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To live in Global Information Society we should constantly increase our knowledge. The wish to possess core competences is a main reason of lifelong education. Due to Open Society and development of ICT teaching methods are changing. Education 3.0 based on the idea of connectivism involves collaborative learning. The article describes the experience of integration Massive Open Online Course into the process of formal education within the framework of students' self-work. The authors analyze results of an experimen...

The contribution deals with the mathematical literacy of future engineers in the context of Industry 4.0. Even in this advanced stage of automation and robotization, there are situations in the production process where we cannot do without a human factor. No machine is and will never be so perfect as to replace human activity completely. But people have to be prepared for this situation both theoretically and practically. There is an example of practice in this contribution, which demonstrates, why knowledge of ma...

Paper focused on extension of usage of the AutoID model of transport system in laboratory. Transport model is equipped by complex AutoID system based on RFID and magnetic sensors. They are used to gather information from transport processes. The aim of solution presented in paper is to describe data flows in this physical model and to design representation of data flows and processing in simulation system Witness. This kind of model can better present behavior of data background to students and make them better un...

Distance learning has become increasingly popular today. It is defined as the process of transferring knowledge to learners (students) who are separated from the instructor (teacher) by time and / or physical distance and are making use of interactive technologies to accomplish learning. Krasnoyarsk state agrarian university also uses distance learning. Both teachers and students of our University benefit by the introduction of distance learning technologies in the educational process. Students can take part in on...

The example of ecologists? educational programs creating of Bachelor and Master levels in the Kherson State University is offered in the article. The priority of higher education defined environmental training of personnel competent in solving the problems of the Ukraine Black Sea region. Established the following key subject areas of educational projects: rational use of natural resources; optimization of nature management in the coastal zone of the Black and Azov Sea; ecological safety; conservation of biodivers...

Millennials or generation Y is the largest and most diverse generation to ever attend university. They have high expectations towards teachers, the study environment and also to course mates when compared with previous generations of learners. Millennials rely on recommendations from peers and friends more than from experts, which refers to the importance they assign to their lives. In the present paper, the authors discuss the role of the social environment in the study process that millennial learners present. T...

One of the most significant goals of the educational system has become the aim of shaping of a personality with a high level of ecological culture with the aim to constant self-development, the progress of society and the priority of universal values, capable of perceiving and realizing the ideas of co-evolution and providing due to their activities a stable development of humanity in future. The success of its solution depends on multitude of factors, among which the time of en culturation of agrowing person to e...

The effectiveness of the higher educational institutions work is currently being given greater priority. Every year, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation carries out an appropriate monitoring upon seven indications, along with an internal evaluation of the universities work on an expanded list of indicators for the purpose of ranking the universities and their managers. In order to improve the effectiveness of educational activity of higher educational institutions, the possibility of cr...

The aim of this research is to teach ethical decision-making to future economists by solving the problem of advertising to children shown in the in the English-language documentary ?Consuming Kids?. Research methods included analysis of literature on the issues of what is ethical/unethical and the decision-making process, and the evaluation of 14 business reports written by students. The writing task entailed looking into the problem of the negative effects of advertising to children and preparing a report to the ...

The Kaizen concept represents a continuous improvement approach to exploiting the potential of human capital. Employees are the bearers and co-creators of values and their performance contributes to increasing efficiency and therefore education strategies need to be directed to the education of university students, potential workers in enterprises in the labor market. In education, there is scope for using the Kaizen concept as an incentive tool that increases the quality of human potential and the level of human ...

In the era of unpredictably rapid changes, the idea of sustainable development is an expression of concern regarding the direction in which humanity is developing. The idea is built upon the feeling of need to take radical steps to revitalise the seriously damaged security environment of the modern man, in order to influence its future, free from threats. The multi-dimensionality of globalisation processes, which influence the economy, politics, ecology, information and the socio-cultural field, among others, forc...

The present paper aims to present the concept of the decentralization of pre-university education in the current context as well as how the benefits of the PISA tests can be capitalized by changing the teaching mode, by adopting the creative and personalized teaching model used by the Scandinavian countries. The decentralization of the pre-university education is the transfer of the authority, responsibility, and resources regarding the decision-making and the general and financial management towards the education...

The protection of natural resources such as soil, water, and biodiversity are of greatest challenges in European Union Bioeconomy Strategy. According to the European Commission there are more than 2.5 million potentially contaminated sites and more than 0.3 million contaminated sites in Europe. Soil remediation is important and gentle technologies such as phytoremediation are more and more appropriate regarding new environmentally friendly actions paradigms. The aim of this research is to show successful Triple he...

The Federal Law on Best Available Techniques (BAT) becomes the main instrument regulating pollutant emissions from Russian industrial installations. The Law was adopted in July 2014, following an extensive review of the current environmental legislation. The new Law aims to achieve a high level of environmental protection taken as a whole by reducing harmful industrial emissions through the application of BATs. Minimum 6,500 installations undertaking the industrial activities described as Category I (Integrated Po...

Globalization generates new demands, structures and systems requiring new skills and knowledge. Continuous changes and technological advancements in various industries in the country cannot but make the teaching staff of the universities consider new ways of improving the training system to ensure better acquisition of a foreign language. The paper deals with the trends, goals and tasks in Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Russian technical universities. ESP is a two sided process: English for developing s...

The article discusses the importance of verbal communication monitoring in the process of foreign language learning and teaching. The aim of this study is to propose a theoretical justification and experimental verification of the effectiveness of the monitoring algorithm of students? verbal communication in the foreign language classroom. The research focuses on the following tasks: to develop and experimentally validate effective components of the monitoring algorithm of verbal communication of students and to i...

In this paper the approach to virtual laboratory "Geoinformation Systems" creation is proposed. Virtual laboratory is a complicated system that consists of a lot of hardware and software tools. The laboratory was created in order to improve the quality of education in the fields of geoinformatics and information technologies. The laboratory provides scientific support of the educational process, integration of innovative research and educational activities. During the course of self-study, students have the opport...

The demands on university teachers of technical subjects are changing in the context of economic and political developments in society and opinions on the form, content, scope and mutual relation between professional activities to be carried on. A university is a place where pedagogy and andragogy overleap due to the fact that there are regular students as well as professionals taking a course of study aiming at extending their qualifications. A university teacher affects both of these groups, as a pedagogue and l...

The continuous development of techniques related to agriculture information management and GIS, with a close connection to sustainable development, are factors which contribute to the dissemination of precision farming. Cape Verde and Mozambique have a strong dependence on agriculture, a lack of skilled professionals and extreme poverty rates in rural areas. There has been an increased acknowledgement of the need to develop new educational programs in developing countries focused on innovative crop and land manage...

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the effectiveness of employing case study analysis in English in order to educate future oil and gas engineers on environmental accountability. The case study will comprise of the activity of the company Beyond Petroleum (BP) and its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010. The research methodology includes: analysis of literature on environmental ethics, the case study and ways of teaching it; study of the educational requirements for oil and gas engineers. Exper...

Learning cycles in experiential education show a striking similarity to the PDCA (plan-do-check-act)-cycle in corporate problem solving as stated by David Kolb already in 1974. A cooperative/dual system involving multiple rotations with the same company offers an attractive framework to enhance corporate innovation processes by integrating the enterprises with the education of students. From the beginning in 2002 the cooperative/dual study programme Production Technology and Organization (PTO) at the University of...

TodayпїЅs economy, referred to as пїЅknowledge-based economyпїЅ, relies on advances in science and education of society as a basic factor of social and economic development. The article presents the implementation of two-way cross-border co-operation in the exchange of experiences in innovative applications of production engineering using mathematical methods in various kinds of activities between technical universities and other participants. This type of activity means transfer of knowledge resulting from practi...

The necessity of becoming competitive in the global economy brings many changes in the business. Companies will have to become international and act on global markets. Companies need to expand their cadre of quality people with a global mindset and skills. This requires to know the country, culture, national economy, too the principles of the global market. The role of universities is to promote the education of the graduates with stronger entrepreneurial training, to stimulate entrepreneurship in the global marke...

Background: To choose a strategy for its educational and economic activities, an ecological university needs a clear understanding of the competitive situation in the education market. This problem is of great importance for the Russian Federation, which has the largest reserves of natural resources and pollution-free areas. High-quality professional training of ecologists in Russian universities has to ensure preservation of the environment and rational nature management. Therefore, to make the right choice of it...

Modern universities are not only the educational and research centers. There are here the ideas of sustainability can be developed and implemented most efficiently. Environmental friendliness and saving of resources require the innovative approaches that formed in the university. Hence, along with the popular rankings of effectiveness of education and research activity by the representatives of University of Indonesia was created the Green Metrics World University Ranking. Its participants are hundreds of universi...

The Europe is facing serious challenges in terms of job creation and employability of young graduates, economic productivity, and sustainable growth, boosted by competition in the digital world and knowledge-based economy. Higher education institutions represent key actors accountable for equipping students with relevant and up-to-date skills, fulfilling their capacity to drive innovation and to be better prepared for the transition to a circular economy.The curriculum development gains special attention since it ...

Currently, the system of higher education is based on interdisciplinary relations established between the scientific disciplines of the natural sciences. The article covers issues related to improving the quality of environmental learning through the study of disciplines associated with pedology, ecology and geography of soils. The article justifies the significance of the courses dealing with pedology in teaching students to creative professional activities for solution of global and regional ecological problem w...

Employing models in science teaching is considered to be fundamental for an authentic learning of science. In fact, the use of models in science classes may help students in the development of a better understanding of scientific content, of inquiry skills and also in the understanding of the nature of models and of the nature of science. Also, the analysis of historical models may also play a major contribution to the understanding of scientific knowledge construction and development. Moreover, in geoscience educ...

The authorsпїЅ previous research showed that in the development of competences of labour protection specialists in adult education programmes, self-assessment is essential to improving knowledge, skills, and a positive attitude. The aim of the study was to evaluate the dynamics of the development of the specialistsпїЅ labour protection competence in the learning process. The methodological basis of the study included studies, analyses and evaluation of the relevant publications in the context of the competence of ...

According to Johnson LairdsпїЅ Mental Models Theory, people develop internal representations of the natural world пїЅ mental models пїЅ that they use to interact with the world and understand the phenomena around them. Having this in mind, we could understand that students develop their knowledge through the construction of mental models, which help them to develop scientific reasoning and make decisions, being the basis of individual behaviors. In this context, it is assume that the use of methodologies that enab...

A new mineralogical mobile phone application was created named Mineralmicr. Mineralmicr is an application that includes for the first time in a mobile phone application or computer program or in general on internet a database of 60 common minerals under petrographic microscope. In these videos the optical properties of each mineral are explained in detail using English subtitles. Mineralmicr is an application in which the user can identify the minerals under petrographic microscope by using nine specific filters t...

Over the last few years, science has advanced unprecedentedly in explaining phenomena and facts with a high impact on society: earthquakes for example. On the other hand, new technologies are transforming the way (seismological) information is collected and transmitted to public and other various stakeholders categories. From interactive multimedia content to immersive experiences, difficult concepts become easier to be transmitted and understood by a wide variety of audience, starting with children, a most import...

According to the national laws and legislation, the pyrotechnician is the person who has expertise and is authorized to handle and/or use in Romania fireworks of category F2, F3, F4, pyrotechnic articles of category T2 and/or other pyrotechnic articles of category P2. Taking into account the inherent character of the risk specific to the pyrotechnic articles as well as the complexity of carrying out operations with these types of products, it requires acquiring thorough technical and practical updated knowledge to...

The Copenhagen process sets the basis for cooperation of European dedicated institutions and establishes a basis for defining the set of actions and attitudes for adopting the Vocational Education and Training methodology and implementing it into an individual formation. A set of priorities to be followed were established: European dimension of this approach; transparency, information and guidance; recognition of competences and qualifications; quality assurance. Implementation of Vocational Education and Training...

In this paper, on the basis of meticulous research the relevant literature, as well as empirical research into practice evolved and presented the role of e-learning in contemporary higher education institutions, we examine the possible aspects of the application and the benefits that e-learning provides, as well as to functional problems it can solve in institutes of higher education. The paperпїЅs aim is improving the quality of higher education through the basic elements of e-learning and established models of e...

In my paper, I analyse the existing curriculum on the subject of ecological education in Romanian schools, in order to offer some practical solutions that can be implemented in kindergarten, schools, universities and also during cultural events and fairs (that I also consider an important educating factor). The abstract information taught at the higher levels of education dominate the curricula of our schools and universities, where pupils and students get very little practical knowledge пїЅ either concerning a pa...

In 2016, the Faculty of Geodesy aimed incumbent on goals of the Strategic Plan of the Technical University of Civil Engineering for the period 2016-2020. In light of the strategy developed by University management, the Faculty of Geodesy has identified several proposals to increase academic performance through education. One of the major concerns was reducing the studentsпїЅ drop-out rate within their first years of study. We tried to identify appropriate ways of helping and stimulating the students towards contin...

The aim of the article is to teach future petroleum engineers how to write a report as part of their English language course. The topic of a report will be assessing the immediate response of the relevant parties to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The methods will involve the analysis of the undergraduate curriculum for petroleum engineers, the study of literature on methods for writing professional documents; and the experimental teaching of writing a report in English. The findings are as follows: writing ...

In this paper the approach to Information Educational Environment (IEE) creation is proposed. IEE is a complicated system that consists of a lot of hardware and software tools. Open architecture of the IEE provides integration of various electronic educational resources (virtual laboratories, virtual departments, electronic scientific-educational complexes). A variety of different hardware and software tools allow to create a variety of educational routes. In this paper we highlighted the main aspects about IEE cr...

The following article is devoted to ecological education in Russia. Moreover the following article describes ecological problems in education, culture and language. We try to underline the role of ecological culture and education in school and higher education. The relevance of this research is the increased interest in the process of environmental problems. 2017 year is the year of ecology in Russia, so all scientists; teachers and other specialists have not avoided this subject in their researches and developmen...

At present, education is regarded as an autonomous and intercultural educational process, during which studentsпїЅ individual and social qualities should be developed. The emphasis is placed on the selection of teaching strategies, especially those which lead to active learning. Nevertheless, education based on the frontal instruction, teacherпїЅs monologue and zero studentsпїЅ activity is carried out at many universities. Naturally, there are many reasons and to pinpoint one of them as the primary cause is diffic...

Educational resources collections in the Botanical garden of the Autonomous educational institution of higher professional education "Leningrad state University named after A. S. Pushkin", with more than 400 species and varieties of tropical and subtropical plant have been reviewed. Plants related to different biomes, ecological groups, floristic kingdoms and regions and plants cultivated in agriculture have been specified. The directions of using a collection of plants in the course of training courses of the dis...

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) interests among young people has to be raised gradually. Incremental building of SET image for young people means employing several tools. One of them is educational background to be perceived by future students as attractive. This perception was observed in two case studies at secondary schools of technical and non-technical programe. It was the aim of the survey to gather and analyze the data about the perceptions concerning the SET issue. The objects of interest had bee...

English for Academic Purposes is a necess ity in quite a large number of companies. Compared to General English, English for Academic Purposes has its own characteristics which are taken into consid eration when developing the syllabus. This paper focuses on academic use of English which is required in certain companies as a part of professional development program.

Compared with other industries, construction is one of those that actually give contribution to the gradual damage of the environment and is one of the most dangerous sectors in field of occupational health and sa fety. Construction process at the site is not by nature environmentally fr iendly activity and all the s ector is one of the most physically demanding and risky sectors. Many existing researches suggest that construction activity is one of the major contributors to the environmental impacts which are typ...

Introduction And Purpose Environmental environment is defined as “a human notices significance of his/her relation with the envi ronment in terms of hi s/her existence”. In the society, several professional groups are of extreme importance for increasing awareness of subjects and leading to behavi or changes. Environmental behaviors of physicians having substantial effects on public health and education are important for social awareness. This study is conducted in order to assess environmental behaviors of st...

Introduction and Purpose: Environment is multi-dimensional notion that it has cultural, political, economic, ecologic, social and psychologi cal dimensions in addition to nature-related dimension. Impacts of environmental problems and negative consequences of those impacts on the society increases importance of subject’s knowledge, awareness, attitude s and behaviors. Knowledge on environmental views of doctor candidates and arranging education programs accordingly will make contribution to the solution of the p...

Recognizing the desirability of reaching out to new students and enga ging in innovative pedagogical approaches, academic staff continues to prefer traditional lectures, skeptical about the potential for student learning in online settings. There are also fears of loss of academic control to central administration. There are drivers and barriers which increase or decrease motivation to engage in e-learning, and provides some insights into the challenges of embedding e-learning in higher education. The most importa...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the correlation betw een students’ creativity and students’ performance at vocational studies. The research seeks to define educational performance by considering multidimensional nature of creativity. This research aimed at exploring the re lationship between self-esteem and academic performance by using creativity inventory. To this end, a research has been conducted on the students of vocational studies (n=312 ) in Istanbul. According to the results, a weak relationship (...

The article deals with the utilization of electronic documentation and video presentation at the teaching on universities. The utilizatio n of the electronic study materials in PDF format with virtual interactive models enables to students not only better visualisation of the task which is being, but it enables to understand the problems and to obtain the geometrical data without their text or di mensional descriptions, too. Creation and utilization of DVD guides is the next step of the improvement of educ ational...