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Virus SARS-Cov-2 causing Covid-19 spreads quickly and brings high risks to transmissions. The government to rule strictly to arrange strategies to minimize interactions through School-From-Home (SFH) policy. Unfortunately, the school closure is the potential to hamper deliveries of education services and may entail destructive impacts to quality education performance. There must be a consideration to school reopen safely during the pandemic.The objective of the research is to produce a model of Covid-19 spreads to analyze the readiness of school to reopen. This study adopts a SEIR model to predict the spread of Covid-19 using dataset from 23 March through 31 December 2020. The best model is selected from the one having the least error and adopted to predict the spread in the next 100 days starting from 01 January 2021 through 10 April 2021.Clustering was then implemented to acquire the character’s proximity in each area using K-Means algorithm. While unsupervised fuzzy was picked out to seize the phenomenon of the dynamic as Covid-19 spread as a basis to decision making on school reopen safely during the pandemic. These whole concepts will serve the decision making effectively and intelligently by generating a better estimation.This study resulted in a Covid-19 spread model with an average error of 0.2% based on the RMSLE calculation.

With the development of information technology, the network has entered the study and life of college students. How to change the ideological work methods, improve the effectiveness of ideological work and improve the quality of personnel training under the network environment has become a new topic faced by college ideology workers. Under the background of the rapid development of network trend in the information age, this topic systematically studies the related problems of carrying out ideology education by using university network platform. This paper discusses the construction of the network platform of ideology education for college students, and opens up a new carrier and channel for communication between teachers and students. This platform breaks the time and space constraints of the traditional ideology education mode, improves the teaching efficiency and quality, and is of great significance for realizing the real quality education and flexible personalized education, and cultivating qualified socialist builders and successors.

Lately, Chile has been struck with two significant events that have made its citizens rethink and adapt their worldview and activities in various dimensions. The recent social outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted almost any institution, and public higher education is no exception. Emergency remote teaching has arrived and professors have made all the possible efforts to deliver a quality education given the limitations. In this article, we portray teachers' experience belonging to the FCFM, one of the most prestigious Chilean engineering and science schools. We implemented two surveys, one on each semester of the year 2020, to understand their main difficulties, concerns, and appreciations. Frequencies and regression analyses were conducted. Results show that teachers' experience has improved through the year. The gained experience in the first semester has made them adapt their ways of teaching, design a better course and enhance their interaction with students through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous strategies.

The 21st-century skills in education are integral components in the competency of the students. Among these skills are known as the “Four C's” - communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. With the sudden shift of the educational paradigm, this case study intends to identify the challenges the students face in acquiring the 4Cs, which would lead to identifying the effects of online distance learning on the acquisition of the 4Cs. An in-depth study was made to identify the improved practices of a beginning teacher and how these practices can be applied that would integrate the 4Cs to the students. The participants of the study will include senior high school students of De La Salle University-Laguna Campus. Challenges were mentioned within the experience of online distance learning. As such, these problems impacted the students' acquisition of 4Cs. The suggested practices of a beginning teacher include three categories which are the utilization of interactive materials, technological management, and enhancing students' learning experience. There may be a lot of factors to consider when applying the 4Cs during online distance learning, but as future educators, the important thing is to always be open to adjustments and ensure that quality education is always being delivered to the students.

Goal 4: Quality Education is one of goals in SDGs and it says the necessity for promoting ESD (education for sustainable development) as one of targets. For Humanitarian Technology, ESD should be also one of key concepts. In universities, ESD has become the core subject. Since its founding in 1928, the Chiba University of Commerce (CUC) has accepted many young people to study under the educational philosophy of “practical scholarship with high morality” as it started as a school for accounting. Recently, CUC is promoting “RE (Renewable Energy) 100” university to consider ethical consumption and generation as well. Therefore, ESD matches the philosophy of CUC. As part of ESD, CUC is organizing the special lecture for SDGs to provide students opportunities to think about what we can do for developing sustainable societies. In this paper, we evaluate the ESD at CUC using information technologies such as morphological analysis, Bag of Words, and word2vec model. Using information technologies, the evaluation for ESD can be done effectively.

With the rapid development of Internet technology and network communication technology, college physical education is transforming from the traditional manual operation management to the centered college teaching management model. This paper integrates the KCF algorithm, through the online and offline teaching mode, aims to improve the interest of college students in learning sports and the main role of students in teaching, And in the teaching reform to meet the requirements of quality education, for the university sports teaching reform innovation new mode.

Language, as a subject with strong practical significance, will break away from the practical significance of language teaching if it does not carry out the reform and innovation of teaching ideas and models and establish a set of systematic practical teaching models, which has become an urgent task of teaching reform for Japanese majors in colleges and universities. Practical teaching is an important link for undergraduate education to achieve the goal of talent training and implement quality education, and it is a comprehensive teaching method compared with theoretical teaching. Based on Japanese lexical analysis, this paper expounds the practical application of practical teaching in Japanese classroom, and discusses how to improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching by optimizing the combination of teachers, introducing questions and guiding students to study independently.

We designed, implemented, and assessed a STEAM (STEM + Arts) outreach program. Our goals were to increase children's exposure to STEAM topics, spread awareness of STEM fields, and build confidence and interest in STEM fields with underrepresented students in a fourth and fifth grade afterschool program so that these students could see themselves in STEM roles in the future. Our program involved kinesthetic movement, collaboration, and project-based learning. The program encouraged self-expression through the lens of play, creativity, and movement. Students engaged in coding through technology-enabled activities. This kind of educational enrichment begins by scaffolding interdisciplinary collaborations and promoting a culture where engineering, science, and art are equally considered. The overall framework of our program addressed many UN Sustainable Development Goals including quality education, gender equality, and reduced inequalities, ultimately contributing to the development of sustainable cities and communities. This project was conducted by university students working in a research group with a faculty member at the University of Washington. Our outreach program succeeded in reaching underrepresented students, with female students and all students without previous STEM experience showing the most substantial gains in confidence and interest over the course of the program.

Nowadays, technology has become an inherent part of our lives and has inevitably made its way into the field of education. It provides students with personalized learning and empowers them by giving them ownership of the way they learn. Embracing these technological advancements has changed many aspects of students, such as improved engagement, knowledge retention, individual learning, and collaboration. These advanced methodologies of incorporating technology into education have proven to be a better attention grabber and are cost-efficient methods of gaining knowledge. The case study chosen in this work discusses one such technology (i.e., cloud computing), which is used in imparting quality education at the convenience of both students and teachers.

The education ecosystem in India is primarily dependent on face to face interaction of teachers with students. Technology assistive tools available to educators act as an aid for imparting quality education. However, the complete transition from face-to-face interaction to virtual interaction was challenging for educators over the world during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. This paradigm shift in teaching and the use of webinars as the primary resource for teaching has shown a significant impact on the learning patterns of both educators and students. This paper presents a case study conducted on educators of Chitkara University, Rajpura Punjab, India. The goal is to Figure out their experience of using webinars as a teaching tool during the Covid-19 period for engineering undergraduates. It also discusses the challenges and issues faced by faculty members while conducting webinars. The usability score for webinars as a tool for teaching comes as 68.22%, which infers that a significant number of faculty members find it a useful tool for teaching their course. Further, several webinars platform explored by educators, out of which Go-To-Webinar platform is most favorable for the majority of faculty members.

This study examines equity in mathematics and science education among secondary students in Hong Kong, focusing on the differences of gender, immigration, and family's social-economic status in mathematics and science performance. The analysis involved the datasets extracted from the recent four cycles of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018. Independent sample T-tests and linear regression analyses were conducted. The results showed that: (i) the gender gap was reversed in favour of girls in both mathematics and science in 2018 for the first time since 2009; (ii) native-born students significantly outperformed their immigrant peers in both mathematics and science, but the magnitudes of the differences were small; and (iii) social-economically status had a positive yet modest effect on mathematics and science performance. In a nutshell, Hong Kong secondary students, in general, regardless of immigration status and family's social-economic background, have enjoyed a quality education in mathematics and science, and girls have begun to outperform boys in these two areas.

In education and teaching today, traditional single teaching approaches can no longer meet the development requirements and changes of the times. In this paper, the constructivist teaching theory and approach are explored combined with the experience of marketing teaching and research work from the cognitive characteristics of educational objects with the competence and quality education of marketing students as the starting point based on the requirements of higher vocational education. In addition, a series of action-oriented teaching approaches such as the “debate teaching approach”, “role-playing approach”, and “project-driven teaching approach” are applied specifically to the occupational teaching of “Office automation (OA)” to break the shackles of traditional teaching approaches on the teaching thoughts of teachers.

In India, advancement in technology is imperative for the betterment of the education system. For improving the nature of education given to the understudies, the School must make a collective climate for Technological Changes. The Education System generates a large amount of data related to different indicators involved in the U-DISE+ and SDMIS database of the Education System. However, these indicators are considered as very important for quality Education. The goal of this paper is to anticipate the execution of School and understudies based on UDISE Plus information by utilizing different classification Algorithms.

ICT (Information and communication technology) has been designated as, one of the best education systems. It enhance the quality of education, looking into the current scenario of Indian education system, it need a revolution which can upgrade the Indian education system. ICT (Information and communication technology) basically provide the current and updated information with the help of computing technology, although online and computer software application. The paper is all about functioning, management walking maintenance of ICT based education system in India. This paper also investigates the advantage, disadvantage as well as future scope of ICT in India.

Students enrolled in a public higher education institution in India may earn academic credit online by taking courses on SWAYAM, India’s national MOOC platform [1]. In this paper, we explore all facets of SWAYAM, from its inception to its day-to-day functioning to how the platform is meeting its goal of increasing access to quality education across India. We linger on SWAYAM’s most distinctive feature: its credit system, that allows higher education institutions to integrate MOOCs into their offering. We also present some of the early achievements of the platform: In December 2018, the first SWAYAM examination was conducted, with about 16% of India’s public higher education institutions allowing their students to earn academic credit through MOOCs taken on SWAYAM [2, 3]. In the second SWAYAM examination, conducted in May 2019, that number grew to 21% [2, 4].

In this paper, we present methodology and tools for creating custom three-dimensional anatomical atlases for medical education based on web technologies and open-source software. Traditional medical anatomy education has relied on printed anatomical atlases, in-person lectures, and anatomical dissection. This traditional approach underserves populations in need due to high cost, lack of availability of materials, and a limited of trained educators. Open and free online anatomical atlases developed by an international community of experts help remedy these shortcomings, more fully addressing the sustainable development goals of quality education and good health at a global scale. We have developed a web application, the Atlas Assembly Tool, that assists medical professionals in assembling atlases for open dissemination throughout the world. Our tool aims to complement existing open source medical projects such as 3D Slicer and the Open Anatomy Browser to provide a pipeline from original medical image data to web-browsable atlases suitable for medical education. Our development is an integral part of the European INTER-REG MACbioIDi project, promoting sustainable development through technology-based medical education and training in close collaboration with partners in Europe, Africa and the United States.

The paper analyzes results related to the didactic activity carried out for more than 30 years, but for the two centuries of interpenetration, where technological changes have put more challenges to education than ever before. It presents both institutional and individual ways of communication, relationship and relationship with students in order to obtain a quality education. A case study, based on the answers of students from different education cycles to a questionnaire written by the authors, completes the analysis. The study presents selective aspects of a wider analysis of electrical engineering, conducted in 2018, by the Association for Education in Electrical Engineering.

The purpose of this paper is describe the actions carried out by the Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), to provide to academic community a usable and accessible Learning Management System (LMS). For this, standards by the W3C (ISO, WCAG) are considered, as well as the vision of representative authors in this field, who highlight the educative materials into a courses, as important elements that require special attention, because these materials must be available for all students indistinct of their capacities, promoting even different styles of learning. This work contributes to one objectives of the 2030 agenda, which is "To guarantee an inclusive, equitable and quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"

This study uses the interview method, questionnaire survey method and field survey method to sort out the school sports related data of the institutions of higher learning in Yunnan Province, such as supervision mechanism, physical education teachers, sports facilities and equipment, and to explore the construction of sports supervision in colleges and universities in Yunnan Province. Under the background of “Education informatization 2.0” and the development of a fairer and more quality education, it is expected to improve the informatization of college sports in Yunnan Province and to promote the reform and development of college sports in Yunnan Province.

The Internet of Things (IoT) specialty belongs to the discipline of engineering application, requiring students to have strong practical and innovative abilities. Therefore, experimental teaching plays a very important role in the cultivation of innovative talents and quality education. However, the traditional experimental teaching system can not keep up with the development of the IoT discipline, and has shown many drawbacks. Therefore, it is urgent to conduct research on the IoT experimental teaching system and establish the IoT technology practical course to improve students' comprehensive practical ability.

In recent years, MOOC and flipped classrooms have becoming more and more popular among teaching concepts. Both advocate a student-oriented way of study, encouraging students to learn independently and strengthening teacher-student interactions, which not only meets the requirements of quality education, but also can effectively improve teaching efficiency. In the teaching process of designing and producing webpages, teachers should combine the advantages of the two together, to help students have a good command of the theoretical knowledge and practical skills through four stages: pre-class preparation, student self-learning, classroom activities, after-school practice and reflection. Therefore, students' practical skills and overall ability can be enhanced, and companies will get qualified talents they need.

The analysis of global aviation and aviation market trends shows that excellent opportunities for their realization both in the country and on the international labor market are being created. There is an opportunity to turn Bulgarian aviation education into an export industry for highly qualified aviation specialists. This requires the provision of quality education and training of aviation specialists, which will effectively respond to the needs of key government stakeholders, students, higher education institutions and employers directly related to aviation development.

In these days, teaching and learning systems in schools with the use of mobile or portable devices such as tablets, e-readers, smartphones are becoming keen interests of educators as well as parents and teachers in worldwide. In this aspect, the early years of school children in basic education are the most challenging and important in developing effective and quality education for life. Since they are quite young and unable to dedicate time the need for easy to use and effective learning aids has become vital. Especially their writing skills are somehow needed to be improved with encouragements. In order to do so, the handwritten of characters and numerals performed by the children especially those living in less developing countries should be correctly recognized so that means and ways for remedies and solutions for improvements could be found. Thus the optical character recognition techniques for handwritten alphabets and numerals are moving into front especially the handwritten of children of early years in schools. In this paper, we introduce a Mobile Tutor-an effective and correct way of character segmentation and recognition of messy and unclear handwritten characters to help children learn and practice handwriting and early numeric operations such as addition and subtraction as well as help teachers monitor and review children's progress. Some experiments are performed by providing tablets to the users and collecting handwritten characters from the users for recognition and analysis.

In conditions of high competition, it is impossible to provide quality education without partnership both with enterprises and with other educational institutions. Cooperation with the first will allow to produce more qualified specialists who will be easily adapted at enterprises. Collaboration with others will allow students to improve information support in various areas.

We present our research on understanding innovation for education in two Rwandan secondary schools. Our innovation for education project focused on developing spatial thinking skills via Geographic Information and Communication Technologies (GeoICT)-based training. Specific GeoICT used focused on 2D, vector-based maps used on Android tablets and commercial desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Trainings were conducted in the context of a research program that sought to develop new approaches for Rwandan education innovation. We discuss qualitative results from teacher and student reflections gathered from a Web-based survey about what it was like to be part of the innovation for education process, broader opportunities spatial thinking provides, and innovation for education process feedback. We also conducted extensive group interviews with teachers at the two schools based on data collected from Web surveys. The interviews and surveys allowed us to assess four ways our innovation for education approach impacted teachers and students. First, teachers and students identified broader societal benefits and individual opportunities the innovation for education process is creating. Second, Rwandan teachers identified education and societal benefits for problem solving and reasoning stemming from increased thinking ability, GeoICT training, and space-time thinking ability. Third, teachers found new roles and identities for themselves through incorporation of spatial thinking-oriented curriculum and GeoICT training. Fourth, the importance of certificates and recognition artifacts as tools for students and teachers to establish their new competencies. Our focus on innovation for education, spatial thinking and GeoICT inform the literature onbroader technology-enhanced quality education delivery research on the value of spatial thinking and GeoICTs.

One of the original purposes of MOOCs is to democratize education worldwide in order to advance towards a fairer society and universal human development. However, initial findings suggest that there are a number of challenges that MOOCs face to achieve their maximum potential in developing countries and regions with complex issues of access to high quality education. The majority of research studies on MOOCs focus on one or a small number of courses, or an overview of an entire platform or system, such as edX or FutureLearn. However, these kinds of investigations can mask important regional variation in different parts of the world. In this study we conduct a longitudinal analysis using data from six years of courses from MITx and HarvardX, focusing on the particular Arab world sub-population, and comparing to the rest of the world and also on their human development index. A close investigation of this subpopulation will help us better understand what kinds of course registration and course-taking patterns are influenced by regional cultural factors, and what dimensions of MOOC learning are more universal. In this work we present initial results after conducting exploratory analysis on 452 MOOCs (∼4.5M unique learners) from MITx and HarvardX, which show that despite the important cultural and geographical contrasts, the general trends are quite similar. Still, we observe some significant differences, such as lower completion metrics for Arabic countries when performing this comparison within each human development category and also some differences in percentage of enrolments per course category.

Since 1998, many e-learning projects initiated by Hong Kong local schools have been granted by the Hong Kong Quality Education Fund (QEF) with the aim of promoting IT in education in Hong Kong. They have generated successful experiences and various quality deliverables. Although all of these valuable good practices are already in place for dissemination to benefit larger audience, there is no easy way to access to them due to the lack of a structural organization amongst different projects. This paper describes some of the good practices extracted from the results of a research framework for evaluating and consolidating good practices from these e-learning projects. We have studied 79 e-learning projects, and suggested 7 good practices that can be reused for e-learning projects. Amongst them, 6 good practices have been compiled as teaching templates as a resource package which is disseminated to local schools.

Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs have emerged in the past decade as a powerful platform that proffers quality education and training to a vast pool of learners worldwide. While MOOCs have shown successful in bringing online education up to the next level in developed country such as USA; such realization is barely observed in developing countries such as Thailand. With many failed attempts to establish MOOCs in Thailand, doubts often arise whether MOOCs would be the right platform that would mitigate the problems of the existing educational system in such a nation. In this paper, we first provide the history of MOOCs in Thailand. Then we discuss some of the major challenges that prevent such an online learning platform to thrive in Thailand, compared to those offline classroom-based educational programs. Furthermore, we present a comprehensive investigation of MOOC development in nearby countries such as Japan and Malaysia. Finally, both direct and indirect opportunities that successful MOOCs can offer are discussed, that focuses on the Thailand educational settings.

E-learning is developing very fast in millennium era. Beside that startups have an important role in this era. One of the objective in this study is to see the factors for improving education startup. Finding the most important factors from many factors for quality education startup. By using a method for the review, the authors selected a set of journals, which cover the knowledge of this study. In total, 11 articles about “e-learning and startups” have been selected and the full papers have been analysed.

College psychological health education is very important for college psychological discipline construction, lodging the important role of college psychology in the reform and the change, emphasizes two related themes of the psychological health education-the empirical application and the overall adjustment for prevention. With the development of modern network technology and the increasing information, society begins to gradually into the era of big data. Under the environment of Big data, the campuses how to implement the psychological quality education strategy with the help of big data, and how to strengthen the utilization of big data to make construction of informational psychological quality education strategy become the focus of current topic which people should think. In view of the foregoing, in this paper, starting from the definition of big data, the meaning of big data in psychological quality education strategy and the specific informational psychological quality education strategy application are analyzed, and psychological quality education weighting model based on AHP was built, so as to provide reference for the application of big data psychological quality education strategy in the future.

Changes of medical models have given rise to new development of demands of society and patients for medical services, they have also raised new requirements for test teaching positioning and teaching contents. The original experimental assessment criteria no longer apply to medical testing talent cultivation in the modern society. In order to meet the needs for medical laboratory technology development and medical testing personnel in the new era, explorations should be made to develop a set of experimental assessment system close to practices and systematic specifications. The assessment system should focus on experimental procedures and experimental details, increase research and innovation experiments, fully embody combinations of knowledge acquisition, ability building and quality education, emphasize students' creative thinking and innovation ability, foster teamwork awareness and rigorous work attitudes, make use of the guiding role of the assessment system to facilitate teaching reforms, and overall improve the teaching quality of medical laboratory technologies.

A framework for communicating at sea was developed following the concepts of Anchored Instruction Learning Model and the communication interaction in an alternative mode of education. The model with planned real-life problems is a way to develop among students their ability to design real-life solutions. A flexible mode for seafarers was seen as a potential model for learning while seafarers are deployed at sea which could be done online, or through offline/face-to-face if they are on land. In the developed framework, an equal emphasis was given to interactions between students and students, students and teachers, and students and content. The developed model is an answer to the demand for seafarers for career development through higher education and also to ensure the organizations of efficient operations from their employees. Descriptive and quantitative methods were used in the data gathered from models of distance education in the Philippines and abroad. Faculty- and student-respondents were those potential communicators in the flexible type of education, and they were determined as to their communication practices in a traditional classroom setting and with the utilization of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). The results show how adept the respondents are when it comes to communication and use of ICT which can enhance the learning activities of students and effectively deliver quality education despite the challenges of communicating at sea. Seafarers and shipping companies are not to be limited with opportunities of enhancing their skills because of the nature of their work.

In modern globalized, interconnected and networked society, information and knowledge are a differential. Therefore, it is necessary to universalize the right to quality education. The Open Educational Resources (OER) are materials for students, teachers and researchers on the web, controlled by copyright licenses, which support the creation, use, reuse, remixing, dissemination and sharing of knowledge, as well as the teaching and learning processes in the formal and informal education. The purpose of this article is to describe an overview of what researchers and institutions have tried to improve open education today, as a collective movement of people and public and private institutions. The paper presents and discusses several projects, which use OER to promote activities aimed at building and sharing knowledge, to make education more accessible to all. The article contributes to reflect, discuss and highlight the variation that exists on the conceptual use of OER, both in terminology and in practice and how OER turns the concepts of time and space, especially in higher education.

the paper emphasizes on the main targets that should be achieved in an intelligent meaningful high quality education process. The main steps of a convenient electric bicycle transport vehicle design are considered, together with some important practical targets that should be taken under consideration during that process. The paper underlines the need for regular complete study of all ecological problems at schools and universities, and contemporary methods for their solution, because each person can contribute both to increase them and to solve them.

The recruitment of good teachers is crucial for educational institutions to provide quality education, thereby moulding the students to face challenges of tomorrow. Traditional approaches may fail to choose the right teachers for the right job. In this paper, we apply association rule mining on engineering college teachers data to elicit hidden relationships among the characteristics of the teachers. We use 1992 teachers data collected from AICTE mandatory disclosure documents for our investigation. The study helps the college administration to develop recruitment and HR policies to enhance quality of research, teaching and learning. The study brings out various recommendations for improved research output, patents, awards, R & D grants and book publications.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are capable of expanding access to quality education, educational resources and provide teachers with new skills. Nevertheless, a majority of rural public schools have limited ICTs, mainly due to geographical landscape, lack of service delivery and poverty. As a result, they currently seem not to be adequately benefiting from current advancements in ICTs. The main objective of the research presented in this paper was to understand the challenges faced by resource constrained schools under the Greater Tubatse Municipality (GTM) in the Limpopo Province of South Africa regarding lack of access to electronic educational information. An exploratory case study approach was adopted to identify and understand the challenges faced by rural schools, including educational services and content considered by schools as relevant and useful. The results indicate that resource-constrained schools in the GTM are facing challenges of lack of access to electronic educational information and services, as the result teaching and learning becomes difficult.

Rapidly increasing educational institutions, are imposing a great demand of quality education and placements for the benefit of the students as well as of the Institutions. In this paper application of Bayesian theorem on educational dataset has been proposed to predict placement results. Results are evaluated using Naive Bayes Classifier in WEKA and RapidMiner tool. Results generated will help instructors, educators as well as students to focus on those aspects which help in improving student placements.

The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a continuous improvement cycle for devising teaching scenarios and conducting learning experiences in engineering. The proposed cycle consists of seven steps on which gamification theory and ABET criteria are combined. It arose from the adaptation of a gamification design framework, commonly used in industry, into the specific context of high quality education in engineering. It is formulated at high level. Consequently, it should be useful for practitioners having different requirements and expectations. A developed practice, following the proposed cycle, is presented, discussed and evaluated. In particular, the proposal is applied and exemplified, in a scenario for teaching introductory concepts of computer programming in a first-year course. A digital game was used within a gamified learning experience, as a teaching tool. However, the learning process does not rely solely on the use of the game by itself. Moreover, the devised scenario has a purpose beyond edutainment: contributing to achievement of student outcomes, under a continuous improvement approach, according to ABET. A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the developed practice was performed. A positive impact on students' emotional engagement and behavior was observed as a result of the evaluation process.

This An examination pertaining to the advantages and disadvantages of smaller class sizes regarding the quality of educational management in elementary schools, research methods statistic regression analysis. Questionnaires were designed and distributed to schools' staff, parents and students, research zone north, central, south and east of Taiwan. Main consideration was to determine student/parent satisfaction and quality attributes. It concluded that the smaller class has superior educational quality. Students and parents were convinced that the school educational goals were more likely to be met, and the students would achieve a higher level of learning in all areas of the curriculum. The research showed that smaller classes have more advantages than disadvantages in achieving quality management, classes management were much more successful in fulfilling their educational goals.

As the educational organizations worldwide are moving towards bringing education experience on internet, via Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Massive Open Online Education Platforms (MOOEPs), the retention of the enrolled students throughout the course is still a huge challenge. Although the online education has an immensely noble aim, i.e., to provide free\less expensive quality education to everyone, but if the existing MOOCs are upgraded to more captivating environment for users, a drastic increase in the user engagement in the course can be achieved, and hence MOOCs' providers can reach their ultimate goal in a more ubiquitous manner. In this paper it is suggested that this divide between a MOOC and user's engagement can be bridged with Gamification. Gamification is the use of game design elements in non-game contexts. Here an experimental environment was setup to compare the results of a small vocabulary course distributed among 100 candidates, and a comparative analysis between the gamified learning method and conventional learning method has been done. After the completion of the course a small survey was also taken from the candidates who had gamified tool. The results show that if the learning platform is gamified, it does not only drastically increase the user enrolment but also increase user engagement throughout the course. Gamification also makes learning, a unique and amusing experience.

Regular education and training of professionals from industry in the field of green technologies has a critical role in further shift toward energy sustainability. To conduct such education high quality education resources and training courses are necessary. In this paper two internet based training courses on hybrid vehicles are presented. The first course on hybrid vehicles was developed within SustEner initiative (Teaching Energy for Sustainable World). It is used for training of teachers and as an educational resource that the teachers can use in their classes on secondary education level. Furthermore, the professionals from industry can also use developed educational resources as a source for continuous education. The course is stand-alone, internet based course enhanced by virtual experiments and developed for a self-study. The second course was developed within E-PRAGMATIC initiative (E-Learning and Practical Training of Mechatronics and Alternative Technologies in Industrial Community). It is used for supervised distance training and for in-company training of professionals from electro-mechanical industry. Elearning material with assignments and a practical workshop were developed. The course was evaluated within a large international pilot training for professionals from industry. Feedback of the participants is presented.

Application of the information technologies in the education process is nowadays unthinkable part of the high quality education. In the paper provided is the possibility of the application of the comparative analysis method for the evaluation of the environmental level of the products as the designing tool with regard to the environmental aspects of the product. As this method ranges among the non-software tools, with the objective to simplify the calculation and minimise the possible problems related to the manual calculations, which follow out from the comparative analysis method, proposed was its software application. This application significantly simplified the process of the calculation and enabled the following generation of the results in the graphic form as well. It also enables the students to evaluate the recent condition of the product and subsequently realise the proposals of the solutions to minimise the environmental impacts operatively.

Providing contemporary and quality education on fast changing technological areas has always been a major challenge to the academic community. The requirements and challenges faced by the embedded systems educators to cope with the fast-paced changes happening in technological development, learning models and medium of instruction etc. are very much similar to that faced by dependable embedded systems developers. In this context we see a lot of potential for relating and adapting the research efforts undertaken in EU Projects such as SafeCer in using component based development (CBD) approach for building adaptable, certifiable systems at lower costs. We describe some such similarities and contemplate how one could potentially leverage on the approaches and results existing in the CBD world by adopting and adapting them to support efficient curriculum development and management. Such an approach is expected to provide the course developers with immense opportunities for building and sharing their courses beyond the originally targeted community.

The aim of this contribution is to provide the basic information concerning the course “Management of the Quality of Teaching at Universities”. This course was prepared within the framework of the operational programme Education “Package of Innovative Elements for the Transformation of Education at TUKE” (code ITMS 26110230018). In recent weeks we finished the implementation of the pilot course that was focused to the development of professional skills of teachers and to the enhancement of quality education at TUKE (Technical University of Kosice).

With the development of science and technology, especially since the application of computer technology, computer aided instruction (CAI) has also entered the thousands on thousands of classroom. Now the computer assisted instruction (CAI) has become an advanced teaching means of quality education in teaching. CAI for the convenience and efficiency of English classroom teaching at the same time, its disadvantages inevitably highlights. This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of CAI, which is expected to play a good role in the educational and teaching activities.

Software engineering has strong demand to students' practical operating ability. However now, students' learning and innovation practice ability are not positively related to the trend. How can this phenomenon appear? Well, our talent training model at present is responsible to it. In other word, we can say that too-much-emphasize-on-single and mainly-learning talent training model leads to some problems. In this article, some proposals have been put forward to reform software engineering students' creative and practical ability training mode, such as, generally prompt innovation practice quality education following the instruction of the scientific educational concept, punning the basis of students' innovation practice ability training on the basis of optimizing the course system, build a student after-class science and technology activity model on the purpose of training students' innovation practice ability, and so on.