The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports established a so-called eVŠ system - Records and analytical information system for higher education (HE) in the Republic of Slovenia. eVŠ performs two roles - it is a tool for various HE stakeholders to rationalize their time and costs, and an analytical tool that facilitates evidencebased HE policy-making for further development of the HE system. This paper presents eVŠ records and particularly its analytical capabilities, together with its key impacts and further potential of its analytical capabilities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38717189
Schooling remains one of the real foundations of modern society in the EU which enjoys a relatively high level of trust. This belief is attributed to the impact schools have on the lives of individuals and further development of society towards successful EU integration. The high quality of education system is nowadays in the focus of most education policies. This paper is based on the thesis that schools develop moral and intellectual excellence of individuals. In a contemporary and highly sophisticated societies, also referred as ‘risk societies’, goals are stated as being increasingly important. In the area of education, it is crucial to understand the competencies that individuals need to achieve in moral and intellectual excellence, especially for a successful integration into society and labour market. Despite varying views on skills in the 21st century, all discussions highlight the importance of ethics, values and virtues. The focus on the aforementioned raises several questions for educators; among which is the question of whether it is possible to teach virtues and how to define which virtues are necessary. This paper points to the urgency of learning virtues and outlines some of them. Defining virtues in education is one of the key tasks in realising the meaning of teaching, and subsequently, the development of individuals' moral and intellectual excellence.
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Information and communication technology is dramatically changing the world we live in. Over recent years, open resources and open education have been part of different initiatives and projects. Nowadays, information can be easily reached from different sources and knowledge can be acquired outside of the traditional bricks-and-mortar institutions. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are challenging higher education, however the experts and researchers are yet to reach a consensus on whether MOOCs will change the nature of higher education. This paper analyses the issues of whether MOOCs pose a threat to higher education institutions, if they are a feasible replacement for payable study programs or whether they support people willing to learn in their lifelong learning process. These questions are analyzed from a business perspective rather than from the point of formal (higher) education. We are asking if the MOOCs present the opportunity for in-house company training.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538572996
This study attempted to explore the impacts of attitudinal antecedents on students’ entrepreneurial intention. Comparisons between students of engineering and nonengineering backgrounds and gender groups were made. Total of 998 students from universities in Hong Kong were surveyed, leading to a number of highlights in the study. First, it is found that the learning motivation strongly correlates with innovativeness, which in return affects the entrepreneurship intention. Second, the educational measures designed for senior year students would be slightly different from those for junior year students, whilst the junior year students may need more facilitation to motivate their learning. Thirdly, the ‘innovativeness’ of engineering students is found significantly and strongly correlated to ‘self-efficacy’ and significantly to ‘attitude’. The ‘attitude’ of engineering students is found more significantly contributing to their ‘entrepreneurial intention’. The interesting results show that for engineering students, though perceiving higher levels of innovativeness, ‘attitudes’ and ‘entrepreneurial intention’, the critical attributes in determining ‘entrepreneurial intention’ are ‘attitudes’ and ‘self-efficacy’. Fourthly, attitudes seem a lot more influencing to the entrepreneurial intention among female students, whilst ‘innovation’ is the a lot more influencing among male students.
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The article “The Transformative Impact of Blended Mobility Courses” discusses key issues that proved beneficial for conceiving and implementing fruitful academic collaboration format characterised by the blended-learning courses and novel site-specific approach within the ADRIART.net partnership. Several curricular and organisational solutions are presented that increased the positive impact on students as well as other stakeholders in this project-based pedagogical piloting of the Media Arts and Practices international Master’s programme. Set against its curriculum-development framework, the article examines new methodological solutions, joint mentoring models and group dynamics management, as well as some specific logistical issues. Next to developing relevant employment skills and attitudes, such production-oriented, but process-aware course designs offer timely academic provisions as a response to a ‘glocalised’ world. More importantly, these course designs can also foster students’ engagement with the actual (social, economic, natural, political) environment and the development of life-long learning habits.
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