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Academic education versus the first steps in the speech and language therapy profession. Questionnaire survey / Edukacja akademicka a pierwsze kroki w zawodzie logopedy. Badania ankietowe

Author(s): Emilia Jesiotr,Dominik Sieńko,Agnieszka Zofia Rataj-Pietrzak / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 11/2022

The unregulated legal status of the speech and language therapy profession and speech and language therapy as an independent scientific discipline are reasons for significant differences in the way SLTs are educated in Poland. In order to find out the opinions of students and graduates of SLT studies (working in the profession) on academic education, the survey was conducted with 87 participants. Conducting the survey in the conditions of a pandemic situation also made it possible to assess distance forms of teaching and revealed disproportions in the level of satisfaction with practical and theoretical courses conducted in this form. The collected opinions form the basis for the reflections undertaken in the article on SLT and the possible and necessary changes in the system of training future SLTs.

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Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education in Albania: Some Necessary Innovations

Author(s): Eriola Qafzezi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Purpose: The purpose of the current paper is to discuss the necessity for the internationalisation of Albanian HEIs, in light of the recent changes that HEIs in Albania are undergoing. Online collaborative learning is thus introduced as a necessary innovation to be embraced in HE in Albania, illustrated by implementation and findings and comments based on an authentic case study undertaken in the third course, Bachelor level, Fan S. Noli University, Korça, Albania. Study design/methodology/approach: The paper is supported by a theoretical background on online collaborative learning and factual data about the current state of HEIs in Albania. The latter factual information illustrates the necessity of embracing online learning practices through collaborative learning, supported by examples from the case study. The paper adopts a mixed method approach, combining qualitative analysis with quantitative data derived from surveys carried out with Albanian students. Findings: There are some conclusions and findings that we have derived from the factual information presented about the current state of HEIs in Albania, combined with data extracted from the case study. They point to the necessary innovations involving Albanian teachers and students of HEIs in online collaborative learning. Originality/value: The current study bears original value because it provides direct links between the current need for the internationalisation of HEIs in Albania and online collaborative learning as a concrete way to bring about internationalisation. Examples brought are also authentic, taken from the case study, supported by data from pre- and post-implementation surveys conducted with Albanian students who took part in the case study.

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Lessons Learned from an International and Interdisciplinary Virtual Mobility Module between Albania, Slovenia, and Germany

Author(s): Mattis Altmann,Nelli Ukhova,Laura Hilse / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Purpose: After piloting an international and interdisciplinary Virtual Mobility module with eight participating institutions, the experiences will be processed as pedagogical patterns in OER format to facilitate future implementation. Study design/methodology/approach: The lessons learned from the executing institution's perspective will be presented from the perspective of the module supervisor as well as two experienced e-tutors who were involved in the design, implementation and evaluation and were generated through their reflections of them. Findings: The lessons learned focus on improving the organization of international e-tutor teams, the dropout management in group work with several institutions, and adapting the e-tutor qualification to enable adequate and qualitative equal support of all participants. Originality/value: Based on the findings of the Albanian needs report, Virtual Mobility modules have been implemented marginally in the Albanian HEI landscape so far. Thus, the experiences from the pilot are of particular importance for the further multiplication and improvement of the internationalization of Albanian HEIs.

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Competence Needs of Modern Virtual Community Members

Author(s): Tom Helleken,Nils Hobe,Lisa-Mari Langesee / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Purpose: This paper examines necessary competencies in virtual communities in Higher Education. Therefore, we explore which competencies are needed to participate in a virtual community and how these competencies can be captured and developed. Study design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to achieve the research objectives. Findings: As a result, five core competencies were identified: digital competencies, (inter)cultural competencies and language, social and communication competencies, self-motivation and self-management, and collaboration. Consequently, a selfassessment test for virtual community members was designed to capture existing competencies. Originality/value: The Covid-19 pandemic as a driver of digitization has led to virtual collaboration being more prevalent than ever. This research paper contributes to the topic of virtual collaboration by informing about the necessary competencies and by developing an intuitive tool for self-assessing. Thus, preparing team members to become more successful in virtual teamwork.

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Eğitimde Web 3.0 Kullanımı: Potansiyel ve Zorlukları

Author(s): İbrahim Hörküç / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 30/2023

Development of information and communication technologies, particularly the advancement of the internet and web technologies, has facilitated students' access to information and enriched their learning experiences. However, as the need for accessing accurate information increases within the vast sea of knowledge, web technologies are also evolving to serve this purpose. Web 3.0 technology, also known as the semantic web, makes information meaningful, enabling users to access information more effectively. The use of semantic web in education has the potential to make learning experiences more flexible, personalized, and effective. However, there are also challenges associated with the use of semantic web in education. Security concerns, costs, standardization, and pedagogical issues may limit the widespread adoption of semantic web.

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Key Performance Indicators – Input, Intervening and Output Variables

Author(s): Phil Budgell / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

In this article, the author argues for an open and transparent use of data that already exists but is not collected, collated and analysed within the education system in Bulgaria. This data needs to become Key Performance Indicators that will drive up: – the Quality of Education; and – the Standards of Achievement. The author focusses on the relationship between: – Input Variables (Prior Attainment and Delegated Financial Resources); – Intervening Variables (Patterns of Expenditure) and – Output Variable (Attendance, Standards of Attainment and Post-school Participation). With one exception, real data is collated, analysed and presented using a range of algebraic and graphical approaches. Finally, the author concludes that with greater subsidiarity (i.e., greater delegation of responsibility, authority and accountability); the greater the need for reliable and valid assessment data to hold the education system to account at school, regional and national level.

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Реализиране на дуалната форма на обучение в България – проблеми и предизвикателства

Author(s): Silvia Toneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The article presents results of a micro-study on the implementation of dual VET. The study examines the issues of linking the dual training system with vocational guidance, the continuing education of young people participating in dual training and its implementation in the context of digitalization. The findings of the study add to the “big picture” on the potential of dual VET to meet labour market requirements in a digitalised world.

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Анализ на концепцията за мултидомейнови операции и интегриране на нововъзникващата идея за „боен облак“

Author(s): Kristina Krumova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The text gives an overview of the concept of Multi-Domain Operations, as well as the emerging idea of creating a Combat cloud by deploying cloud technologies in the battle space and connecting all elements into a single information space in order to increase interoperability and to obtain information superiority.

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Същност и класификация на безпилотни надводни апарати

Author(s): Dimitar Yonchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The text describes and classifies unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). It also provides some scales for determining the autonomy of unmanned surface vehicles and raises questions about their place in the international system of laws and treaties.

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Малко познати личности в българското професионално образование: Стефана Писарева-Шнитер (1892 – 1944)

Author(s): Georgeta Nazarska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The article examines the life and professional activity of Stefana Pissareva-Schnitter (1892 – 1944) – a relatively little-known figure in the history of Bulgarian vocational education. Along with the biographical reconstruction, the place of the educated female elites in the development of vocational education in Bulgaria is outlined and the transfer of knowledge from Germany to Bulgaria during the 1920s-1940s is analyzed. The historical approach is applied and unused primary sources are drawn, including these from private archival collections.

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Отбранителните способности на механизираните и танковите формирования – предизвикателства и значимост

Author(s): Slavena Zhelyazkova-Genkova,Kalin Gradev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

Defense policy objectives are achieved by building and continuously developing appropriate defense capabilities to counter contemporary challenges, risks and threats and achieving defense capabilities to effectively participate in the full range of NATO and EU-led operations. To ensure that the development of defense capabilities is directed to the operational needs identified by the armed forces and is consistent with the missions of the Armed Forces, it is necessary to determine the importance of each of the imperatives/capability elements, as well as the extent to which the proposed directions for their improvement. For the purposes of research on the topic: „Directions for improving the capabilities of mechanized and tank formations in planning and conducting tactical actions in a defensive operation” the method of expert evaluation was applied and the results of the study are presented.

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On the Use of Focussing Constructions by Bulgarian Students of English

Author(s): Yana Chankova,Krassimir Spasov / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

This paper focusses on the use of specific information packaging constructions, based on data extracted from seven recordings of the speech and debate tournaments that the Bulgarian English Speech and Debate Tournaments Foundation organizes at a high-school level. The main aim is to describe and discuss examples of negative inversions, clefts, passives, existentials, and extrapositions by applying qualitative and quantitative methods. The analysis of the data shows that participation in debates can encourage students to make use of focussing constructions in argumentative discourse and help them showcase their mastery of the English language. Moreover, the study offers valuable insight into the communication patterns used by Bulgarian teenagers as speakers of English as a foreign language.

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Книжнината на българите католици в христоматия: предизвикателства на лингводидактиката и културологията

Author(s): Magdalena Abadzhieva,Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The article outlines the scope and methodological principles for the compilation of a Chrestomathy with samples of the literature of the Bulgarian Catholics in the period XVII – XXI centuries. Its significant representatives from diachrony to synchrony are summarized. The project of the Chrestomathy aims at delineating the cultural identity of the marginal group of Banat Bulgarians as part of a much larger and long-standing tradition. Such a product of linguodidactics and literary history would be useful not only for Bulgarian studies, but also for the typological study of foreign linguistic and literary influences on the Bulgarian Catholic community in Bulgaria and abroad, for the interlanguage contacts of Bulgarian with Latin, Italian, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian language.

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Офанзивният реализъм в контекста на съвременната среда за сигурност

Author(s): Vasil Gruev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

In the third decade of the 21st century, we are witnessing the decline of the unipolar world. On the international stage, there is one great power in decline that is trying to regain its position and another – on the rise that is trying to take the place of the world hegemon. Could the Theory of offensive realism provide an answer to what would follow?

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF A SCHOOL LIBRARY INTO A PUBLIC LIBRARY

Author(s): Mircea-Iosif Rus / Language(s): English Issue: 26/2021

Many times, various “things” happen in the life of a school library, either it moves to another premises, or it changes its name but, sometimes, certain libraries transform themselves, so that, sometimes, a school library turns into a public library due to several reasons: either the number of pupils decreased, or by the school move the change of the line is imposed, etc. Our scientific approach looks at such a transformation especially as the results of such approach must be a sign of alert for the decision makers because, in recent years the number of readers decreased very much as well as that of the books read under the terms of the appearance of a “competition” of the state of the art electronic devices such as e-books, tablets or even last generation cell phones which allow for the book reading. At this moment, these devices are a serious competitor for printed books, especially as there are books in electronic format which may be easily downloaded into the previously named devices. And, last but not least, the digitalization of the libraries is an important step which takes us to the transformation of school libraries into public libraries.

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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICAL HUMANITIES – EMPOWERING STUDENTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA

Author(s): Laura Ioana Leon / Language(s): English Issue: 27/2021

Medical Humanities are a topic of interest for Romanian medical students today. The role of the ESP teacher has been constantly challenged in the last two decades or more, once issues such as globalization and the development of technology have started to influence every field of our activities. Likewise, the pandemic has also come with its challenges that also needed to be taken into consideration as the teaching activity has been carried out, since then, mainly in the online medium. This paper is going to address some of the changes that have been implemented in the ESP classes at the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania, in the attempt to respond to the present-day needs of our students who, along with their linguistic training, have to develop interdisciplinary skills that are so much needed in their future profession. Empathy, communication skills, good observation skills can be developed by means of activities that are part of the vast domain of the medical humanities. Likewise, the paper is going to discuss some of the problems we are facing since we have started to work online, mainly focusing on the idea of keeping students’ interest in the online classes that may no longer have the same impact as the face to face interaction.

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E-LEARNING PLATFORMS USED DURING THE PANDEMIC

Author(s): Ștefan-Cristian Ciortan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

This study presents an extract from the PhD research and its main objective, presentation of e- learning platforms in Romania used during the pandemic period. The article is structured in three main directions: general considerations on e-learning; e-learning platforms developed and used at national level; the e-learning support platforms used during the pandemic period.

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E-Tutor Tandems in a COIL Course – Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Author(s): Lisa-Mari Langesee,Nelli Ukhova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Research on digital collaboration scenarios in Higher Education (HE) is characterized by various approaches that often define the acquisition and development of global skills as learning goals. Virtual Collaborative Learning (VCL) in HE represents one approach to facilitating students’ global skills. Depending on the use case, these learning arrangements can include case study-based group learning under e-tutorial supervision. This paper focuses on the perspective of e-tutors – specially qualified student assistants – and their competence development during the summer semester of 2022. Based on previous research findings, a tandem setting was chosen for their competence development. This paper mainly compares expectations and experiences regarding the competence improvement of e-tutors in a multinational tandem. These expectations and experiences were queried through two quantitative questionnaires utilizing 5-point Likert scales and one short follow-up questionnaire after the finalization of VCL. In general, the positive expectations of the e-tutors were fulfilled, but not to a similar extent for each competence category. Especially the development of social and pedagogical competencies was positive, whereas the development of intercultural competencies was challenging. Several recommendations for action were derived, which impact further e-tutor training.

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Приложение на иновационните технологии в обучението по теория и методика на физическото възпитание и спорта

Author(s): Iskra Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4s/2023

The scientific and applied field of Physical Education and Sports is integrative, and its development is a continuous process. Today, more than ever, new educational approaches related to innovative technologies are being sought and developed to improve the learning process and create new habits and skills characteristic of the technological era in the learners.The application of innovative technologies in the teaching of Theory and Methodology of Physical Education and Sports is expressed in several aspects: programs for calculating results, computer testing, creating own sites for the distribution of experience, visualization for lessons, searching for information on methodical work, research work, project activity, use of interactive whiteboard.The article explores modern approaches to the use of innovative technologies in the field of teaching Theory and Methodology of Physical Education and Sports.

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Създаване на интерактивни видеоуроци за преподаване и оценяване знанията на студентите с Edpuzzle

Author(s): Ivelina Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4s/2023

The pandemic was of great help in modernizing the classroom. Back to face-to-face classes, the same internet tools used during the emergency remote teaching can still be employed by teachers as students want to learn “in their way” – using the mobile inside the class and having control over their learning. Online video platforms are popular because of their advantages. However, watching a video may be a passive experience and teachers need to customize the video in order to engage their students and teach more effectively. Edpuzzle is one of the free online tools that has turned out to be a game changer. It makes creating and editing educational videos easy and saves class time for higher level matters. Moreover, this tool is good for formative assessment and feedback. The advantage for students is that it allows them to work on the assignment at their own pace and, at the same time, it holds them accountable. Besides, the multiple attempts feature lets them improve their results.My class experience confirmed research results that Edpuzzle could be part of the teacher-training program.

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