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Climate changes in the Polar Regions are accelerating and scientists are trying to understand both the patterns and resulting impacts. Specific regions of the Arctic and Antarctic are exhibiting greater changes than others, creating areas of interest (hot spots) for polar research. The Polar Interdisciplinary Coordinated Education (Polar ICE, see www.polar-ice.org) project, funded by the National...
This article examines the problems of distance learning and one of their possible solution. An adaptive learning system is described that allows to provide an individual approach when passing a course of study. An example of the response of an adaptive learning system to the actions of students while performing tasks and its proposal for a level change is given.
Since its founding in 1989, the Studio-based Master of Software Engineering (MSE) Program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has been a trailblazer in advancing the practice of masters-level professional software engineering education. From its inception, the program was designed around a comprehensive development project, the Studio. The Studio provides students with a team-based, mentored, multi-semester...
Malawi Children's Village (MCV) operates a secondary school of approximately 560 students in Mangochi, Malawi, and its strategic goal is to add computer studies into its curriculum. The first step to achieving this goal is for MCV to establish and sustain a teachers-only computer lab. This case study examines the process by which a team of volunteers identified this as the first step, the team's recommendations...
The inherent geographic nature of displacement in refugee camps is requiring further use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for community-based information and asset management. Additionally, refugees have a fundamental need for livelihood development in host countries due to the protracted nature of displacement. This paper presents our work on the Refugee GIS or ‘RefuGIS’ project...
Cyber Defense Exercises have received much attention in recent years, and are increasingly becoming the cornerstone for ensuring readiness in this new domain. Crossed Swords is an exercise directed at training Red Team members for responsive cyber defense. However, prior iterations have revealed the need for automated and transparent real-time feedback systems to help participants improve their techniques...
The process of globalization poses new challenges for the government in the field of education system regulation. The growing importance of the need for a qualitative assessment of the state of the educational process contributed to the development of one of the new scientific directions — the issue of quality management of higher education. Despite the fact that a lot of publications have appeared...
Service-learning has been proven to be a high-impact educational pedagogy in many disciplines. It addresses human, and community needs through engaging in community activities. With professional engineering expertise, integrating engineering into service-learning not only can make particularly impactful community service, especially in developing countries where engineering expertise is not always...
Creativity is considered as a very important element of the society development. Having entered the big data era, people have been focusing on finding a pathway developing creativity for all applications. In the psychology and education domain, various approaches have been attempted, such as divergent thinking and brain storming. The psychology domain has researched on human's cognitive development...
The relevance of the article is determined by a new socio-cultural situation, conditioned by the development of the information society. There are unknown cultural practices, intellectual and emotional needs, value orientations against the background of a significant decrease in the communicative and cognitive abilities of students, necessary for functioning not only in the educational environment...
The unprecedented uptake of mobile services in Africa has had substantial direct and indirect impacts on the local economies. Eritrea is one of the countries in the continent that is relatively late adaptor of mobile broadband technologies. This change in the local mobile landscape is creating an urgent need for enhanced local expertise in mobile technologies. To that end, the local higher education...
This article aims to present a strategy to properly distribute the graduates to complete a fourth year of after-Lyceum apprenticeship in the specialized field of Vocational Education and Training (VET) as it is implemented in Greece. The theoretical solution of the issue is presented, as well as the terms and conditions that should be met in order to create an on-line platform capable of organizing...
The purpose of this paper is to explore and define key characteristics, tendencies, needs and expectations that distinguish the generation of Millennials from the generation of Baby Boomers. The paper will present both theoretical and practical overview in order to create effective education program and training system in the organization which is appealing to the Millennial generation, a workforce...
The current state of the development of education in Ukraine in the field of information technology is analyzed. The ways of improving the efficiency of the educational training in the field of information technology are suggested.
The state-of-the art education system should be in time for the knowledge-intensive technologies, that are developing with a high pace and be as mobile and effective as possible. The development of science-intensive technologies is developing with a tremendous pace, so the knowledge obtained in the university is quickly becoming obsolete, therefore the modernization of equipment should go in synchronism...
This project is inserted in the research and practice areas that support the development of educational resources, such as, serious games and training simulation, to understand how they should be planned, developed, evaluated, validated and used for the learning and assessment purposes. In this study, we have proposed and specified an agile, integrative and open method for educational resources development,...
The diversity and complexity of cyber threats are constantly evolving. In this paper we emphasized some considerations about the imperative need of effectively using the existing solutions for training in the educational area. To overcome these issues, we propose a scalable, flexible and interoperable architecture which integrates the concept of modeling and simulation in order to provide adjustable...
The University radio, as well as the radio media itself, has suffered many transformations at being adapted to new trends in the digital society. This mean of communication has been conceived as a laboratory for training professionals to express their creativity and to develop innovative content. This study aims to analyze the situation of the webradios of the State Universities of the countries members...
There is currently a strong demand for Information and Communication Technologies professionals in Portugal. This demand requires that higher education institutions prepare their graduates adequately, not only in technical skills, but also in terms of the so-called soft skills. In this paper, we describe a strategy that is being implemented, in recent years, in two higher education Information and...
At the position of senior leader for the organization and Information Systems Function management, we find the Information Systems Manager. Given the nature of the activities that he needs to accomplish, his action influences unfailingly the development of the organization in which he is engaged with. Thus, it is important to evaluate the potential performance of the candidates chosen to occupy that...
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