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Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023, Volume 4

Journal of Technology and Information Education, Apr 1, 2013

Among teachers, the European research policy related to ICT for education is less known.It is com... more Among teachers, the European research policy related to ICT for education is less known.It is commonly equate with eLearning, which is understood more as an educational issue than a technology one. In the context of the FP7 policy for "Technology-enhanced learning", the experiences are presented that were obtained within the "extended" participatory action research when teaching bachelors. "Extended" refers to the fact that the technology system is programmed by the author of this paper. The system consists from the educational software BIKE and a set of informatics tools that are developed and applied according to the immediate needs in order to automate the creation of teaching content, communication and processes in the classroom. This approach is focused on the personal support of a teacher, which plays key role in teaching. Several examples of pilot applications implemented into teaching of bachelors are presented. As well, some technological, educational and terminological aspects of computer supported teaching and learning are discussed.

ABSTRACT Knowledge plays a key role within research, development, innovations and education. This... more ABSTRACT Knowledge plays a key role within research, development, innovations and education. This paper presents the use of a long term developed of in-house software that enables a manager and teacher to process and manage knowledge on their desktop computers in a user friendly way. The application WritingPad was originally developed for information processing in an industrial R&D laboratory. The further development of the application continued within the implementation of “Technology-enhanced learning” at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology. This resulted in the development of a preprogrammed work environment called BIKE (Batch Information and Knowledge Editor). The environment works also as a teacher's personalized knowledge management system. It is programmed by the lead author of this paper who is a teacher; therefore the outcomes into teaching bachelor students are implemented directly into the classroom. The paper also presents how such IT support complements, at a personalized level, the existing organizational knowledge management tool known as the university's Academic Information System.

Springer eBooks, Oct 14, 2022

Circuit World, May 17, 2011

EDULEARN proceedings, Jul 1, 2022

2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET)

2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET)

The state-of-the art of the computer supported or enhanced teaching and learning processes is mos... more The state-of-the art of the computer supported or enhanced teaching and learning processes is mostly focused on content acquisition, processing, and management; virtual learning environments; learning analytics; educational data mining. There is an absence of approaches based on knowledge exchange between machines and humans in knowledge based processes. This paper describes such an approach. Within an empirical participatory action research on technology enhanced learning the issue of knowledge is understood as a key element of any automation of human knowledge processing. Teaching is thus considered as a typical knowledge based process. In this context, the utility model is also used, which implemented “virtual knowledge” as a universal construct, which “interdisciplinarilly” bridges the mental processes of humans and the physical processes performed by computers. Examples of such solutions are briefly mentioned. It is also emphasized that a complex computer supported collaborativ...

In the framework of R&D programmes a bilateral collaboration between the University of Zagreb - F... more In the framework of R&D programmes a bilateral collaboration between the University of Zagreb - Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Varaždin (FOI) and the Slovak University of Technology - Faculty of Materials Science and Technology (FMST) was started, this was based on ICT support in engineering education. Target activities were focused on FP7 Partner search and information exchange, mainly in the field of e-learning, technology enhanced learning (TEL) and blended learning. The possibility of language support via technology was also investigated. As a separate part of the information exchange an active contribution of the FMST at the Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems (Varaždin) can also be mentioned. It should be underlined that today's teachers must perform the three basic activities of - teaching, publishing and participating in research projects. In addition, they must perform daily administrative and organisational activities related to...

2016 Future Technologies Conference (FTC), 2016

The computer support of teaching and learning processes is still a large challenge for ICT. Namel... more The computer support of teaching and learning processes is still a large challenge for ICT. Namely, the actual level of human-computer interaction does not enable teachers or students to support the educational processes and automate them in a way that is natural for humans (e.g. solutions in natural language are missing). If they should be computerized, the crucial problem is that these processes, by the nature, are characterized by a continuous knowledge flow between teachers and students. Because knowledge is closely linked to mental processes of humans, they are uncertain and characterized by use of unstructured data. The state-of-the-art is prevailing by technology-driven approaches. This is more centered on how to create a technological infrastructure or tools, and how to have access to data on the internet, rather than how to process the knowledge flow. However, from a teacher's point of view, computer support is more about processes, how to computerize teaching in the classroom, communication, feedback, how to write student works, the creation of teaching texts, and hundreds of other issues respectively. Thus, more sophisticated IT solutions and an innovative approach for knowledge abstraction and representation is needed for the automation of teaching processes. This paper deals with how these issues were solved in natural language within a long-term participatory action research on technology-enhanced learning when teaching bachelor students. The research outcomes — the technology-driven and educational-driven approach, in-house educational software with a personalized supportive system, and innovative approach to the abstraction of knowledge are briefly presented as examples from the practice. The abstraction of the virtual knowledge unit is a part of the registered utility model 7340/2015 (the patent classification IPC G06F17/30, G06Q 10/10).

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In comparison with the traditional learning, the CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning)... more In comparison with the traditional learning, the CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) represents a combination of didactics and informatics approaches. This requires researchers to solve an additional design of specific educational software and suitable ICT infrastructure as was presented at previous ICL Conferences by the authors. This contribution describes a continuous progress under the umbrella of the research on technology-enhanced learning; and how the ICT integration is modelled for the collaborative writing and activities when using an educational beta-software BIKE(E)/WPad. The practical experiences are demonstrated with some examples of how the WPad is applied to the CSCL issues, in off-line mode or shared virtual space.

Abstract—In the paper, the implementation of the personalised approach of Technology enhanced lea... more Abstract—In the paper, the implementation of the personalised approach of Technology enhanced learning (TEL) for engineering education is presented and is based on “batch knowledge processing”. This bottom up concept takes into account that knowledge is a key element in engineering education and educators work with knowledge when performing their activities. In terms of this, the personalised TEL approach is understood as the “automation ” of all the types of activities performed by teachers. For supporting (automating) these activities a multipurpose pre-programmed desktop environment has been developed. It is built on a conventional Relational Database Management System, however, the paradigm of the batch knowledge processing is different from the conventional relational database and has not yet been described or published. Using this tailor made informatics tool the various types of the TEL outputs were worked out, e.g., learning materials for courses of study, internet forums du...

2017 7th World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF), 2017

There are many scientific papers related to ICT integration into teaching. However, authors of th... more There are many scientific papers related to ICT integration into teaching. However, authors of this contribution consider the actually used educational technology and software to be only modifications of general IT solutions. In practice, this results in such a paradox that teachers and students use operational systems or office packages instead of having a tailor made software at their disposal. In other words, in the Engineering education, there is an absence of approaches that would be based on understanding of the teaching process as a knowledge based one. Authors bring such an approach by a systemic development of a personal educational software BIKEE and a supportive IT infrastructure (as was also presented by them within the previous WEEF conference). In this context, this contribution explains certain aspects of solving the research on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) within the STEM education both from pedagogical (didactic) and informatics point of view. Th...

In this paper, the development of informatics tools and their testing for active learning support... more In this paper, the development of informatics tools and their testing for active learning support is described. The tools-programming scripts, optional menus, and tailored applications, are a part of the developed "Batch Information and Knowledge Editor". They are selected by a teacher from the knowledge editor's menu, and in the classroom are used directly for performing active learning at the university's detached workplace.

In the paper, the implementation of the personalised approach of Technology enhanced learning (TE... more In the paper, the implementation of the personalised approach of Technology enhanced learning (TEL) for engineering education is presented and is based on "batch knowledge processing". This bottom up concept takes into account that knowledge is a key element in engineering education and educators work with knowledge when performing their activities. In terms of this, the personalised TEL approach is understood as the "automation" of all the types of activities performed by teachers. For supporting (automating) these activities a multipurpose pre-programmed desktop environment has been developed. It is built on a conventional Relational Database Management System, however, the paradigm of the batch knowledge processing is different from the conventional relational database and has not yet been described or published. Using this tailor made informatics tool the various types of the TEL outputs were worked out, e.g., learning materials for courses of study, internet...