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Catarina L. Araújo; Cecília Aguiar; Lígia Monteiro – Educational Media International, 2023
This article is the result of work carried out within the scope of Erasmus+ project Kit@: Media competency training for professionals in day-care centres and comparable institutions in rural areas of Europe. Its main objective is to describe ECE systems, curriculum guidelines, pre-service teacher training curricula and teacher profiles related to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Media Literacy, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
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Kerimbayev, Nurassyl; Nurym, Nurdaulet; Akramova, ?liya; Abdykarimova, Saule – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The study considers the problems relating to vocational training of specialists in the virtual educational environment of a higher education institution. The use of advanced information and communication systems (electronic mail, electronic teleconferences, electronic and information resources including text, visual, audio and video information)…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Computer Simulation, Information Systems, Computer Games
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Lehotska, Nikola; Tomaš, Zuzana; Vojtkulakova, Margita – TESL-EJ, 2022
This article contributes to the literature on the value of Virtual Exchanges (VEs) in the field of technology-mediated language learning. Specifically, we report on a pilot program for high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Slovakia and English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in Michigan, USA who engaged in a 10-week,…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Exchange Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Özturk Karatas, Tuçe; Tuncer, Hülya – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
The profound and permanent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a global closure of universities and schools by transforming physical classrooms into online/distance settings. Such a sudden shift resulted in uncertainty in the educational context. During the pandemic, the only way to sustain education was to benefit from distance education,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Distance Education
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Tesar, Marek; Pupala, Branislav; Kascak, Ondrej; Arndt, Sonja – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
This article examines Slovak early years teachers' concerns with conceptions of teacher professionalism. It suggests that there is a mismatch between understandings of professionalism, policy aspirations and the attitudes of teachers to their own professionalism, and that this mismatch fuels early years teachers' sense of agency. These tensions…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers, Professional Identity, Standards
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Alkan, Meral; Meinck, Sabine – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
This study investigates the relationship between students' use of information and communication technology (ICT) for social communication and their computer and information literacy (CIL) scores. It also examines whether gender and socioeconomic background moderates this relationship. We utilized student data from IEA's International Computer and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Literacy, Statistical Analysis, Gender Differences
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Srba, Ivan; Bielikova, Maria – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
In the current time of globalization, collaboration among people in virtual environments is becoming an important precondition of success. This trend is reflected also in the educational domain where students collaborate in various short-term groups created repetitively but changing in each round (e.g. in MOOCs). Students in these kind of dynamic…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Group Dynamics, Feedback (Response)
Pontes, Elvis, Ed.; Silva, Anderson, Ed.; Guelfi, Adilson, Ed.; Kofuji, Sergio Takeo, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Chapters in this book include: (1) Factors that Influence Academic Teacher's Acceptance of E-Learning Technology in Blended Learning Environment (Snjezana Babic); (2) Towards Economical E-Learning Educational Environments for Physically Challenged Students (Amir Zeid, Sarah S. Sakit, Noor A. Al-AbdulRazzaq, Mariam M. Al-Tattan, Fatima S. Sakit,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Problem Based Learning, Lifelong Learning
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Pisutova-Gerber, Katarina; Malovicova, Jana – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
This article describes and analyzes efforts to use collaborative asynchronous discussion forums in a three semester online education program for NGO leaders and managers in Slovakia. Slovakia, as a country with autocratic styles of teacher-centered education, presents strong barriers to the implementation of collaborative learning activities. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Asynchronous Communication
van Beuzekom, Brigitte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper reviews recent measurement work on User-Created Content (UCC) undertaken in OECD countries. It shows that UCC is emerging as a significant area of economic and social activity worthy of consideration for official measurement and discusses the implications for the OECD Model Survey on ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Access to Computers, Users (Information)
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Dahl, Kerstin; Francis, Simon; Tedd, Lucy A.; Tetrevova, Milena; Zihlavnikova, Elena – Library Hi Tech, 2002
Provides an overview of the PROLIB and EDULIB projects, which involved the development and delivery of distance learning courses in the Slovak language to library and information professionals in the Slovak Republic. Explains the combination of face-to-face lecture sessions, group discussions, self-study workbooks, and computer-mediated Internet…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Distance Education, Foreign Countries
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Wall, Dianne; Horák, Tania – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
The aim of this report is to present the findings of the second phase in a longitudinal study of the impact of changes in the TOEFL® test on teaching and learning in test preparation classrooms. The focus of this phase was to monitor six teachers from five countries in Central and Eastern Europe as they received news about changes in the TOEFL and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education