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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEXTBOOKS: THE CASE OF IRANIAN EAP CONTEXT

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Nushi M. , Momeni A.

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tom 20

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nr 5

65-86

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Technological developments have been changing the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instruction. Although there is a wide literature on (the effects of) application of various educational technologies in EAP courses, there is scarcely any literature on the inclusion of such technologies in EAP textbooks. This study addresses that gap and investigates whether and how educational technologies have been introduced or applied in the EAP textbooks used in Iranian universities. Moreover, it tries to elicit the reasons why the authors of those textbooks included or excluded such technologies. To achieve the first objective, 94 EAP textbooks from four disciplines, namely Arts, Engineering, Humanities, and Medicine, were selected and analyzed to find out whether and how these textbooks treat educational technologies. To fulfil the second objective, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 18 of the EAP textbook writers to discover their justifications regarding the inclusion or exclusion of educational technologies in the books. The results indicated that the textbooks were largely devoid of educational technologies, with the authors citing a number of reasons for not including such technologies in the books, the most important of which was their own lack of educational technology know-how. Since EAP courses are usually implemented in universities, this study suggests that introduction and incorporation of affordances provided by educational technologies in EAP textbooks can contribute to university teachers’ efficacy and students’ academic development.

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Training of Masters in Philology in Ukraine and Abroad: Search for Educational Strategies

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Semenog O.

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nr 1

25-32

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The paper outlines the modernization experience of philology Master programs in Ukraine, the USA, Poland and Russia. It has been proved that the Masters’ training is on the search educational strategies phase, which allows to form a single educational space on the principles of internationalization, institutionalization, integration, cultural convergence, common goals and values. An important field of Masters’ training is a competency-based approach. It is based on the idea of flexibility, variability of programs, and profiling, philological integration with other humanities, criteria, standards and principles of improving the quality of education. Attention is focused on the formation of constructive-technological, operational, educational, reflective, educational, qualimetric and creative skills of future teachers. Among the perspective forms of education lecture is distinguished as it is focused on the co-creation and co-thinking of lecturer and students, monographic lectures. Among innovative teaching methods and assessment of Master training are selected case-method, cluster, reference compendium, portfolio, performance tests. The variability of final work is defined as an effective way of learning individualization. It has been proved that the result of Master’s training should be the specialist with a high level of social maturity, active citizenship, education, culture and responsibility for his professional and scientific activity.

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ESL Teachers’ Approaches towards the Acceptance of Educational Technology Integration in Non-Formal Education: A Case from Kenya

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Kildė L.

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nr 1

634-649

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Aim. In efforts to handle the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, language schools in Kenya were forced to organise a smooth transition from physical to virtual classroom by incorporating educational technologies in virtual learning and teaching processes. Such a shift was new to teachers and required additional efforts to master the peculiarities of organising virtual English classes. Thus, this study aims to explore Kenyan ESL teachers’ perspectives towards the acceptance of educational technology integration in non-formal education. Methods. A qualitative approach was adopted in this study. Eleven teachers from two private foreign language schools participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews, where they answered questions based on the elements of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Results. The findings showed that most teachers’ approaches towards the acceptance of educational technologies were mainly positive and they intend to integrate them in their ESL classroom. The results of the qualitative data analysis also demonstrated that age is one of those personal characteristics that might hinder teachers’ willingness to adopt educational technologies while teaching ESL. Conclusions. This study also found that the variety of adopted educational technologies was not extensive. Therefore, teachers’ awareness, interest, and digital competences should be further developed. Practical application. The herein presented research findings are of a significant importance for the enhancement of teachers’ competences to apply educational technologies while teaching ESL in Kenya. It also has implications for the practice that is relevant for ESL teachers in non-formal education as well as curriculum organisers.

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Chatbots in maritime education – the potential of chatbot technology in the maritime industry

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Hristova V. , Wiśnicki B. , Wołejsza P.

Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Morskiej w Szczecinie

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2024

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tom nr 77 (149)

21--28

EN

The presented research shows the possibilities of using chatbot technology in the maritime industry. The authors pay special attention to maritime education, broken down into standard and complementary education. The research is based on the results of a survey, which addresses students of five European maritime universities and examines their opinions about chatbots. Additionally, analogies are applied to the case studies of the successful implementation of chatbots in non-maritime businesses. This research determines the current status and development opportunities of maritime chatbots.

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Lecturers’ attitude towards the use of e-learning tools in higher education: a case of Portugal

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Fonseca J. M. , Garcia J. E. , Vieira B. , Teixeira A. S.

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tom Vol. 15, no. 2

23--34

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This study aims to assess the lecturers’ opinions about the use of e-learning tools to support distance and blended learning in higher education in Portugal, evidently reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research was based on a qualitative methodology, specifically, a focus group with professors from five higher education institutions from different geographical areas in Portugal. The obtained results were analysed along four main dimensions: (1) the level of knowledge of e-learning tools, (2) the reasons for using or (3) not using them, and, finally, (4) the opinion of lecturers on the student assessment process using these tools. The results showed that in addition to the concerns with smooth running classes and the appropriate delivery of the syllabus, the lecturers considered the transition to the e-learning context to have been easy. They noted a high level of literacy in the used tools, believed in the continued use of e-learning in the post-pandemic context, indicated several advantages for those involved in the e-learning context and a majority of limitations related to the time required for the adoption of more tools; and, finally, underlined the student assessment issue, which was pointed out as the most sensitive topic in the whole e-learning context. The study informed on the lecturers’ perspective on e-learning and the used tools and provided insight into their perceived usefulness and benefits for lecturers and students. An especially strong concern was verified on the part of lecturers to optimise e-learning tools to provide better knowledge delivery to students.

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Attitudes among chemistry teachers towards increasing personal competencies in applying ICT

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Karolčík Š. , Čipková E.

Chemistry-Didactics-Ecology-Metrology

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2017

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tom R. 22, NR 1-2

99--121

EN

The study analyses opinions and attitudes among Chemistry teachers participating in the national project titled “Modernisation of the Educational Process in Primary and Secondary Schools”. The research part of the study consists of the results of our findings examining the overall satisfaction of course participants with the professional level, difficulty, and contents of the designed TPACK-based (the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) teaching model, as well as their self-assessment of the acquired skills and knowledge regarding the work with particular software and hardware applications. The results indicate that the course based on the TPACK framework and comprising specific examples of teaching activities supported by the use of technology was highly appreciated by teachers. Examples of methodologies for a suitable use of digital technologies in a particular curriculum topic in Chemistry, based on the TPACK model, were evaluated by teachers as the most beneficial ones, in terms of the actual teaching practice. The research confirmed that teachers expect to receive educational technologies together with high-quality methodical guidelines and particular examples of teaching activities involving appropriate and efficient use of the given digital technology in the teaching process.

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Analizie poddano opinie i postawy nauczycieli chemii biorących udział w narodowym projekcie „Modernizacja Procesu Edukacyjnego w Szkołach Podstawowych i Ponadpodstawowych”. Część badawcza opracowania składa się z analizy wyników, które prezentują ogólne zadowolenie uczestników kursu z poziomu zawodowego, trudności i treści zaprojektowanego modelu nauczania opartego na TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) oraz samoocenę nabytych umiejętności i wiedzy w zakresie pracy z poszczególnymi aplikacjami programowymi i sprzętowymi. Wyniki wskazują, że kurs oparty o ramy TPACK i obejmujący konkretne przykłady działań dydaktycznych wspieranych przez wykorzystanie technologii został wysoko oceniony przez nauczycieli. Przykłady metodologii właściwego wykorzystania technologii cyfrowych w konkretnym temacie nauczania chemii z wykorzystaniem modelu TPACK zostały ocenione przez nauczycieli jako najkorzystniejsze pod względem faktycznej praktyki dydaktycznej. Badania potwierdziły, że nauczyciele oczekują technologii edukacyjnych wraz z wysokiej jakości wskazówkami metodycznymi oraz konkretnymi przykładami działań dydaktycznych wiążących się z odpowiednim i efektywnym wykorzystaniem danej technologii cyfrowej w procesie nauczania.

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Specific features of forming interdisciplinary teams and designing projects in petroleum engineering

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Tymkiv N.

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2018

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nr 15

13-21

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The article investigates the issues of training specialists in the petroleum industry ready to work in interdisciplinary teams and designing projects. Petroleum engineering interdisciplinarity can ensure not only a competitive position of a team, country’s economy in the international division of labour, but also helps to win the global competition in the relevant markets of the world, therefore, interdisciplinarity really becomes a source of wealth. At the same time, we must distinguish between interdisciplinarity in its formal representation, when the result of the joint work of specialists in several research fields will be the sum of the result of their work, but also when, due to the synergistic effect, the result may be more significant. In other words, the result that can be obtained in this case can never be obtained as a result of the activity of one of the participants in an interdisciplinary team. Most often, this effect is achieved by means of mutual intersection and application of methods, tools, approaches used by the representatives of different disciplines, science, trade. So, organization of implementation of effective interdisciplinary projects in science, engineering, technology or education requires not only the involvement of specialists from various fields of activity, but also planning a synergistic effect, as a kind of guarantee of obtaining fundamentally new solutions and results that, under certain circumstances, can ensure a victory in competition in the relevant markets.

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Artykuł poświęcony jest badaniom zagadnień niezbędnych do przygotowania specjalistów dla przemysłu naftowego i do pracy w międzyprzedmiotowych zespołach oraz planowania projektów. Międzyprzedmiotowość w inżynierii naftowej może gwarantować nie tylko pozycję konkurencyjną w zespołach czy w gospodarce państwa w międzynarodowym podziale pracy, ale może pomóc zwyciężyć w konkurencji globalnej na rynkach świata. Oznacza to, że międzyprzedmiotowość może stać się podstawą dobrobytu. Celem artykułu jest przybliżenie międzyprzedmiotowości i jej znaczenia w przypadku podjęcia badań przez specjalistów z różnych dziedzin. Przez połączenie rezultatów pracy przedstawicieli nauki i gospodarki, w wyniku synergii, można uzyskać przewagę ekonomiczną. Wprowadzanie zatem efektywnych, międzyprzedmiotowych projektów w nauce, inżynierii, technologiach czy oświacie, połączenie wysiłków przedstawicieli różnych stref działalności, oraz planowanie efektu synergetycznego jako swego rodzaju gwarancji uzyskania fundamentalnie nowych rozwiązań w sprzyjających okolicznościach może zapewnić sukces na odpowiednich rynkach.

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Kształcenie kadr dowódczo-sztabowych dla społeczeństwa informacyjnego

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Bednarek J.

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1999

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tom nr 4

69--88