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K-MAPS OF HR SELECTION PROCEDURES AND THEIR POTENTIAL USE IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF TALENTED STUDENTS
Get PDFIn this paper the K-maps are understood as a graphical rendering of a procedural knowledge. The procedural knowledge in question concerns a possible use of selection procedures commonly used in personnel selection in the context of human resources management. Actually, the identification of talented students might be an important task in educational setting. If this task could be successfully carried out by use of a procedure developed in another field, the efforts necessary for implementing it might be alleviated to a considerable degree. On the other hand, this paper is about potential uses of K-maps in the first place
ANALYSE: THE COMPARISON OF CZECH AND FOREIGN ASP / SAAS PROVIDERS
Get PDFThis report gives an overview of the current Application Service Provider´s (ASP) market, especially the offered services. A questionnaire was sent to more than 20 companies which offer some kind of ASP / SaaS, but none of them replied. For this reason all comparisons were done only on the basis of their websites. Chapter three gives an overview of ASP and SaaS definitions, as well as describing the differences between the two. The analysis is focused on the comparison of Czech and foreign companies. Czech companies were compared in accordance with the survey. As the foreign companies offered all services inquired in the survey given to Czech companies, comparison was instead based on the classification of the kind of ASP models offered such as business ASP, enterprice ASP, functional oriented ASP, vertical market ASP and ASP aggregators. At the end of this report, some trends in the ASP market are mentioned
PROFESSIONAL MONOGRAPH REVIEW
Get PDFTitle of the monograph: Systems Approach to Knowledge Modelling. Authors: dr. Ludmila Dömeová; dr. Milan Houška; dr. Martina Houšková Beránková. Cover designer: Olga Čermáková. Interior designer: Roman Kvasnička. Publisher: Graphical Studio Olga Čermáková, Czech Republic. Place: Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Year of publication: 2008. Number of pages: 282. Recommended price of the book: 39.90 EUR. First edition. Reviewer : dr. Stanislava Mildeová; Department of Systems Analysis, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague
THE EFFICIENCY OF ACTIVITY-AIDED TEACHING USING AN E-LEARNING PROGRAM IN AGROCHEMISTRY AS A BACHELOR DEGREE SUBJECT
Get PDFThe activity-aided teaching using e-learning program was assessed in students’ training in Agrochemistry subject in the first year of bachelor degree study at the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources of Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. The e-learning program integrated with active methods had greater efficiency in the students’ education than in classical, formal teaching. The study was achieved on two groups of students; control group (with classical teaching) and tested group (with activated teaching). Students were distributed into groups randomly and the input knowledge in chemistry followed the Gaussian distribution. Basic students’ knowledge on general chemistry was very low on the average and did not correspond with the curricular programs for secondary schools established in the Czech Republic. Activated methods of Agrochemistry teaching consisted mainly from motivation, regularly repetition connected with homework and from usage of e-learning program for self-study. The teaching effectiveness was proved by students’ score from three particular tests and by effective progression and by relative progression. The score from particular tests was related to the score from the entrance test. There were two coefficients of the students’ progression defined properly, and are applicable for a numerical or percentage value. Students from the tested group achieved statistically significantly (α = 0.05) higher scores (186 points) than students in the control group (136 points) in all three particular tests. Evaluation according to effective progression and relative progression proved the higher progress in the tested group compare to the control group. The evaluation of teaching efficiency can be proved by effective as well relative progression. The effective progression was 55 % in tested group and 26 % in control group. Higher significance of tested students’ progression was shown on relative progression; 64 % in tested students and 19 % in control students. The e-learning teaching integrated with active methods can be recommended for higher education
FREEDOM IN ADULT EDUCATION
Get PDFThe paper deals with the term ‘freedom’ in the education environment. The author’s attention is focused on the adult education. He attempts to specify his point of view on the important role of freedom in conjunction with teaching and learning processes. It is shown that the ‘freedom’ can play a key role in the field of motivation. A few basic possible recommendations are formulated and discussed. A good deal of attention is focused on some open questions formulation in the domain of adult education. The next goal of the paper is to introduce some methods and tools which are based on IT and, from the author’s point of view, could shift the educational process to higher level. The author deals with selected methods and tools which he has come across in the European Net-Trainers course. They use modern approaches to the educational process and are suitable for the university environment. They can support the implementation of freedom in adult education. The concrete praxis at the various faculties can differ but experience exchange among various workplaces is very useful. The discussion about this topic can bring valuable ideas for the work of all teachers who are responsible for teaching not only informatics, but many other subjects. Lifelong learning also calls for some new concepts and modification of the approaches used. The text of the paper reflects the possibility of educational process modernization and freedom in education wider implementation. From the author’s point of view the topic ‘freedom in adult education’ may soon become a hot-topic
CONTAINERS OF KNOWLEDGE AS A BASIS FOR KNOWLEDGE MAPS
Get PDFThe heart of most knowledge management (KM) strategies was and often is in technologies as data warehousing, dokument management, etc. The so called „second generation of KM“ is based on a knowledge life cycle with both demand and supply side. Many discussions of KM are on theoretical and conceptual level and that ´s why many practicioners do not consider the KM as a significant contribution to competitive advantage. I tis necessary to make the knowledge more concrete, readable and user friendly. For knowledge collection and codification we use knowledge maps – schemas or models of how we undestand the problems and how we take actions. The knowledge maps can be expressed in texts, charts, pictures, etc. The character of knowledge map is closely connected with appropriate containers of knowledge. The containers perspektive is important in the implementation strategy of organizational learning
SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE ANNOTATION OF HYPERLINKS IN THE CONDITIONS OF UNIVERSITY COURSES FROM THE FIELD OF INFORMATICS
Get PDFThe main aim of implementing adaptive hypermedia in education is the increase of effectivity of the learning process or the process of acquiring the information related to educational activities. One of the adaptive systems is the system for adaptive annotation of hyperlinks, iLMS. The paper deals with experiences in implementing this system at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
THE CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Get PDFoai:eriesjournal.com:article/1The school of today faces circumstances that differ very much from the ones in which the current educators have been educated as students, especially in the countries that are new members of the European Union as EU-27. Therefore, in order to manage knowledge in their school of today, one must understand the socio-economic development trends and their impact over the school as a subsystem of the emerging innovative society in which the innovative business leaves little or no room for the routine-loving behaviour of previous decades, centuries, and millennia. This contribution summarizes a dialectical system of this development trends and the resulting newly required attributes of the contemporary schools and teachers, but it does so on the level of provocation for readers’ creative and innovative thinking and action rather than on the level of any final answers. The Bologna Process seems to be an underused opportunity for innovation of higher education in Europe