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2009
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vol. 8
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issue 4(25)
265-274
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Even Kant uses the concept of philosophy that stems from 'polis'; philosophy is therefore considered - as Pierre Hadot stresses - as exercise in wisdom, or practicing a certain way of life. It must be however stressed that'bios theoretikos' as 'praxis' is only one of the possible, among others, ways of life, yet undoubtedly the most perfect, as it is oriented on the very perfection as a regulative idea. Nevertheless, the concept of university has a different meaning: already the medieval university (especially in its prime, symbolized by Abelard) just because of its 'professional' utilitas becomes not only a certain way of functioning in a corporate community but also 'an universal form of life or of matter of social world as a whole'.
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The present paper deals with problem of the future of universities regarded by the author as the most important element of higher education; as such they should play an outstanding role. Therefore, university should not be a high school producing plenty of specialists but a place where the country's intellectual elites are educated.
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In author belief the University should bring some value added in to discussions taking place in Poland on the Jewish matter. They often roll around the evaluation’s fault and aim at pronouncing a symbolic sentence. Unfortunately they resemble an argument court, had at establishing in general, that when somebody is making a profit, somebody else is losing it. Meanwhile the University isn’t a court, especially isn’t a historical court. Justifying or accusing isn’t our role. Identifying the phenomenon is our role (at least a truth often very diagnosis is providing one of staying pages in the dispute with arguments). Understanding the phenomenon and assisting understanding are further lines through other. We aren’t allowed to repeat neither of the most widespread theses only because are frequent, neither we should not be driven by an aspiration to defense of the dignity or/and national pride. For moral reasons the college community should protest in case of universally recognized phenomena too reprehensible, but delivering to information is her basic task, of knowledge, and straightening out means of thinking towards the meaning — even if in the arts the result in the huge scope will always remain diverse.
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The problem of sexual harassment at universities has been explored in western and mainly American sociology since the mid-1970s. Since then, anti-harassment policies and procedures (including follow-up victim care) have been introduced at most Anglo-Saxon universities designing how to deal with 'harassers' and 'victims'. In the Czech Republic, empirical research on this issue and on university anti-harassment policies is still lacking. The aim of this article is to introduce the methods and procedures employed at Anglo-American universities in an effort to tackle sexual harassment. The experiences of these academic institutions represent an indispensable source of information and inspiration for the Czech higher education environment.
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Since their beginning Universities have played an important, often decisive role in the development of Europe as a cultural community of various peoples and nations. In the present circumstances, ever more troubling, they cannot cease to be responsible for the way Europe exists, and the direction it is going. All those who belong to universitas magistrorum et scholarium have a funda¬mental duty to discern the signs of the present times, to distinguish and sepa¬rate good from bad, and above all to search for truth - the integral truth about man in the perspective of his natural and supernatural dimensions. Thus man is to become the primary way for the university. The modern debate about man is in fact the debate about the essentials of culture which today is often marked by ambivalent and contrasting meanings. Hence, this universal debate must not be neglected by the university. On the contrary, the university should make it its priority in all its educational and scientific activities. Otherwise, it would deny its primary duty and proper identity.
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The theme of the paper is to reveal how well-prepared pre-service teachers think they are. It aims at reviewing the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 cohorts studying for a BA in TEFL at a university by examining the impact and the effectiveness of four-year pre-service English education in a Chinese university context, and what needs to be improved and maintained from the perspective of trainees. Questionnaires were used, followed by semi-structured interviews. The questionnaires were completed by 300 participants, 200 of whom were then randomly chosen as interviewees. Despite finding some inconsistency in the four-year BA TEFL program, the result obtained from investigation of the cohort of student teachers is still satisfying.
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Specific approaches, in the field of the University marketing, are discussed with the higher intensity last decades. But the Universities established in underdeveloped regions have special position, function, possibilities, and specific needed activities. There are also many reasons for applying modified strategies and marketing tools in Slovak higher educational market. The study deals with main and dominant approaches in this area of managing of educational institutions in Slovak environment but the study also presents the results of the research. The sample of the research was selected from students of the Faculty of Management, University of Preöov, Slovak Republic. There was marketing product policy designed and mainly communications policy and image mainly analyzed there. There are offered some suggestions for universities in the final part of the study.
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The article is taking the issues associated with the measurement of the teaching process effectiveness at the university. At the work authors modified model of the teaching effectiveness process presented by T. Chien in 2007. The article is also presented example of using the modified model
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The aim of the article is to draw attention to the current trends in the rural youth's access to university education and the main directions of the rural youth's allocation in the structure of institutions of higher learning. During many years rural youth relatively rarely studied at universities. This fact was attributable to social-economic, cultural and educational factors. The situation changed after the accomplishment of systemic transformation in the result of which young people from rural areas more and more often study at universities. As the presented data show, this does not mean that rural youth has – in comparison with urban youth, equal access to individual departments and directions of studies. It turns out that the general indicators of the rural youth's presence at universities are clearly rising. However, truly revealing are the indicators for individual departments and directions of studies which suggest that the main factors determining the presence of rural youth at universities are: auto-selection, evidenced by the tendency to choose definite – chiefly pedagogical, directions of studies, the popularity of a given direction of studies (attributable to social prestige or demand for definite competencies, etc.), the position of a given direction of studies within a definite department and, consequently, the pursued recruitment policy (the number of students that can be admitted, possible entrance examinations, etc.)
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The article describes the difficult choices that are now concerning the universities. Authors are trying to show the dangers connected with insufficient strategic orientation and find the possible direction of adapting to the market conditions.
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The subject of analyses in this study are the transformations taking place within universities as a result of the changing political, social, economic, and cultural conditions in past centuries. There is a description of the development of universities in the Middle Ages as well as of their transformation in the 14th-16th centuries. Their 19th-century development has also been analysed, with special attention being paid to German, British and American university institutions. The interwar period has also been taken into consideration. Another area of interest is the political, social and economic conditions which have brought about the development and transformation of universities at the turn of the 21st century.
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Respect for a human being and perceiving an employee as a source of knowledge and not only a source of costs are the features of modern organization. Sharing knowledge and its popularizing are the key factors underlying competitive advantage of an organization. Possessing knowledge does not grant an efficient realization of the aforementioned processes. If so, why are the employees so reluctant to share this immaterial substance, which they do not loose by its exchange? Are they evaluated only for possessing knowledge or for sharing it as well? The article describes the results of a pilot study, carried out among the high school and university students, on the consciousness of the significance of sharing knowledge. The preliminary results indicate that the students who achieve the highest marks do not belong to the group of those who are the most eager to share their knowledge with others.
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The article provides an insight into the issues of education quality system at Cracow University of Economics in the perspective of an university's functions and the role of didactics in its functioning. The author describes some positive experience with the usage of information and communication technologies in education quality system. The article focuses on the methodology and organization of this system.
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In the article the author describes the literature study conducted in order to understand the concept of knowledge management and the structure of intellectual capital, which would allow to build a bridge between academic field of theory and practical application. The particular attention was paid to complex approach to the construction of intellectual capital, identifying its individual components and explaining rates and interactions among them. This paper broadens the understanding of the key role of intellectual capital as an important factor allowing for achieving competitive advantage and value creation.
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For higher education to remain innovative and viable in the future, factors facilitating and inhibiting online education must be closely examined and addressed. Higher education's approaches to the phenomenon of online learning reveal much about its ability to be proactive in the face of significant societal change. Online learning is a dynamic process that includes the interaction of administrators, faculty, and students. Issues ranging from access to accommodation and trust to management of time, money, and people all combine to create an environment in which online programs succeed, fail, or never materialize. This essay explores some of the major barriers and bridges to online higher education.
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The aim of the paper is to present the possibilities of improving the processes of knowledge management. The authors find them in the adaptation of the latest IT technologies, called knowledge technologies. Particularly important are social technologies functioning in Web 2.0 environment and semantic technologies.
e-mentor
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2010
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issue 4(36)
33-36
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The article describes the usage of Moodle platform for supporting the didactic process at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdansk University of Technology. The platform is currently applied to support traditional classes. The authoress presents the history of Moodle platform implementation at the Faculty as well as describes the results of the study concerning the platform usage by students and their opinion on e-learning classes. The planned development of Moodle at the Faculty is also discussed.
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The paper presents the problem of the use of Open Source Content Management System in the creation of a faculty information portal. A critical analysis of literary issues is made. The results of studies conducted by the University of California At Davis, and the use of the Content Management System (CMS) in developing a university information portal are presented. The review of commercial software solving the task and development track of Polish academic portals are outlined. The faculty of Civil Engineering information portal is presented. In the last part of the article some problems devoted to the computerisation of universities are addressed.
e-mentor
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2010
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issue 2(34)
31-35
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The article suggests what should be done so that education - not only that defined by the prefix 'e' - would better fulfill the requirements of the modern society, which is described as knowledge-based. The theses stated in the article arise from the authoress' own experience and observations, gathered in diverse contexts and environments. They point that we still do not follow the changes that occur, or at least should occur, in education (also in e-education) due to the increasingly more common presence of information and communication technologies in society's life.
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The answer to the problem of low level of Polish students' competences may be dissemination of the methods of teaching modeled on a course LATINA. This is a course for students, teachers and others who want to develop their educational skills on the World Wide Web. The course will provide a practical, hands-on introduction to a variety of web-based tools for teaching and learning. At the same time the author will relate the tools to relevant learning theories and to theories of historical, economic, organizational and socio-technical change.
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