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GAMIFICATION IN SUPPORT OF MILITARY HIGHER EDUCATION
Authors: Roceanu Ion , Anton Mihail
Published: February 2023

With the development of modern teaching methods and information society, learning opportunities have become larger, limitless and instantaneous. Nowadays, learners can learn as well as acquire new and improved skills and competencies in an array of ways in contrast to the traditional methods i.e. formal learning. In the world of learning, there is always a question: a formal or an informal learning platform is the right and best way to go? In this article, we'll help you understand the difference between formal and informal learning and make a decision that fits your goals best.
In a few words, the choice between the formal and informal learning approach comes down to the intention, objective, challenges and how any of these learning patterns facilitates the learner in developing a successful career path and to perform at their full potential. There are three major areas on which either of these learning approaches can be tested from both the learner and instructor's point of view, including; 1. Content development 2. Targeted audience 3. Tracking of performance. In addition, each of these learning patterns offers different values in the lives of the learners. Again, the choice between the two comes down to the objectives and intent of the learners. As with just about every other methodology, formal and informal learning approaches also have differences when it comes to learning basics. This paper aims to discuss these basic differences separately. Formal learning is not a life-long process but offer results in a pre-defined time frame. For instance, students taking a particular certification course for the duration of two months. This is not a learning process that would continue throughout life. The program is designed for a particular duration and with the set, guidelines to be followed to achieve the targeted objective. The informal learning is a spontaneous and lifelong learning activity. In our early age, we learn as a kid from our parents. As we grow older, we learn from peers, friends, a job or from co-workers. As you get old, the learning process continues and you continue to learn from younger, for instance, the use of new technology. It can be said that informal learning keeps individuals vibrant, interested, and mentally active in the world around.
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO CHILDREN IN LOGICAL GAMES FROM NONFORMAL EDUCATION
Authors: Munteanu Dan , Munteanu Nicoleta
Published: February 2023

This paper presents an analysis of the behavioural and temperamental changes of children in non-formal education lessons within the Logic Games discipline.

The experimental setup was made using 2 video cameras that alternatively recorded and monitored groups of 2 children during the lessons from the Logic Games discipline for the entire scholar year.

Emotion plays an important role in the lesson of non-formal education. Chess as part of the Logic Games involves the training of qualities such as will, ambition, perseverance, attention to detail, distributive attention, patience, evaluation and anticipation of many alternatives and possibilities to move both your own and your opponent's and to choose the moves. optimal.

It is very important to be mentally trained to deal with the negative emotions generated by losing or losing the match. Therefore, before learning how to win you must learn how to lose.

The sentiment analysis in this paper refers only to the automatic recognition and identification of facial expressions.

The images extracted from the video recordings were processed, and then classified into the categories: happy, sad, angry, disappointed, pleasantly surprised, proud, panicked / worried or stressed

Deep Learning techniques such as Convolutional Neuronal Network, RCNN, Faster RCNN and Mask RCNN and Transfer Learning technique were used to classify the images.

The contribution of the paper is given by the application of these image classification algorithms in the non-formal education process.

There was a correlation between the feelings detected, frequency of occurrence and the end result of the game in order to improve the educational process to optimize the automatic feedback needed by the teacher to adjust the instructional-educational process, benefiting from the support of an automatic assistant.

The results were illustrated in graphs regarding the evolution of the behavioural states/the flow of feelings of the children during lessons throughout the experiment.
DESIGNING AN ONTOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROCESSING IN ROMANIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Authors: Tomescu Silviaadriana , Dascalu Mihai , Trausanmatu Stefan , Guturobu Gabriel , Ruseti Stefan
Published: February 2023

The analysis of ontologies' role in knowledge processing has both theoretical and pragmatic foundations, taking into account that ontologies are a core component of knowledge representation within the semantic web. The necessity for the development of the Lib2Life ontology emerged alongside the Smart Search project that has as a central objective the design of a semantic indexing and search system for digitized documents shared by the Romanian central university libraries. This project has a high degree of innovation taking into account the fact that, at national scale, there is no dedicated platform that aggregates the joint collection of digitized documents. Thus, the following research question arises, centered on identifying a suitable data model to corresponding map topics and improve content discovery. The proposed methodology for ontology design includes: (a) ontology purpose set up; (b) conceptualization of the subject domains; (c) formalization; (d) implementation; (e) evaluation and maintenance. The conceptualization stage involves defining the glossary of terms, as well as building taxonomies for 17 specific categories. Afterwards, the ontology was semantically enhanced with properties and axioms (i.e., description of binary relations, class attributes, instance attributes, and formal axioms). Our model was designed using the Prot?g? editor, we used OWL as ontology standard language, and OntoGraph for visualization and navigation. Overall and considering knowledge organization systems, ontologies enclose specific features: coherent in terms of structure, organizing information and meaning of notions; accurate by problem solving and reasoning; extensible, allowing conceptual developments according to science evolution and users' needs, and reusable for follow-up experiments. Moreover, ontology design applied onto knowledge domains improves the efficiency and effectiveness of semantic content search and retrieval process of relevant meta-tagged resources.
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS ON THE EDUCATIONAL RESULTS: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS
Authors: Boiangiu Costin anton , Luchian Alina elena
Published: February 2023

The strongest type of motivation that leads a human being when it comes to solving our daily tasks is the intrinsic motivation. Contrary to extrinsic motivation which, in general terms, is guided by rewards or by the value and the importance we give to the things we have to do, the intrinsic motivation is much more powerful. This kind of motivation appears out of the significance of the work we do on a daily basis, without seeking a final reward. Over the years, the researchers have studied The Self-Determination Theory (STD) and tried to determine the conditions and the contexts that support, or on the contrary, repress this self-motivation process. They have reached the conclusion that there are three psychological needs that have a direct impact on the internal motivation and that are common to the human nature: autonomy, competence and relatedness. The purpose of this study is to investigate the connection between the fulfillment or the suppression of these three basic needs and the educational results. To prove this connection, a group of students was asked to fill in a questionnaire consisting of two parts. The first part contains a set of 5 questions regarding their academic achievements and performances during their student years. The second part includes a set of 21 questions: 7 questions assessing their autonomy, 6 questions regarding their competence and 8 questions concerning their relatedness, all of three needs in the context of the educational environment. The dataset consists of students enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program who have graded the percentages of their academic success in the first part and, on a scale from 1 to 7, the questions from the second part of the questionnaire. The results show a direct relationship between the academic performance and the level of satisfaction for the three basic needs. In other words, the students who don't feel their three basic psychological needs fulfilled tend to have lower educational outcomes than those who marked the questions with higher grades. Therefore, this study tries to emphasize the importance of nourishing the autonomy, the competence and the relatedness of the students in their educational context in order to achieve high academic performance and low failure rate.
AUTOMATED MODELING OF ROMANIAN LITERARY TRENDS IN HISTORY USING TOPICS OVER TIME AND CO-OCCURENCES
Authors: Neagu Laurentiumarian , Dascalu Mihai , Trausanmatu Stefan , Simion Eugen , Chisu Lucian
Published: February 2023

The Chronology of Romanian Literary Life (also referred to as CVLR) is an ambitious effort conducted by the "G. C?linescu" Institute of Literary History and Theory to present the most important literature-related events from Romania, covering a period of 50 years, starting with World War II up until the beginning of the 3rd century. Our work aims to capture the evolution of trends in the Romanian literary space using a custom LDA topic model, focused also on the changes in the structure of topics across time, as well as the relations between the topics. In the Trends Over Time approach, the discovery of topics is related not only to the co-occurrences of words, but also to the timestamps associated to events (temporal information). Our results depicting the dynamics of trends over time are interesting both from an e-learning perspective, but also from literary and historical perspectives. Patterns of co-occurrences are discovered and visualizations of the topics' evolution in time are introduced to provide valuable insights from CVLR. Moreover, topic entropy is used to assess the diversity of ideas covered by a topic. The obtained results are promising, reflecting the most important historical periods and the evolution of trends in a coherent manner in relation to the historical events. By showing trends dynamics over time is interesting both from an eLearning perspective and from Literary and Historical perspective. Our study represents a solid foundation for further analyses on Romanian literary events by relying on automated models grounded in advanced Natural Language Processing techniques.
SOCIO-COLLABORATIVE READING THROUGH AR-ANNOTATIONS OVER PHYSICAL BOOKS
Authors: Stanica Iulia  cristina , Moldoveanu Alin , Moldoveanu Florica , Gradinaru Alexandru , Dascalu Mariaiuliana
Published: February 2023

In a highly technologized century, the process of learning must benefit from the advantages of technology. Gamification, artificial intelligence, virtual or augmented environments or adaptive learning are just some of the trends which have evolved in the past years in the field of e-Learning. Collaborative learning is also an efficient learning methodology, where people engage together in learning actions or share one with another their knowledge and resources. Wikis, forums, social media groups are just some examples of successful collaborative learning environments. As the evolution of technology has impacted traditional learning and reading preferences of people, we must think of new ways of improving and modernizing both learning and teaching. Our current paper presents the advantages of using the latest technologies for collaborative learning, with a relevant example from the Lib2Life - Cyber-Physical Library project. Its goal is to revitalize reading and improve the learning process by using emerging technologies, restoring at the same time the popularity of libraries as safeguards of the cultural patrimony. With the help of augmented reality (AR), digitization and optical character recognition, we developed a mobile application meant to help people annotate physical books, view annotations by other users and manage their own social-collaborative library. After registering their favourite books in the application, users can create digital annotations (text, images, videos or links) or see the existing annotations by scanning a book page with their smartphone's camera. Annotations can be rated, commented, shared on social media or on user-configured friend groups, thus creating a collaborative environment which can be easily integrated in a great variety of domains. We present the innovative concept of AR annotations and a tool based on this concept, which can be used for self-learning or as a collaborative tool, revolutionizing handbooks and manuals.
TEXTUAL GENERICITY AND AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION
Authors: Trofin Roxana anca
Published: February 2023

Texts for translation are nowadays more and more numerous, while people making translations for professional purposes or otherwise do not always have training in the field of translation and traductology. Therefore, it is frequently that they resort to automatic translation. This paper will approach a new issue, that has little been studied so far, namely finding out the relationship between genre and text type, and automatic translation, respectively. Within a context where the text has a permanent dynamic, where we deal, beside the << classical>> texts that can be localized in time and space from the production viewpoint, with closed texts in terms of form, even if they are semantically so very open, and up to hypertexts, in which the form participates in the construction of the meaning, the criteria of textuality established by text linguistics should be revisited. Thus, there are two types of questions which appear: firstly, what approach should we have to the act of translation, how is it reported to the text and what types of translation operations are mobilized; secondly, how do the genre and type of text to be translated influence the translation. Based on the automatic translation of a text corpus belonging to various genres, this paper will study the conditions of appropriacy of the act of translation carried out by means of software in function of the text genericity. Similarly, we will analyze the relation of the translator resorting to automatic translation as a tool of support with the text being translated. The investigation will comprise scientific texts, as well as literary ones and texts specific to web patterns of communication.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, KEY FACTOR IN MODERN EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF LOGISTICS MANAGERS
Authors: Minculete Gheorghe , Olar Polixenia
Published: February 2023

The rapid and continuous evolution and development of the markets of products and services are based on the characteristics, actors and technologies related to the digital economy. These have been and are obviously determined by the increasingly sophisticated requirements and desires of consumers and users connected with suppliers and distributors through the efficient and silent communication systems offered by the information companies' profile companies.
The direct connection between Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management, as very important notions, the first being included in the second, is a fundamental requirement in designing and carrying out the specific actions of education and training of logistics managers. In this regard, the historical landmarks in the field, the current economic achievements, as well as the future directions of conduct of companies within the Supply Chain Management are important.
The continuous and timely education of logistics managers is determined by the rapid evolution and modernization of the new economy, which is also based on the efficient and interdependent functional mechanisms of Supply Chain Management existing at the national, continental, Intercontinental and global levels.
Therefore, today, a Supply Chain Management integrates and interconnects partner companies through efficient business solutions and systems aiming at realizing the immediate and full satisfaction of the customers' requirements as well as generating adequate profits. In this sense, the efficient functioning through Logistics Management of each economic organization, a member of Supply Chain Management, is a priority for the logistics managers, so that the performance of each business is highlighted by the final results obtained, which should be compared to the projected ones.
In this scientific communication we highlight elements of education and training related to the development of the skills and abilities of the logistics managers according to the functional requirements of a modern Logistics Management within a viable, flexible, robust and efficient Supply Chain Management under the new challenges of the global economy, suited to the knowledge-based society.
Our vision in this paper is focused on the education and training of logistics managers, intensively focused on the knowledge of the functioning of modern Logistics Management systems, as well as of the Supply Chain Management so that the logistical resource flows and the related information flows respond precisely to the efficiency requirements revealed by the managerial (strategic and tactical) objectives of the partner companies.
THE CONCEPT OF WORKFLOW IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE FIELD OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Authors: Roman Daniel
Published: February 2023

The state of security is at the prime reference element for the existence of any entity, regardless of its nature and its reporting to micro- and macro-level dimensions. The complexity of risks and vulnerabilities within the system of contemporary societies and the dynamic of mutual conditioning relations of influence factors may generate situations of crisis or may have a major negative impact on educational institutions of national security that have to face such new challenges. The concept of inter-institutional workflow might be a saving solution to the complex threats that modern society has to face nowadays. Cyber-attacks in all spheres of social life are a direct response to the societal digitalization of all areas of a state or of a state alliance. In this context, the crisis as a destructive factor of a society involves an integrated approach to security incident response. Therefore, the education system in the field of national security need to be connected to this new reality and to identify the best options for training specialists in this field so they can find the proper solutions and methods in order to prevent and counteract any attack against the society. Although, the security systems are implementing rigorous security measures, the dynamics of transformations in their own operational environment, confirms that they will never be sufficiently prepared to prevent or combat a crisis situation. Therefore, a security specialist cannot be considered as a "finished product" of an education system. This statement shows the hermetic features of the educational units due to their level of classification. A solution to this problem may consist of developing databases in order to detect instances of threat scenarios and implicitly disseminating results based on risk analysis for each particular situation.
The extrapolation of the risks from the specific to the general followed by building universal solutions in the field of national security, can be achieved within an education system based on the collaboration. Through this article, I firmly believe that the performance of security systems is directly related to the performance of collaborative learning in this field and beyond.
THE PROPOSAL OF A CBM-I INTERVENTION ADDRESSING CHILDREN'S SCHOOL PERFORMANCE BIASES
Authors: Chivu Alina cristina
Published: February 2023

According to the cognitive-behavioral paradigm, a dysfunctional perception of an event leads to maladaptive consequences. These consequences can be both emotional and behavioral. In the school context, in terms of academic performance, children may have a number of dysfunctional interpretations regarding their learning abilities, school outcomes, or their academic potential. These interpretations are important factors for their attitude and behavior towards school. Thus, it may result in greater or lesser involvement in school-related activities, such as doing homework, learning, or even coming to school. Cognitive bias modification is an implicit computerized intervention, aimed to modify interpretation biases. It has proven to be effective among children and adolescents, being used so far in various problems, including fears related to school or even mental health problems. Promising results were obtained when parents were involved.
The aim of this paper is to propose a computerized intervention for children, in order to modify dysfunctional biases of interpretation related to academic performance. Moreover, parents will be involved in the intervention process.The Cognitive bias modification for interpretation implies the delivery in a computerized framework of an intervention which would contribute to an increasing involvement of the children in the school activities and it would also facilitate the adaptation of the children to the school context. The Cognitive bias modification intervention it can be delivered at home via a computer, a tablet or a phone, and the parents will support their children during the intervention time.
Theoretical and practical implications for the educational environment will be addressed.
SPECIFIC ELEMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL ROMANIAN SCHOOL
Authors: Dogaru Mariana
Published: February 2023

Identifying successful schools is a challenge because relativity characteristics on which the school was defined as one in this category. Our research aims to identify traits generally accepted by experts in the quality of education that characterize a successful school. So were surveyed 1387 specialists working in the quality of education (700 trainers counselors and external evaluators, experts in quality, evaluation and accreditation, 687 inspectors responsible for monitoring and quality control), were held interviews with nine directors (five from "successful schools" and 4 schools considered less successful) and focus groups with teachers from selected schools. The conclusions are meant to stabilize the characteristics of successful school, so there is a common language in judging and assessing school success.At Romanian school system is well known that a school can be evaluated from different perspectives, so the stakeholders can choose according to all these. But, all the time, the conclusion "successful school" or "less successful school" is a label unexplained. At the level of school marketing, this label is more important, no matter for what reason . That' s why, from our perspective it is more important to have the same point of reference according to which a school can be labeled as "successful" or " less unsuccessful".Also, our research tried to involve the expert on quality of education, human resources that know all the school and had evaluated according to national indicators the schools from Romania. Many questions were raised like what characteristics define the success? Who are more or less important? From what perspective is important to judge a school?
DIGITAL TEACHER COMPETENCES: MAIN LESSONS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
Authors: Duta Nicoleta , Cano Elena
Published: February 2023

The article presents a review literature and of different frameworks for teachers 'digital competence. Many countries, concerned by the digital skills of their youth, have realized that the development of digital competence requires optimal formation by teachers. For this reason, many have carried out initiatives to ensure that teachers have an adequate level of Digital Competence in order to guarantee the development of school-aged children's digital competence.

On International and national level, several frameworks, training programs have been developed to describe the facets of digital competence for teachers and to help them assess their competence, identify their training needs and offer targeted training: European frameworks (France and European Commission), American frameworks (USA and Chile), Australian framework; Asian framework (Republic of the Philippines), Spanish-American framework (Eurolat) and international frameworks (UNESCO and EPICT) etc. In Spain, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport has elaborated a Proposal for a common digital framework for teachers (2014, 2017) in line with the proposal generated by the center of investigation Joint Research Centre, from the European Commission which published in June 2016 the 2.0 version of the DigComp Project results, within the European framework on citizens' digital competence.

From the conceptualization of the competences, we analyze the implications that this new approach generates on the work of the professorship and we distinguish the main lessons that an common framework of the digital competences must have to efficiently utilizing results of the literature review in universities, it concludes with suggestions for future challenges.
THE USE OF FEEDBACK BY STUDENTS - PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE LEARNING PROCESSES
Authors: Duta Nicoleta , Pons Laura , Cano Elena , Alguacil Laia
Published: February 2023

This paper presents a peer to peer assessment experience. It is an experience with 59 students of the subject named "Educational System & School Organisation" of the Primary Education Bachelor's Degree at the University of Barcelona.

In the last years a change in feedback paradigm has been stated. The feedback is understood not only as the information is given but as the actions are taken accordingly. That is, the focus has gone from being in the agent that gives the feedback to being in the agent that receives the feedback. It is about making sense of the information that the student receives and raising concrete changes in his/her future learning processes. From this perspective, the carried-out research analyses the actions done by students as a response to the received peer feedback. Two questions were thrown: (a) What do I have to do considering my peer's comments? (specific actions) and (b) Which changes have I integrated into the next delivery? How have I done it?

The main results indicate that students do not propose any action derived from positive comments. Only critical comments lead to changes. In many cases the changes refer to formal aspects (33%) but are also related to the revision of the content (22%) and the extension of the content (24%) and the revision of the processes (17%) or their expansion (31%). The analysis of this experience evidence prior training is needed to involve students in the assessment process, and if so, what content should be included.
USING MOODLE AS A TRAINING PLATFORM FOR CULTURAL MEDIATORS
Authors: Iordache Dragos daniel , Zamfiroiu Alin
Published: February 2023

In the last years, the evolution of e-learning platforms offers complex opportunities for teaching and training in the most diverse contexts and sectors of activity. The main goal of the project "Cultural Mediators for the Postal Sector" (CULMED) is to facilitate the third country nationals' integration into the host societies, through the post professionals and to involve the post organizations in the integration process. This process needs for qualified personnel in the postal sector. Staff training can be done through traditional means, but e-learning platforms are a much more efficient way. Among the most commonly used e-learning platforms, MOODLE has proven its usefulness over time in various training contexts.
The purpose of this study is to present the implementation of a training course, using the MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) e-learning platform and the process to design a mobile application to be used with the MOODLE e-learning platform.
At this time, trainees demand for personalized education is increasing due to competitiveness because the tests generate feedback, allowing to the trainees to see how they behave compared to their peers, stimulating the need for self-realization.
In this paper we carry out an analysis of the existing Learning Management Systems - LMS to presents the advantage and disadvantages for each solution. Our e-learning platform and mobile application are developed based on the experience with these applications. For the E-Learning platform we are using MOODLE and for the mobile application we will develop a native Android application based on the specification from this analysis.
IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC LEARNING IN THE CLASS TEACHING IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
Authors: Milenovic Zivorad , Jeremic Biljana , Minic Vesna , Arsic Radomir , Milovanovic Bosko , Vasiljevic Danijela
Published: February 2023

This paper will present the results of an empirical study on the implementation of electronic learning in lower primary school classes (ELLPSC).The crucial goal of electronic learning is to enable children to learn more effectively, to be in charge of their learning process and to start learning throughresearch, to develop lesson plans on their own and to be encouraged to exchange information within the learning group; moreover, electronic learning should provide more effective feedback on learning success.The research started from the general assumption that electronic learning significantly influences the effectiveness of lower primary school classes, and it encourages thestudents to learn and participate in the classroom.Specific assumptions have been made that this research would determine that university students do not have sufficient knowledge to use ELLPSC and that there is a correlation between thesestudents' opinion about the contribution of electronic learning to the effectiveness of lower primary school classes, as well as to the learning and participation of primary school students in the classroom, and the academic success in their studies so far.In order to confirm this, a survey was conductedin the second half of 2019, on a sample of 105 students -future lower primary school teachers, at the Teachers' training faculty in Prizren (Republic of Serbia), which is presented in this paper.The data collected by using the ELLPSC Scale (? = .824) were analysed by using descriptive statistics and linear correlation.Descriptive statistics has shown that university students generally believe that they have medium knowledge of ELLPSC, as stated by 59 of them (56.20%), while 46 students (43.80%) felt that they had insufficient knowledge of ELLPSC.Linear correlation has identified a strong and positive correlation between the university students' opinion about the contribution of electronic learning to the effectiveness of lower primary school classes, as well as to the learning and participation of primary school students in the classroom, and the academicsuccess in their studies so far: r = .972; n = 105; p = .000, r? = .945; d = 94.478%cv.Based on the critical comparative analyzes presented in this paper, and the results of the empirical research, along with considering the didactic and methodological practice in the Republic of Serbia where electronic learning is still not used sufficiently, it was suggested that the ELLPSC should be more efficient (Table4; Graph 2).
NEW TECHNOLOGIES, MULTICULTURAL GROUPS, AND ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE - DEVISING A STRATEGY FOR A SUCCESSFUL LANGUAGE CLASS IN THE DIGITAL ERA
Authors: Nistor Cristina mihaela
Published: February 2023

In this new world, where not only professional marketplaces, but also education systems have turned global, with an increase in professionals' and students' mobility across the world, the role of new technologies has become paramount, leading to the success of one's endeavours in most fields. Under these circumstances, under the pressure of the ever-increasing importance of new gadgets and technologies, the very act of learning a language (among other things) has undergone profound changes. As shown in previous studies, at the tertiary level of education, in a technical university, the success of the language class is to be assessed in relation to both the teaching instruments and the material to be studied - in other words, students may be easily influenced by the devices teachers use and pay more attention to the lesson if taught with the help of modern technology. In the case of teaching Romanian as a foreign language to the multicultural groups of foreign students enrolling in the preparatory year at our technical university, teachers often find that their students, faced with the need to adapt to a new environment, a new language and a new culture, may resort to the new technologies at their disposal (smartphones, mostly, but also tablets and laptops) in the hope those would solve all their problems - linguistic, cultural, and psychological - killing the proverbial two birds with one (ultra-sophisticated, hi-tech) stone. The mission of the teachers who guide these students on the path to achieving fluency and accuracy in Romanian language, as well as to understanding as many cultural aspects as they can possibly grasp at that point in time, may prove difficult if they do not adjust to the real needs and learning habits of their students. Still, as results from previous studies have shown, the blended approach to learning Romanian as a foreign language is preferred by most students, with an emphasis on the teacher as the facilitator of the learning process. Thus, in this paper, I will discuss the three elements - new technologies, multicultural groups, and Romanian as a foreign language - focusing on the strategy to make the language class work at its fullest capacity. Still, the paper will also point out the weak points of each element in the trio I discuss, which could influence - and postpone - the desirable learning results.
STAY AWAY-STAY AWAKE: A RESEARCH STUDY WITH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Authors: Tuncay Nazime , Bulut Ayse
Published: February 2023

Social media is an unavoidable part of our academic and social life. If we can not control over usage of it, it can be harmful to our e-learning life. There are various reasons for students' choosing social life whereas some may have good, some have bad results on their real life. Sometimes students' stay awake all night for playing social media games or they get overinvolved in the social media life that they forget their real life responsibilities. Is social media an escape from real life? Is it really the reason of our students' staying awake? What are the possible causes of sleeping problems that our students are facing these days? This research study is delivered in G?zelyurt, Cyprus to 500 Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University students for the purpose of finding students' reasons of sleeping problems and finding the effect of Social Media on it. The study consist of all the students in the Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University, so it is an unique study in this meaning. . This study includes IBM SPSS 25 statistical results and the t-tests, Anova tests suggest that there is a significant difference between Sleep and Social Media Addiction. Crosstabs, between departments suggest that Social media is really making some students "Awake" and making others "Away" from real life. Whether Governmental control and restrictions on the social media and internet usage during night will provide a solution or not is discussed with the students and the feasibility of their suggestions for preventing Social Media Addiction is discussed in this paper by the authors.
PROFORM - BEST PRACTICES IN PROFESSIONAL AND TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHING IN INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS
Authors: Albeanu Grigore , Andronie Maria
Published: February 2023

The main objective of PROFORM is to develop the professional and transversal competences of the teaching staff and the school managers at the level of the counties, to increase their motivation and stability in their position, in order to ensure the quality of the education.
This paper describes a selection of the best practices and opened sessions proposed in order to fulfill the main objective of PROFORM. The main tracks of the material are connected to the following topics: information technologies to access, the impact of new IC technologies for teaching, learning and evaluation, STE(A)M educational requirements and performability, open educational resources developed according to the ADDIE-SAMR methodology, and different aspects of computational intelligence (fuzzy reasoning, nature inspired computing, spatial reasoning, connectionism and distributed computing, neutrosophic computing etc.). It is important to mention that educational items refer to z-generation and new challenge is described for xy-generation. There are no results available on z-teachers for z-students. Such new aspects will be considered for the next 10 years when more projects will be developed for Z-teachers.
As case study, results are provided for educational programs in Giurgiu County, along six modules selected from the list presented below and full education stages. The main modules are: (1) Information Processing, Communication (ICT) and e-Learning technologies in education; (2) Methods and techniques for optimizing teaching activities; (3) Innovative methods and techniques for evaluating school results; (4) Cognitive behavioral coaching to optimize professional performance; (5) School-family-community partnership for school inclusion; (6) Career management through personal and professional development; (7) Student's knowledge and assessment of learning progress; (8) Differentiated training - the theory of multiple intelligences; (9) Evaluation adapted to the individual particularities of the beneficiaries of education; (10) School management for institutional capacity development; (11) Educational projects and programs; (12) Performance and motivation in the school organization.
THE MANAGEMENT MODEL OF THE PHYSICAL, COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Cojocariu Alin ciprian , Verzea Ion , Chaib Rachid
Published: February 2023

Security is an important management issue for all higher education institutions for the safety and security of students, staff and visitors. Also, the potential damages to the institutions can affect their reputation as a result of the incidents related to the crimes. The risk analysis of physical, IT and communications security management in member educational institutions establishes a higher level of security measures to be adopted for all legal objectives, assets and values, and is transposed into the security plan and alarm system design. Starting from the definition of the security management system and referring to the specific of higher education institutions, we propose, like objective, an integrated model management that will meet the need for security in the perspective of the current sociology-political and economic conditions. Our contribution will take into account all external / internal parameters, external / internal factors, evaluation criteria, attacks, threats and legal standards. The proposed model of physical, IT and communications security management in the case of higher education institutions is based on security barriers, monitored by a qualified security manager, inspired by computer security procedures and which can be on different security levels, but also on parallel security networks. The research consisted on developing three levels of security, correspond to the degree of security that each of the aforementioned departments should benefit from, modifying the internal analysis parameters and factors, thus reducing the security risk and bringing greater security to the education and research process. For good future results, the necessary documents will be created to lower the level of security risk so that it fits within the "ACCEPTABLE" risk level.
DIDACTIC PROFESSION - OPTION OR VOCATION?
Authors: Epurescu Elena oliviana
Published: February 2023

The didactic profession - a paradigm in empirical research - is an extremely demanding and current issue of education sciences that focuses on not only pursuing a career path by a subject in relation to personality, but also the socio-economic conditions and offers that in particular, it focuses on the maturation of the individual in the chosen professional field in order to obtain the performances and reach the specific professional standards.
The investigation directions are multiple and are not reported and not limited to the child / adolescent, but also to the young student in front of multiple opportunities for professional development both in the short and long term, designed to meet the needs of the young person, especially the market requirements. work.The didactic profession of the students in the technical education is extremely sensitive, in the sense that it requires the compatibility of divergent and convergent fields at the same time and determines the specialists involved to appropriate intervention measures adapted according to the specific faculty that the students follow.The existing themes regarding the field of the teaching profession offer analysis perspectives for a complete investigative approach.Our investigative approach regarding the didactic profession of the technical students focused mainly on three fundamental axes: the degree of involvement and the satiation felt by the students of the faculty by attending the courses within the psycho-pedagogical module; motivation for the teaching profession of students; the usefulness of counseling in choosing the teaching profession.We will present them in detail in this paper.
THE RELEVANCE OF CORPORATE E-LEARNING/E-TRAINING FOR JOB DEVELOPMENT: CRAFTING CULTURE AND EVOLVING YOURSELF
Authors: Gabelaia Ioseb , Bucovetchi Olga
Published: February 2023

In today's changing environment organizations either employ or look for corporate training or/and learning opportunities. Corporate training and learnings help to improve employee effectiveness and efficiency. It is a morale booster that addresses specific organizational needs and brings lifelong learning back into the picture.
In Industry 4.0 era, organizations need to provide e-learning and e-training. It is an employee development and growth initiatives through an online environment. Corporations must understand the difference between learning and training. Training helps to develop skills to accomplish or achieve specific goals and tasks. Whereas learning is acquiring knowledge to perform unexpected tasks. The right chosen direction enables prospects of crafting corporate cultures and permits employees to evolve to become better versions of themselves.
An organization that embraces both learning and training into its corporate culture inspires employees to create a vibrant and versatile working atmosphere. A combination of learning and training with traditional and online settings facilitates employee growth. It enhances the skills that employees possess and enables achieving professional goals while bringing more productivity.
The article aims to create awareness of sustainable e-learning and e-training for long-term corporate success in the constantly changing digital era. In order to achieve the research objectives, there were used several methods of investigation: interviews with several corporate trainers and surveys. The study discusses and analyzes the relevance of e-learning/e-training for job development. The paper emphasizes how important it is to create a resourceful working condition. The paper emphasizes how important it is to create a resourceful working condition.
SMARTBOARD IN E-TEACHING: PRELIMINARY RESULTS IN ELECTRONICS LABORATORIES
Authors: Ivanciu Lauranicoleta , Sipos Emilia
Published: February 2023

Students that are currently enrolled in bachelor studies belong to Generation Z, making them highly comfortable with using various devices with Internet access. Their permanent connection to the virtual world leads to a shift in the way they accumulate knowledge. Classical means of study, such as reading books or lecture notes, have lost ground to online oriented methods of instruction.
The challenge for today's academia is to adapt their teaching methods to these new trends, so that the students' attention is gained and maintained throughout the entire teaching activity. In teaching electronics, the laboratory classes are the most challenging part of the subject, for students, as they get to actively work with components, devices, lab instrumentation. However, a minimum amount of theoretical explanations is necessary, before actually building and analyzing any given circuit. Using a regular whiteboard for this part would make the students focus on writing down the explanations and drawing the circuit diagrams, rather than paying attention to what is explained. Moreover, the amount of information that fits on a whiteboard is limited, making the access to previously discussed topics virtually impossible.
This case study presents the effects of using a smartboard in teaching electronics laboratories to 1st and 2nd year students, an average of 200 students a year. The study was conducted over the last two academic years (2018-2019, 2017-2018) and the results are validated against two years of using a regular whiteboard (2016-2017, 2015-2016).
Some of the qualitative effects are: active participation during the theoretical explanations; undivided attention to explanations; ability to switch through the slides; emphasizing important content and comparing practical measurements to theoretical explanations; unlimited additional information can be added, to any of the slides, at any given time; easy access to laboratory explanations, emailed as pdf to the students; student access to correct laboratory explanations written by the teacher; possibility to use laboratory explanations as additional material in preparing for the final written exam.
Measureable effects include: a shortening of the theoretical explanations part at the beginning of the lab session (from 40 minutes to 25 minutes, on average), increased time for the practical experiments, increased grades at the final practical test, from 8.90 to 9.30, on average.