware platform is based on the ESP8266 WiFi microprocessor and is specifically designed for this purpose. Through this article, the authors hope to convey an urge to a more practical approach in technical education in general and especially in the systems engineering field.
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE FOR TEACHING BASIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT UPPER BASIC EDUCATION LEVEL
Authors: Sani Mustapha sumaila , Hassan Bello
Published: February 2023

The study was conducted to develop and validate a multimedia electronic instructional package for teaching the Basic Electronic Devices component of Basic Technology at the Upper Basic Education level. It was a developmental research design, which involved the systematic study of designing, developing, and evaluating instructional programs, processes, and products that must meet criteria of internal consistency and effectiveness. Developmental research is particularly important in the field of instructional technology. The study therefore involved the analysis and description of the development process and the evaluation of the final product. The study was guided by the four research questions. The area for this is Kano state, North-Western Nigeria. Kano state lies within the Coordinates 110 30'N 80 30'E. The population for the study consists of 291 Basic Technology teachers, out of this, 10 Basic Technology teachers, 5 instructional technologist and 5 computer specialists were purposely selected for the evaluation of the package based on the four instruments for assessment. The findings of the study revealed that design procedures were followed in the development of the of Basic Electronic Devices Computer Instructional Package (BEDCIP); the BEDCIP have adequately covered the curriculum content of the subject matter; BEDCIP have met required instructional technology standards; and the BEDCIP have met the required technical standards. The study therefore recommends amongst others that Basic Technology teachers should be encouraged to prepare some aspects of their lessons in electronic form; the BEDCIP should be utilized for classroom instruction especially when teaching the Basic Electronic Devices component of Basic Technology; and that similar packages should be developed for the other aspects of Basic Technology curriculum.
THE IMPACT OF E-LEARNING ON THE FUTURE JOB MARKET – PREDICTING A NEW EDUCATIONAL TYPE OF LEARNING STYLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS
Authors: Darie Alexandru , Postelnicu Roxana , Scarlat Cezar
Published: February 2023

This paper aims to present a theoretical analysis of a new educational type of learning styles for next generations. We are in a new era of technological breakthrough regarding Artificial Intelligence and Robotics that will change the jobs as we know them and will create others. In the next decades, machines and robots are expected to perform more current tasks than humans and there will be a need of new skilled workers that could program, design and handle the Artificial Intelligence. What happens with the ones that will be left out ? It will be a critical issue for the business to take a proactive role in supporting their existing employees through reconverting to new areas of competencies and the educational institutes to create an environment that facilitates workforce transformation. The change in the educational paradigm should have two key components: soft skills and technical skills. Soft skills are the key abilities for the ones that will reconvert from jobs that will disappear and technical skills are key abilities for the jobs that aren't created yet. The best scenario is the combination of the two skill sets and the challenge to combine them in a new educational platform for students and reconverting education for adults and elders. The studies show us that we are not proactive on the issue of preparing the workforce that will fill the job market in the future. This article will review a series of predictions regarding jobs that will be created based on the digitization of old industries, new technological areas and a modern way of education.
SMART EDUCATION IN SMART CITY AND STUDENT MODEL
Authors: Dumancic Mario
Published: February 2023

Smart cities are not just a trend; they have become a tendency of development of living and social environment. Green energy, coexistence with the nature, better and technologically supported living environment are the foundation of Smart cities. Smart cities are broader and more complex social projects to change the life we live. One of the elements of the Smart cities project is also "smart education". Strong impetus for development of Smart cities has to come from development of Smart Education environment. In Smart Cities, the need for educating all citizens is the basic element of the very development of Smart Cities. Only continually educated (lifelong learners) citizens will be able to make this step. Today's education and its organization and implementation are not sufficient for the future of smart cities. The development of smart education encompasses the use of different educational technologies and access to IoT technology in education. Creating a new technological environment IoT provides new approaches to education of all regardless of age. The current educational approaches will not be able to support the needs of education. ICT infrastructure is changing which will directly affect the existing approaches and technology in education . The future of education is smart education. Are we ready for new changes? What are the options and what are the mistakes? This paper discusses the notion and the characteristics of Smart education on the example of Smart cities of the future. Are we ready for new changes? What are the options and what are the mistakes? This paper discusses the notion and the characteristics of Smart education on the example of Smart cities of the future.
NUMERALS IN MODEL OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
Authors: Krestov Sergey , Loginova Alyona , Stroganov Iurii
Published: February 2023

The purpose of this study was to create a system of knowledge representation in information systems most similar to the model of human knowledge representation. The problem of plain arithmetic operations and numerals representation was chosen as a main goal.
Knowledge representation in general terms was chosen for the current problem as a first goal. For this purpose psychological theories and experiments about human knowledge representation models were overviewed. As en example, the "violin" experiment was given. This experiment confirms the idea of information representation in human's mind as a net of entities connected by associative relations. As an analogue of such structure in information technologies world semantic networks were considered. This structure was chosen because semantic networks use the same idea of knowledge representation as a graph. Ontology as a pattern of semantic networks construction is also considered. Following this pattern edges and their relations are joined into classes with common properties and behavior. Finally, technical and psychological approaches were compared to chose the most correct way to represent information as humans do.
But the problem of numerals representation in human's mind also has its own psychological problems. Such concepts of numbers for adults and children differences were shown. Requirements for this concept were specified, such as: the measure and the sequence of information representation. Guided by this rules the concept of Church numerals was chosen. This concept exists in lambda calculus, which base ideas were described in the paper as well. Church numbers approach in terms of semantic networks was also given. For calculations simplification the addition table idea was used and applied with semantic networks context.
But a human usually uses place-value notation when big numbers are required. And Church numbers use too much memory in this situation (an addition table grows too fast with maximum of number defined in Church notation). So the place-value notation which uses Church numbers as digits and as a position marker was given.
STUDENTS’ STRATEGIES FOR STUDYING ROMANIAN IN E-LEARNING TIMES
Authors: Nistor Cristina mihaela
Published: February 2023

In my personal history, it has been quite a while since my first experience with a group of foreigners that were required to learn Romanian as a foreign language during what is universally known as "the preparatory year". At the "Politehnica" University in Bucharest, there is a team of teachers that have constantly struggled for a gradual increase in both the number of foreign students enrolled in the preparatory year, the quality of the students trained, and the professional satisfaction of both teachers and students. As part of this team, in this paper, I intend to dwell upon the necessity to train students in the art of using the blended approach to learning, in accordance with their specific tasks at hand and general or occasional needs. For this purpose, I have devised a questionnaire that I have administered to the multicultural groups in the preparatory year I teach this academic year at "Politehnica", in an attempt to gather as much information as possible with regards to students' learning preferences in terms both of space, location, people and (e-)learning tools. In that way, I hope I will get an accurate answer to the question, "how do foreign students learn Romanian language best?"; what is more, the results of the survey will help me devise a more student-oriented curriculum, with optimal outcomes for all those involved in this teaching/ learning process. At the end of this paper, I expect I will be able to better understand the students' perception of the learning process as such, with all aspects deriving from that. Are language teachers expected to turn totally digital, keep close to their traditional teaching methods, or balance the two in a blended approach to learning?
FEEDBACK AS A POWERFUL TEACHING TOOL: ONLINE VERSUS FACE-TO-FACE
Authors: Nistor Cristina mihaela , Comanetchi Doina
Published: February 2023

This paper is a follow-up to a research study on students' perceptions with respect to online feedback versus the traditional face-to-face one, published by the authors last year. The study, which took into account the well-known fact that using the internet and mobile devices has become a second nature with the young generations, analyzed students' responses to a questionnaire focusing on feedback given/received on their performance in activities developing oral communication skills, namely presentations, in the language class. The results disproved the hypothesis which was the starting point of the research, that students were likely to welcome the possibility of integrating gadgets and electronic devices into their routine language course activity. Students found a lot of disadvantages to online feedback, while the advantages were not enough to compensate the lack of classroom response and face-to-face communication. These results have motivated the two authors to continue with this line of research by shifting the focus from students to teachers, and look at the same issue from the "other" point of view. Consequently, this paper presents the findings of a questionnaire administered to language teachers and analyzes their opinions and classroom routines with the aim of seeing to what extent the two perspectives are aligned, while trying to answer the questions that prompted the entire research: "Does online feedback have a place in the language course?", "Should its usefulness be tested against its traditional counterpart?", "Can feedback be kept effective by adopting an immediate online response?", "Is feedback a powerful teaching/learning tool in the eyes of both teachers and students?"
SOCIAL VARIABLES OF CYBER SECURITY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES
Authors: Ciuperca Ella magdalena , Vevera Victor , Cirnu Carmen elena
Published: February 2023

As the need for cybersecurity is growing exponentially along with the development of new technologies, people's resistance to change determine a gap between people's real digital competences and the ideal profile that would allow their optimal functioning in the emerging society. In this article we study how people' perception of technology can be influenced in an era where the use of Internet of Things, social networks, big data is important but the protection of personal data is a must. While Romania introduced coding and IT&C knowledge in gymnasium curricula, the majority of population do not have the chance to attend such courses. The few existent courses in this direction are not enough customised for different social category. Therefore, any attempt to influence the way in which culture is formed must take into account the matching between all the knowledge, opinions, values, norms, signs and symbols that are conveyed in a society with the development stage of that society and with the system of values that its members have internalized. Therefore, comparing traditional teaching and e-learning we will propose a specific blended cybersecurity educational model for building a proper cyber security culture among Romanian population having in mind the complexity of the factors that influence the results of an effective cyber security strategy. Using such a model it will be possible to transmit basic knowledge to the average citizen and to determine him to adopt a behaviour that will allow him the optimal functioning in present days' society.
AUTHENTICATION BASED ON OCULAR RETINA RECOGNITION IN E-LEARNING SYSTEMS
Authors: Cristescu Robert madalin
Published: February 2023

Authentication in E-learning systems must be secure because many users access E-learning systems for educational purpose and information must be secure for each user. Many users choose E-learning systems because they offer the possibility to study online wherever they are. Also, users have the possibility to take the exams online based on the moment they havefinished the courses. The recognition of ocular retina can be implemented using biometric data that are integrated with artificial intelligence. Implementing authentication based on ocular retina can be done only by software developers because they have access to sources of informatic systems and they can modify them as many times as they are required. Biometric data is different for each user and its scanning is very important so that the authentication be successful. Authentication based on scanning ocular retina presents a big advantage regarding the security of each informatic system because any other user cannot have access to that system if he does not have personal biometric information saved in the database. For each user authentication is relatively easy because he just looks at the authentication page and next his ocular retina is authomatically scanned and then every biometric information is automatically sent to a database. Security plays a very important role in informatic systems because nowadays there are more and more attacks from unauthorized groups or persons towards different informatic systems in order to collect some information. In E-learning systems there is various confidential information for educational purpose and a very advanced security is necessary.
CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS IN CYBERSECURITY AND THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Authors: Cucu Cristian , Bologa Razvan , Gavrioloaia Gheorghe , Cazacu Mihail
Published: February 2023

The large majority of the current cybersecurity technologies are identifying cyberattacks based on predefined signatures, rules, filters or scenarios such as virus or malware definitions, firewall rules, intrusion prevention filters or SIEM playbooks. In recent years, these technologies have achieved only a small reach towards addressing the new challenges and the pace of their development is bowing in front of the much faster evolution of the threats. This exponential increase in the number and complexity of cyberattacks opened the door to the utilization of artificial intelligence algorithms within the protection technologies primarily for a couple of reasons: to identify deviations from trained regular behavior and to analyze large volumes of data for patterns. Following this cycle, in turn, cyberattacks started themselves to employ artificial intelligence to automate labor-intensive tasks like social media and other public information analysis to prioritize targets, to evade current techniques, to generate domains or to perform human-like operations. These new trends started to challenge the current static-rule-based approach largely used today in the cybersecurity ecosystem and at the same time to provide the opportunity to adapt the current technologies and sharing platforms to respond to these dynamic threats. The learning processes needs modifications as well by employing mechanisms that will allow to deliver knowledge faster and more specialized. These developments in the cybersecurity realm led not only to the adaptation of the existing technologies but also to the creation of new trends, new technologies and new products that could offer alternative protection against this fast changing threat landscape.
KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF PLAGIARISM DETECTION PROGRAMS IN ACADEMIC WORK BY STUDENTS
Authors: Vartic Valentina , Oprisan Emilia
Published: February 2023

The interest for higher quality in higher education targets and respects the ethical standards of writing and presenting academic papers by both teachers and students. In the context of public discussions over copyright over the last few years and a self-plagiarism, universities in Romania have made efforts to align with the standards of European universities for knowledge and enforcement in this area. Thus, specific procedures and work platforms have been created and developed (eg the webstudentase.ro platform, the use of the Semplag program at the University of Pite?ti, accessing www.sistemantiplagiat.ro at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest).
Although in the last years, in the course of seminars, laboratories, practical activities and courses on academic writing norms, according to the legal provisions in force, a study among the students of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences reveals the insufficient understanding of the meaning of the term plagiarism, the incomplete knowledge of the modalities the plagiarism, the self-plagiarism, the possibilities of avoidance, as well as the sanctions for violation of the legislation. The study also shows a knowledge and use of plagiarism detection programs for a small number of surveyed students.
Familiarizing with academic writing rules, author citation, use of translators in other languages for each first year of study, attention to compliance with these standards throughout the course of all faculty work, constant application of ethical rules to prevent plagiarism can prevent the risk of non-compliance with academic standards and the improvement of business activities in universities.
“DIGITAL STORYTELLING” IN TEACHING: LESSONS LEARNED AT WUT
Authors: Grosseck Gabriela , Craciun Dana , Bunoiu Madalin
Published: February 2023

The paper contains reflections on the course "Digital Storytelling" held as transdisciplinary discipline for 2nd and 3rd-year students of the West University of Timisoara. We started from the ideas that:
o Through a transversal course, one student enrolled in a faculty of the West University of Timisoara have the opportunity to attend 3-7 transversal courses offered by the 10 other faculties from the university. By doing this they have the possibility to gather more skills necessary for their academic path, but also for developing new skills that are required in the nowadays interconnected society.
o Storytelling as a method to teach is accessible, dynamic, and can attract students' interest in deepening their understanding of the subjects taught.
o Open Educational Practices (OEP) is the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) for teaching and learning in order to innovate the learning process.
Practically, we tried to answer to the questions "why" and "how" to use storytelling in teaching and learning in the framework of a transversal discipline, and how students' construct storytelling artifacts as Open Educational Resources and improve their learning by building digital stories under the conditions of OER.
The course artifacts were analyzed particularly in the use of open educational resources and on a sentiment analysis research of the impact that this method had on students.
Moreover, we make some suggestions and recommendations that can coagulate in a coherent academic strategy of our university that will strengthen the fact that the use of such a method in various transversal disciplines is not a fad but a necessity.
DISTANCE LEARNING AS THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOOL OF EMPLOYEES UNDER THE COMPANY STAFF POLICY
Authors: Ananchenkova Polina , Goryainov Andrey , Tonkonog Victoriya
Published: February 2023

Competently organized personnel management system helps to achieve the company business-objectives. The best result is achieved when using the training systems in the staff management. Among approaches to the corporate education management recently the distance (electronic) learning technology is becoming more relevant.
Large companies with extensive branch networks solve the problem of employee training in the classical way: they conduct internal classroom training or delegate specialists to seminars conducted by training organizations. However, these methods are not always effective for a number of reasons, including the cost of classroom training, a high degree of staff rotation in a number of sectors of the economy, the incompetence of third - party specialists in the specifics of a particular company. The best option for improving the personnel of the organization on the basis of its training is the introduction of the enterprise distance learning system.
To date, the practice of corporate education has not developed a unified approach to the use of the term "distance learning". Along with the concept of "distance learning" (DL), the concept of "electronic distance learning" (EDL) or " distance electronic learning" (DEL) is often used.
At the same time, in any of these cases we are talking about the practice of corporate training using information databases using information technology and telecommunications networks, involving indirect interaction of the subjects of the educational process.
This article discusses the following issues: implementation of the corporate learning management system based on the distance technologies, diagnostics of problems and identification of training needs, management of the staff professional development through the distance learning.
The conclusion is made that the properly structured process or training employees fits naturally into the personnel management system: if the system of personnel training is focused on development of those skills that enhance work efficiency, it directly or indirectly contributes to achievement of the company business-objectives and professional goals of employees
THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT AND IN CLASSICAL CLASSROOMS
Authors: Drobot Irinaana
Published: February 2023

Given the interactive environment and communication through internet opportunities, learning foreign languages in a mass online course and by using audiovisual materials such as videos on youtube, what is the current role of the foreign languages teacher? Is there a competition between classical, classroom learning and teaching of a foreign language and using what the internet offers? The paper argues for the role of the teacher in any environment as a source of motivation. We could draw a parallel with the way a therapist motivates his or her patient in a session with the way the same transference works in a teacher - student relationship. However, the online medium does offer more opportunities and more attractive material, as in mass online courses we interact with students and teachers from all over the world. The paper will also argue for more opportunities in an online environment given the fact that interacting with other students who are highly motivated also motivates any learner to continue with the study of the respective foreign language. While in a classical classroom the number of interested students may be scarce, in an online medium the situation can be different as there the classroom is never empty. Lack of interest or high interest from the part of the other student serve as a way to increase motivation and performance for the whole group. However, due to the fact that it is by your own decision that you take the study of a foreign language online, and no outside obligation from school, then the decision remains to yourself whether or not to continue. If you abandon the study, then no consequences will affect your activity. The question remains, though, to what extent and up to what age the teacher acts as a motivator for any student to continue with the study of a foreign language.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MULTIMEDIA IN TEACHING/LEARNING THE SPECIALIZED LANGUAGES
Authors: Vintu Victoria , Chiriac Argentina , Trebes Tatiana , Busuioc Aliona
Published: February 2023

The process of learning represents an individual organization of a specific content that does not mean a simple memorization. The organization of the process of the study implies a complex demarche that includes a set of cognitive processes as intellectual interaction, informing, critical analysis. The active and interactive involving of students in the teaching process depends on their interests and preferences. The implementation of additional informational instruments is favorable for access to offer new learning opportunities.
The implementation of informational technologies during the lessons of Romanian language, especially in the process of learning the specialized language, presents a series of advantages. Due to IT, the teaching process obtains a particular character. The teachers pay attention to such modern instruments as e-books, didactic applications, videos. The lesson becomes a laboratory where students have the opportunity to discover new linguistic structures, models, to use words in unexpected contexts. Another advantage of using informational technologies is the chance to assimilate a large amount of information in a short period of time. Students get the opportunity to improve their knowledge, their skills of oral and written comprehension. There are various categories of people (students, teachers, IT specialists), each with a well-defined role.
The process of teaching the specialized language is a specifical one. The teacher will pay attention to such aspects as the conditions of the study process, the specifics of the target audience, the level of the linguistic knowledge, the level of training in the concerned field, so to the way both foreign language and the specialized language will be used.
E-LEARNING PROCESS THROUGH CLOUD FACILITIES
Authors: Sandu Ionuteugen , Dumitrache Mihail
Published: February 2023

e-Learning platforms help users (students / learners, tutors / instructors and administrators) aiming to offer them the information they need in order to develop their educational activities at the right time, following an appropriate format and in the location they desire.
Along with the development of Internet, the need for virtual systems that would allow users to migrate data, e-mails, applications etc. has emerged, these virtual systems becoming the Cloud Computing technology.
The current paper highlights the results of implementation of a Cloud system dedicated to citizens, public institutions and academia. ICIPRO project (Cloud Infrastructure for Public Institutions in Romania) was implemented at ICI Bucharest with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Open Data and Virtual Library. So far, 32 institutions have been affiliated and are using this Cloud infrastructure, including 4 libraries and 5 universities.
The logical architecture of the ICIPRO Cloud system presented in this paper meets the highest business requirements, such as security, availability, ease of administration and resource optimization. In order to accomplish this, the system has been divided into several subsystems, such as: the Infrastructure Management Subsystem that relies on a suite of applications required to manage and monitor the virtualization platform, the dedicated server subsystem where powerful servers can meet requirements specific to mission critical environments, with on-the-fly activation / deactivation of Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) enabled processing kernels, 2 high-capacity subsystems consisting of high-density servers designed for Cloud Computing environments, that rack up to a high processing capacity and provide high performances, compared to power consumption.
ARVEE - AN INNOVATIVE APPLICATION BASED ON VIRTUAL REALITY FOR IMMERSIVE EDUCATION
Authors: Dascalu Maria iuliana , Ursachi Tudor mihai , Brezoaie Robert , Stanica Iulia  cristina , Dragoi George
Published: February 2023

The current paper proposes a new way of experiencing learning, based on the concept of immersive education with the help of an emergent technology: virtual reality. Traditional education is extremely limited in terms of experimentation, and nowadays the evolving technologies aim to solve this shortcoming in order to give students the chance to experience studying in a different manner. At present, the emphasis is usually on teaching the theory basics, while the practical aspects are often ignored and treated superficially, especially in the engineering domain. Implementing immersive education enables both students and teachers to understand any school subject, but also to experience it in real time, thus getting in touch with the most important aspects of that domain. The approach presented in our paper is accomplished through a mobile application called ARVEE, which proposes an interactive, fun and yet educational way of learning astronomy and making students pursue a career in astronomical engineering or in fields related to manufacturing of accessories for astronomical telescopes and instruments. Using virtual reality, students can experience and learn easier the broad concepts of a school subject. The application proposes to combine both traditional and immersive education, the result being the use of virtual reality not only for recreational but also for educational purposes. The application was tested on a group of primary school pupils enrolled in an extracurricular programming club, and the results were extremely satisfying. Besides presenting our app and the way it can support the current educational challenges (e.g. lack of practical exercises), we also analyzed some other existing virtual reality applications that offer similar experiences to the one implemented by ARVEE.
CLUSTERED AND NONCLUSTERED INDEXES IN DATABASES AND EDUCATIONAL TASKS ON DEVELOPMENT THE STRUCTURE OF DATABASES
Authors: Ponomarev Andrey , Mitkovskiy Alexey , Shashkin Yury , Korotkevich Oleg , Proletarskiy Andrey
Published: February 2023

Nowadays, the technology of clustered and nonclustered indexes in databases is used in practically all relational databases. Indexes tell the Database management system (DBMS) how to store the information in the file system of the computer. Clustered and nonclustered ones are the most widespread, because they can increase the speed of selecting from a table many times.
The article is about applying a new practical method of teaching undergraduate students in the field of effective development the structure of databases. The introduction of a new method of learning the development of the stricter of databases using clustered and nonclustered indexes, that is required for effective development and further usage of databases in production with big amounts of data. That will allow students to understand, which indexes they should use to increase the speed of selecting, inserting and updating the data in tables of a database.
Database design consist of two stages - logical and physical. The logical stage - selection of entities, tables planning, fields, definition of data types for each field, keys, and integrity constrains. The physical stage - planning and index adjustments, file groups, program modules. Indexes are the most basic part of the physical stage. There are many different types of indexes, which used for different purposes. For example, column store index can provide you with a great speed of executing of the aggregation functions. If it is necessary to increase the speed of selection the data from the table, clustered and nonclustered indexes are required. They will be discussed in this article.
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH MODERN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Salimova Tatiana , Soldatova Elena , Filippova Irina
Published: February 2023

This article reveals the specifics of educational system under digital economy conditions. The core concepts of digital economy, information and communication technologies and the result of their pedagogical implementation are considered. It is defined that the active use of information and communication technologies within pedagogical process is one of the conditions for the formation of a harmoniously developed person. The self-assessment experience in determination of Ogarev Mordovia State University maturity level within the introduction and use of educational technologies is described. At the current stage of the development of the society and social relations the humanity has moved into a new phase which is commonly referred to as the era of digitization. It supposes that human activity is connected with the creation, revision and use of information and some kind of knowledge in digital form. Digital economy takes the main place in all the spheres of social life and has a significant impact on it. The digitization of the economic system is the main direction of the state, economy and social relations' development, and digital economy is a breakthrough technology in the system of constant social development [8]. The current industrial revolution supposes the formation of a new type of industry, implying a fundamental change of vocational and, first of all, higher education [7].
Nowadays, the world educational system is prone to structural changes that lay in the active introduction of electronic facilities and forms of e-learning. The distributed knowledge is becoming more accessible almost in all parts of the world with the help of actively developing educational platforms. Such changes are currently realizing in the leading foreign universities and they can be classified in the following way