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The effort of universities is to prepare their graduates for their future career by providing them with sufficient knowledge and skills that can be used and further developed in their practice. In our contribution we focused on the use of the online computational tool Wolfram Alpha (Wolfram|Alpha) for increase of computation efficiency that could help future technical engineers in the realization...
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This paper presents a briefing about the introduction of engineering course of the Center of Science and Technology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, recent tracking, regarding the period from 1997 to 2011, demonstrating the positive background and the obstacles faced during the course's progression, relating all different experiences, from Hands-on to Problem Based Learning...
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This paper describes the international electronic collaboration among students of two universities in order to create a digital educational space for supporting a role playing educational activity. The paper also presents the virtual place that has been implemented in order to transfer the role playing game activity students from the traditional classroom as well as the assessment of the whole activity...
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The article presents the role of international seminars in the educational process. Seminars are conducted on the computer science master degree program. Traditional ways of teaching, like lectures, laboratories and projects needs to be supplemented to make the educational offer interesting and to cover today students needs. The European IT market is changing and developing fast. It also spread rapidly...
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This paper discusses some of the key concepts involved in the struggle to deliver high quality education, and the issues related to porting to computer-based platfoms.
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The role of laboratory experiments is fundamental in engineering education instruction. The use of Information Technologies enhances different possibilities and much interest has been generated around online labs, allowing students, technicians and engineers to interact with online experiments in higher education, in lifelong education, in industrial training, in industrial activities or even in making...
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This article investigates improvements in the learning performance of trainees involved in an E-Learning programme in an industrial setting. To measure efficiency in E-Learning, our research develops a learning improvement indicator, defined as the difference in the learning outcome of a trainee before and after a certain period of time. The learning outcome, concretely, is measured by the test results...
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In political discussions and the research and innovation policy of the European Union, the topic “creativity” seems to become increasingly important. Innovation depends on good ideas, so the need of innovative solutions in a globalized world puts creativity in focus. Engineers, who embody the creative inventors and tinkerers more than any other occupation group, carry an important contribution (or...
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Peer-assessed online collaborative writing is of growing importance in recent research on higher education. Based on the analysis of quantitative and qualitative collected data, this paper presents the results of an exploratory case study in a graduate civil engineering course at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal. After an overall presentation of the activity, it examines students'...
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In the present paper we discuss the possibility and experience of the use of computer support as a complex means for increasing the quality of education of the Bachelor in Engineering program. We consider the model of point system for the assessment of the level of maturity of the professional competencies of future degree holders.
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Intelligent Pedagogical Agents (IPAs) are intelligent agents that are designed for pedagogical purposes to support learning. Several benefits of IPAs have been found adding to support learning effectiveness. Pedagogical agents can be thought of as a central point of interaction between the learner and the environment. And hence, the intelligent behavior and functional richness of pedagogical agents...
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To meet the strong demand for training in technical Chinese, we have built an e-learning system for a technical Chinese course. In this study, we devised a method of adapting the course material to a learner's ability. For each new learner, the system uses collective intelligence to construct a preliminary vocabulary test. Then, it uses the results to construct a personalized course by selecting the...
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High Performance Work Systems (HPWSs) as a new way of organizing work in general and of production work in particular provide an environment, where self-organized learning processes are enabled and fostered. In an extensive research project in two major Austrian manufacturing companies we currently investigate the applicability and the effects of HPWS including issues of learning and knowledge management...
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Using robots to reward and stimulate children doing tasks together can be helpful in improving their social skills. Robots implemented 3 types of behavior scenarios — imitate, enhance and counteract — in a collaborative game of teaching robots perform movements shown by hand gestures. The paper presents a novel account of ASD symptoms based on the interplay of empathic concern and empathic accuracy...
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In this paper the contributions of the ELLEIEC project for the international dimension of Life Long Learning (LLL) are described. In the framework of the Thematic Networks Programme, tools such as Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), the Tuning Methodology were used in the implementation of an International Curricula Network with accreditation by two European institutions at least. Benchmarks were...
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In this short paper we present research results from the ongoing project Serious Sports. The research work was carried out in the area of assessing 33 commercial of the shelf games (COTS) and 5 main game peripherals with regard to their usage, value and possible application for sports and fitness. Methodology and assessment results are outlined in the paper.
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In the paper we focus on the area of lifelong learning, specifically on continual learning of teachers of Informatics at primary and secondary schools. The teachers had the opportunity to improve their qualification by means of national project executed in 2008–2011 called Further education of the teachers of primary and secondary schools in the subject of Informatics. During the execution of the...
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This paper describes the experience to teach mathematics in the electro-mechanical technical course applying a computer-aided approach. Instead of give a bunch of equations and a calculator to the students, as it is usual in technical courses, we offer them the Octave, which is a numerical computational tool, and the mathematical concepts involved, in order to them find the solution of applied problems...
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Several studies conducted at Sri Lankan universities since 2004 in integrating web-based learning and interactive computer aided language learning in English as a Second Language and foreign languages proved to be most successful in enhancing student performance, broadening world knowledge, increasing interest and motivation in autonomous learning. One fifth of the 20 million population of Sri Lanka...
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The paper focuses on the analysis of the ten-year history of the doctoral study programme Specialization in Pedagogy — Theory of Education of Technical Subjects (Engineering Pedagogy). This study programme was introduced at the University of Hradec Kralove in 2000 and was running in cooperation with the Czech Technical University, Prague, and with the support of other technical universities in the...
