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This paper will focus on how ICT in the classroom could really work to provide the children the education they need in this 21st century. Learning for children with the use of ICT in the classroom can work if teachers have the ability and skills to integrate ICT in their classroom. This is where the headmasters play a crucial role, if the teachers are supported by the surrounding education system...
Today, search engines play a vital role in accessing the online content. However, the data in the webpages are not clearly perceived by search engines. As a result, it provides a lot of irrelevant data with little desired information. In addition, it takes a lot of time in searching the appropriate result. By studying the online educational needs of Indian school children, we aim to retrieve appropriate...
Since 2011, we have been educating mentor teachers at Obuda University Trefort Agoston Centre for Engineering Education - OU TACEE. Mentor teachers can support the preparation process of our engineering teacher students in secondary vocational schools by coaching their teaching practice. I am responsible for teaching six subjects. In the first semester I gave examples on how to create good presentations...
Training for mentor teachers has been from 2011 at Obuda University Trefort Agoston Centre for Engineering Education - OU TACEE. Mentor teachers can support the preparation process of our engineering teacher students in secondary vocational schools by coaching their teaching practice. We recognized that data collection and processing was important for Mentor teachers in their work. Therefore, we involved...
This paper tackles the problem of categorizing materials and textures by exploiting the second order statistics. To this end, we introduce the Extrinsic Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors (E-VLAD), a method to combine local and structured descriptors into a unified vector representation where each local descriptor is a Covariance Descriptor (CovD). In doing so, we make use of an accelerated...
The emergence of Big Data and Data Intensive Systems as specialized fields in computing is motivating the development of new courses and curricula. The biggest challenge is to define coherent and stable intended learning outcomes in a highly dynamic field. It is also necessary to balance between proper knowledge acquisition by student and the required time investment of teacher. We carefully looked...
Effective robotic grasping and manipulation requires knowledge about the surface properties of an object and the environment in which it is located. Physical contact with materials using tactile sensors can enable the retrieval of detailed information about the material, i.e. compressibility, surface texture and thermal properties. This paper describes a system used to classify a wide range of materials...
In order to render a biometric system robust against malicious tampering, it is important to understand the different types of attack and their impact as observed by the liveness and matching scores. In this study, we consider zero-effort impostor attack (referred to as the Z-attack), nonzero-effort impostor attack such as presentation attack or spoofing (S-attack), and other categories of attack...
In Information System development, users play an important role in providing input in the development process. This includes both user requirement gathering and evaluation phases. This paper presents the later which is the perception of curriculum designers who have tested the curriculum design information system during the evaluation phase and provide their feedback to further enhance the system...
With the growing advancement in technology and wide range of courses offered, there is a growing demand for e-learning in the global market. From the traditional classroom lecture in schools and universities and training modules given in organizations, e-learning through the use of electronic media has brought a significant change in the learning process providing new opportunities and being available...
Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides opportunities for collaboration both in the classroom and beyond. Started in 2008 and gathering momentum over the past two years, now an online phenomenon, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) reunite different perspectives over a globalized online learning. The paper analyses the use of OER and MOOCs in different study cases in Romanian universities...
This paper describes the experience in the development of the course “Thermal Energy Technology” for the fourth level of the Chemical Engineering career under the Curriculum Design established by the UTN for the career and with a focus on the development of transferable skills and competencies to the future professional performance of students. Strategies were applied with an emphasis on active student...
This article discusses the processes of planning and pedagogical evaluation of distance education conducted by the educational coordination of the course of Public Administration of the Department of General and Applied Administration of the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. The study shows that the particularities of distance education require a collective effort by all stakeholders so that one...
Finland and Baltic States initiated Distribution Cert project realization, based on multifunctional professional educational system of Finland. Projects provide opportunities to harmonize Baltic vocational training (VET) systems with EU requirements and best Nordic practices. There is a practical working example of mutually beneficial collaboration between policymakers, employers and training service...
The Refugee Interactive Skills for Employment (RISE) project aims to make use of games-based applications to engage with refugees in identifying and combating barriers to employment. The project has performed research into issues faced by EU refugees when seeking employment and has worked with these refugees to co-develop games-based learning (GBL) applications to improve the employability of refugees...
Open Education is changing the educational paradigm. The consolidation of the OpenCourseWare initiative, supported by the top universities of the World, and the revolution generated in the recent years through the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses, present a new educational scenario for teachers, students and institutions. This new environment has furthered the use of e-learning, not only because...
This paper proposes a new web platform for educational activities for helping in the experimental work and the professional development of engineering students. The fundamental idea is to connect conventional theory study spaces, such as the classroom and home, through the web platform proposed with experimental training tools in the hands-on laboratory. What is proposed is a new focus on classroom...
The energy sector worldwide has embarked on a transformational process to modernize the over-a-century-old power grid under an umbrella term of the Smart Grid. This vast infrastructural upgrade and operational change involves integration of a variety of advanced digital computing, communications and industrial control technologies. This brings new capabilities, but also necessitates a re-education...
I often hear faculty speak of students not taking responsibility. Students who do not read the assignments, miss or turn in incomplete homework, or do not actively participating in lab assignments and still expect a good grade! Simply put, more and more students are not taking responsibility for their own learning. But I don't believe that the reason is because students don't want to do so. My question...
The use of Electrical Hazardous Area Classification drawings as a basis for communicating the degree and extent of explosive hazards within industrial facilities is explored. Existing occupational health and safety regulations are referenced to determine a link between operational activities and the use of electrical hazardous area classification drawings as a tool for hazard assessment and management...
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