Innovative Teaching Methods in the Electronic Environment

In this article we will look at what innovative methods can be used in view of e-learning. In the last two and a half years, education changeд completely, both in Bulgaria and in the world. This is because of the global pandemic that humanity is struggling with. All teachers, students and people in the educational environment have fundamentally changed the way they work. The main goal is to receive quality education.

Self-Regulation in E-Learning Environment

The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the accelerated spread of e-learning around the world. In e-learning, self-regulation becomes more relevant than ever. Reducing the influence of traditional features of the face-to-face learning environment and increasing the impact of the e-environment place high demands on students’ self-regulation. The author’s self-regulation e-learning model emphasizes the position of e-learning at the intersection of the electronic environment and the learning environment. We observe a collision of the concepts of these two environments. The Internet is a more common environment that provokes the use of unacceptable tools and hints, which is a logical consequence of such behavior to pass the test, and not to gain knowledge. Therefore, the most important thing is that students have their own goals and strategies, and use the large resources of the electronic environment for development, and not for cheating. The authors conducted a survey (N = 767), which showed that students rate their self-efficacy of online learning higher in the e-environment than in the offline learning environment. Self-regulation indicators are the highest in the field of environment, and the lowest when setting goals and in time management.

Features of management of a technical university in a digital society

В статье с позиций структурно-ролевого анализа рассматриваются изменения, затронувшие основные составляющие университетского образования и определяются возможные дальнейшие векторы их развития. В качестве источника трансформаций рассматривается главный фактор информационного общества – процесс цифровизации и вызванные им преобразования в коммуникативно-ролевой структуре социальных отношений. Университетам надлежит осваивать новую модель учебного процесса, строго ориентированную на обучающихся. Наиболее благоприятной средой освоения новой структуры отношений между преподавателями и обучающимися является электронная среда, дающая не только новые инструменты работы с информацией, но и новые паттерны взаимодействия между преподавателями и обучающимися: возможность дистанционных форм взаимодействия, выравнивающих статусную ролевую асимметрию, характерную для очных форм обучения. Авторы анализируют опыт формирования электронной среды в Санкт-Петербургском государственном морском техническом университете. Центральным элементом такой среды является ИСУ СПбГМТУ. Рассматриваются и другие программные продукты и цифровые инструменты, ипользуемые преподавателями университета в учебном процессе и оптимизирующие его: Telegram, Trello, Mentimeter, Canva, Google Forms. В статье также рассматривается новая управленческая функция администрации вуза, связанная с изучением и управлением целевыми аудиториями, анализируется реализующая эту функции инфраструктура, а также приводятся результаты и рекомендации эмпирического социологического исследования, посвященного задаче изучения одной из таких аудиторий – абитуриенты СПбГМТУ 2020 года. The article examines the changes affecting the main components of university education from the standpoint of structural and role analysis and identifies possible further vectors of their development. As a source of transformations, the main factor of the information society is considered – the process of digitalization and the transformations caused by it in the communicative role structure of social relations. Universities should master the model of the educational process centered on students. The most favorable environment for mastering the new structure of relations between teachers and students is the electronic environment, which gives not only new tools for working with information, but also new patterns of interaction between teachers and students: the possibility of remote forms of interaction, leveling the status role asymmetry characteristic of full-time forms of education. The authors analyze the experience of forming an electronic environment at the St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University. The central element of such an environment is the ISU of SMTU. Other software products and digital tools used by university teachers in the educational process and optimizing it are also considered: Telegram, Trello, Mentimeter, Canva, Google Forms. The article also examines the new managerial function of the university administration related to the study and management of target audiences, analyzes the infrastructure implementing this function, and also provides the results and recommendations of an empirical sociological study devoted to the task of studying one of these audiences – applicants of St. Petersburg State Technical University in 2020.

electronic environment

E-environment adalah pemanfaatan teknologi informasi dalam bentuk elektronik guna menyampaikan, mengenalkan, bahkan mengajak masyarakat luas pada umumnya untuk memahami pentingnya lingkungan disekitar kita yang perlu dijaga dan dijadikan milik yang harus dilestarikan. Dari pengertian tersebut dapat dipahami bahwa e-environment turut mengambil peranan penting dalam mengkomunikasikan tentang pentingnya menjaga dan melestarikan lingkungan hidup sehingga manusia dapat langsung melihat bagaimana kondisi alam yang ada disekitarnya.

Simulation as a Resource in the Calculus Solving Problem

This article is derived from the research project and developed at School of Computer Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. The article reports on the problems found among engineering students with respect to their resistance to using different representation registers when solving optimization problems in the Calculus Learning Unit. Use of such registers could help the students to build mathematics knowledge and to solve calculus problems. As a didactic strategy, simulations are used in an electronic environment in order to support the students by fostering their use of tabular, graphical and algebraic representation registers. Interviews are undertaken of six of the professors who gave the calculus courses, and a diagnostic questionnaire was applied to 68 students prior to and after working with the proposal. As for the theoretical framework, the work reported by Duval and Hitt is salient in this report, particularly their emphasis of the fact that working on activities by way of one single representation system is not sufficient. From the first responses provided by the students, one can conclude that the algebraic register is preferred by the majority of students. It is however used in a mechanical fashion without affording any meaning to the content of the problem and to the process of solving it. Another conclusion reported is that implementing tasks in the classroom in which the mathematics activity requires coherent use of different representations is necessary

Course in E-learning and Moodle for Academic Staff – Development, Provision, Evaluation, Satisfaction

The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for education systems. Many university lecturers did not have enough training to teach in an electronic environment, for others there was no such experience at all. This paper discusses the evaluation of a course “E-learning. Moodle." designed to prepare faculty to teach online and users' satisfaction with the training. The influence of demographic and professional factors was analysed. Results indicate that confidence in computer skills and pedagogical qualification are strong predictors of the success of such training. Micro-learning with short video clips is most suitable.

Electronic Environment

Berbagai perkembangan telah mempengaruhi perusahaan terkait dengan aktivitas kerja ataupun persaingan bisnis dalam market. Perusahaan di era modern ini sudah banyak terpengaruh oleh perkembangan teknologi yang pesat seperti halnya dalam penggunaan internet, pengembangan sistem teknologi baru, channel-channel komunikasi dan distribusi inovatif, dan masih banyak lagi yang menyebabkan terjadinya adaptasi atau penyesuain dari pihak perusahaan yang menjadikan perusahaan tersebut menjadi perusahaan digital atau kita sebut sebagai e-business.Peneliti di dunia sudah menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan teknologi modern yang baik dan benar dapat berkontribusi besar terhadap suatu perusahaan. Salah satunya adalah electronic environment yang mulai berkembang dengan sangat pesat di generasi baru dan sering digunakan dalam trade, marketing, advertisement, studies, communicaiton, training, dan masih banyak lagi. Pada masa ini sendiri seluruh transaksi sudah mulai berlangsung secara elektronik, tidak terkecuali dengan perusahaan yang berarti bahwa e-environment juga dapat menjadi faktor pembantu bagi suatu perusahaan dalam meraih keuntungan kompetitif di market.

The Electronic Seal as a Solution to Prove the Intent of a Legal Entity

Because the digital environment does not recognise national borders and with transactions increasingly taking place across them, an electronic environment that affords interoperability is important for the competitiveness of the European Union. Debate about whether the identification of individuals in the digital environment should be a norm and obligation or, instead, the digital environment should be available as a form of expression of our privacy and anonymity has not waned. Although legal entities act through natural persons, solutions are available whereby a natural person’s e-signature may be replaced in an electronic environment by an electronic seal, or e-seal, of a legal entity. Although the general requirements related to e-seals were established in Estonian legislation already in 2009 and on EU level with the eIDAS Regulation in 2016, the legal meaning of an e-seal has remained unclear in most EU countries, even Estonia, where the uptake of such solutions is widespread. In light of this context, the article examines in which cases the e-seal of a legal entity could be equal in legal meaning to a hand-written signature or an e-signature of a natural person. Thus, the article addresses challenges visible in Estonian and EU-level legal acts that have left the legal meaning of the e-seal unclear. As some EU member states have declared a legal meaning for e-seals divergences among the regulatory approaches examined lead to issues that erode interoperability and the mutual recognition of e-seals in cross-border transactions, both of which would be expected from a genuine digital single market. From the examples of other Member States, a recommendation that the Estonian legislator amend the private-law acts is offered, with recommended wording that should eliminate the gaps in law. In private-law transactions, non-compliance with the form requirements provided by law or agreed upon between the parties generally results in the nullity of the transaction. According to the law currently in force, failure to comply with a requirement for a hand written signature (written form) or with equivalent requirements connected with electronic form as provided for by law constitutes non-compliance with a formal requirement. Should the Estonian legislation be changed in accordance with the suggestions presented, paying attention to its level when using the e-seal remains crucial. At the same time, it is important to take into account the purpose of the formal requirement, the actual intention of the parties, and the principle of good faith when deciding on the consequences, whether of the current law or of potential changes. When one is using a tool other than the parties' agreement (be it an e-signature or an e-seal), it is important to consider the purpose of the agreement if wishing to determine the parties' actual intention and analyse the legal entity's behaviour and, hence, whether the transaction has been performed.

Book Metadata for an Open Access World

Most book and monograph publications still lack visibility within an electronic environment due to missing digitalized and persistent bibliographic data and/or fragmentary portability or interoperability based on the variety of formats, resulting in a more error-prone, non-standardized communication between various indexing systems and platforms. But books that cannot be discovered will not be read. OA metadata for books is essential for the transformation of the whole scholarly landscape, and one of its greatest advantages is full, immediate accessibility. 1 The point of origin for the OA META project was the realization that available book metadata (i.e. ONIX/MARC records) was not primarily created for the usage of indexing within an electronic research environment. Consequentially, both detail and focus of elements tagged in datasets are not necessarily selected to output solidified and persistent book records. The question was how to enrich or edit available metadata so that it can unfold its greatest impact in an e-context.