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Good information is crucial for effective working and decision making in all fields of human activity. It is widely thought that up to 80 % of information we get every day is related to a particular place on earth. With respect to this fact it is clear that spatial relations cannot be omitted in any case of planning and decision making. Hence teaching of thinking spatially and in wide relations has become an essential skill of graduates. This paper is to propose a teaching synergy in education where strategic deci...

The article traces the technique of visualization of educational information in various graphic ways. The following methods are best-known by students: the fundamental, traditional cartographic of research and teaching. They learn such methods from the course of the school geography and it is associated with the techniques and knowledge of spatially distributed information on maps and other geoimages. In addition to spatially distributed, there is other information that can be shown graphically. The modern term "i...

Modern education is a special type of mastering knowledge, a purposefully designed process of cognition based on the use of innovative technologies. In the traditionally instrumented pedagogical process it is possible to really organize interactive training only for the trained part of the students. The use of interactive methods and forms of instruction greatly activates the creative activity of students, contributes to the development of a whole complex of qualities of the creative personality: mental activity; ...

The ambition of universities is the implementing of new progressive teaching methods using state-of-the-art technical equipment. The general aim of modern teaching methods is to provide students with the widest range of information channels that can be used to obtain information and data. Students are specifically challenged to use this information. Based on this, students acquire their gained knowledge. This modern model prefers current pedagogy. One of the projects focusing on new trends in teaching is the proje...

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...

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 ...

Simulation and training technologies offer new opportunities for improving the quality of teaching at universities. The introduction of new progressive teaching is based on simulation and situational methods. Simulation methods create a playful character of the situation without a confrontational character, as is the case in real life. It makes it easier for students to move forward and gain insight. Situational methods are procedures for problem solving of model situations. Their basis is based on a real extraord...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Vocabulary selection for training purposes is one of the most significant and difficult factors because the program developer has to select the set of words relevant for the aims of the course. Selected vocabulary should ensure the development of speech abilities and skills within certain number of academic hours. Internationalism are helpful for demonstrating and testing pronunciation rules in the language since it is always a pleasure for a trainee to work on pronunciation words that he understands. We can use t...

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...

This Article presents a new follow-up Master 's degree course, the European School for brownfield redevelopment, which proposes to prepare graduates - Brownfield Managers - experts in the field of Renewal and Redevelopment of brownfields and "Derelict Lands" in different states of the European Union.

The importance of understanding the impact of digital competence has gravitated from the global business management to traini ng activities. The world is becoming a small village by means of digital t echnological environment. Digital competency plays a key role in people’ social, edu cational and occupational lives. When digital empowerment data gathered from participant were analyzed with respect to the sub dimensions such as awareness, motivation, technical access and digital competence. Many findings may be ...

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...

The article deals with the kinematics analys is of crank mechanism realized by three methods followed by comparison of achieved results. The crank mechanism is the most commonly used mechanism in practice; it is the part of the various machines and almost every car. It belongs to the fundamental mechanisms whereon the kinematic characteristics of mechanism are investigated by students on FMT TU KoЕЎice with seat in PreЕЎov within the scope of Technical mechanics lessons. Ar ticle hints as the utilization of suitab...

An information retrieval technique that could be used successfully in the E-Learning domain is provided in this article. The described system is based on a relevancefeedback scheme. It retrieves relevant documents from an information database, those documents being useful in the learning process. The proposed system is an interactive one, the human user being involved in the retrieving process.

In this competitive world Turkey needs well trained, highly qualified, productive, problem solver technicians for the industry. Engineers and technicians school learning are becoming voided compare to new developments. They have to improve and educate themselves permanently. As its known vocational schools are for educate people to fill in spaces between engineers and technicians in the industry. A person who graduated from these schools has to be knowledged to understand an engineer and have the skills and knowle...

As a growing trend in the world, internet-based research occupies our daily life of people. The usage of the internet of students has increased dramatically in recent years. Internet usage has become an important part of student life. As it is well-known, internet usage includes emailing, receiving information, searching a specific topic, gaming, watching pornographic pictures, shopping, downloading, communicating, and having new friends and so on. The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between pe...

The demands of the Romanian contemporary society are indissolubly related to the rapid development and modernization of the infrastructure. At the same time, the scientific research is moving towards the new directions imposed by an increasingly dynamic society and economy. In this context, inter- and trans-disciplinarity are required by the need to prepare new types of approaches, methods, techniques and technologies, to be able to answer the social and environmental impact produced and molded by the infrastructu...

In this study, a singularly perturbed convection-dominated diffusion equation is solved by using a non-polynomial spline method. An example is solved to assess the accuracy of the method. The numerical results are obtained for different perturbed values ($\epsilon$ ) of equation. The results indicate that non-polynomial spline method is effectively implemented. It is seen that results are compatible with exact solutions and consistent with other existing numerical methods.

In this paper, we have discussed a third-degree non-polynomial spline solution for the numerical solution to nonlinear boundary value problems (BVPs) and compare other metods. Two numerical examples are given to illustrate the efficiency and performance of the method. The method gives accurate results in both the linear and nonlinear cases.

The aim of this essay to draw an outline of the effect of various types of intelligence , paying particular attention to the concept of so called “Emotional Intelligence” with a language teacher’s perspective. Throughout the essay it is aimed to create an awareness of different intelligence capacity of each individual learner in an ideal language teaching environment. While doing this literature on the area has been scanned and case studies have been performed on learners of various cultural and geographical...

All European papers consider the efficiency and quality of education as a fundamental premise of social cohesion, economic growth and sustainable development in the transition towards a knowledge society. The major reform processes initiated by the government in higher education, decentralization and quality management, are fully compatible and convergent with the European direction of reform in order to achieve the fundamental objectives of the ’Lisbon Process’. Debt of any institution of the national educati...

Turkey is on its way to becoming full member of European Union. Candidate countries should make some reforms on all sectors included health. The pay of the government budget for health establishments is limited. Eventhough it is central planning for healthcare it is mostly fail to be effective because of the economic reasons or practical delays. However health establishments and local administrations supports and adds it works out to deliver healthcare services for all layers of society. In this research it shows ...

Human being; having the memory abilty, the capacity to percieve the present and the experience, has the capability to develop an understanding which determines the line of behavior. Every society has a health concept which reflects its history, cultural values, economic and which determines the health service systems. The hospital designes have shown a constant change due to the transition to settled life, the developments in science, technology and architecture, the transformation pressure of other economic and s...

The importance of understanding Social Intelligence (SI) skills has gravitated form the business management to training activities. Social intelligence skills that students have affect the academic performance of the students. This study aimed at exploring the relationship between one of those well-known concepts, job satisfaction, and emotional intelligence. To this end, a research has been conducted on the students who are attending at school of vocational studies (n=150) of a private university in Istanbul. In ...

As it is well-known, students’ vocational choice and students’ personally types are very important regarding of the effectiveness of academic programs. This research aims at clarifying the relation between students’ personality types and their choices by using students’ perceptions. The research has been conducted on 352 students attending at School of Vocational Studies. According to the research findings, there are strong relationships between students’ personality types and their choices. Based on The...

Human capital development is one of the major challenges in the overall process socioeconomic development of the Albania. Although the Albania has managed to decrease the percentage of people who have low levels of education, this remains disproportionately high when compared to the corresponding percentage in the EU States. This paper gives an analysis and an assessment of the main reforms that are taking place in education and training, in Albania. In particular, it focuses on vocational education training (VET)...