ADRIAN MIROIU, BOGDAN FLORIAN. UNIVERSITATEA ROMÂNEASCĂ AZI
ADRIAN MIROIU, BOGDAN FLORIAN. UNIVERSITATEA ROMÂNEASCĂ AZI (Romanian University Today). Bucharest, Tritonic Publishing House, 2015, 356 pages, ISBN: 978-606-749-033-6
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ADRIAN MIROIU, BOGDAN FLORIAN. UNIVERSITATEA ROMÂNEASCĂ AZI (Romanian University Today). Bucharest, Tritonic Publishing House, 2015, 356 pages, ISBN: 978-606-749-033-6
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University examinations form the final and most integral part of assessing any student’s acheivement, knowledge, skills, and attitudes. However, there has been a public outcry over the rise of irreqularities in primary, secondary, and even university examinations. The purpose of this research was to investigete the student factors which influenc cheating in the undergraduate university examinations. The study design was a descriptive suvey. A sample of fifty students and ten lecturers was selected using random sampling technique. Data were collected using a questionnaire, structured interview, and document analysis. A pilot study was carried out in the school of education in one of the public universities. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics generated with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) programme, and were presented by use of frequency tables. The results revealed that majority of the students do not attend lectures,and factors such as lack of preparedness for examinations, peer influence, pressure from workplace, and students’ lack of confidence were some of the factors contributing to cheating in examinations. Effective procedures and policies for management of examinations are also recommended to be put in place, strictly observed, and effective deterrrent measures be implemented. It was recommended that employers give off-days or study leave to staff who enroll for various courses.
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The significant financial allocations invested in supporting students academically denotes the importance attached to the impact of these allocations. This study provided explanatory insights into the contribution of financial aids to students’ performance. An analysis of 109 QU students was conducted using a two-approach quantitative method. Significant differences exist in the academic performance of both groups in favor of the beneficiaries, especially based on the financial support type to the advantage of the ‘merit-based aids’. Gender, however, does not significantly influence financial aid delivery. According to the findings, policymakers, financial decision-makers and educators can improve students’ low academic performance by sharing best practices.
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Saudi Arabia's higher educational standards are gradually evolving to match the country's vision 2030. The importance of education and a strong emphasis on educational quality are the determinants to realize this vision. Recent studies reveal that the faculty members spend a lot of time preparing documents for the accreditation program and eventually may lose interest in the process. There is a lack of an automated system to prepare documents for accreditation and the need for one is strongly felt. Educational institutions entail multiple accreditations to ensure their quality. In addition, accreditation enables educational institutions to attract student communities. The study intends to develop an integrated framework to prepare documents and maintain quality practices for multiple academic accreditations. The proposed system employs application-programming interfaces for publishing data from the database that facilitates an added security to the primary data. Moreover, it automates the overall accreditation process and minimizes manual interaction. Researchers employed the database of the AlMaarefa University and used it as a testbed for implementing the framework.The initial set of results are promising and support educational institutions to improve their quality of service.
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In the current pandemic period, every formal education institution needs to update its digital learning process and design a curriculum that is relevant to the needs of today's and next generation. Leaders have to overcome these challenges before they can empower individuals to become technology users who will be able to apply multiple technologies. This study aims to identify digital leadership processes used by leaders in higher education to lead to increased effective learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study collected data using a qualitative research design with semi-structured interviews and data analysis using the six phases of Braun and Clark. Our study involved 24 respondents according to preselected criteria, and they were divided into four categories: rectors, deans, junior high school principals, and senior high school principals. The results of this study's findings can be implemented to support various stages of educational program development from the educational technology adoption cycle and promote e-leadership initiatives during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the purpose, structure, function and studies of international exchange programs currently being implemented in universities in Turkey. Universities in Turkey seem to play an active role in almost all the capillaries of life in the fields of academia, politics, literature, culture, art, management, informatics, technology and economy. Erasmus Exchange Program, Mevlana Exchange Program and Farabi Exchange Program, which are among the international exchange programs, witness the mutual educational circulation of thousands of university students every year. Great importance is attached to international exchange programs, the importance of which is increasing day by day, starting from the highest authority of education administration.
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In order to prepare a reliable generation in the future, students need 21st century skills which are abbreviated as 4C, namely critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication. The Government through the Minister of Education and Culture responded to all forms of 21st century learning challenges by launching the Merdeka Learning Campus Merdeka (MBKM) activity. The Decree of the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia Number 754/P/2020 concerning Main Performance Indicators (IKU), especially in KPI 7 concerning collaborative and participatory classes, states that in 21st century learning there are two learning methods used in the classroom, namely case method and team based projects. Therefore, the Electrical Engineering Education Study Program responded by implementing team based project learning combined with using product oriented modules to optimize 21st century skills. The research model used in this study was the ADDIE model which consisted of analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. The instrument used is the 4C skill instrument based on P21. This research is implemented in the 5th semester in Electrical Machinery course in the Electrical Engineering Education Study Program. The results obtained in the research are team based projects using product oriented modules are able to optimize the 4C skills of Electrical Engineering Education students well.
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An analysis of literature shows that higher education institutions can actively influence the development of students' cultural intelligence (CQ) and thus express their social responsibility. The article's main aim is to diagnose the level of cultural intelligence among students of public economics universities in Poland and to determine the relationship between CQ and factors such as field of study, degree, and gender. This article was developed using research methods such as literature analysis, organizational documentation analysis, participant observation, and a Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI) survey. The respondents were second-year full-time students, both bachelor and master’s degree, of two majors: Management and International Economic Relations (in Polish Międzynarodowe Stosunki Gospodarcze – MSG for short). The study shows that the cultural intelligence of students of public economics universities in Poland is relatively high. No influence of gender on CQ was determined. Contrary to assumptions, it was not observed that MSG studies influence students' CQ development. The correlation between the degree of reflection and the level of cultural intelligence differs depending on the field of study. At each of the three universities studied, no significant differences were found in the overall level of cultural intelligence between students of the two studied majors.
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation has significantly accelerated in many industries, including somewhat slow-changing higher education. The epidemic situation pushed students, faculties, and administrators to experiment to a much greater degree with online classes, digital cooperation, and virtual student services. For the majority of the academic community, this situation created a completely new reality. Indeed, the digital experience in higher education was for some community members quite challenging, if not traumatic. Fairly soon, however, the digital experiment proved successful in many areas. In some cases, even more effective than conservative practices. The Virtual University Concept (VUC) has been a topic of debate for quite some time, but only now has it found a receptive audience in all sectors of the academic community. In the following articles, the authors will attempt to conceptualize the virtual university as an innovative way to address contemporary challenges for Higher Education Institutions (HEI), specifically their ability to identify, create and capture value for students. The concept of the VUC is grounded in a literature review, the professional experience of the authors, as well as the student survey, which was conducted in one of Cracow’s private colleges. The authors have listed fundamental areas of focus that need to be addressed before attempting to model the VUC. They include the technical and technological capacity of a HEI, faculty development, cost management, innovation, and students' and employers' value perceptions. All this must be done with the goal of providing value to key stakeholders at a reasonable cost. All the authors' inquiry streams seem to suggest that if well designed and implemented, the VUC can be a source of significant value to students and therefore should be considered in HEI expansion and turnaround strategies.
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The objective of this study is to present various practical applications of collage-based methods (visual bricolage) as a way of boosting creative discussions with students and helping them to express their knowledge and experience using visual representation. This viewpoint paper is based on the experience of twenty classes conducted with the MA program and postgraduate students at Kozminski University between March 2019 and December 2021, when online whiteboards and visual metaphors were used. The method used was participative observation, as the author also acted as the workshop facilitator. To observe the user’s action, the contribution tracking tool that is available on the mural whiteboard (Mural, n.d.) was activated. The explorations during the workshops revealed two elements of online classes: Conceptualization vs Illustration, to determine whether photos and pictures serve as an instrumental illustration in the background of the story, or they are important elements that convey the sense of the students’ statements. Moreover, the paper contains various practical findings that help to facilitate creative educational workshops remotely.
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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the application of the professional knowledge and competencies of Kazakhstanis who have graduated from foreign universities. Based on the results of a survey of 1,111 Kazakhstanis who completed their studies abroad and in-depth interviews with 44 graduates of foreign universities, the authors consider how effectively Kazakhstani graduates of foreign universities apply their knowledge and competencies in Kazakhstan and abroad. At the same time, this research analyses the main motives of Kazakhstanis for studying abroad, the factors preventing the use of intellectual potential in Kazakhstan, as well as the reasons that prompted them to stay abroad or return to Kazakhstan. According to the results of the study, the use of the intellectual potential of graduates is influenced by: the high degree of bureaucracy in the country (34.5%); low wages (28.3%); and the absence of the conditions necessary for effective work (26.8%). Only 21.3% of the survey participants fully apply their acquired knowledge and skills at work. This research was funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant No. AP13067766).
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User-centricity and usability are a premise of digitalization, a current trend for business model innovation based on advanced digital technologies. The article addresses a gap in the literature, in which descriptions of the cases of updating university curricula in usability are lacking. This gap also exists in the practice. The study uses the example of a project for revising the content of usability courses at the University of Turku as a case. The research objective is to explore an integrative approach to usability education. For this, we consider the data collected via interviews with the faculty teaching usability subjects. Thematic analysis is applied to examine the interview outcomes. Recommendations as to updating usability curricula are provided.
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An increasingly globalised world of the new millennium with its technological, socio-economic, and political challenges requires such type of a university that could guarantee an effective educational space for the academic training of professionals for those disciplines that are and will be crucial for the very existence and progress of the state, the preservation and development of its potential for full participation and competitiveness in global markets. To this end, academic institutions need to take into account, as part of their educational and research process, the latest technological and socio-economic trends in global developments in the industrial and scientific sectors. One possibility to meet institutionally these criteria is a liberal university with its potential to contribute a qualification basis for, e.g. the so-called global managers, top performers, creators of technical and social innovation, and for the enhancement of globalising science. This paper aims to present and highlight, via synthesis, descriptive, analytical and historical methods, how a liberal university can contribute to increasing the political and economic openness of the European Union within its own space, as well as to its openness to the outside world in global educational and socio-economic space.
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This paper discusses sustainable development issues in the higher education sector from the value chain perspective. An adapted value chain is proposed for developing countries that would reflect the specific context of the higher education sector of Poland and Vietnam. Secondary data were collected from two universities in Poland and Vietnam to do a comparative analysis of how sustainability is integrated into the educational value chain. Our analysis shows that the two cases of Poland and Vietnam are quite different in most of the supporting and primary activities when integrating sustainability issues in the educational value chain, except for training. Then recommendations of value co-creation activities in the value chain for higher education institutions in both countries are raised towards achieving sustainable development.
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The main purpose of the research was to figure out which was the level of comprehension of the didactic concepts that the students of the Secondary Education Master of the University of Alicante of the academic year 2011/12 had. With this purpose, we have collected the information provided by the answers of 227 students to an ad-hoc-elaborated semi-structured questionnaire whose data have been treated with a quantitative methodology using the SPSS.19 device. The statistic techniques were descriptive, differential and correlational. In this analysis, we take into account the scores obtained by students in variables related to their learning process and their attitudes towards it. The most interesting results prove that the students don’t master the basic didactic concepts in a satisfactory way, there are differences between the levels of comprehension and other variables related to the learning of the concepts and with attitudinal variables of this learning. The research based on these results indicates the need to focus the teaching and learning processes of the Master from a different point of view and combining the strategies which enhance the understanding of these concepts by the students.
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The text is an attempt to introduce and initiate a research project which focuses on experiencing the culture of daily living by international exchange students. The authors present major theoretical reflections on the issues of experience and culture of everyday life; they also characterize the community of student– participants of international exchange programs. (Re)cognition and understanding of experience is a methodological challenge, especially in regard to dialogue-oriented intercultural education. The authors decided to explore the issue, using arts-based research. In this model, the role of researchers-facilitators is to introduce the respondents into the research process by inviting them to participate in joint activities focusing on cognitive, artistic, social, and educational objectives. Such participation and cooperation are supposed to result in generating critical knowledge necessary to improve the respondents’ daily life. In the last part of the text, the authors conduct an initial analysis of the selected international exchange programs. The goal of the characteristics of ERASMUS, ISEP, AIESEC, CEEPUS programs is to outline the official objectives and priorities assigned to formal education. In this perspective, when planning their original research, the authors asked the following question: How are these priorities present, as complementary to non-formal education, in experiencing the culture of everyday life by exchange students?
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The study in 2006 introduced the main processes that defined the situation of higher education systems at the turn of the millennium. The central theme of the study was the Bologna-reform. The present work is intended to call attention to the developments that were not expected in the first years of this century, and those that occurred faster than expected or took a different direction. From the aspect of the Bologna-reform, it became clear that from the beginning it has been struggling with the problem that the founders were guided by two different primary concepts: the concept of a federal and confederal Europe. The vision of the “revival” of the European university was soon faced with the counteraction of globalization progressing faster than expected, and its new challenges. In 2006 nobody expected this rapid spread of digitization in the entirety of the economy and society, and within that in higher education. Today it appears that directly serving society is becoming a dominant mission of 21st century universities (higher education), fulfilling which will again fundamentally transform the tasks and positions of the actors in the sector.
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Continuing the author’s 2007 Educatio paper Four Possible Researches on Academic Staff, the study outlines a research plan based on three sources and three different types of relationships between them. The first research would analyzed the positions (exeminer, leader, employed positions). The second research examines the effects of multipositionality, distinguishing the non-scientific positions within academic workplace, non-scientific positions outside academic workplace, scientific positions outside academic workplace The third research would analyze the world of journals, as in the other cases, distinguishing between the management of journals, the use of journals for publication, the manifesto debate, the lectorship activity, and the editing of thematic issues. In the “reflections” block, we would conduct research on the main function of quotations and critiques on positioning the author in the scientific space. According to the initial hypothesis of co-authorship, there may be three main motivations for this: working together, expressing a covenant relationship, and expressing a master-student relationship. In the chapter of „civil societies” we describe scientific societies in the duality of managers and simple „users”, but – contrary to the world of journals – here the non controlled oralism of conferences plays a role, which also opens the way for an outside circle. Types of power effort not directly related to scientific production are the distribution of money, the sharing of medals, and the control over data.
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The article focuses on the significance of developing the competence of digital pedagogy. Following that, we will propose a complex plan for institutional educational development, the elements of which (preliminary needs and competence analysis, the development process itself, and feedback, i.e. measuring the efficacy of development) will be able to successfully guarantee, by building on each other in an intertwined fashion, the systematic and reflective ICT development of teachers in higher education. Apart from thoroughly introducing and giving a rationale for each element, the study will also highlight the results of the first pilot run and, by drawing conclusions from the pilot’s experiences, plans for improvement.
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The internationalization of higher education has long been at the centre of research interest. Therefore, the opinion of foreign students and the study of Hungarian higher education institutions’ service quality are researched widely. The aim of the current study is to shed light on the changes in foreign student expectations and satisfaction and to examine their loyalty with a longitudinal panel interview series over three years. Research results show that foreign student expectations and satisfaction change with time and loyalty can appear towards the institution and the foreign study experience, too.
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