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OBSERVING MOTOR DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN USING DEPTH CAMERAS
Authors: Cramariuc Gabriel , Pentiuc Stefan gheorghe
Published: February 2023

In this article we analyze the 3D interaction of children (using gestures made with whole body) using depth cameras (ie, Microsoft Kinect). It should be noted that there are few research studies in the academic literature that investigates the interactions that children made with whole body through gesture acquisition systems using Kinect sensor, which translates into lack of level design recommendations regarding prototypes involving this type of interaction for children.
Natural interfaces, such as those favored by Kinect sensor tend to be intuitive and to require little knowledge from users. Gestures commonly preferred by users are likely to be easier to perform than gestures proposed by designers - which often requires a sustained practice from user. There are few recommendations on specific child gesture interaction with a depth chamber as Microsoft Kinect.
As the current market related to Kinect games for children continues to grow, there are still few informations about the ways in which young users interact with these interfaces. Children performance in gestural command execution performance may be different from adults. Children are a unique group of users that require special consideration.
We did a study in children aged 3 to 6 years to identify how children perform gestures in working with interfaces that require interaction with the whole body when they were faced with various tasks but common in preschool activities. Gestures and body movements were videotaped, arranged by category and coded for the purpose of comparison by age, sex and degree of experimentation with Kinect interfaces. In the same study parents answered a questionnaire to provide data on the degree of motor development of their children. We correlated the data obtained and we analyzed opportunities to use Kinect type deep cameras for motor development of preschool children.
INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES TO SUSTAIN LIFELONG LEARNERS AND RELATED RECRUITMENT PROCESSES
Authors: Dascalu Maria iuliana , Tesila Bianca , Bodea Constantanicoleta , Dragoi George
Published: February 2023

Virtual communities are seen as the social fabric for learning, being present in more and more educational contexts. The communities' cohesion and, in the same time, their members' satisfaction are increased through various personalization mechanisms. Among them, an important role is played by intelligent recommendations of educational resources and tools considered useful by other community members with similar profiles.
The paper presents a web-based platform that supports the process of lifelong learning through the creation of collaborative virtual communities. Both professionals and non-professional are put into connection, using a hybrid recommendation algorithm based on an ontological approach. The access to the platform is done via a professional social network account, thus increasing the accessibility of the platform and its integration in current social learning ecosystem. After logging in, all the details available in the professional social network account are imported automatically and inferences are made to recommend to the new user e-learning communities which are suitable for one's objectives. Within a community, users can interact with their peers and can receive ratings based on their activity. Thus, we claim that the platform is able to engage people to improve their knowledge in their field of activity and related fields. Besides providing the opportunity to continuous learning and professional development, the platform aims to increase the employability of lifelong learners: it increases the members' visibility to human resources recruiters and it eases the professional recruiters' access to potential employees by taking into account one's ratings within the related e-learning communities.
The proposed platform is presented in the context of lifelong learning, as a driver to well-being in current society.
HEALTH-RELATED IMPACT, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ICT USE IN EDUCATION, COMPARED TO ITS THEIR ABSENCE IN THE PAST
Authors: Harutyunyan Paruyr , Moldoveanu Florica , Moldoveanu Alin , Asavei Victor
Published: February 2023

Society has been very quick to adopt and master computer, as well as latest mobile technologies as an integral part of its everyday life. Innovative technologies have penetrated into nearly every aspect of human life and are now so much involved and embedded in social life that most people do not even realize that these technologies are relatively new inventions. Furthermore, nowadays people do not imagine their daily life without technology.
In fact, information technologies create great comforts for humans in their everyday life. Despite that, one cannot say for sure that technology has only positive impact on physical, mental or psychological state of humans.
Now we are living in the era of digital technologies, where scientists put forward a hypothesis according to which such deep penetration of technologies into human life might have dangerous consequences. If we look around for a moment we will notice that it is almost impossible to imagine social life and life as a whole without state-of-the-art technologies and application thereof.
The given research has as its objective to study and display health related aspects, the influence (whether positive or negative) of innovative technologies on human health and to compare the results with those of the past when human life was not exposed to technological influence, as well as reveal the impact of technology, in general, on human health.There are diferent type of technologies and we cannot cover all impacts of all technologies in all activities. I.e., as a result of comparison between the differences of the current and recently used education methods it becomes obvious that technological development has brought to the constant increase of the time spent in a sitting position which causes some heath issues in the future. Due to the modern technologies it becomes possible to get an on-line education this way minimizing the human movement.
SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION TOOL TO EXPLORE THE IMPACTS OF COMPLEX AND CROSS-RELATED ENVIRONMENT CHANGES
Authors: Savin Cristina , Moldoveanu Florica , Moldoveanu Alin
Published: February 2023

The current trend concerning global climate conditions is one of change and is negatively affecting all major sectors of society and environment at all levels, from the national to the local and continental. As a consequence of the strong impact that climate change has on future society, the need of an e-learning tool to raise awareness on the effects of these changes appears more than necessary. The solution presented in this paper (CLIMSAVE IAP - Integrated Assessment Platform) is a user friendly interactive web-based tool intended for free use that simulates an extensive range of impact indicators at European and local scale (Scotland) based on a series of interactive climatic and socio-economic scenarios. The simulated impact indicators cover a wide range of sectors: agriculture, biodiversity, coasts, forests, water and urban and are displayed as a geospatial map that allows users to evaluate and understand the climate impacts. The tool is a web software based on the Client/Server architecture having on the Client side the Client Interface Module that collects the input information needed to run the user's simulation and displays the outputs on interactive geospatial maps. The Server Side is comprised of the project's main database, a series of 12 meta-models to simulate the above mentioned sectors and a main Running Module that links the Client and the Server side. The tool was developed with the help of representative stakeholders that have also contributed to its calibration and testing. The novelty of this platform is that it allows users to explore and understand the interactions between various sectors rather than viewing a sectorial area in isolation.
ICT SUPPORTED NEUROMOTOR REHABILITATION LEARNING - ACHIEVEMENTS, ISSUES AND TRENDS
Authors: Voinea Alexandra , Moldoveanu Alin , Moldoveanu Florica , Ferche Oana
Published: February 2023

Movement impairments can significantly reduce a person quality of life. Simple tasks as eating, opening doorknobs or bathing represent some of the activities that are affected by this kind of disorders. The targeted group is represented by individuals that suffered a stroke and other neuromotor disabilities.

To regain partially or complete functionality of a limb, the rehabilitation is based on kinesiotherapy. Unfortunately, the growth of life expectancy and the number of population are the factors that make these methods insufficient for the current situation. The benefits of the therapy depend heavily on the settled objectives, duration and intensity of the training. Objectives are strongly connected with patient's health condition, resistance to effort and if the attention capability is affected. The main procedure is the intense repetitions of a certain type of exercises training regarding the relearning of the effective command, to increase physical condition or to reduce spasticity. The therapy can last from half an hour to 5 hours per day. In this conditions, having a therapist allocated per patient, cannot represent a viable solution.

There are a number of eLearning solutions that represent a viable approach for the current situation, complementary with classical therapy. At this point, the market has different solutions that vary in price and functionalities. In this study, the focus will be on the realizations, limits and future tendencies related with the utilization of these specialized devices. They are connected with complex technologies as functional electrical stimulation (FES), neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), electromyography (EMG) and brain computer interface (BCI).

In conclusion, considering the number of devices described in literature, only a small number proved to be effective or available for usage for the large consumer market, as the majority of them have a high price and they are present only in specialized clinics. The analysis has as main purpose the identification of the drawbacks and advantages in current solutions to help developers create a device that can overcome those problems and to be available at an accessible price.
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN MOODLE
Authors: Herman Cosmin , Mustea Anca , Naaji Antoanela
Published: February 2023

Moodle was build up based on socio-constructivist principles and in order to promote collaborative learning. Therefore, the whole concept of the platform focuses on building communities of learning. There are several tools that promote communication in Moodle: from personal messages to chats. Collaborative learning activities include wikies or glossaries, where collaborative materials can be developed by students and teachers. The discussion forums and questions and answers forums facilitate debates, clarifications and exchanges of information and perspectives. The workshops take the collaborative learning to another level, offering peer to peer evaluation. Comments and feedback opportunities are also important in developing a collaborative learning community within a course, responding to surveys and giving feedback to other papers submitend into an Webinar by other students.
Thera are many way to keep students attention focussed on a specific topic, but most important is to give the am general outlook of the course in the introduction part.

Within Moodle the active and collaborative learning is built around the students perceptions and involvement in
activities that strengthens and enhances learning by asking questions and contributing to forum discussions, working with others students on projects, building together course or topic glossary. Explain to students the benefits and the reasons for engaging them in their learning activities. The tutor has to interact with students during activities and stay engaged by all means. Explain the learning outcomes and results, evaluate and track the effectiveness of each activity by analysing the reports and results, give feedback to students after each activity.
WHY WOULD A PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER WANT TO USE MOODLE?
Authors: Disca Tiberiu
Published: February 2023

What is Moodle? The heart of Moodle is courses that contain activities and resources. There are many different types of activities available (forums, glossaries, wikis, assignments, quizzes, choices (polls), scorm players, databases etc). Each activities can be customised quite a lot. The activities I think might be handy when using Moodle in a Primary school is: glossaries (create glossaries of definitions and display them in a block within a course), links (collect links to other sites), web pages (upload class or embed YouTube videos and embed in Moodle web pages), game module, forums, 'Parent' role - give logins to parents using the Parent role to show what students have been doing in class, lightbox galleries (upload class photos) of excursions and projects, notes, calendaring (add in events for, which can be shown on the Moodle homepage) etc.
Even with baby steps, Moodle entered into primary and pre-primary education. In fact, most of the activities used at secondary or tertiary level can be used in (at least upper) primary education, although the content may be not so sophisticated.
The requirements are very simple. Into a lesson, you cannot move to the next step without a correct answer, but the possibilities are endless. Even though the demanding level is very low, the pupils can easily understand what is all about. Still, these opportunities are not used in most primary school in Romania.
The Moodle Romanian community appreciate any examples, ideas for using Moodle in the primary school environment. We meet few elementary school teachers with a couple of ideas in Moodle Moot 2014, Cluj Napoca.
KEY ASPECTS OF THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR STUDENTS - FUTURE PRESCHOOL TEACHERS
Authors: Ivanic Ivana , Petkovic Violeta , Grujic Tamara
Published: February 2023

This paper points out the relationship of influences and key aspects of the implementation of ICT in the study with students, future preschool teachers, that largely affects the students' expansion of general and professional competencies at the Preschool Teachers' Training College in Kikinda. The research was conducted in the period from October to November 2014, Likert questionnaires were used, and 300 students from the first to the third year of study were interviewed. By analyzing of results, four key aspects can be observed regarding students' communication relationships with Preschool Teachers' Training College in Kikinda, their communication relationship with colleagues, their communication with colleagues outside the Republic of Serbia and their communication with many educational institutions and professional associations. It is concluded that the use of advanced information and communication technologies is, mostly, an essential need for students to upgrade professional competencies that greatly influences the effects of expanding knowledge in order to integrate theory and practice. Results indicate that the effects of the use of information and communication technologies influence the students` capacities to increase the correlations between the formal and informal aspects of education, between primary institutions for preschool teachers education - Preschool Teachers' Training College in Kikinda of and numerous professional elite groups: governmental and non-governmental organizations, institutes, colleges and kindergartens.
Also, the results of the questionnaire created for research use of information and communication technologies, confirm the hypothesis that the use of new information and communication technologies certainly influence the process of building quality study, and later easily find an employment in the upbringing and education fields.
INTERACTIVE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY: USING DESIGN-BASED RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING AN INTERACTIVE PSYCHOLOGY COURSE
Authors: Jursova zacharova Zlatica , Sokolova Lenka , Lemesova Miroslava
Published: February 2023

In many European countries psychology is taught as an optional secondary school subject and as an introductory course in variety of university programmes for "non-psychologists" (e.g. teachers, social workers etc.). It might be challenging to teach psychology in an innovative way (using digital content within technology-rich learning environment) and to reach the objectives of developing student?s personality and psychological literacy at the same time. We applied the design-based research to design an innovative course of psychology for the secondary education. In the first phase quasi-experiment design was used (n=33). Eight lessons of psychology were taught in an experimental group in the technology-rich learning environment (using variety of online exercises, experiments, presentations and tests) and in a control group using traditional materials. Based on the students? feedback (didactic tests (n=73) and individual semi-structured interviews (n=11) we got an image of students? perception of the implementation of technology into psychology teaching and learning. Secondarily we analysed written narratives on the outcomes and the pitfalls of an introductory psychology course in the university teacher training (n=46). Content analyses revealed that both groups of students find psychology rather abstract and they need visualisations, practical interconnections, and learning in the context to enhance understanding psychology. On the other hand students prefer experiential social learning, social interactions, discussions and group work within psychology courses. Based on these data we designed an interactive course combining both digital and traditional materials and recommended methods of instructions. Such a course design allows teachers to implement various teaching scenarios with interactions among students, teacher, technology and visually attractive digital content. The course covers four areas included in general psychology curriculum in the secondary education and in the most of introductory psychology courses for non-psychologists in Slovakia: history of psychology, cognitive processes, personality and inter-individual differences, and social psychology. The study is a part of project KEGA 021UK-4/2013 "Teaching of psychology and the subjects of personal and social development - set of teaching materials".
STUDY ON THE SKILLS OF THE DIDACTICAL STAFF IN PRIMARY EDUCATION TO USE COMPUTER IN THE EDUCATION AND IN PUPILS' SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIALIZATION PROCESS
Authors: Langa Claudiu
Published: February 2023

Teachers' skills to use IT tools in order to quickly find data and for quick and interactive communication are indispensable in the knowledge-based contemporaneous society. School, through the didactical staff, is a socialization factor, whose influence within this process cannot be questioned. The essential school task from this perspective is not only to teach various skills to children or to provide them with many information and knowledge but especially to prepare them for life in society, train them so as to assimilate the values and norms specific to the social world in which they were born and where they shall develop their adult life.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the level of computer skills of the primary cycle didactical staff in the education and pupils' social media socialization process. Also, the extent to which the interaction between pupils and the didactical staff outside the school time is made through the online environment shall be analyzed.
The working hypotheses of this study are: 1. there are significant differences between the teachers in the urban environment and those in the rural environment as regards the competence to use the computer in the education process 2. there are significant differences between the teachers in the urban environment and the teachers in the rural environment as regards the use of social media in the pupils' socialization process.
The methodology used in this investigative approach is the questionnaire applied on a group of 200 teachers from primary school from urban and rural areas. The questionnaires were applied online and face to face.
Findings and Results of this study have aimed at the verification of research hypotheses. The working hypotheses have been confirmed following data processing and interpretation.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON USING ICT - AN ONGOING PROCESS
Authors: Marin Elena
Published: February 2023

Given the fact that the progress in technology is constantly evolving and the new generation is considered to be digitally native we could say that teachers` professional development on using information and communication technologies (ICT) is a must. The new educational policies signal the increase challenges for teachers and schools to fully exploit them for the benefit of teaching and learning.
Studies show that one of the most important professional development need teachers report is related to the teaching with information and communication technologies and to use new technologies in the workplace. (TALIS, 2008 & 2013)
Taking into account that the continual professional development (CPD) is an ongoing process we conclude that attending to workshops, seminars, and short courses (in service) can be an opportunity for teachers to acquire new skills development in the use of technology in the classroom.
A significant number of studies show that the use of ICT in the classroom is ongoing process and teachers need pedagogical and technical support to meet the expectations of the 21st century learners and to successfully face their daily challenges and responsibilities.
The aim of this paper is not only to show the importance of keeping up to date when it comes to the use of ICT in the classroom, but also to briefly present a statistical approach regarding teachers participation rate in professional development activities that are focused on the process of teaching using information and communication technologies. We will mainly focus on discussing teachers' needs for professional development regarding the use of ICT, but also on presenting the barriers to teachers' participation in professional development in Romania.
ADAPTING TERTIARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION TO THE NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Momete Daniela cristina
Published: February 2023

This paper has as main objective the presentation of an integrated pedagogical solution that aims to transform the teaching act designed for students and Bachelors in engineering into a more adapted one to the challenges of present. The author of this paper identifies the bottlenecks of the engineering education and suggests a mix of solutions that are to be followed with the aim to stimulate the students' ethical development, involvement and creativity. The solutions encompass the rethought of syllabi for engineers of all specialties and the starting point is considered to be the assessment of the technical relevance, sufficiency, and the correlation of theory with practice for all disciplines. This reshaping must be done having in mind the well spread copy-paste mentality, therefore the syllabi should also incorporate a special set of values and moral principles. Another solution taken into consideration is the evolvement of the teaching methods that must include instruments of the actual digital era, having in mind the new technologies and the new possibilities of collaborative learning. The design of new e-books and e-case studies for students, the use of BYOD ("Bring Your Own Device") solution are some examples that will allow students to properly integrate the information acquired by attending different courses and also will encourage their collaboration and the building of powerful teams. Students' empowerment and stimulation of collaborative learning are also seen as major solutions for the enhancement of the efficiency of the teaching act. The paper presents an original system of student's active involvement into the learning process and is based on a method employed by the author of this paper in her own courses held for Bachelors in economic engineering.
CLASSROOM CHALLENGES: BLENDED LEARNING TOOLS USED IN TEACHING ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Authors: Nistor Cristina mihaela
Published: February 2023

In the author's experience as a teacher of Romanian at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, there have always been challenges meant to test both the teacher's and the students' ability to adapt to the latest methods and/ or technologies employed in the modern world. For those students who opt for studying Romanian as a foreign language, teachers have to consider the difficulties posed by the target language itself and, consequently, they adopt blended learning tools as the best way to address the issue. Since students' motivations to learn Romanian vary from purely academic interest to economic or social reasons, the methods and techniques employed in the process of learning as such also vary accordingly. In the case of those foreign students who come to Romania simply because they need to avoid certain difficulties they would have to deal with if they went back home, there is, generally, a strong motivation to succeed in learning the target language and blending in. Those students will find it useful to adopt the blended method of learning, and, as a result, they will use e-learning tools extensively, while, at the same time, try to have as many face-to-face interactions both in class and outside it. There is (at least) another group of students who, driven solely by academic interest, will do their best to learn about the language and culture at a fast pace; I include here the students who are interested in learning new skills and techniques that will help them give their careers a boost. Still, there might be a third group, consisting of people who are in no rush to learn Romanian, but come to class anyway: the students who have relatives living here, with them. For those students, finding the best way to assist them with their Romanian studies may prove somewhat more challenging for the teacher. S/he will have to know how to push the right buttons, which will trigger the best response in those (less motivated) students. In this paper, it is my intention touch upon some points that refer to assisting these students; I will refer to the possible methods that will have as a result an improvement of the students' performance as well as an increase of their motivation to learn.
ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS TO THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS IN PRESCHOOLS
Authors: Pavlovic Dragana , Mihajlov prokopovic Anka
Published: February 2023

The impact of the new technologies on the field of education has noticeably been growing over the last few decades. Many research studies have been conducted in the world examining their effect on education at all educational levels, especially at the children's' early age.
The aim of this research is to examine the attitudes of teachers to the role of computers in strengthening the competences of preschool children for entering the next level of education in Serbia. The starting hypothesis is that teachers in their work value the use of educational computer games in order for children to acquire new knowledge strengthen problem solving skills, develop their creativity. Our starting position is the standpoint that there is a positive correlation between attitudes and independent variables: the length of work experience and previous computer education.
The results show that teachers have a positive attitude to the application of computers in preschools; they are motivated to work with educational computer games and find that computer may be of significant benefit for work with children, but not to the great extent. The survey also shows that the length of work experience and previous computer education, as well as attending technical training courses are positively correlated with the application of computers in schools. The study concludes that modern technology is still not widely applied in preschools, primarily due to insufficient funds and unsatisfactory IT skills of teachers, which indicates the need for a systemic solution to this problem. Modernization and introduction of computers in preschools will not bring satisfactory results without appropriate education and training of teachers in order for them to acquire new skills and competences.
FEEDBACK REGARDING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE MOODLE PLATFORM AS A COMPLEMENTARY TEACHING TOOL
Authors: Porumb Ioana , Chircu Sorina
Published: February 2023

Well-known as a learning management system, Moodle complements the instructive-educational process by providing it with an online component. The philosophy that started Moodle includes a social-constructivist approach to education, emphasizing the fact that students and not only teachers can bring their value to the educational experience. By applying these pedagogical principles Moodle offers a flexible environment for learning communities.
Politehnica University of Bucharest is composed at present of 15 faculties, each having their own Moodle instance. The Moodle platform allows teachers to view the contribution of every student, allowing them to grade them according to their contribution, to intervene and correct wrong information or to lead the conversation in the direction desired by teachers.

The present paper aims to identify the degree of efficiency of the Moodle platform from the perspective of teachers, as users, in complementing the teaching activity and improving learning among students.
In order to achieve this goal, we will analyze 2 levels of progressive evaluation for the measurement of the e-learning efficiency which are: level 1 - reaction (measures what the participants generally believe about the e-learning platform), level 2 - learning (measures what effectively is being learnt). From the perspective of these 2 levels we are interested to see: What is the opinion of teachers regarding the various features of the Moodle LMS? How is learning assured on the platform judging by the content and interactivity offered to students?
The research was realized on a lot of 150 teachers from Politehnica University of Bucharest and we have used as research methods the case study and the survey.
The obtained results indicate that the Moodle platform represents an efficient complementary component in teaching and evaluation.
TEACHERS' DIGITAL LITERACY TRAINING IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION
Authors: Stefanescu Valeriu , Stefanescu Cornelia , Stoican Oana
Published: February 2023

The use of new technologies in teaching proves its efficiency provided that teachers receive proper training in this area. It is also necessary for the teacher to adapt the electronic resources available to the age of students and their learning needs. New computer skills in kindergarten are focused on issues related to teacher training (the ability to use the computer, the characteristics of the subject they teach, the age level of students), to the available material basis (the access to ICT equipment, the number of computers and other equipment, ICT equipment placement in special purpose spaces, reliability, Internet access, networking, diversity and quality of educational software), to their personality structure (positive attitude and open to the utility of new technologies, professional experience ) but also to the institutional needs (supporting the school organization the teacher belongs to, both technically and in terms of educational or scientific, the dynamic culture of the educational organization characterized by disseminating of best practices).
The premise behind the present study was the idea that the integration of ICT in preschool education is conditioned by three important elements: initial and continuous training of teachers, teachers' attitude towards ICT as well as the conditions or the actual context of the integration of ICT. Our study is an investigation conducted on a representative sample of preschool teachers and aims to highlight the ways in which they have formed and develop their digital skills, but also the ways in which these skills are put into practice in the course of instructive teaching activities with preschoolers.
VALUES WITHIN THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION OF EDUCATION - A CASE STUDY ON THE FOREIGN LANGUAGES LEARNING IN ROMANIA
Authors: Tascovici Daliana ecaterina , Dragomir Robert gabriel , Isbasoiu Eliza consuela
Published: February 2023

The proposed paper aims at presenting the present situation as concern the challenges the pupils are taught about during their university and pre university courses on one hand, the necessity of the labour market and the European new paradigms in the educational policies on the other hand. From all the values taken into consideration, we focus mainly on the familiarization of the European inhabitants with the usage of the foreign languages. Firstly, we refer to the values within the European dimension of education, as they were established by the European Commission for every state. Here we make reference to the plan of the educational contents, as it has to contain elements of proximity and coincidence. Secondly, we talk about the new paradigms met with the new political and social situation. Here we stress the importance of knowledge, but also of competences and values people have to achieve. In order to fulfill this task, the usage of the TIC and of the educational resources gained for every type of educational issue should be intensified. We also mention the series of activities that help learning the common language for a European citizenship and the defining of the new types of educations, adapted to the dimension of education, the European Commission and the Council of Europe propose. The next treated aspect is to establish the defining of the problem mentioned at the beginning. For that we reach the following objectives: to describe the nature of the problem, to establish the scale of the problem, to identify the affected categories, to establish the causes of the problem, to argue the need for intervention, to estimate the risks and the uncertainty of the problem discussed and also to present the healing activities. In order to get real information, we used the following methods: questionnaires (were disseminated to different categories of respondents: students, employed, unemployed, discriminated categories and so on) and observations. The activities supposed data collecting, processing, analyzing and interpretation. In the end we draw the conclusions.
ONLINE SYSTEM FOR FLUID POWER LABORATORIES RESOURCE SHARING
Authors: Dragos Chitariu
Published: February 2023

At this stage of development, costs of the development and use of experimental stands for laboratories fluid power (hydraulic drive) are very high, so that education units cannot afford the purchase and maintenance a whole experimental stands and modern data acquisition equipment, trained staff that can use of these systems.
In the paper is presented a system / framework / proposed envisages linking / connecting education units / research / laboratory on line within a network, for the sharing of available resources from laboratories. Thus, a school in Iasi, which has fluid power laboratory, can communicate online with fluid power laboratory in Cluj, for students to have access to laboratory stands in Iasi.
In order to achieve this, the following steps are required: a. uniformisation of analytical programs on joint laboratories for involved faculties; b. realization of the laboratory work; c. realization of the experimental stands, with the data acquisition equipment and data acquisition software; d. realization of the communication infrastructure.
The external beneficiaries, the students can do laboratory work with experimental tests, for example, the determination of the characteristics of pumps on a fully equipped stand. The students can enter the variable in the control and command system of the stand, perform de the experiment, and obtain the experimental data obtained through data acquisition software, for example Labview which has the proper modules for online data transfer, also can visualize the experiment via audio-video systems.
Using this system on a single stand a large number of students can be trained to a high level, assured through the work methodology and equipment, with low resources
META-REFLEXIVE ANALYSIS OVER THE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROCESS IN THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES DOMAIN FOR THE CONTINUOUS TRAINING OF THE TEACHING STAFF FROM THE PRIMARY AND PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Csorba Diana
Published: February 2023

The primary and pre-primary's school teacher improvement in the area of information and communication technologies competences has a major contribution over the improvement of the educational system, the main goal being a society in which accessing information and being highly qualified are an insurance of the economic growth - this is one of the top priorities of the training programs for the general teaching staff. This activity implies having a teacher who's "armed with ICT instruments" not for using them as a goal (aim?), but especially for integrating them into the educational process with obvious formative and educational effects. As a course and tutorial author for pedagogical disciplines included in the initial training programs of the future teaching staff, I consider that enhancing the value of information and communication technologies is a part of an intercession of several other different strategies. The experiential learning has represented one of the most profound ways of approaching the process of familiarization and access for these technologies, from an instrumental perspective.The acceleration of the integration process and effective promotion of the new communicational and
informational technologies must be regarded through the need of psycho-pedagogical and pedagogical
substantiation of what represents the process of development of transferable competences and structures and of the mental operations supposed by the actual opportunities of professional development. This study represents a meta-reflexive exercise for identifying the main bench marks and the opening areas towards applicability and success in the information and communication technologies space for the initial and continuous training of the teaching staff from the primary and pre-primary educational environment.
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY OF ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - NEW WORLD FOR STUDENTS
Authors: Ivanic Ivana , Popovic Virginia
Published: February 2023

The aim of the paper is to present an advantage of using internet library for students who study Romanian language and literature in Serbia. In fact, due to the lack of new modern books in Romanian language in Serbia which would get interested students to read, professors at the Faculty of Philosophy, from Department of Romanian Language and Literature have made a list of websites and databases where students can read books. The research showed that students increasingly less use reading room and library at the Faculty. Necessary literature they try to found on the Internet. The research results showed that two main reasons contribute to this. The first reason is that students rarely use the library because they cannot take books with them home (library has one copy of the book), and the second reason is that library does not have the necessary books.
Desiring to as much as possible students read and use professional literature, professors tried to make a list of Web sites and databases on which student can for free, at any time and from any computer read books in Romanian language about Romanian history, culture and literature. Depending on the specific library, a user may be able to access magazine articles, books, papers, images, sound files, and videos.
Lists of Web sites are available to students on social networks, online consultations or in specially created group on Facebook. The teachers are aware of the impact and opportunities that the Internet provides, and therefore studying the Romanian language and literature in Serbia must be adapted to the requirements of students.
COUNSELLING STUDENTS THROUGH ELECTRONIC PLATFORMS
Authors: Mureanu Alina , Logofatu Bogdan
Published: February 2023

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need to implement and develop an online counseling service in the Department ID CREDIS, University of Bucharest. Electronic platforms is a set of communication services and e-Learning circuits that improve the quality of information and can facilitate communication in education.

Implementation and development of online counseling services in the Department ID CREDIS has emerged as a need to improve teaching and provide quality services to students enrolled in the education system. In cyberspace, we have the feeling that nobody sees us, or that no one cares for us, but the reality is that, much like in real classroom, we are allowed to grow and to mature in terms emotional and cognitive.

Nowadays students are very busy people (some of them have one or more jobs) and they need not only knowledge of the theoretical / practical issues but also they need a new mentality / attitude.
For this reason, the Department ID CREDIS try to promote students' personal development to include 21st century skills such as communication, collaboration, team working, better use of time and, why not, become a good citizen.

Easy access to information / information and effective communication through electronic platforms can increase the students' involvement in the educational process and may lead to professional and personal development of students.
Online counseling is a new way to meet the needs of students, whose resources do not allow the movement to college, contributing to a real-time communication, answering questions and issues that these people may face during student life.

The authors recommend that any institution that aims to develop distance education to consider advising one of the keys to good results, especially for setting high professional standards.
NEW TRENDS IN THE EDUCATIONAL AREA. CASE STUDY REGARDING THE USABILITY OF GOOGLE APPS TOOLS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT FOR DISTANCE LEARNING
Authors: Logofatu Bogdan , Visan Andreea maria
Published: February 2023

At Stanford Commencement Address in 2005, Steve Jobs said : "You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.".
In the 21st century everything is moving faster, an innovation is "new" only for a short period of time. This changes are affecting all areas, including education. But what if education develops its "future" by founding itself in the "past" again? Could the "yesterday" in which the Romanian education system has remained be the source of inspiration for the "tomorrow" that the present development promises?
This paper is aiming to present the valuable journey that the Department for Distance Learning team has traveled since the starting point, in may 1999 and until now, a journey that hasn't yet reached the end.
Over the years many valuable project have been developed and implemented by CREDIS team (CREDIS is the acronym for the Department for Distance Learning): new higher education study programs (BA and MA) especially designed for pre-service and in-service school teachers; a new BA study program (240 ECTS) focusing on "Information Technology"; new LLL programs (CISCO Networking Academy, Microsoft IT Academy, ECDL), with the main purpose to find inspiration, answers and proposals for "tomorrow" education.
The main interests of this paper are centered on the last years in which CREDIS team has focussed on identifying, developing and promoting e-learning solutions in Romania. In this regard, one of the most important challenges was and is the cloud technology that has quickly replaced the traditional learning management system used in universities. Universities from all over the world are now using the cloud computing technology to improve collaboration between teachers and students, to increase the efficiency of their classroom but also to save costs without sacrificing privacy or security.
Aligning with the directions recommended by the European Union on modernisation of higher education CREDIS has successfully implemented Google Apps tools within their students. Google Apps For Education (acronym GAFE) is a free cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform that includes mail, calendaring, IM, as well as Web-based collaborative documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and sites.
Students opinion regarding the opportunities provided by this applications on communication, file storage, collaborative documents, spreadsheets and presentation in a "cloud" campus will be presented in the paper.
ARE THE DL PRACTITIONERS PREPARED FOR ONLINE LEARNING?
Authors: Logofatu Michaela
Published: February 2023

In Romania, the DL system is relatively a new system of education, implemented officially 15 years ago. This was a big step forward aiming to modernize the traditional education.
The key issue was to approve the the legislation which defines this type of education and the quality standards that higher education institutions are obliged to fulfil. As a result, public and private Romania universities have implemented DL study programs which are accredited by the ARACIS - the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Hicher Education. We would like to highlight that the diplomas obtained through DL studu programs are equivalent with the diplomas obtained through traditional on-campus education.

Nowadays, the world wide trends in education reveal an spectacular increase in online education. Are we affraid to promote the online education in Romania? Are we prepared, from pedagogical and technical point of view, to design, implement and manage the online system of education in Romania? The clear reply of the authors to this questions is: "YES, we the DL practitioners in Romania, we are well prepared for online learning!".

In the first part of this article the author will synthesize her experience as DL practitioner within the Department CREDITS for DL, within University of Bucharest. The author will identify "lessons" that she has learned as managing director of this department, during the past 15 years.

In the second part of the article, the author will assess the complexity of the transition from the current RO-DL system to a new system similar with online (in Europe and USA). Also, such an initiative is correlated with strategic educational programs and with the CE's initiatives.

The article will include the conclusions stating that, we need a small step forward to design and implement online study programs in Romania; this step is small by comparison with implementation of DL-RO. There is still a big problem to this subject: the decision makers!