Food Safety Through Application of an E-Learning Platform

• Authors: Mihaela Adriana Tita , Otto Ketney , Tamosaitiene Loreta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper investigates the effectiveness of a continuing online education course for the professionals, who provides information on the food safety working group from "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, formed by students (specialization: Engineering and Management in Public Food and Agro-tourism), persons looking for a job (unemployed) and people who works in the food industry. Piloting materials was made both face to face and online. The knowledges was measured using evaluation tests after each lesson and through a final assessment test. The results of the promotion rate was over 90%, which indicates a high efficiency in terms of piloting materials adapted by teachers from the "Lucian Blaga" University.

Keywords

EN

evaluation; tests; piloting; food safety

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Management of Sustainable Development
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-31

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-09-08

Contributors

author

Mihaela Adriana Tita

• Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

author

Otto Ketney

• Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

author

Tamosaitiene Loreta

• Klaipedos paslaugu ir vreslo mokykla, Lithuania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/msd-2015-0018