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A COMPETITIVE SERIOUS GAME FOR POTENTIAL AND YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS
Authors: Lungu Elizaolivia
Published: February 2023

In this article we present a serious game for potential and young entrepreneurs, developed as part of an ongoing Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project, Entrepreneurship in Serious. The game is an online adaptation of a board game developed in a Grundvig project funded by the European Commission and it aims to help entrepreneurs improve a series of key soft skills though a realistic gaming experience.
Entrepreneurship education and especially encouraging young people to start their own businesses is one of the top priorities of the European Commission in order to create new jobs and reduce the youths' unemployment rate across European countries. Entrepreneurship values and culture is highly valorised in USA, but in Europe only 45% opt for self-employing. The data collected by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Project, show a high statistical correlation between the respondents' "knowledge, skills and experience to start a business" [1] and their involvement in entrepreneurship. The more they trust their skills and knowledge, the more likely is that they will invest in their own business or in someone else's business. It is essential to encourage the youth to start new ventures, not just because that will provide a working place for themselves but also because they will be a good example for their community and nevertheless hire other young people as their business is extending.
In this context we propose a serious game for potential and new entrepreneurs that aims to enhance their soft skills and competences. The serious game developed by the consortium is an adaptation of a board game, "Competitive Game MENU", developed in the Grundvig project "SEE a Game" funded by the
European Commission. The board game MENU was designed for a class session of 10 to 20 VET (Vocational Educational Training) students and for team play.
QUALITY EVALUATION APPROACHES OF THE FIRST GRADE CHILDREN'S HANDWRITTING
Authors: Albu Felix , Puica Mihaela , Hagiescu Daniela
Published: February 2023

The evaluation of early school-aged children's handwritten symbols is a challenging problem. The teaching of handwriting is still an essential skill in effective written communication. There is a need for an automatic quality evaluation of handwritten symbols in order to assess the progress of children ability to write nice letters or other symbols.
In our case, the letters are positioned in a well defined two-dimensional space, similar to the special notebooks children use in school when learning how to write. For this study, a Wacom system composed of a tablet and a digital pen is used for collecting the data that will be sent to the analysis and evaluation module.
While the school-aged child writes a character, the pen transmits the (x,y) coordinates and the time t. Next, a normalization is needed in order to keep the same distance between neighboring pixels. Several approaches are investigated (e.g. normalization with/without interpolation). The coordinates sequence is transformed in a sequence of angles measured relatively to the X axis for each written character. They encode the changing directions during pen movement. An algorithm is used in order to detect if the overall shape of the written symbol is correct. Several parameters that characterise the written character are investigated (e.g. ,,centre of mass", height over width ratio, alignment errors etc.). Their correlation with subjective scores is verified. Several metrics are proposed based on spatial and temporal measurements. Next, the handwritten quality using the legibility, form size and alignment of the letters or digits is investigated. It is shown that a rough discrimination between proficient and non-proficient handwriting can be obtained by considering the size and space parameters. Our simulations have revealed the importance of good handwritten reference samples. The goal is to develop a calligraphic handwritting learning system designed for first grade or pre-school childrens. Further research is needed in order to address other aspects of an intelligent tutor.
EDUSOFA - A PLATFORM FOR SECOND-SCREEN EDUCATION
Authors: Beldiman Liviu , Jascanu Nicolae , Balosin Miruna
Published: February 2023

Thanks to the internet, information is available everywhere. People find information on websites, large public data collections, wikis, blogs, twitter messages and so on. However, interconnecting all this information and making it available at the right moment and in the right format is an increasingly difficult challenge. The ITEA2 European project Twirl will address this by creating an open platform able to process, query, enrich, interlink and fuse data originating from real world applications and knowledge extracted from virtual data sources (e.g. open linked data, social communities & forums, blogs, wikis, RSS).
The Augmented Entertainment domain aims at enriching multimedia user experience in a digital home setting. The capacity of TWIRL to aggregate knowledge issued from different data sources (personal blogs, twits and other Web-related social activities) can be exploited in order to make the multimedia experience rich of interactivities and more personal. With TWIRL, the digital content is not delivered independently as an atomic unit but augmented with all the relevant and pertinent knowledge that can be extracted or added from external sources related to the content. Contextual information can also be integrated so that the experience becomes social, and environment-sensitive.
The second-screen is a rising phenomenon. According to Nielsen, in Q4 2011, the vast majority of American tablet owners (88%) and smartphone owners (86%) said they used their device while watching TV at least once during a 30-day period. The second-screen has a huge potential for e-learning. A smartphone or tablet could be used to obtain complimentary content, connect to an instructor, or interact with other learners.
This paper describes the EduSofa platform, the results of the national survey on the second-screen technology for education and a common format for representing the educational content on second-screen environment.
HOW DO GUIDANCE COUNSELLORS USE THE WEB 2.0 TECHOLOGIES IN THEIR ACTIVITY - A NATIONAL STUDY
Authors: Botnariuc Petre
Published: February 2023

The use of web 2.0 technologies in school learning has developed largely in the last few years, as some research indicates, passing to more meaningful and effective arrangements. Recently the interest in using web 2.0 technologies grew also among practitioners in guidance and counselling in schools, who became eager to figure new ways of addressing old needs using collaborative web tools. The article analyses different ways, devised by school counsellors from different counties around the country, in which wiki projects are used in their counselling and guidance activity in gymnasium and high schools. These activities were developed in the framework of a continuous training provided online, through a moodle elearning platform, by the Institute of Education Sciences - Department of Educational Counselling and Management in 2012 - Center for Online Learning training.ise.ro. The article focuses on the first module of this course on Using wiki pages in career guidance as well as on face to face regional workshops organised by the same department in some County Centers for Educational Resources and Psychopedagogical Assisatance focused on using web 2.0 technologies in guidance. The projects based on wiki pages (wikipedia, google docs, seedwiki, pbworks) designed and implemented during these trainings by the participants are assessed in terms of effectiveness and efficiency and further recommendations proposed. The needs of the different target groups (school counsellors, teachers in charge of curriculum are guidance and counselling. center managers) are analysed and the activities impact on pupils discussed compared to other traditional forms of guidance interventions.
BLENDED LEARNING: BRIDGING THE MOTIVATIONAL GAP IN ESP COURSES
Authors: Chirimbu Sebastian , Tafazoli Dara
Published: February 2023

There are numerous and obvious reasons why reformed curricula tend to use alternative assessment methods on an ever wider scale in the teaching of foreign languages. First of all, they offer a comprehensive image of the student's overall competence in a foreign language. Secondly - but equally important - they test much more than the students' ability to sit an examination. Also, they change and enrich the student's attitude towards learning and communication patterns and they increase the students' linguistic self-confidence. (Nunan, 1989). Alternative assessment methods have the great advantage of being context-specific, as they use and adapt those assessment tools that should best reflect the purposes of learning (Taylor, 2003). Other two characteristics that make alternative assessment superior to the traditional one are the facts that it is process-oriented and authentic, based on real life activities (Willis, 1996). Alternative evaluation is very much related to the content of teaching-learning process. Researchers have also noticed further advantages of alternative assessment: it is systematic, dynamic and flexible, managing to build up competences that last in time, as it does not concentrate only on grading and ranking immediate and punctual performance. In these days, many teachers have the tendency to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a teaching,evaluation (assessment) and learning device. The application of ICT in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) became one of the popular research trends in realm of English teaching field of studies. There are so many definitions for Blended Learning (BL) in literature, but the most commonly definitions are: 1. combining instructional modalities, 2. combining instructional methods, and 3. combining online and face-to-face instruction. One of the most dominant problems in ESP courses is dealing with motivation of learners. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between blended learning and attitudes of ESP students. To meet the end, this study was conducted with the undergraduate ESP students at the University of Applied Science & Technology, Mashhad, Iran. The participants of this study were 109 female and male students, ranging from 18-43, majoring in Tourism and Hotel Management. In order to find the ESP students' attitudes towards using blended learning, an attitude questionnaire developed by researchers was distributed among participants. Data analysis revealed that Iranian ESP students have positive attitudes towards blended learning. This study recommended that ESP teachers should integrate technology in their courses (teaching and assessment process) to motivate more students.
A CRITICAL APPROACH TO ONLINE ENGLISH LEARNING
Authors: Chiseganegrila Anamaria , Kraft Luiza
Published: February 2023

ELearning has been part of language education for years being both praised for its benefits and criticized for its lack of human interaction. The use of electronic media and information and communication technologies in education was first a means to bring traditional teaching into the new era and as a result, it became extremely popular as provider of both synchronous and asynchronous learning through a modern approach. Ranging from the sheer use of laptops in the classroom, to real distance learning, eLearning attracted not only teachers, but also institutions to the mirage of cheap, 24-hour available courses, which offered not only modern, but also tailored and self-paced learning. Practice showed that eLearning became extremely popular due to the mixture of technologies (emails, blogs, wikis, discussion boards etc) it involved and its connection with social media (Facebook, Twitter etc.). In addition, the use of hypertext documents, audio and video files on portable devices, the third wave in computing (ubiquitous computing) made teaching and learning a lot easier and marked a step forward towards mobile learning. However, there are language teachers who still consider eLearning a variant of traditional courses as, according to them, it provides just old content and activities in a new format. This paper will examine not only the way language courses have been poured into the eLearning mold by analyzing the forms the traditional classroom activities had to take in order to suit the new digital format, but also their aggregation into completely new and challenging forms to better meet learners' needs.
COMPUTER ANXIETY AND COMPUTER SELF-EFFICACY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
Authors: Cocorada Elena , Palasan Toader
Published: February 2023

A favorable attitude towards computer use in learning and in everyday life is a condition of obtaining high performance in learning and later in the workplace. The aim of the current study is to analyze the levels of computer anxiety and self-efficacy for the high school students. Two questionnaires, Computer Anxiety Rating Scale (Heinssen, Glass, & Knight, 1987) and Computer Self-efficacy Scale (Compeau & Higgins, 1995) were administered in a paper-pencil format. The participants in this research were the high school students, boys and girls, who attend two urban schools, from the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade. Data were analyzed using several criteria: age, gender, and experience in using computer and academic results. We expect higher levels of anxiety for girls, but lower levels of computer use self-efficacy. Students who used extensively computer in learning will have lower levels of anxiety than students, who have lees experience in using computer. Students who learned alone to operate on the computer will have a lower anxiety level compared with those who learned at school or with their friends. Students who have higher grades in computer science have a higher level of self-efficacy and adequate skills. The linear regression shows that the outcomes in computer science discipline may be explained by age, grade, scientific profile and computer self efficacy. The research results are useful in organizing learning situations which can reduce computer anxiety and promote training skills required for the computer use in learning and professionalization in the field of computers science.
DIGITAL NATIVES AND DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS INTERACTION IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
Authors: Ionita Mirela , Pastae Veronica , Stoica Alexandru
Published: February 2023

This article approaches the interaction among users of educational portals from a socio-psychological perspective. Over the past decades the integration of application systems in the Romanian educational process has increased to such an extent that practically any university provides access to data bases and has its own site and/ or domain. In the present paper we shall mainly focus on the teaching and research activity within academic field laying stress on digital competence. Therefore, we shall analyse the most important aspects involved in teacher-student virtual interaction as far as the learning process and information exchange are concerned. We have chosen this perspective primarily because it offers an insight into communication between older generations (or digital immigrants) and younger generations (or digital natives) who respond in a different manner to the advent of educational platforms. Despite the fact that both teachers and students are interested in the high quality of the educational process, their approaches are often dissimilar. Thus, not many teachers have the necessary computer skills to operate sophisticated programmes or applications; however, most of the teaching staff have integrated virtual components in their current professional life. Still, there remain some sensitive issues which call for our attention: one of them would be the neglect of the aesthetic side in designing on-line courses and activities. Concomitantly, the majority of young students nowadays are highly computer-skilled and quite critical with regard to on-line educational offers and services. Consequently, this article discusses the challenges digital immigrants have to face and the possible solutions to the difficulties they have to overcome on the competitive market of educational software.
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS IN LEARNING ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
Authors: Ivanic Ivana , Ursulescumilicic Rodica
Published: February 2023

Abstract: The paper aims is to show how the cultural dimensions and using technologies in the classroom can enhance language learning. Professors realized that successfully language learning during the learning process is better if students are motivated to understand the cultural perception and history of Romania. Students of Romanian as a foreign language at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, by using new technologies for elearning, have opportunity to present the most interesting things about culture, history, sports, music of Romania by using various web tools, video projects, movies, presentations, etc. Students are encouraged to decide for themselves how they will present their observations to other students on public presentation. The whole process was monitored five months. Students motivation and interest for learning language was increasing. Freedom to choose the way and to use tools familiar with, encouraged the students. The results of this study showed that most popular tools are Web 2.0 (social networking sites, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, and mashups). This is one of way to help to professors to easily integrate technology into language class.Just like students in the general population, students at Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad vary greatly as individuals. Some programs require extended students' depth of knowledge in the content areas. Therefore, professors conducted research about the reasons for choosing of a specific program or tools. Alternative forms of responding and learning, such as using diagrams or tables, may help some students with different learning styles--better demonstrate what they know.
COMPUTER IN CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENTS' LIVES
Authors: Paisilazarescu Mihaela , Stan Maria magdalena , Tudor Sofia loredana
Published: February 2023

Computer impact on people's lives is a controversial subject because it has both positive and negative implications on behavior and mental development.
The aim of this study is to identify the positive and negative effects of computer use on psychological mechanisms, behavior, school results, physical condition, interpersonal relationship, socio- emotional development and perception of reality. Experts in education and also practitioners have found that those children and adolescents who use computer excessively (video games, Internet communication, etc..) have poor school performance, low interest in school activities, exhibits verbal and physical violence, poor communication skills , low self-esteem and a range of behavioral disorders.
The questionnaire used in our investigation was to identify the time that children and adolescents consume it in relation to the computer, the reasons that lead to devote that time to this activity, the use of information obtained from these sources for personal development. The obtained results were reported to the students' school results, teachers' observation on their cognitive and social behaviors and on subjects self-esteem (investigated by Roserberg test).
The rational use of the computer by children and adolescents may facilitate students' school performance, it may contribute to increase the motivation for learning, to form skills for independent work and those for teamwork, to achieve transdisciplinary transfers etc.
The research has also identified that using the computer excessively affects the psyho-social lives of children and adolescents both in terms of their socio-emotional behaviour and certain personality traits ( self esteem ).
Keywords: computer usage, positive effects, negative effects, school performance, self-esteem
MODERNIZATION OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS
Authors: Radovic Slavisa , Jovana Jezdimirovic , Radojicic Marija , Stevanovic Aleksandra
Published: February 2023

An important and challenging issue of modern education process is the meaningful usage of multimedia and interactive materials. Nevertheless, there is a significant lack of electronic educational materials which can meet the needs of all involved in education process and to support different styles of learning and teaching. The aim of this paper is to show educational web platforms and interactive materials that are designed to enhance the educational process in Serbian schools. Mentioned digital materials are created with special attention to curriculum, interactivity and visualization of various abstract mathematical concepts in order to make innovative learners by PhD students from Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Educational e-platforms help teachers to monitor the students' progress after each lesson, analyze data and adapt teaching to students' needs and interests; include parents in educational process in order to support their children in better planning of learning activities and etc. Some of the goals are to help students with their homework assignments and preparing for national final exams due to reinforce and extend their motivation, knowledge and skills that will be useful and outside the classroom. Last, but not the least aim is to discover and help individual achievements and motivation problems of each student. All of the created educational materials emphasize interactivity, exploring and linking different mathematical concepts mutually as crucial part of learning process. The article points out an importance of innovations in mathematics education which is suitable for the modern students and highlights research results on relevant topic.
USING THE EPORTFOLIO TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING
Authors: Soare Emanuel
Published: February 2023

The article focuses on the possibilities of capitalizing the ePortfolio as a pedagogical method for producing integrative learning and as an efficient way to engage students in the curricular activities. It helps teachers in mapping teaching and learning, document student learning and enhancing learning towards the educational outcomes. The instruction process can be rebuilt by extending the use of ePortfolio in teachers' and students' current activity. Therefore, students' learning needs are better met, their learning experience becomes more relevant and the employers can have better proofs as regards the graduates' competences. Thus, it is created a new environment with new learning tools capable of arguing new results of learning. The paper underlines the ways through which the ePortfolio contributes to intentional learning, representing the more efficient way for sustaining students' permanent effort and motivation. Using the ePortfolio allows for a better analysis of the learning progress and a representative collection of the results obtained by students as regards the objectives of the instruction and the competences to be formed. EPortfolio also contributes to integrating students' skills and knowledge which were acquired from various sources of information and learning media in complex systems of competences. They can be capitalized in different theoretical and practical contexts, in and outside school. Integrative learning produced with the help of ePortfolio contributes to the development of self-evaluation skills, thus resulting an authentic evaluation which can satisfy the exigencies of various stakeholders. In order to capitalize the ePortfolios, educational institutions, school managers and teachers must create ePortfolio systems according to the student centered learning approach and the competence based curriculum as stated in the 21st Century Student Outcomes and Support Systems.
PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES CONCERNING THE USE OF ELECTRONIC TABLETS IN SMALL SCHOOL LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Authors: Tudor Sofia loredana , Paisilazarescu Mihaela , Stan Maria magdalena
Published: February 2023

The evolution of the educational policies in Romania determined the tendency to a qualified curricular analysis and planning of concrete educational situations and individualization of the learning experiences. Educational Reform in Romania intervened through National Curriculum for preschool in 2009 and through OM 3418/ 2013 which provides the modification of syllabi for preparatory, I and II classes with the implementation of the integrated approach in preschool and primary educational levels.
In the context of the previously described theoretical evolutions, the necessity to form and develop competences in the educational process is accepted nowadays as indispensable in most educational systems. Major problems belong on one hand, to the manner of organizing and defining these competences in order to describe and ,,become operational" and, on the other hand, to the identification of those modalities (technologies) which would lead to the real formation of the described competences.
School must reformulate the activities in the sense of forming and developing fundamental competences: communication competences in the maternal language and in one or two international languages, fundamental competences in mathematics, science and technology; digital competences; axiological competences; competences for the management of personal life and for the evolution in the career; entrepreneurial competences; competences of cultural expression, the long-life learning competence.
One of the issues discussed in this process is the introduction of universal teaching as a means of electronic tablets. in this respect are born a few questions, how prepared are students for e-learning knowledge, how prepared are teachers to teach using these tools, which will be the effects, per long / short.
E-LEARNING MARITIME ENGLISH COURSE-PILOTING STAGE
Authors: Astratinei Carmen
Published: February 2023

E-learning Maritime English course-piloting stage

First, the need for Maritime English within the shipping industry will be emphasized with special reference to the multicultural crews on board ships, which may lead to serious maritime disasters due to poor Maritime English knowledge. Most incidents at sea are the result of communication problems, therefore, great attention should be paid by MET (Maritime Education and Training) institutions to the Maritime English teaching and learning. There is a strong need for collaboration between these institutions and the seafarer recruiting agencies to find the right solutions for implementing the STCW10 (Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping) and IMO (International Maritime Organisation) competence requirements regarding the knowledge and use of Maritime English, both orally and in writing.
Then, the content and structure of the traditional Maritime English course will be presented. The course book has been designed in accordance with the STCW'10 Convention and IMO Model Course 3.17 requirements. The specialist disciplines, i.e. seamanship fundamentals and navigation fundamentals have also been taken into account in selecting the topics and technical terminology to be taught.
Next, the conversion of the traditional course into an e-learning format will be explained and demonstrated. There will also be pointed out the advantages of this format as compared with the traditional one, i.e. a huge data base and permanent topic upgrading possibility, the students studying at their own pace both in the resource center and at home, teachers involved in less paper work, but in more creative learning resources development, etc.
Finally, the partial results of the piloting stage will be displayed and commented upon.
DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COURSE "REPORTING IN NATURAL DISASTERS AND ACCIDENTS"
Authors: Barovic Vladimir , Pralica Dejan
Published: February 2023

Since 2007 a teaching course on the subject of "reporting In natural and intentionally caused catastrophes and disasters has been carried on in the Department of Media Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad. The mentioned subject deals with media reporting and journalist engagement on the place where catastrophes caused by people (terrorism, explosions, car accidents, citizen gatherings, fires) or natural calamities (floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, extremely bad weather conditions) happen. The subject syllabus for a school year is carried out during one term with two classes of lecture and two classes of exercise per week. Students are interested in carrying through the syllabus and a number of those enrolled in this elective reaches maximum which is about 35 students for each course. We carried out a study on a theme of possibility of using a media digital technology in performing the syllabus" Reporting in natural and intentionally caused catastrophes and disasters" with the aim to examine how much students are interested to make a use of new digital technologies in the teaching course. An extensive analysis of the students answers was made relating to their perception of the use of new digital technologies, lecturing on Skype, the importance of online debate with the aim of exchanging different views with the students from other universities in the region and world. The researchers were interested in how much students use digital resources when they write their term papers, if they have a good on line communication with their professors and assistant professors, if they would like to have an on line cooperation with the Military, the Fire Department or some other institutions which deal with crisis situations and which digital innovation they would implement into the realization of this subject syllabus. The fundamental idea in this project is to analyze the students attitudes about using of media digital technologies in the realization of this syllabus which offers great opportunities for implementing the mentioned technologies. We expect that the result of this research will be the modification of the plan and the syllabus for this subject, which is to implement innovations in the sense of application of digital technologies observed as the most significant by students. Thus the teaching course will be enriched and innovated with new digital technologies and the syllabus will be adapted to students requests.
PRACTICES AND PLATFORMS FOR ALIGNING HIGHER EDUCATION TO THE EUROPEAN TRENDS IN SERVICE INNOVATION
Authors: Borangiu Theodor , Dragoicea Monica , E cunha Joao falcao , Ionita Anca daniela
Published: February 2023

Service innovation represents a challenge that has to be supported by specific actions of the higher education professionals. At European level, it was promoted by platforms developed under the Europe INNOVA and other initiatives, and it is now an important priority of the Europe 2020 strategy. Therefore, the academic environment should get aligned to this trend and prepare students for the complex character of the future service systems. This paper presents best practices and platforms to support an action program for getting aligned to the European trends in service innovation, undertaken within the ESF / POSDRU project INSEED (Strategic Program for promoting Innovation in Services by Open and Continuous Education). The program has five main objectives:
A. Aligning university actions to the European strategy;
B. Contributing to the activity of professional organizations and scientific communities at international level;
C. Collaboration with European researchers on the topic of innovative services;
D. Sustaining joint educational programs and curriculum in the domain of services, in correlation with European partners;
E. Using the INSER@SPACE collaborative platform for promoting virtual educational resources and knowledge regarding the service science.
Each objective is described by its specific actions and by a presentation of the applied practices, like: comprehending the strategies, programs and organisms related to the European Commission; analyzing the knowledge gaps; co-authoring articles with experts from European universities with common research interests; organizing scientific events in the domain of services; certifying undergraduate and postgraduate educational programs dedicated to sector services. An important example is the Service Engineering Master (SEM) from the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, University Politehnica of Bucharest, and its relation to other programs on service science, from Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland, Germany and Czech Republic. The master is linked through a double degree agreement, with the Master in Service Engineering and Management (MESG) from the Faculty of Engineering -FEUP, University of Porto. The two programs complement each other, as SEM is IT-oriented and MESG is business-oriented. The paper compares them, based on their common elements and their particular contributions.
As support for creating a global educational environment, we also present the INSER@SPACE collaborative platform developed by INSEED, with its three components: (i) a learning management system dedicated to educational courses concerning services; (ii) a semantic wiki on service science for creating an international community based on a clearly defined knowledge environment; (iii) educational resources provided as a service, with configurations dedicated to learning new technologies for service innovation.
TAILORING THE USE OF ICT IN DESIGNING AND TEACHING AN ENGLISH FOR ENGINEERING ACADEMIC STUDY COURSE
Authors: Catelly Yolandamirela
Published: February 2023

In our increasingly globalized world and, implicitly, job market, university graduates are expected not only to be proficient in a foreign language of international circulation, but also to possess further language learning and using strategies that should allow them to continue to study autonomously in a lifelong learning type of approach, which has become a must, particularly in our times, with multinationals no longer affording to provide training in soft skills such as communication in a foreign language. Universities are therefore widely expected to ensure that the students should receive such training at a high level and even be able to pursue their study after graduation, by making flexible adequate use, in their autonomous learning, of all types of support, among which Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important part. In the teaching of foreign language courses of any type, such as English for Engineering Academic Study (EEAS), the use of modern technology in a variety of creative ways and manners, adapted to the students' needs and course objectives, has become increasingly rewarding, as it ensures high success rates and quality of the trainees' learning. The variety of the types of support that ICT can provide for foreign language teaching has been substantially studied in the literature lately, with the emergence of a range of new technical possibilities to be exploited in the language class. The aim of this study is therefore to present some modes of using ICT throughout the entire EEAS course, together with the rationale underlying each option, by 'tailoring' them to the specific features and constraints of our concrete higher education situation - one peculiarity of the context is that the students whose ICT connected skills are used/developed via the described approach are themselves Computer Science students. This was done on the basis of a well-defined framework of pedagogical principles and by taking into account the versatile roles ICT can play. The new roles of the teacher and of the students involved in the teaching/learning process were accordingly re-appraised, and the effects on the instructional process quality were determined. Thus, the types and patterns of ICT uses are thoroughly analyzed, from the design and organizational stage of the course, through the materials creation phase, and up to the issues connected with the EEAS course management and evaluation.
TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING VERSUS ONLINE ASSESSMENT
Authors: Cazan Anamaria , Indreica Elenasimona
Published: February 2023

Assessment not only measures progress but also help e-instructors to identify effective assessment strategies. Online courses make possible new forms of working and learning together that would be difficult to use in the classroom-based course. Also, high quality formative assessment has a positive effect on student learning.
The present study aims to investigate differences between online evaluation of learning and traditional evaluation. We also investigated the association between the various forms of evaluation, test anxiety and self-efficacy.
The participants were undergraduate students at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, enrolled in online Moodle courses and non-enrolled students. For an entire semester, the students enrolled in online Moodle courses and completed in the Moodle format quizzes, as an instrument of formative assessment. For the non-enrolled sample, the evaluation was administered in a paper-pencil format, the traditional version.
We used three scales; two of them were adapted from MSLQ (The Motivated Strategies for Learning Scale):
- The Test Anxiety Scale (adapted from MSLQ)
- The Academic Self Efficacy scale (adapted from MSLQ)
- Attitudes towards online assessment scale
The first two scales were administered before a formative assessment test for the subject matter Essential of psychological testing. The test was a 35 items quiz. The quiz was administered online using Moodle format for one group of students, and paper pencil for the second group. The content of the quiz was the same for both groups. The online students received after the test a third questionnaire regarding their satisfaction with the online assessment format.
The results showed that there are no differences regarding the academic performances (the grades at the test) between the two groups of students, but the test anxiety and the self-efficacy were different, online students reporting higher levels of anxiety before taking the test and lower levels of self-efficacy. Although at the end of the test, online students reported a high satisfaction for the online assessment. The final questionnaire includes items such as: "My level of computer literacy limited my performance in the online assessment", "I felt under pressure taking the exam this way", "I enjoyed the exam process", "I would rather take the traditional exam, if I can choose". The results can be used in the implementation of future assessment methods, in order to reduce the test anxiety and to increase academic self-efficacy.
STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS UPON ICT IN UNIVERSITY TRAINING PROCESS
Authors: Clipa Otilia , Cramariuc Gabriel , Schipor Maria doina , Colomeischi Aurora adina
Published: February 2023

PProblem Statement: We have approached the main line of the theoretical and investigative characteristics for university education such as they appear within scientific literature in the science of education area. Nowadays is more and more present within educational field the using of ICT.
Purpose of Study: The aim of our research is to establish the way the ICT is used within university didactic and to find out what is the students` perception about the ICT impact in university education
Research Methods: The investigative part is done through the survey about perception of students regarding some aspects of the use of ICT in university education. The sample comprises 248 students who are preparing to became the teacher for primary and preschool teacher from University Stefan cel Mare - Suceava, Romania.
Findings:
In terms of the gained results we have described the perceived assessor portrait from the teachers' point of view. We tried to measure some specific dimensions such as: the status of the ICT within university didactic, the ICT used forms, the activities which involve ICT, and what are the advantages / disadvantages perceived by students.

Conclusions: ICT within university is seen by students as a very important tool for communication and information, for enhanced learning experience. There are differences between the student's perception in terms of their study field, and this enable us to consider that the students from technical areas are more exposed to the ICT integration in didactic activities, since the students from humanistic areas should have access more to this kind of learning experiences.
ADAPTING TRADITIONAL TEACHING TECHNIQUES USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Dumitrache Anisoara , Gheorghe Mihaela , Moldovan Ovidiu
Published: February 2023

Adapting traditional teaching techniques and adding the benefits of new technologies has been the aim of our ODL Department from the beginning. Our experience with distance learning students from different learning backgrounds and environments helped us in developing innovative teaching techniques used both in eLearning and blended learning classes. Since 1999, the Open Distance Learning Department of the University of Bucharest educated over 6.000 students. Distance learning system offered the opportunity for all people to study - bachelor degree, masteral and post graduated programs were created to meet the people's demand for education.

The aim of this paper is to emphases on the progress made by our department in creating procedures, management techniques and teaching best practices.

In the social web age and web 2.0 technology the professor becomes a tutor - coaching students, coordinating their learning paths, moderating online discussions and creating interactive course materials. Traditional teaching techniques based on face - to - face interaction are a useful source of information than constitutes the base of future innovation. Whatever the subject matter, the tutors identified common issues and situations specific to distance learning education systems and they were able to overcome all shortcomings with the help of course managers, pedagogues, webmasters and network administrators.

Pursuing the general trends of social interaction our students from the virtual class are now part of the learning network. Connected at all times with their pears and professors they used the benefits of technology in order to increase the added value of learning. The key words are collaboration, cooperation, interaction and interactivity.
EFFECTIVE WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES FOR SECOND-LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
Authors: Dumitrescu Virginia mihaela
Published: February 2023

Technology is playing and increasingly significant role in transforming the present-day education process, which is becoming more and more learner-centred and collaborative, as we can notice from our own teaching experience. This is in keeping with the mindset and expectations of the new generation of students (often identified generically as "the Net Generation", "Net Geners", "Generation Y" or "the Millenials") which, among other characteristics, distinguishes itself from previous generations by being technology savvy and eager to create (not just "consume") Internet content such as blogs or YouTube videos, as noted by many writers on education.

Thus, apart from the emergence of e-learning as a low-cost, convenient, democratic alternative to classic face-to-face teacher-student interaction, the new web tools and applications (such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, webinars, virtual worlds, and even learning groups organized on social networking sites) are re-configuring the entire areas of teaching and learning, and are re-defining educational goals.

The present paper aims to identify the most effective in- and out-of-class educational uses of some of the major web tools available that may ensure an engaging, participatory, student-empowering learning environment as an addition to the traditional classroom, especially for the study of foreign languages at university level. Our main tenet is that while technology alone, no matter how well-adjusted to the learning needs of Generation Y, cannot automatically guarantee the success of the education process in the absence of appropriate teaching and learning strategies and goals, educators' inability to tailor their strategies to fit their students' new way of acquiring and processing information in the digital age will certainly result in education failure.
NEW TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL MILITARY ACTION
Authors: Eparu Dorin , Atanasiu Mirela
Published: February 2023

Most recent wars, we consider the conflicts in Afghanistan (2001-2002), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011) and again Afghanistan, have proved fully valences binomial determinants of intelligence - technology in military confrontation. So, modern warfare increasingly, through training methods, gives the actual size for the contribution of intelligence and military technology success strategic, operational and tactical.
As was demonstrated, especially in the last great conflict, attitude, dynamic action and information technology, endorsed with efficient preparations of human intelligence, assured victory in military confrontation. There is no doubt that e-learning methods are now indispensable for military education and training and in any field of military branches had become an important asset for achieving information superiority. We may mention two major advantages as, the 24/7 disponibility of educational content and increased interactivity with the learner. Consistency value judgements, elaborations decision, which in future are expected to be less sequential, simultaneous and ever more forward-looking. We consider that technological based training will have a decisive impact on the conduct of military operations and the succes of them. All future wars will require diversions, reassessments and reorganizations of the organization system and fighting military conflicts and technology will help military to gain the adaptability needed for success.
Actual warfare theoreticians have in mind when confronted with the enemy, the ability of military and civilian authorities, private sector, civil society to collaborate in the field to move the war to the opponent, to use means of counteracting specific systems to multiplay command and control and security measures to trigger decisive preventive action. For this will successfully complete in future confrontations, the war theorists and politico-military analysts consider technological achievements included in sophisticated system, human involvement being found only at the strategic or political decision. Simulation plays an important role in developing e-learning tools for technical contents. Yes, the learning is changing. Integrating training into e-learning educational environments changes to some extend the current requirements for successful military action.
Transformation of the global geopolitical system requires a revolution in military thinking, a revolution to reflect new economic and technological forces. E-defense represents a new way of leading shares by electronic interconnection, in an effective way, with speed, innovation and creating new value in an organization. Future war will change the whole nature of belligerance, will increase the value of employment, based on competence and responsibility.