Program of the Conference "POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE" (University of Ioannina, ... more Program of the Conference "POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE" (University of Ioannina, October 12-14, 2023)
When speaking about innovation in education and teaching, people usually refer to changes fostere... more When speaking about innovation in education and teaching, people usually refer to changes fostered by innovation in technology for the purpose of learning, teaching, and curriculum development. The reason why this happens is obvious: technical / technological changes do happen fast and their effects are more spectacular than the effects induced by the slower, but longer lasting institutional innovation. One of the most important such innovation that occurred in Europe, in the last decades, is the Bologna Process. Its relevance is given, beneath encouraging mobility, mainly by opening the possibility of standardization and commensurability for the European national Higher Education systems. European nation-states do consider education one of the main territories of national sovereignty, sometimes even by raising artificial barriers in the way of rapprochement. In my paper, I intend to present the main advantages of the Bologna Process, the art it gained ground in Europe and the main dangers lurking on it, especially nationalist populism. As an illustration, I will use the case of Hungary, one of the member-states with the most ambiguous attitudes towards the EU and its integration process.
Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (Online), Sep 22, 2020
The rapid pace of technological development has had a significant impact on education. Thanks to ... more The rapid pace of technological development has had a significant impact on education. Thanks to it and the widespread use of information and communication technology tools, Web 2.0 has emerged and entered an unpredictable path, as the environment in which students of the present age (members of the Z-generation) learn and are taught and trained. As a result, formal teaching is gradually replaced by open and virtual learning environments, which have made interactive learning environments and user-generated content a prominent issue. It seems obvious that these phenomena and their use in learning are closely intertwined with continuous feedback mechanisms. Their examination is important because by understanding the effects of these processes, since we can gain a more comprehensive picture of their role in education, especially in the case of learning activities using ICT. In the current research, the focus is on the use of Web 2.0 tools by students. Although the research was originally designed as a stand-alone project, we had to re-evaluate our perspectives because of the pandemic that occurred in the meantime. At present, we can rather consider it as a preliminary study, which will be followed by a new query in the autumn.
E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communi... more E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communication technologies, if although not in the most spectacular way, but have certainly had the deepest impact. All that first seemed to be just an extension of distance learning, and then of the so-called computer-assisted education, has now become an independent, ever-expanding and increasingly dynamic industry. ELearning tools are now used at all levels and in all areas of education and training, including non-formal and lifelong extensions. The aim of my study is to present the current trends in this extremely fast-moving and enormously innovative area. When outlining trends, I take into account the opinions and forecasts of leading individuals, companies and organizations in the profession and the industry.
Although there is no straightforward definition for the concept of learning regions, it is still ... more Although there is no straightforward definition for the concept of learning regions, it is still subject of a worldwide intensive research. As a general approach, we could affirm that it embodies the territorial application of the knowledge economy in its evolution. One also have to notice that the study of these entities constitutes a very dynamic subfield of regional studies. In this sense, our paper applies some of the results obtained in this field of research to the Hungarian-Romanian border zone. This region, although divided since almost a century by a state frontier, still inherits several features from the pre-WWI period. On the other hand, after the fall of communism, old ties were rebound, especially in the form of trans-frontier cooperation. Both halves of the area do benefit from a quite well developed infrastructure, industrial and tertiary facilities, as well as important educational and cultural institutions. There exists a quite solid network of big and small towns, each of them with its own agglomeration area, trying to rebind the old lines of influence. In our study, we also examine the possibilities of using these advantages combined with the post-1989 experience in transforming this area into a learning region.
Florida, USA, in the field of Characterization of nonlinear optical materials. He has about 22 ye... more Florida, USA, in the field of Characterization of nonlinear optical materials. He has about 22 years teaching experience both at UG and PG level in Electronics, Computer Science and Business management. Currently he is working as PRINCIPAL at Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Mangalore, India. He has published about 40 research papers in peer reviewed journals, 110 papers in conference proceedings and two text books on physics and Electronics for Engineering students. He has research interest in Nonlinear optical absorption, Optical Phase Conjugation, Photorefractive materials, e-business, m-business, ideal business, and nanotechnology business Opportunities. Dr.
Nowadays Albania is facing one of its greatest challenges: joining the European Union. This attem... more Nowadays Albania is facing one of its greatest challenges: joining the European Union. This attempt could be the greatest quest of the small nation from the Balkans in this century. Unfortunately, the image of the country is overloaded with negative elements: high criminality, economic disaster and trafficking of drugs, army, organs and human beings. On the other hand, we can see the image of a country working hard to attain its goals, which was really successful in managing all the conflicts that have devastated the Balkans since the fall of Communism. The aim of my proposal is to sketch the way in which Albania is presented to the average European audience, both the negative and the positive one. I also try to outline how this image change in time from a very rough to a considerably milder one
Az információs és kommunikációs technikák széleskörű elterjedése forradalmi változásokat indukált... more Az információs és kommunikációs technikák széleskörű elterjedése forradalmi változásokat indukált a fejlődésben, annak minden (helyi, regionális, nemzeti, nemzetközi) szintjén. Írásunkban röviden bemutatjuk hogyan hatottak ezek a technikák a közösségekre és hogyan vezettek eme változások a tanuló közösség, tanuló város, tanuló régió kialakulásához. Kitérünk közben e fogalmak kapcsolatára a fenntartható fejlődés és az élethosszig tartó tanulás gondolatköreivel is
The age of static business and slow information flow, when most decision was based on day-or week... more The age of static business and slow information flow, when most decision was based on day-or week-old data, has come to an end. Now new technology helps organisations provide a more agile, flexible approach to business that was not technologically available five years ago. As a result, organisations are paying more attentions to supporting business process with the ability to adapt to the dynamic environment. This paper describes how the action of mobile agent enabled decision support in conjunction with the organisational trends, enables new practice in the field of e-Business. This is done to understand the magnitude of the e-business context problem and to suggest possible ways around the problem when building mobile agents. Therefore, a mobile agent approach is proposed in this paper to offer solution for mobile business and to manage complex business activities. Abstract: In the present paper, I am trying to emphasize that telecentres-despite the difficulties they are facing du...
Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar... more Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind or the degree of excellence of something, or even as a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something is one of the key concepts used in evaluating any product or service. Nowadays, quality became a notion almost as important as profit or market share. In the last decades, it became one of the key factors even in the process of evaluating educational institutions, and, among them those in the field of higher education. In our paper we intend to present the actual interpretations of our key notion and how it can be applied in the field of higher education. We also want to present the main techniques that can be used in the quality management of those institutions, with special regard to the European Union. And, last but not least, we want to show some potential trends in the field of quality management.
Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar... more Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind or the degree of excellence of something, or even as a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something is one of the key concepts used in evaluating any product or service. Nowadays, quality became a notion almost as important as profit or market share. In the last decades, it became one of the key factors even in the process of evaluating educational institutions, and, among them those in the field of higher education. In our paper we intend to present the actual interpretations of our key notion and how it can be applied in the field of higher education. We also want to present the main techniques that can be used in the quality management of those institutions, with special regard to the European Union. And, last but not least, we want to show some potential trends in the field of quality management.
Program of the Conference "POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE" (University of Ioannina, ... more Program of the Conference "POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE" (University of Ioannina, October 12-14, 2023)
When speaking about innovation in education and teaching, people usually refer to changes fostere... more When speaking about innovation in education and teaching, people usually refer to changes fostered by innovation in technology for the purpose of learning, teaching, and curriculum development. The reason why this happens is obvious: technical / technological changes do happen fast and their effects are more spectacular than the effects induced by the slower, but longer lasting institutional innovation. One of the most important such innovation that occurred in Europe, in the last decades, is the Bologna Process. Its relevance is given, beneath encouraging mobility, mainly by opening the possibility of standardization and commensurability for the European national Higher Education systems. European nation-states do consider education one of the main territories of national sovereignty, sometimes even by raising artificial barriers in the way of rapprochement. In my paper, I intend to present the main advantages of the Bologna Process, the art it gained ground in Europe and the main dangers lurking on it, especially nationalist populism. As an illustration, I will use the case of Hungary, one of the member-states with the most ambiguous attitudes towards the EU and its integration process.
Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (Online), Sep 22, 2020
The rapid pace of technological development has had a significant impact on education. Thanks to ... more The rapid pace of technological development has had a significant impact on education. Thanks to it and the widespread use of information and communication technology tools, Web 2.0 has emerged and entered an unpredictable path, as the environment in which students of the present age (members of the Z-generation) learn and are taught and trained. As a result, formal teaching is gradually replaced by open and virtual learning environments, which have made interactive learning environments and user-generated content a prominent issue. It seems obvious that these phenomena and their use in learning are closely intertwined with continuous feedback mechanisms. Their examination is important because by understanding the effects of these processes, since we can gain a more comprehensive picture of their role in education, especially in the case of learning activities using ICT. In the current research, the focus is on the use of Web 2.0 tools by students. Although the research was originally designed as a stand-alone project, we had to re-evaluate our perspectives because of the pandemic that occurred in the meantime. At present, we can rather consider it as a preliminary study, which will be followed by a new query in the autumn.
E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communi... more E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communication technologies, if although not in the most spectacular way, but have certainly had the deepest impact. All that first seemed to be just an extension of distance learning, and then of the so-called computer-assisted education, has now become an independent, ever-expanding and increasingly dynamic industry. ELearning tools are now used at all levels and in all areas of education and training, including non-formal and lifelong extensions. The aim of my study is to present the current trends in this extremely fast-moving and enormously innovative area. When outlining trends, I take into account the opinions and forecasts of leading individuals, companies and organizations in the profession and the industry.
Although there is no straightforward definition for the concept of learning regions, it is still ... more Although there is no straightforward definition for the concept of learning regions, it is still subject of a worldwide intensive research. As a general approach, we could affirm that it embodies the territorial application of the knowledge economy in its evolution. One also have to notice that the study of these entities constitutes a very dynamic subfield of regional studies. In this sense, our paper applies some of the results obtained in this field of research to the Hungarian-Romanian border zone. This region, although divided since almost a century by a state frontier, still inherits several features from the pre-WWI period. On the other hand, after the fall of communism, old ties were rebound, especially in the form of trans-frontier cooperation. Both halves of the area do benefit from a quite well developed infrastructure, industrial and tertiary facilities, as well as important educational and cultural institutions. There exists a quite solid network of big and small towns, each of them with its own agglomeration area, trying to rebind the old lines of influence. In our study, we also examine the possibilities of using these advantages combined with the post-1989 experience in transforming this area into a learning region.
Florida, USA, in the field of Characterization of nonlinear optical materials. He has about 22 ye... more Florida, USA, in the field of Characterization of nonlinear optical materials. He has about 22 years teaching experience both at UG and PG level in Electronics, Computer Science and Business management. Currently he is working as PRINCIPAL at Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Mangalore, India. He has published about 40 research papers in peer reviewed journals, 110 papers in conference proceedings and two text books on physics and Electronics for Engineering students. He has research interest in Nonlinear optical absorption, Optical Phase Conjugation, Photorefractive materials, e-business, m-business, ideal business, and nanotechnology business Opportunities. Dr.
Nowadays Albania is facing one of its greatest challenges: joining the European Union. This attem... more Nowadays Albania is facing one of its greatest challenges: joining the European Union. This attempt could be the greatest quest of the small nation from the Balkans in this century. Unfortunately, the image of the country is overloaded with negative elements: high criminality, economic disaster and trafficking of drugs, army, organs and human beings. On the other hand, we can see the image of a country working hard to attain its goals, which was really successful in managing all the conflicts that have devastated the Balkans since the fall of Communism. The aim of my proposal is to sketch the way in which Albania is presented to the average European audience, both the negative and the positive one. I also try to outline how this image change in time from a very rough to a considerably milder one
Az információs és kommunikációs technikák széleskörű elterjedése forradalmi változásokat indukált... more Az információs és kommunikációs technikák széleskörű elterjedése forradalmi változásokat indukált a fejlődésben, annak minden (helyi, regionális, nemzeti, nemzetközi) szintjén. Írásunkban röviden bemutatjuk hogyan hatottak ezek a technikák a közösségekre és hogyan vezettek eme változások a tanuló közösség, tanuló város, tanuló régió kialakulásához. Kitérünk közben e fogalmak kapcsolatára a fenntartható fejlődés és az élethosszig tartó tanulás gondolatköreivel is
The age of static business and slow information flow, when most decision was based on day-or week... more The age of static business and slow information flow, when most decision was based on day-or week-old data, has come to an end. Now new technology helps organisations provide a more agile, flexible approach to business that was not technologically available five years ago. As a result, organisations are paying more attentions to supporting business process with the ability to adapt to the dynamic environment. This paper describes how the action of mobile agent enabled decision support in conjunction with the organisational trends, enables new practice in the field of e-Business. This is done to understand the magnitude of the e-business context problem and to suggest possible ways around the problem when building mobile agents. Therefore, a mobile agent approach is proposed in this paper to offer solution for mobile business and to manage complex business activities. Abstract: In the present paper, I am trying to emphasize that telecentres-despite the difficulties they are facing du...
Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar... more Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind or the degree of excellence of something, or even as a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something is one of the key concepts used in evaluating any product or service. Nowadays, quality became a notion almost as important as profit or market share. In the last decades, it became one of the key factors even in the process of evaluating educational institutions, and, among them those in the field of higher education. In our paper we intend to present the actual interpretations of our key notion and how it can be applied in the field of higher education. We also want to present the main techniques that can be used in the quality management of those institutions, with special regard to the European Union. And, last but not least, we want to show some potential trends in the field of quality management.
Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar... more Quality, understood both as a standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind or the degree of excellence of something, or even as a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something is one of the key concepts used in evaluating any product or service. Nowadays, quality became a notion almost as important as profit or market share. In the last decades, it became one of the key factors even in the process of evaluating educational institutions, and, among them those in the field of higher education. In our paper we intend to present the actual interpretations of our key notion and how it can be applied in the field of higher education. We also want to present the main techniques that can be used in the quality management of those institutions, with special regard to the European Union. And, last but not least, we want to show some potential trends in the field of quality management.
Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: Bulgarian market-gardeners on the territory of present-day Hungary bef... more Lecture by Ralitsa Savova: Bulgarian market-gardeners on the territory of present-day Hungary before and during the WWI
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