Managing financial autonomy of a research university

Author(s): Maksym Sitnicki / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The article analyzes the main sources of income generation for the world’s leading research university in the United Kingdom– University of Oxford and one of the best research universities in the United States - Stanford University. The experience andstrategy of managing their own financial autonomy of these research universities have been studied. An effective synergisticmodel for ensuring financial autonomy of the research university is developed, which provides an opportunity for strategic managementof sources of income generation and is based on the interaction of four key potentialities of the research university:the functioning of the business school and institutions of postgraduate education; financial cooperation with graduates of theresearch university; functioning of an independent center of providing consulting services; functioning of the center of innovativetechnologies and support of start-ups. Also, the links and peculiarities of the mechanism functioning of the proposed synergisticmodel are described in detail and the perspective of its use is shown.

Perspektywy stosowania w edukacji techniki implementacji intencji

Author(s): Łukasz Krzywoszański,Radosława Herzog-Krzywoszańska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

The students' ability to handle their educational behaviours ís an essential precondition for effective knowledge acquisition. However, widespread difficulties in organizing their own activities reduce effectiveness of education and lead to educational failures. One of the methods that supports effective achievement of educational goals is implementation intentions. So far, this method has been used mainly in health furtherance and disease prevention. Such intentions take the format of "If (I find myself in situation x)... - then (I will perform action y) ...". The aim of this article is to present the results of experimental studies demonstrating effectiveness of implementation intentions approach in different areas of educational practice. Its use allowed increasing attendance in classes and improvement of self-governed student educational activity, including on-time delivery of written work and increase in the amount of time spent on self-study. Furthermore, it allowed enhancing the efficiency of educational methods based on information technology tools. It has been shown that efficiency of solving a series of difficult computer tasks was improved due to the use of implementation intentions. The outcomes of learning based on the presentation of multimedia educational materials were also improved. Discussed results demonstrate that implementation intentions has a wide range of educational applications. Attention was paid to the vast possibilities of using this technique in forms of education based on self-learning and in distant education using electronic communication in synchronous and asynchronous mode. It was recommended to include implementation intentions into programs of training and raising qualifications of educational staff.

Zastosowanie arkusza kalkulacyjnego w kształceniu księgowych w świetle obecnych wymagań kompetencyjnych i prawnych

Author(s): Magdalena Chomuszko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

The main goal of this publication is pointing to the significance of Excel to be included in accounting educational programs. The author identifies areas in teaching of accountancy, which are inadequate to the competency requirements of the employees of the present accounting units. She supports this thesis with the results of the questionnaire that she conducted, and which proved the earlier hypothesis. Aside from showing the problem, the author also introduces her own methodology; its implementation may further support teaching accountancy in college. It should help create better conditions to acquiring competences needed to perform the accountant's job. The proposed solution has been pre-tested by the author during her classes on accountancy. In view of the considerations from the article, the conclusion can be derived that a new paradigm concerning teaching of accountancy should be worked out, which would take into account the circumstances and conditioning imposed by the current legal, organizational and technological challenges. This publication focuses on the subject, which seems to be overlooked by scholars, authors of different manuals on accountancy or practitioners, despite the high significance of herein discussed topics, in the current computerized business environment.

E-learning wczoraj i dziś z profesorem Ryszardem Tadeusiewiczem rozmawia Maria Zając

Author(s): Maria Zając / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

Model oceny poziomu jakości przedmiotów realizowanych w trybie nauczania komplementarnego (blended learning)

Author(s): Adam Stecyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

Skuteczność działań edukacyjnych w obszarze finansów na przykładzie projektu "Finanse dla młodych, czyli jak zarabiać, inwestować i oszczędzać pieniądze w przyszłości"

Author(s): Dariusz Piotrowski,Anna Iwona Piotrowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

The diverse and complicated nature of financial products makes it increasingly difficult to view the world of finance as userfriendly. The problem of low financial awareness among Poles is important and should be primarily solved at the level of highschooleducation, which comes directly before adulthood and is the last stage of formal education for a certain part of teenagers.This gives rise to a need to carry out educational activities in the scope of behaviour in the financial markets covering bothschool-level education and non-formal education. Depending on the quality of formal education, out-of-school education may bea method to mitigate the lack of knowledge or an attractive form of presenting the topics discussed in school.The paper analyses the results of an educational project of the Polish Economic Society, Bydgoszcz Branch, regarding consciousand responsible saving and investing addressed at upper-secondary school students from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship.The authors attempted at determining effectiveness of this form of after-school education in terms of reducing the deficit inteenagers’ knowledge in the field of personal finance.The training programme resulted in an increase in the subjective assessment of knowledge in the field of personal finance.Students’ declarations were confirmed by the results of tests of economic knowledge. Therefore, it may be assumed that theprogramme addressed at students in upper-secondary education was quite efficient.

Edukacja finansowa jako przejaw społecznej odpowiedzialności banków

Author(s): Dorota Bednarska-Olejniczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

Banks are organisations actively involved in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Due to their knowledge and ability to shareit, financial education is a particularly important element of their social responsibility. However, in practice, it can be realised invarious ways – directed towards different recipients, realised via different tools, conducted continuously or on an ad hoc basis,targeted at various goals. Therefore, a question arises: Is financial education a part of CSR (concerning banks) at all? If so, howshould it be implemented to be effective; should it be viewed as a tool facilitating customers’ acquisition? The aim of the articleis to present financial education implemented by banks, define its place in CSR. In particular, we analyse related activities undertakenby the Japanese bank Mizuho. Because of its comprehensive and strategic conduct of financial education within CSR, whileclearly distinguishing and separating it from business education, this bank constitutes an example of good practice. The paperincludes desk research study involving analysis of subject literature on the topics of social responsibility in business, banking,financial education, marketing, and the analysis of source materials from websites of selected organizations and Mizuho Bank.Proper planning and effective implementation of financial education activities requires it to be included in the overall bank’s CSRstrategy and encompass people at all life stages. It is necessary to define the specificity of individual groups of recipients, specifytype and level of knowledge they need, and adapt the educational tools.

O czym rozmawia świat nowoczesnej edukacji?

Author(s): Marcin Dąbrowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

Dobre praktyki - Jisc Tracker

Author(s): Maria Zając / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

Jak identyfikować i mierzyć niewidoczne zasoby przedsiębiorstwa? Zastosowanie metody The Value Explorer

Author(s): Mariusz Tomasz Strojny / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

Although the today’s economy is increasingly based on intangible resources, values, knowledge and intellectual capital- accounting and methods of measuring the performance of national economies are grounded in the industrial age and thusinefficient and unreliable. Hence, new methods of performance measurement are needed. They should enable us to captureand measure in quantitative and/or qualitative way the „intangible world” surrounding us. The aim of this article is to give acloser look at one of the most interesting and least known methods called „The Value Explorer”. This method was developed inthe second half of the 1990s by the Dutch consulting arm of KPMG in cooperation with prof. Rene Tissen. It assumes a holisticapproach to the measurement and management of an enterprise’s intellectual capital and is focused on capturing value.[The article is a result of statutory research „Value-based management in the concept of integral development (humanistic)”conducted by the Institute of Value Management at the Warsaw School of Economics. The article is based on the desk research,the review of Polish and international literature as well as on the author’s 17 years work experience at KPMG.]

Przywództwo autentyczne a zaangażowanie w pracę - porównanie sektora publicznego z sektorem prywatnym

Author(s): Tomasz Gigol,Barbara A. Sypniewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2017

Work commitment is a desired condition due to its impact on the quality of work, organizational success as well as on satisfactionof employees. First observed in the private sector it pertains also to the public sector. Theory of management in publicsector sometimes uses business management concepts. One of them is leadership. Thus, we decided to investigate the impact ofleadership on employee engagement in the public sector and compare it to that in the private sector.We have chosen the theory of authentic leadership and studied work commitment manifesting itself in three elements: vigor,dedication to work and preoccupation with work. Surveys were conducted on a group of 786 people, of whom 117 represented thepublic sector. Their results have proved that work commitment did not differ depending on the sector in which the respondents worked.However, there were significant differences in the relationship between authentic leadership of superiors and work commitment.In the studied population leadership had a strong impact on all components of work commitment. However, in the publicsector, we have noticed the influence of authentic leadership only on vigor – one of the three components of work commitment.This influence was smaller than among the sectors.That leads to the conclusion that the theory of authentic leadership does not help much in creating employee commitmentin the public sector. Thus, one needs to search for additional factors that build commitment and develop leadership theory inpublic sector.

Human learning process with technologies

Author(s): Sejdi Sejdiu / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

Learning has been a recurrent and inseparable activity of human being since ever. People have been inventing and discovering various methods and techniques to improve its acquisition process and ways. One’s progress and development has always been evolutionary as regards to learning versatility. One has come to know various tactics, techniques and technologies according to the developing circumstances. Even so, in the contemporary 21st Century, it has been observed that the process is no longer evolutionary as it used to be because of the revolutionary dynamics that change with time. Science and technology changes the whole internal mindset as well as external perspective. Computer changes the whole scenario. With its introduction, the conception of electronic era emerged. Electronic learning opened a new chapter in the history of human education and knowledge. Virtual classroom concept came into being. Interactive means changed altogether. Using technology, a mentor can monitor student performance continuously, provide constant feedback and help those who find in difficult to keep up with the others. However, with the presence of technology, the presence of a mentor is not required at all times as student independent work is triggered by technology, and very often it outperforms the student’s closely supervised performance. All these means prove to be effective in the human learning process.

Konferencje dla nauczycieli i bibliotekarzy „Licencja na czytanie” w Bibliotece Pedagogicznej im. gen. bryg. Prof. E. Zawackiej w Toruniu

Author(s): Anna Broda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Since 2016, conferences from the License for reading series have been held at the Pedagogical Library in Toruń. Meetings are addressed to librarians and teachers interested in issues of reading education, promotion of reading and publishing issues. Researchers, teachers, booksellers, writers, and people of culture talk about their experiences, share knowledge, discuss research findings and predict the future of reading on their basis. The performances are accompanied by workshops, literary games and competitions.

Non-Standard Elements at Professional English Lessons

Author(s): Oleksandra Borzenko,Yana Pavlishcheva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The paper focuses on the issue of using non-standard elements namely educational games provided with the help of an interactive whiteboard at English lessons with non-linguistic students. The purpose of our research is to verify the opportunities of educational games based on using an interactive whiteboard for effective English teaching to non-linguistic students for effective improving English proficiency. Different methods such as observation, questionnaires, discussions and pedagogical experiment were used to study the influence of using educational games provided with an interactive whiteboard in English classes to students’ motivation to learn English and, as a result, to the level of students’ success in the English language. The statistical methods were used as well to measure the results of the pedagogical experiment. The result contrast of the preliminary and final tests confirmed statistically the efficiency of the authors’ technique of using educational games provided with an interactive whiteboard at professional English lessons. The specially developed educational games provided with the help of an interactive whiteboard are presented as examples of non-standard elements in English classes with law students and can be used by any English teachers. The results of the experiment proved statistically effectiveness of the authors’ technique of using non-standard elements for teaching professional English.

Component Interaction in Distributed Knowledge-Based Systems

Author(s): Milko MARINOV,Irena VALOVA / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

The process of group decision making requires a set of databases and knowledge bases with coordinated communication between them. A distributed knowledge-based system consists of several knowledge-based systems, and there is a possibility for their physical or logical separation. The article presents the conceptual model of a distributed knowledge-based system. The suggested architecture supports sharing and integration of knowledge and data in addition to allowing heterogeneous knowledge-based systems to communicate with each other. The article also outlines the implementation of interaction protocols comprising intelligent objects which cooperate with each other in order to find solutions to assigned tasks.

Before Teaching Cybersecurity in the University: Usability Analysis of the Cloud Platform with Learner’s Perspective

Author(s): Kolhar Manjur,Alameen Abdalla / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

The aim of this research is to apply usability evaluation of the Cloud Service Providers (CSP) established for various development purposes, CSP also are used in teaching cybersecurity courses for undergraduate program. In order to apply usability evaluation, two CSP products are used, namely Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. We have applied usability evaluation method to measure its appropriateness with respect to learning and the use of a product for teaching. We have categorized students in two groups, namely expert and novice. Our evaluation suggests that before using graphical user interfaces of CSP, one should have knowledge and skills in implementing Cybersecurity project.

Integrative Assessment Framework in Blended Learning

Author(s): Sergei Titov,Alexandr Kurilov,Natalya Titova,Irina Brikoshina / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

Development of blended learning leads to reconceptualization of teaching methods, transformation of assessment tools and frameworks. This paper proves the relevance of the integrative assessment frameworks regarding blended learning environments. The authors introduce the original framework combining both formative and summative assessment perspectives. During the experimental implementation, this framework, based on the modified project management earned value method, demonstrated its effectiveness and appropriateness to blended learning programs.

Development of Self-learning Economics App for Secondary School Students in Malaysia Based on Information Processing Model

Author(s): Wan Normeza Wan Zakaria,Hafiza Abas,Maslin Masrom,Raihana Mohdali,Nik Nadzirah Nik Mohamed / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

According to the recent development in capabilities of smart mobile devices, their growing penetration rate among students, and the positive impacts of mobile apps on students’ motivation and performance, it is possible to take advantage of these devices to design an app for learning Economics. The aim of this project is to develop the Economics mobile app for secondary school students in Malaysia which can offer ubiquitous self-learning among students. The design is based on information processing model that emphasizes cognitive processes in learning. This paper discusses the development of the app which is named EconsF4.

Aircraft Industry Staff Retraining as a Part of Vocational Education in the Russian Federation

Author(s): Rushana Rishatovna ANAMOVA,Leonid Vladimirovich BYKOV,Dmitri Aleksandrovich Kozorez / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

The article includes items related to the military-industrial complex (MIC) staffing shortages. It is considered that there is a possibility for learning the missing professional capacities using vocational education programs. There is a comparison of the professional capacities and duration of the high education program and vocational education program.

Changing University Governance Paradigms in the Middle East and North Africa: The UAE Example

Author(s): Abdelghani Remache / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

When Al Ain University (AU) was incepted in 2005 it was aimed to be a higher education institution of its kind and was meant to grow into an international-class university. Five years later, however, it found itself lagging behind the top twenty UAE universities. In less than half a dozen of years, no less than four presidents have resigned or been terminated prior to the expiration of their terms, in most cases, within one or two years of assuming office which stroke a serious blow to the institution’s governance system. This state-of-affairs had had a grave impact on the stability, functioning and growth of the institution and thus prompted an urgent need for a stable organizational model of governance. Consequently, AU developed a new management system derived from the Commission for Academic Accreditation 2011 Standards of UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (CAA Standards) meaning to move the institution forward to accomplishments and excellence. This paper examines the nature and the effects of change involved through the application of the CAA Standards as an organizational model of governance and provides recommendations as to how the model can be efficaciously implemented.