Training of foodstuff producers as a group effective on the quality of food materials is an important factor in achievement of food safety. This was an analytical interven-tional study, which was performed in a cross-sectional manner in 10 months. The target population consist-ed of 180 individuals in...

In this research the author starts from the two hyptheses that rapid changes and contemporary reality bring fear of the future to which not even students are immune, and that among students we can recognize different value orientations in relation to the past, present and future. From a sample of 189...

This is important to understand and take into account when creating new educational programs. ICT plays an important role in this process because current generation is already accustomed to use it in everyday life. "Written" lectures, tutorials and books are much less popular than internet resources....

Professional learning is defined as formal or informal learning that leads to the knowledge, skills and personal attributes necessary to carry out professional duties. This paper critically reflects on the peda-gogical approach underlying an eLearn-ing Certificate Course. The aim of the course was to...

The main aim of this paper is exploring a new laboratory teaching mode learned from the office automation in recent years. Firstly, analyzing the real requirement in experiment teaching, we build up an open appointment platform for instructors and students. Based on it, we could manage the experiment...

Game-Based Learning (GBL, for short) is apparently very attractive and challenging field of technology enhanced learning. In game-based learning, the technological systems employed for the purpose of learning are digital games. Stand-alone serious games are rare. Games employed for learning need to be...

The Privacy Quiz has been developed in collaboration between the University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt and Lufthansa AG. The goal of the project was the development of a mobile learning application for Lufthansa managers to learn about data privacy topics playfully and interactively. The application...

This article carries on a detailed analysis and study on content, teaching methods and the problems of experimental teach-ing in the analog electronic technolo-gy(AET) course. It proposes the relevant scope, strategies and principles about teaching innovation of it. It introduces the contents and stages...

Four year overseas studies and Chinese background made me be aware of the presence of many misconceptions in the understanding of Chinese business, tradi-tional culture and education. Certain the-ories related to politics or military like “thick face, black heart” and “Sun Tzu on the art of war” are...

Game-Based Learning is a modern field of technology-enhanced learning cover-ing several sub-fields such as game-based training. Learning, in general, and training, in particular, may be enormously more effective, if the process adapts to the particular needs of the human learner or trainee. The crux...

In this paper, we present a project in which a university course on knowledge representation is turned into an interactive online text adventure. Our new way of using game mechanics demands a comprehensible didactic design during the planning phase as well as during the implementation of the course and...

Based on the existing assessment theory and model, a newt campus security model is structured. Then use this model to evaluate campus security of four universities in Hebei province. The results showed that the model, based on grey cluster, not only could confirm the quality degree of every evaluation...

A new education index system is required in order to comprehensively improve the quality of higher education and achieve the training goal of applied talents. The education index system should be established by choosing the appropriate assessment methods. These methods could be selected by contrasting...

To explore students’ learning initiative and self-learning ability, the seminar teaching approach is necessary. The seminar teaching approach can also train students' verbal ability and enhance their sense of participation. The activities can develop students to get the comprehensive ability of exploring...

The traditional teaching method gives full play to the teacher's leading role and enables the student to obtain more knowledge. But the traditional teaching method makes the students lose the learning initiative and creativity. Seminar teaching method is a kind of research type teaching method. It fully...

Education for Persons with Disabilities is a special socio-economic resource which is of paramount importance, aimed at reducing their isolation and economic de-pendence. The article is devoted to inves-tigating the problems of effectiveness of educational services for persons with dis-abilities and...

The contribution describes interactive whiteboards, their fundamental advantages and disadvantages, types, their deployment in practice in the frame of pedagogical innovations in the system of education in Slovakia and also their possible implementation in primary and secondary schools based on the previously...

This project is establishing a platform for Living Lab experiments using smart technology in tribal areas of Taiwan, with the goal of empowering high mountain indigenous peoples. We are forging a learning environment through partner-ships between universities, tribal peoples and technology companies...

A student collaborative social network was established based on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) platform of EU-SUPPORT network. The EU-SUPPORT is a sub network under the Norwegian Environmental Education that focuses on schools to promote the quality of education for sustainable development....

Industry-university-research integration is a unity which establishes the university-centered integration of education, scientific research and production. This unity is of very practical guiding importance to boost local economy, enhance regional economic vitality, and ensure school running characteristics...

The teaching of common basic course in colleges has several drawbacks, such as teachers' subject and examination-driven approach. If teaching process was shifted from curriculum-centered to student-centered, there was a great improvement in teaching even in education. This paper suggests that it should...

For enhancing the effectiveness of teach-ing and learning, e-learning is one of ways to achieve the goal. In past e-learning platforms, when more and more teaching materials are provided from characters (teachers, students, independent software vendors (ISV) and content service vendors (CSV)), or more...

It was more important to create a new training model to ensure the quality of distance education. From a peasant point of view, this paper thought that blended learning was an integration of face-to-face learning and on-line learning. Based on Beijing rural modern distance educa-tion platform, the paper...

Personalized learning has been one of the most active areas of education innova-tion, particularly with the support of information technology development. At present, it has limited application in party members and cadres modern distance education. This article introduced ideas of designing personalized...

The computer and internet when incorpo-rated in to the school routine favors the development of new pedagogical circum-stances [1]. Many tools provided by ICTs offer interactive web space without the need what internet users have mastery of the programming language. The Ministry of Education - MEC directs...

Development of technology and visual communications implicates the necessity of the school subject visual art through which it is possible to present to the pupils the most important art pieces and achievements from the domain of visual communications which will form their opinion about aesthetics and...

This study compared the effects of three instructional methods—synchronous online communication, asynchronous online communication, and traditional grammar translation method—in English reading comprehension. A quasi-experimental research design included pre and post reading comprehension tests for all...

Electronic Book or e-Book has been adopted in the education system throughout the worlddue to its positive effect to the learning environment. This paper is a part of a continuous research effort in the Malaysian e-Book project with the aim of investigating the effect of e-Book on students’ learning...

Why don’t we decide or act in certain situations like we deem it right? Decision-making and acting appropri-ately frequently differs in individual plans, resolutions, principles and attitudes from morality. This mismatch, between verdict and behavior, covers not only all areas of life but counts for...

Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is based on students` enquire of different situations and formulate relating questions. Experi-mental activity from real-life chemistry using school-measuring equipment con-taining spectrometer connected to com-puter was piloted with 25 in-service teachers attending course...

This study aimed to develop a web-based course to cultivate nursing students' information literacy competency. The study was a three-semester study that included a development of the course, pilot-test and modification of the course design, and final implementation of the modified course design. All...

Green buildings and sustainable design have become the points architects are concerned about. At the same time, a lack of collaboration with other design disciplines is a problem encountered by many architecture designers. In such a situation, some architects promote a method of integrated design, which...

The relationship between natural sciences and medicine has been a great deal closer throughout the history of medicine in Transylvania than it is nowadays. The physicians of the second half of the eighteenth century were accustomed to analyse the composition of mineral waters, to hike along the Carpathian...

This paper aims for discussing the Collaboration through Open Educational Resources based on the narrative of Lost. In order to get it developed, we propose to analyze the concept of Open Educational Resources and Transmedia Storytelling according to the data from the Lost narrative. We also aim to discuss...

This study aims to investigate the de-velopment and application of the scale of self-efficacy for senior high school stu-dents’ statistical literacy (SSESL). Statis-tical literacy refers to the ability to inter-pret and critically evaluate messages that contain statistical elements. Regarding science...

eLearning is one of the essential compo-nents of workplace training in recent im-plementations of enterprise systems at large Australian organisations. Often used in a blended learning approach, eLearn-ing plays a major role in providing basic information to a large number of users in typically short...

Growing economies require methods and technologies to develop the capabilities of a high number of people in short time. E-learning approaches cover the standard repertoire of academic knowledge, but the distribution of experience and expert knowledge is merely addressed. This pa-per describes the design...

Given the evidence for a new generation of users – the digital natives, an examina-tion of the factors that impact upon their social and learning behavior, seems war-ranted. In addition to these changes in learning habits, we should pose the ques-tion whether this generation lacks a new form of teaching...

The application of British Parliamentary debate in Chinese college English classroom is an effective way to create multimodal communication environment, so as to trigger students’ interest in learning as well as to improve their communicative skills and critical thinking. This paper provides a theoretical...

Educational robotics has been mostly practiced as an extracurricular activity. There are few studies evaluating the ef-fect of robotics education on students’ improvement. For such studies an instru-ment for evaluating study effect in the context of robotics is needed. We devel-oped and tested such an...

Paper presents experience of participating in Partially Distributed Teams project, which is considered as good learning practice for students. During the project student work in subteam which are physi-cally co-located and share the same work context, however geographic distance separates multiple subteams...

This paper aims to describe a project of instructional design conceived to promote the principle of student-centered educa-tion. This pattern of education targets the students’ knowledge needs by continu-ously modeling their learning environ-ment. The described model is actually a chal-lenge, a path...

A robust multi-domain coverage exercise generation system usually works with an-swers of simple types (e.g. multiple-choice, Boolean, integer, or file compari-son). In this paper we describe Passarola, a simple, yet powerful, exercise genera-tion system and its language that anyone with no computer science...

Transdisciplinarity leads to intensification of relations between disciplines and discovering new horizons of knowledge. Transdisciplinary research is radically distinct from disciplinary research, among them being a complementary relationship. Forming adolescents for life by valuing self-organization...

WhatsApp instant messaging has poten-tial to bridge information divides between educators and students. Its capacity to create personalised environments was harnessed to share collectively generated educational resources among previously disadvantaged students (PDS) students at a South African university....

Taking advantage of ample modern existing telecom network resources, lifelong learning may achieve rapid development and become popular gradually in information society. The resources include the establishment of integrated rural information service platform, modern remote education center and electronic...

Under the time of information age, network teaching, the product of the combination of modern science and technology and modern education theory, widely used in the practice of teaching and education system, is bound to make many new innovations with the development of computer-assisted teaching and...

In view of the reform of undergraduate training mode in IT majors, the integra-tion training mode of school-enterprise cooperation that runs throughout the whole process of IT talent training has been explored in this paper. It is proposed that the integrated professional curricu-lum system which takes...

This study investigated the effect of the Live DVD self-learning system on English learning movitvation of students of a Taiwanese technological university. Modeled on on the ARCS motivation model of Keller (1987), this study vali-dated the ARCS model, examined the effects of Majors and English Levels...

Teaching system is based on the feedback. The internal function of a logical teaching system is monitored and regulated by the feedback. Constructing the feedback mechanism of teaching approach and making use of the feedback information to improve teaching effect are urgent problems of cartography course....

With the development of modern society, all walks of life increasingly need innovative applied talents with strong hands-on skills. Aimed at the disadvantages of the traditional practice teaching mode, and through the analysis of training mode at home and abroad, this paper puts forward a "teaching evaluation”...

Along with the high-speed development of the social economy, the enterprises demanding the ability of college students have become increasingly, changes are essentially for the traditional practice teaching mode. This article will analyze the status quo of traditional training teaching mode, and proposed...

Aiming at repairing the shortcomings of the existing Open education graduation thesis database system, we develop an Open education graduation thesis data-base system based on web 2.0 according to the notions and methods of Web 2.0.Ajax, LINQ, Social labels and other technique are introduced into our...

Advancement in technology has changed the way people think, live and engage in socio-economic development. Infor-mation and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played and continue to play a key role in education and in the education sector. Considering education as key to all aspects of social change,...

This paper takes some sports departments in higher education institutions in Hebei province as study objects, adopting the method of document literature, survey, interview and mathematical statistics to study the information infrastructure, personnel quality and the effect of the application of infomationization...

The article addresses the following re-search question: how does a study pro-gramme create premises for the manifes-tation of teacher’s ICT competence? This problem is solved in four parts of the arti-cle. In the first part the ICT competence of a university teacher is defined; the sec-ond part reveals...

Educational learning systems have been moving to the new innovative methods that utilize mobile devices. The mobile technology becomes more demanding especially in higher educational organization to help many activities in the classroom in these days. Thus, we have proposed a new framework, referred...

Educational games development process includes all the stages of software devel-opment process. But there are important specific problems of educational games development to be solved related to the way of integration of educational content to the game and technologies of its im-plementation. In this...

With the development and popularization of cloud computing technology, education cloud appears gradually also. The construction of education cloud has the positive function for modern distance education to refrain from repetitive construction of CAI system and strengthen personalized teaching, remote...

this paper makes a field survey on teachers and opening status of information technology courses, and the status of computer configuration and students’ application ability in primary and secondary schools in Qinghai ethnic areas, and analyzes problems and proposes feasible improving countermeasures.

A typical gadget that students often carry is a smart phone. Each smart phone brand has often unique features and capabilities. This study reveals how stu-dents perceive these devices when they start-up for the first time and discusses the major gaps among these devices based on students’ usability experiments....

For a long time collaboration between Universities and industry has been existed, but the rapid increase of global knowledge has strengthened the demand for strategic relationships that go beyond the conventional funding of research projects. The role of the university’s research should be developed...

With the progress and development in the field of automation and IT, teaching op-erating system will face more new prob-lems, as a traditional computer courses. The teaching of operating system course is discussed in this paper from the per-spective of the "operating system" in our school's teaching...

Applied Industrial Engineering is the application of management and technical skills for the design of new products, integration of production and/or information systems and the improvement of manufacturing processes. The purpose of this case study is to present the results of an initial research study...

The main purpose of this work is to pre-sent successful learning experiences based on creativity, innovation and the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to develop training practices in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The learning expe-riences consist in the development...

This paper analyses the limitations and shortcomings of existing single chip computer course teaching experiment equipment. For the conveniences of stu-dents to learn and use, enhancing stu-dents' comprehensive ability and quality, the author designed a teaching experi-ment board. The teaching board...

Based on natural language processing technology, cognitive psychology theory and word problem teaching methods, word problem auto-solving and intelligent tutoring technologies have become hot issues of research in recent years. However, since word problems are described by natural language, the number...

Dialogue systems have been widely con-sidered as useful tools for education. The challenging tasks in developing a dia-logue tutoring system include correctly interpreting student input and choosing appropriate responses. In this paper, we present a two-agent architecture for ad-dressing the challenges....

CTE contest is an international scientific distance game-competition for school-children which provides participants with three optimization problems for one week and three software modules (virtual la-boratories) that allow experimenting with problems and automatically save best solutions. After the...

The paper details the algorithms and the whole process of mining association rules, and conducts a mining experiment on the database of postgraduate information. First, according to the actual situation of the postgraduate database, it adopts Al-lied Bus Transfer Algorithm to realize the data extraction...

General population dependency in tech-nological development makes us realize the urgent to develop also applications that take into account people with special educational needs and other capabilities. We present the design of an “electronic agenda” that provides care of special needs of an Orff class...

The project we proposed seeks to develop in students the skills needed to manage projects that arise in different areas of ICT. In this way, the project can be used in many curriculum courses through the professor´s particular adaptation. Engi-neering and project management subjects can be integrated....

This paper analyses the application of ICT in teaching and the effectiveness of teaching with ICT with a survey. Data was collected via questionnaire of students in our university. The results show that application of ICT in teaching is becoming a common practice, but more efforts need to be done to...

Several criteria of improving the effi-ciency of learning / teaching are given. The results of using of modern educa-tional technology is discussed by the ex-ample of addition of vectors.

This paper analyzes the current situation of ability system for vocational teacher, and refines the research focus and development trends. The main features of the current situation are isolated studies of various abilities, obvious bias, less empirical research and more theoretical studies. The main...

This article describes the design concept and its application of the network teach-ing system of College Mathematics. By making use of the flexibility and the two-way interaction of the network multime-dia, the system achieves an organic com-bination of the traditional teaching-learning procedures and...

This paper follows the work of T. Rich-ards specialization Clausal Form Logic formal system of the first order logic. The paper presents also the way of using graph-based clausal form statements in the frame of semantic (associative) net-works. The goal of our research is to fol-low the direction towards...

At present question answering system mostly take the keyword matching as the foundation, it has ignored the keywords itself contains semantic information, and the keyword matching accuracy is low. But the intelligent question answering system is on this basis, it added the un-derstanding to the semantic...

Case teaching method can make students active in program course. Therefore, it is adopted in C++ training. Laboratory Animal System (LAS) is a standalone case for management of laboratory animal, the code is written in Visual C++ and it can be installed in Windows system. In this paper, we present an...

Assessment and review of Programme Educational Objectives (PEOs) are important parts in Outcome Based Education (OBE). Currently, the assessment is conducted on a paper-based survey to the alumnis. Since the survey data is entered manually into excel-based OBE system, it creates additional work for the...

This work presents an extension of the Eindhoven Classification Model to sort adverse events root causes for the Educa-tional Sector. Extended Logic Program-ming was used for knowledge representa-tion and reasoning with defective infor-mation, allowing for the modelling of the universe of discourse in...

The paper first reviews the literature from the quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results show that the knowledge management mainly focuses on the re-search of higher education, education theory as well as education management. Moreover, the researchers also focus on elementary, secondary and...

English Writing classes are very common at universities around the world, but are often considered cumbersome to teach. Moreover, the need for a fully equipped computer lab maybe problematic, and reduces the opportunity for students to collaborate. This paper examines how The Low Cost Writing Lab Software...

Digital Image Processing is a course taught in a wide variety of educational programs. Due to its visual nature, the usage of modern technology such as pro-jectors is virtually mandatory. In this pa-per the benefits of using Computer Alge-bra Software in the classroom are studied. More specifically Wolfram...

Development of information and internet technology has led to the appearance of distributed systems in different spheres of human life. Distributed systems are creat-ed to simplify and accelerate business processes, which is relevant in the trans-lation industry. Nowadays for profes-sional translator...

“Data Structure” is a compulsory course for computer undergraduate students. But due to course content abstract, traditional teaching methods is difficult to make students to master the main content of the course, so as to cause students to lose interest in learning and teaching effect is not ideal....

The aim of this study was to develop and to evaluate the students' satisfaction of the work experience learning program at the hospital setting for premedical stu-dents which was applied to 2005-2006. Program was developed in cooperation with hospital authority with reference to the similar cases of...

The aim of this study was to develop and describe the implementation of the project study program using an evaluation tool with portfolio in the premedical course. In 2006 the structured questionnaire was given out to 46 students in order to explore their opinions and satisfaction. This course was implemented...

The change of the situation of medical education requires the re-consideration of flunking system in Korea. The aim of this research is to explore the flunking status at a medical college and to compare opinion differences between faculty members and students on the flunking system. Grades and marks...

As the current Students' Health Condition increasingly declining, the state administrative department of education urgently appeal to reform college P.E teaching, a lot of work has been done, but in college human resources evaluation system, the research work accounts for a large proportion, which seriously...

With the development of ICT, distance education and training innovation will face more and more challenges. The authors think that it is necessary to use the theoretical framework of organiza-tional change to research the issue of dis-tance education and training innovation. In the authors' opinion,...

Within several courses we have examined the use of gaming equipment to enrich computer science courses, as gaming was, currently is and is supposed to still be a catalyst for computer engineering and software development. In this paper we particularly address the use of equipment in educational units...

This article reviews studies on ways to help maximize vocabulary and reading development online. Needs of limited English proficiency learners, especially those from East Asia are addressed, with many recommendations given of ESL/ EFL Gold programs with greatest potential to help increase motivation...

The paper deals with the scope of conceptual and linguistic metaphors used in economic discourse as they play a crucial role in the process of understanding, interpreting and evaluating of the international economy. The aim of this paper is to investigate the discourse of Economics, reveal the key principals...