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COMPUTER GAMES AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

Author(s): Anastasija Mamutović,Marija Marković,Zorica Stanisavljević Petrović / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2020

The aim of the research was to examine the attitudes of educators towards the impact of computer games on the cognitive development of pre-school children. The research included 188 educators from pre-school institutions in the territory of Serbia. Educators' attitudes were analysed in relation to their level of education, place of work, age and years of service in order to identify tendencies that occur with changes in the structure of the research sample. The data obtained from the research were processed in the SPSS program, by using parametric statistics and the F test in the statistical analysis in order to determine the statistically significant differences in the attitudes of educators with respect to independent variables. A qualitative approach was used in the analysis of the survey results obtained through the use of questionnaire-scale, while the data were presented in tables and graphs. The research was carried out in two phases. The first phase of the research involved visiting the kindergartens to gain approval for the participation of the pre-school institution in the research and to deliver the instrument to RIUPU (Computer games at a pre-school age), which the educators subsequently completed. This phase was followed by the collection of instruments, as well as by the interpretation of the obtained data. The results of the research indicate that educators consider computer games to be a useful pedagogical tool that encourages the learning of pre-school children and reflects positively on logical reasoning, as well as on the enhancement of intellectual development and cognitive abilities. In regards to statistically significant differences in the respondents' attitudes compared to the independent variables, the results of the research show that educators with longer work experience evaluate more positively the impact of computer games on the cognitive development, as opposed to educators with shorter work experience. When the place of work variable was analysed, the research results show that educators in rural areas expressed a greater degree of agreement with the statement that the use of computer games in the context of kindergarten can contribute to the acquisition of declarative, procedural and strategic knowledge, compared to educators employed in suburban and urban areas.

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Perception and use of ICT materials among Algerian EFL secondary school teachers

Author(s): Nadia Idri,Rima Outmoune / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The Algerian educational system has gone through substantial changes and improvements since the adoption of the Competency-Based Approach (CBA) in 2003. There has been a continuous call for more investigation in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to assure quality in education. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to explore the Algerian secondary school English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ perceptions about the use of ICT tools in their classes and their teaching practices. A mixed methodology based on questionnaires (N = 62) and interviews (N = 9) was used. Results revealed that EFL teachers are aware of the importance of using ICT in EFL contexts and they manifest positive attitudes towards its integration. The analysis also revealed that most teachers used computers and data projectors in their classes and this resulted in elevating the learners’ motivation. However, teachers enumerated a number of challenges they faced, namely lack of ICT tools, insufficient training, and support in using new technologies as well as of updates. Hence, continuous training on ICT integration, technical support, and ICT tools facility in Algerian secondary schools are highly recommended to overcome such challenges and allow professional development.

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ENHANCING INTERACTIVITY IN GEOGRAPHY CLASS: FOSTERING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

Author(s): Kuo Hung Huang,Kai-Chi Hung,Ching-Ching Cheng / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2012

To develop students’ critical thinking abilities, teachers must lead students to engage in discussions and to reason within various points of view, while employing evidence to draw conclusions, make decisions or seek solutions. Computer mediates learning by providing students with visualizations of relevant subject content to facilitate their reflection on these experiences. The purpose of this study is to investigate how technology can enable students to develop critical thinking through technology-enhanced interactivity. A geography teacher and 62 grade seven students from two classes participated in the experiment. One class was taught using traditional methods whereas the instructional strategy of computer-mediated learning was adopted in the other. The findings showed that computer media designed for enhancing interactivity would facilitate teacher-pupil interaction and peer discussion, and consequently contributed to improve students’ comprehension of the geography curriculum content. In addition, the critical thinking ability of the high-achievement students was significantly improved.

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Research Competencies of Social Work Students during Remote Learning

Author(s): Mihai-Bogdan Iovu / Language(s): English Issue: 1Sup1/2022

Context: Acquiring research competencies by students is becoming more and more relevant in an evidence-based social work approach. Moving from traditional face-to-face pedagogical approach to a fully remote educational paradigm has greatly impacted universities in developing appropriate solutions for teaching and learning. Research skills and knowledge have been considered an important competence in social work training as best practice requires using available research data and best research requires understanding the context of practice. Method: Using a quantitative approach the current paper analyses how perception of remote learning and type and level of digital skills influence the development of research skills for social work students. 242 Romanian students enrolled in bachelor program filled in a questionnaire in June 2021. Results: The experience of a fully remote learning of research method did not have any significant impact on research competencies. However, the high level of operational skills influences students’ competency in research inquiry and quantitative/qualitative methodology, information-navigation skills positively influence dissemination of research and creative skills influences their level in quantitative/qualitative process, ethics and dissemination. Conclusion: In an evidence-based social work approach, research competences need to remain an important component of learning plans. However, considering the digitalisation trend higher education, it is expected that the content and format of research classes to adapt in order to assure the transferability of skills into the field of practice.

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Education During the Pandemic. Professional Training of final-year Social Work and Medical Students

Author(s): Alexandru Cosmin Apostol,Gabriela Irimescu,Mihaela Rădoi,Catalin Ionite / Language(s): English Issue: 1Sup1/2022

In the context of global social and economic changes caused by Covid-19 pandemic, our study wishes to bring to light the main transformations within the training process of the future specialists in the medical and social field in the context of Romanian online education. This study focused on the analysis of 211 questionnaires applied to final-year university Bachelor’s degree and Master students at the Social Work speciality and medical speciality (Physical therapy and Rehabilitation) recruited from two public universities of the north-east part of Romania. The comparative study analysed the opinions expressed by the university students regarding the training of skills and competences, the involvement in practicum and volunteering activities during the emergency period, the intention to migrate towards another profession or another geographical area. Through this study, we outline a diagnosis regarding the impact of the state of emergency on the academic training process of final-year university students. The purpose of the study is to highlight the progress of the educational process (framework, accumulation of skills and theoretical and practical knowledge, educational and professional concerns and adapting strategies) in the context of the pandemic, among students within the two specialities in their final academic year. This a crucial year for the transition towards a professional career in the healthcare fields chosen. Our results allow us to formulate the conclusion that a high degree of concern regarding the perspectives of finding a job is accompanied by a high propensity towards working abroad after finishing the studies.

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VREDNOVANJE I IZBOR DIGITALNIH MEDIJA U NASTAVI

Author(s): Ines Blažević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2018

The development of the information-communication technology (ICT) increases the quantity of various publicity accessible digital media that can be potentially used in the educational process. However, their amount and rapid development bring their quality into questing in accordance with the didactic and technological elements of evaluation. It is, therefore, necessary to think about the level of critical observation of the teacher by choosing one of them in class, the way of their implementation and competence for independent modelling of various multimedia content. An investigation has been conducted among primary school teachers with the goal of establishing of the ways of evaluation and the choice of digital media which they use or could use in class. The aim has been to determine whether they have used digital media so far and which ones specifically, to determine the critical relationship (according to the elements of evaluation) towards publicly accessible digital media which were offered and the possibility of their choice for usage in class. The differences according to the socio-demographic characteristics of the examinees. The results of the investigation can help during the creation of the programme of the initial and lifelong education of teachers in order for them to be qualified for quality usage of digital media in class on different levels of activity. The results can be an encouragement for the future and present teachers in creating a modern educational process improved by digital media.

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ULOGA DIGITALNIH REPOZITORIJA OBRAZOVNOG MATERIJALA U UNAPREĐENJU OBRAZOVNOG PROCESA

Author(s): Senada Dizdar / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2016

Informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije (IKT) uveliko su promijenile svakodnevicu i nesumnjivo utječu i na promjenu obrazovne paradigme. Digitalni izvori informacija i novi načini njihovog korištenja otvaraju put prema novim načinima i modelima u podučavanju, pri čemu digitalni repozitorij obrazovnog materijala, kao podrška e-obrazovanju, cjeloživotnom učenju i svim reformskim nastojanjima u sektoru obrazovanja, imaju ključnu ulogu. Cilj rada je ukazati na važnost organizacije informacija u elektroničkoj obrazovnoj okolini, osobito na organizaciju digitalnih izvora učenja. U radu će biti predstavljen i digitalni repozitorij obrazovnog materijala BISER (Bibliotečki Sarajevski Elektronski Repozitorij) Filozofskog fakulteta u Sarajevu.

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MEDIJSKA PISMENOST – OBRAZOVANJE 21. STOLJEĆA: OD UČENJA SADRŽAJA DO UČENJA PROCESNIH VJEŠTINA RAZUMIJEVANJA, ANALIZE, PRISTUPA, KREIRANJA

Author(s): Vanja Ibrahimbegović -Tihak / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2016

Medijska pismenost kao spektar vještina i znanja, morala bi biti daleko zastupljenija u obrazovnom sistemu u BiH nego što je to trenutno slučaj. Sistemu obrazovanja u BiH potrebne su neizostavne intervencije u sistemu obrazovanja koje bi se fokusirale na informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije i digitalne medije, njihovu ulogu i utjecaj na život pojedinca u digitalnom dobu, podučavanje o medijskoj pismenosti, odnosno, podučavanje kritičkom mišljenju o medijskim sadržajima i svijetu uopće, posebno u današnjem digitalnom dobu. To je karika koja nedostaje bh. obrazovanju 21. stoljeća. Ovaj članak razmatra mogućnosti uključivanja obrazovanja o medijskoj pismenosti u obrazovni proces u Bosni i Hercegovini.

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THE IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON THE ROMANIAN MILITARY EDUCATION

Author(s): Maria Constantinescu,Vlad Ionuț Dumitrache / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2021

The Romanian military education system, like other military and civilian educational systems worldwide, has been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sanitary measures such as lock-downs and the need to respect social distancing have had profound implications on the education process, such as the need to move the classes in hybrid and online formats, depending on national regulations and the severity of the outbreak in various countries and regions. The aim of this paper is to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of online compared to regular military education, with particular focus on the Romanian military education system. The pandemic has highlighted numerous failures in the current educational system, some of them specific to the online education (such as lack of training for teachers in designing online courses, lack of training for students on using e-learning technology) and some more general, related to the educational system itself (such as a lack of foresight and strategy related to e-learning, whose implementation had to be done on emergency basis, with the associated problems). At the same time, the COVID 19 pandemic has brought to the public and decision maker’s attention the undeniable advantages of e-learning, both in the civilian and military education systems. In the second chapter, the paper offers potential solutions and forward steps into implementing online procedures, techniques and tools to further develop online education and training in the field of military education that could be of use in a post pandemic world. The main conclusion of the paper is that digitization is a priority in a globalized world and online education as part of it has expanded to the circumstances of the Covid-19 crisis. The Romanian military education system should strive to correlate the needs of students, teaching staffs and institutions and to integrate the resulting effects will lead to a more innovative and effective driven learning process.

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E-LEARNING IN THE POST-PANDEMIC FUTURE

Author(s): Alba-Iulia Catrinel POPESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2021

In 2020, education has been hardly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of schools and universities around the world have been forced to close their doors, millions of pupils and students have faced the risk of interrupting their educational path and millions of other teachers have faced the risk of academic freeze. However, the current pandemic, similar to other great plagues that preceded it, through the medical crisis it triggered, has forced states and societies to adapt, to find solutions, to innovate, to progress. A solution to such educational crisis has been the development and large-scale implementation of the e-learning. Considered, until the beginning of the pandemic, an alternative system for traditional education, e-learning has turned into an "essential-learning", becoming the saving solution that has taken the academic year out of the impasse. The change in the status of digital education has led to the development of a new industry, known as ed-tech, and has highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of such an education system. On the one hand stand the advantages of unlimited access to information, the qualitative increase of the teaching performance, the diversity of means of graphic expression and mass media, the development of computer management skills and of graphic editing of teaching materials, advantages shared both by the teaching staff and students. On the other hand, poverty, underdevelopment and technical problems, inherent in the process of data transmission, risk to deepen the gap between the poor and the rich of this world. Therefore, to what extent will e-learning be able to maintain its "essential-learning" status even after the end of the pandemic? What are the strengths and weaknesses of digital education?

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GROUP SOLIDARITY FOR STUDENTS THROUGH DISCONNECTING FROM NEW MEDIA

Author(s): Alina Mărgăriţoiu,Simona Eftimie / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The purpose of our paper is to invite to a critical reflection about the negative consequences of using new media by students during online classes, situation that unconsciously could of contribute to their addiction. More, sometimes, young people manifest their tendency to relativize their addiction on media or to integrate their addition through common behaviours, making it trivial. Thinking that students’ addition on new media indicate the lack of personal discipline, we believe that one of today teacher responsibilities is to find strategies and create learning contexts that help them to develop self-discipline. In consequence, we have proposed a pedagogic experiment – “online disconnection” and group solidarity – to our students (Sciences of Education, specialization Pedagogy). They have been kept a reflexive journal during experimental period. Through significant results we have found some advantages of their online disconnection: more time to do enjoyable and useful activities, a positive affective estate, re-discovering the pleasure for reading, raising motivation for specialty literature and gradual detachment from new media addiction, group solidarity.

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EDUCATION 3.0: BLOCKCHAIN-BACKED MOOCS

Author(s): Virgil Paraschiveanu,Geomina Richardson,Roxana Voicu-Dorobanțu / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2020

MOOCs ability to provide valuable skills and competencies at a fraction of the cost of other educational offers, in a fraction of the time, and from the comfort of one’s own home, has proven to be a promising business reference to digital transformation, as applied in higher education. This paper overviews the impact of blockchain features, such as the trendy self-sovereign identity adding precious disruptive value along MOOCs value chains, especially around content acquisition, digital marketing and monetization, as well as facilitating acquisition and transfer of credentials in a digital trust-focused environment. A sound, trackable and protective digital identity has been long considered a needed asset, whereas the owner of the credentials, either the university, individual or employer has full control over the data that is shared across the educational ecosystem, on a case-by-case basis. The article also aspires at critically observing whether using blockchain tech for courseware aggregation and delivery constitutes a sound business case, as well as a worthy exploration for intrinsic learning motivation and an enhancement to higher education value chain. Secondly, blockchain and the self-sovereign identity offer benefits for the education authoring providers in particular and token-based monetization models for OER education. Blockchain has the potential to disrupt significantly current business models, by facilitating legally binding smart-contracts, helping streamline the credentials' processes, protecting the viability and legitimacy of education records as well as increasing the effectiveness of educational agregators. Reliably easy and quick to transfer credentials are essential for the labor force to be able to swiftly introduce newly acquired skills and competencies to the real business. In the same time, education providers are incentivized by an education governance model that enables better management and sustainability.

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INTRODUCTION TO SMART EDUCATION

Author(s): Ioan Vlașin / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2020

New technology-inspired terms such as Smart City, Smart Education or Smart Society are being circulated lately. The usual approach to achieving them is aimed only at introducing smart technology, not a comprehensive analysis based on systems’ theory, to which specific elements allow them to be intelligent, autonomous and self-programmable. A short analysis of what the term smart means, how it can be applied to humans and how education should be, if we consider these things, is a brief review of the work. From the analysis carried out here it results another approach, much more natural and truly effective called Smart Education. Classical education does not take into account the fact that man is an intelligent, self-programmable, autonomous and integrable system, which is why it does not report realistically and respectfully to the pupil, its intervention is brutal, even traumatizing. At the age of individualization, it ignores the real, profound needs of man and works only as a cultural programming tool. It does not really develop competence as a quality participation, but only certain skills etc. It does not consider the real integration of the person itself and in overpower systems because it does not explicitly pursue the development of character and preservation of integrity, the basic elements to be trustworthy. Smart education does not imply the introduction of modern technology in education, but its superior recovery as an environment, according to M. McLuhan's approaches that allows for a retrieval and self-development of man as a smart system. It is built from a new, transcultural perspective based on systems’ theory, complemented by the analysis of how smart systems work and taking into account the three types of human programming. In full accord with the nature of man, looking at the most general possible perspective, it supports its individualization and integration, giving the human (organizations, communities, etc.) the possibility of deployment from cultures and their higher recovery. In order for education to be truly a smart one, the approach and tools used within it must lead to the conscious construction and management of all components of an intelligent system, adapted and capable of supporting any entity that wants to learn, from one person to a nation. Thus, education can be greatly improved and supported entities can become self-aware and act more intelligently than using classical education.

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THE PROJECT TECHNOLOGY AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING QUALITY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Author(s): Anna V. Butova,Olesya V. Kisel,Angelina I. Dubskikh / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2020

Innovative teaching technologies are becoming popular in education. A good degree of integration of academic and professional education, ensuring the training process taking into account the requirements in a new educational paradigm is the reason. Under the circumstances Nosov Magnitigorsk State Technical University aims to provide the required professional staff for the needs of the regional sphere by updating the target, substantive and technological conditions of the educational process with the introduction of innovative educational technologies. The project technology or the project method is considered to be such an innovative technology. Under the technology of project training, we mean the system of interrelated actions, conditions, requirements for the subjects’ pedagogical activity, the central element of which is a project or image for a future result. This method focuses on the student’s personal development and significant professionally oriented activities; allows you to choose an individual pace of work on the project; combines all the baggage of knowledge, skills and abilities that a student can apply in various situations, and helps to learn basic knowledge of a foreign language and expand it if necessary. Work on the project is a powerful tool for enhancing students' cognitive activity: they see the final result - a product that they have created themselves – and can assess its practical significance. In addition, such a creative kind of activity stimulates professional self-determination.

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LINGUODIDACTIC ASPECT OF PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED LEXICAL COMPETENCE FORMING TO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WITH USING ICT

Author(s): Yekaterina A. Lomakina,Olesya V. Kisel,Natalya N. Zerkina / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2020

The modern society, state and the situation in such areas as economics, technology politics require a proper knowledge of foreign languages from the future specialist, which is undoubtedly a competitive advantage when applying for a job. The purpose of this paper is to consider the issue of vocabulary teaching to students at non-linguistic faculties and universities. The relevance of this study is up to the altering requirements for a future university graduate, who must be able to make a successful communication in different spheres speaking at least one foreign language. The novelty of the study is a comprehensive description of the problems associated with teaching the foreign language vocabulary. The vocabulary being the most important part of the language material, largely determines the content of training. Speaking about the forms of a word, there means not only its sound form. Material and methods of research are analysis of domestic and foreign literature in the field of linguistics, lingua didactics, methods of teaching the foreign language vocabulary; survey on the experience of teaching the foreign language professionally-oriented vocabulary at non-language faculties and generalization of the personal experience; The use of ICT at foreign language lessons at a non-linguistic university significantly simplifies the process of memorizing material (vocabulary and grammar material), increases the efficiency of interaction between a teacher and a student. The interactive forms of educational resources increase the motivation and interest of students in the subject. Such forms of work contribute to good learning of the material, increasing the information and communication competencies of teachers and students.

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E-LEARNING AND IN-CLASS LEARNING SYSTEMS FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS

Author(s): Svetlana Pozdnyakova,Natalia R. KIRICHENKO,Yulia Savinova / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2020

The aim of this work is to describe the most effective tools of e-learning and in-class learning systems for undergraduate engineering students. Experience shows that today’s students perceive and assimilate educational material in a completely different way than it was 15 or even 10 years ago. In this article the authors would like to touch upon the main features of perception the information by the modern generation, as the old teaching methods, when the material was absorbed in a simple and quick way, are not effective anymore. Besides while teaching a foreign language for occupational purposes (LOP) it must be taken into account that methodology of teaching General Language differs from that of LOP. The purpose of teaching a foreign language in this case is dictated by the professional orientation of students, thus methodologists and teachers of foreign languages are faced with a task to develop special training programs that meet all requirements of a specific working group. These factors should be kept in mind while compiling educational programs. The research shows that in comparison with traditional forms of education, e-learning requires the use of modern gadgets, the usage of which entails changes in the system of forms and methods of teaching. It should be noted that e-learning does not contradict other forms of organization of the educational process and is easily integrated with it. All in all, new methodology must be implemented to meet the educational needs in a new era of technology. In the article the authors show that combination of e-learning with face-to-face classes allows to optimize the process of learning, makes this process more effective and easier.

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USE OF E-LEARNING RESOURCES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING PROCESS AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Author(s): Yulia Savinova,Natalia MOKROVA / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2020

The paper deals with the possibilities of applying information and communication technologies, which have become widespread in all spheres of human activities, including education. Various approaches with the use of e-learning resources in the process of foreign language teaching are described in detail, as well as the key concepts of e-learning, its main challenges and techniques. The paper focuses on advantages and drawbacks of the e-learning system in comparison with the traditional system of education. In view of advanced educational standards, the importance of actions, aimed at enhancing the level of foreign language proficiency is emphasized. The authors examine the mechanisms of e-learning resources integration in the process of education. The central focus of the paper is the Moodle platform, which has gained wide popularity in the e-learning environment. Moodle is an open, free of charge learning environment with a user-friendly management system. It allows to cover a large number of learners, which is the most relevant for universities. The present platform organizes the process of foreign language teaching, and using various methods of control, effectively manages this process. Moreover, it fosters skills of students’ independent work. However, in spite of all advantages of this platform, it has some drawbacks, such as significant financial implications in the implementation of the resource, inconsistency with the users’ query, difficulty of planning, uneven development of informational technologies and insufficient monitoring by university teachers. The efficiency of the isolated use of electronic educational resources has been questioned in the paper. The authors come to the conclusion that such method of education is not always productive in the pedagogical aspect, as it does not provide direct interaction between teachers and learners, which is especially important when learning a foreign language. The authors suggest undertaking specific actions to address the problem. One of them is to combine informational technologies and traditional methods of education. The authors are convinced that a blended learning flexibility model enhances the degree of learners’ autonomy, helps to use contact hours more rationally. The paper also addresses the perspectives of using an educational e-resource Moodle in the modern educational process.

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THE EUROPE 2020 STRATEGY ON THE EDUCATIONAL FIELD

Author(s): Anca Georgeta Luțan (Petre),Elvira Nica / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2020

This article reviews recent literature concerning the Europa 2020 strategy. Using data from Eurostat and Eurydice database , I performed analyses and made estimates regarding aims at formal, non-formal, ICT education or informal education for all levels, from pre-school to adult vocational training. I have also performed analyses and compared the objectives of the strategy for Romania and the E.U countries about the integration in a proportion of over 95% of the pre-schoolers in the educational system, the decrease below 15% of the number of the 15-year-olds who do not have sufficient knowledge of reading, mathematics and sciences, the decreases of the weight of the 18-24- year-olds who leave school early with 3.9% starting from a value of 13.9% in 2010 and targeting a value of 10%. As for the indicator regarding the increase in the number of persons with higher education for those between the ages of 30 and 34, the EU has a target of 40% for 2020, starting with a value of 33.8% in the year 2010. Increasing the participation of adults in lifelong learning activities by 15%, and attending part of the study or professional training program in another country, for students (reaching a minimum of 20%), and for young people aged 18- 24 years minimum 6%. Empirical and secondary data are used to support the claim that each country applied aims of the Europa 2020 strategy and how each of them trough support and knowledge of ICT succeeded in using and putting them into practice.

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SOCIO-DEMOGRAFIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE E-GOVERNMENT: A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Dorina Ţicu / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2019

This article aims to identify the elements of the characteristics of e-government in the sectoral public policies at the local level, namely the educational public policies and how these features are or may be determined by the identity of the beneficiaries of public services. The article is based on a quantitative analysis of the institutional system of the local public sector: the educational one - namely "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" High School from Iaşi - based on questionnaires, trying to identify how the items of e-government become active at this level, and how the socio-demographic characteristics of users of these services determines the preference, the degree of the use of them in an era of new technologies and information technology.

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MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL TOOLS. BASICS OF CIVIC AND ETHICAL EDUCATION IN PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL

Author(s): Mihaela Gabriela Neacșu,Florentina Bucuroiu / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2020

This paper presents the findings of a psycho-pedagogical study on the effectiveness of certain multimedia apps and of a software program for civic and ethical education in pre-primary and primary school. The purpose of this study is both the analysis of the capitalization of various forms of multimedia, audio, image, animation, video content, interactive content forms and of the new educational software for shaping the social-civic skills of young pupils. The methodology employed is qualitative. The specific objectives of this study are: - An analysis of the pedagogical ways of integration of the multimedia and digital tools in the didactic process of civic and ethical education for young pupils; - An analysis of the complementarity of education forms and capitalisation of the multimedia and digital tools for shaping the social-civic skills of young pupils; - Best practice reflections on integrating multimedia education means in Romanian pre-university education. The conclusions of this study highlight the importance of integrating multimedia means in the civic and ethical education of young pupils so as to enable greater engagement of students in their own civic shaping, capitalisation of the differentiated and personalized content of civic education, a flexible structuring of the learning times, understanding civic reality based on case studies reflecting reality, the formation of pro-social attitudes and behaviours based on concrete examples. The advantages and limitations of using these formative tools and means are highlighted: multisensory stimulation in presenting the information, stimulation of critical thinking, purpose-oriented learning, individual exploration/search of information and operating on it, contributions to the knowledge of the immediate civic reality etc.

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