The European Board in March of the year 2000 in Lisbon was a determinant moment in the politics and actions of the European Union. Its conclusions confirm that Europe entered the century of knowledge. Information and communication technologies’ integration into school is the keystone of part of the education reform of the country on which success depends on the education of a new society citizen of knowledge, as well as, the success of the whole educational reform, the social and economic progress. By educating the member of the society of knowledge, a school pays special attention to the personal characteristics which are very important in modern life- initiative, responsibility, independency, ability to communicate, work with others and solve problems. Students have to be able to use information and communication technology in collaboration, spreading information, in communication with students of the same age, with teachers and other individuals, with social and state organizations. By spreading new technologies into education, an exceptional attention should be paid to the pedagogues’ professional development and their social universality. It is important for teachers to gain some elementary knowledge and skills about the technology of information and to constantly improve their qualification and to renew their knowledge. However the teacher training system still is not in line with the changes made at schools in the latter decade. This system is not ready to... [to full text]

At the moment social exclusion is a topical problem in a whole Europe. That’s why innovative decisions are prompted for social exclusive group of people in order to facilitate their integration process into the labour market. The stepping-stone of this work is e-advisor for choosing possibilities within social isolation environment. This e-advisor is created in accordance with artificial neural network and considering to individual person’s features give suggestions for the most suitable professions. Also in this work is presented disease diagnostic model, which is defined by artificial neural network.

This survey introduces the analysis of parents’ help impact on pupils’ choice of educational profiles, the theoretical and practical aspects such as the aims and objectives, the notion of the profiled learning; the analysis of documents, regulating the profiled learning, careers counseling and career education. One of the major tasks was to define the parents’ influence on efficiency in choosing the profiles of learning. Several methods were used in the survey: the analysis of scientific literature, the questionnaire for the pupils of 11th -12th grades, conversations, the analysis of mathematical-statistical data performed by computer programme SPPS 10.0 for Windows. The survey was performed in January-March 2006 where 430 respondents from 11-12 grades, their parents and class-mistresses took part. The analysis of the documents regulating the profiled learning shows that the essence of such learning is to differentiate teaching according to pupils’ ambitions, abilities, capabilities, gifts etc. giving them possibilities to choose certain subjects and levels associated with their chosen educational direction. The profiled learning, which was introduced on 1st September 2000, gives possibility to satisfy pupils’ interests,’ likings and also to learn what they prefer or what they have knowingly chosen according to their career interests. Parents have the right to choose a certain educational direction, which is closest to their... [to full text]

Young wedded requirements are important in modern society. It is interesting to see how they realize their requirements in computer skills, spending their own leisure time, driving a car, etc. The adults’ education in Finland, Denmark was presented in theoretic part of this diploma work. The recommendations about adults’ balanced requirements and possibilities are also offered in this diploma work. The real self – education is a process which happens from the personality’s requirements to supply spiritual interests. Individuals establish self education’s purposes and their own knowledge. To establish young wedded self – education requirements and the realization of those requirements was the research of this diploma work. The research goals are: 1. To get an information about wedded requirements and to make a list about it. 2. To show wedded requirements about profession, leisure time, daily living and sport. 3. To find a realization of wedded requirements. 4. To make analysis and conclusions of all research of this diploma work. The research methods are: 1. Theoretical: the analysis of philosophic, pedagogical, psychological literature. 2. The respondents’ questionnaire and analysis. 3. Mathematical statistic methods. The finding of this diploma work: Ų The analysis of scientific literature proved the social problem of wedded requirements and the possibilities to supply those requirements. Ų Independent process is the problem of wedded self – education. Ų Wedded... [to full text]

In Lithuania, the Life Long Learning process is realized through universities, colleges, vocational schools, adult education centers and other relevant institutions. Thus a Life Long Learning system should be established at all education levels - vocational, tertiary, etc. There is a widespread consensus in the Government and non-governmental educational sector institutions that Distance Education and training has enormous potential to tackle the new challenges. Significant policy groundwork has been laid for the development of an advanced and comprehensive distance education system. The major initiatives fostering Distance Education development are: The Government investment project „LieDM (Development of Distance Education in Lithuania 1998-2005)“, the „ITMiS -Information Technologies for Science and Studies“ program initiated by the Ministry of Education and Science, and Phare2000 projects for the development of Regional Distance Professional Training Infrastructures in Klaipeda, Taurage, Marijampole and Utena regions. The goal of this Master thesis is according the analysis of the experience of European countries in development distance education and investigation of main tools of distance courses design, to promote the development of distance education in Panevezys region.

Life-long learning determines the possibilities of learning and improving the needs of all the citizens of the country. Health care personnel who have to improve their professional qualification are becoming active participants of this process. While associating to a common European nursing space, nurses are facing new requirements and this influences their professional competence. This is the reason why it is very important to find out how nurses improve their professional qualification considering the notions of life-long learning. The aim of this report is to reveal the features of nurses’ professional qualification in the context of life-long learning. According to the analysis of legal aspects of the development of nurses’ professional qualification, the professional development of this group of specialists is regulated by the state. It is as well formalized and inflexible. Incomplete national attitude towards adult learning suggests that the distribution of financial resources in health care system is not properly settled as far as the improvement of nurses’ qualification is concerned. It also causes restrictions of learning accessibility in social, financial and economical aspects. The data of the research has highlighted the salient problems that nurses face with. Among others, one is that the existing system of professional improvement is not adjusted to the implementation of notions of life-long learning. Nurses do not feel secure because of permanent changes in... [to full text]

This work is meant for informal adult education research as adult informal education in Lithuania is not widely used. The above mentioned factor is based on many factors and tendencies of the previous years, i.e. qualification of the most people does not meet requirements of the market or there is lack of formal qualification, professional training system is not developed as it should be; compared to EU well developed countries only small part of the adults participate in informal adult education programs, lack of informal and self-education acknowledgement makes it harder to take part in labour market. Goal. Evaluate informal adult education status analyzing independent informal adult education situation in Lithuania. At the time of the research scientific literature and documents regulating informal adult education were analyzed as well as secondary statistics data. Possibilities of informal adult education were analyzed, too. Besides, informal and self-education identification, evaluation and acknowledgment process in Lithuania and abroad were evaluated. Vilnius city and municipality informal adult education organizing institutions (5) and adults (165) studying there participated in the research. One of the goals was to analyze studying conditions and motivation of the adults studying there. The results of the research show that the most active adults participating in the educational programs are adults of employable age, having university education and having... [to full text]

The subject of this MA thesis is “The Relation between Learning Ability and Learning Motivation in 4th – Graders”. The thesis analyses an urgent educational issue of developing learning competence in primary school, in particular learning ability and learning motivation. Learning motivation is perceived here as a set of inner (knowledge prestige, communication, self – expression, future) and outer (learning for personal benefits, out of compulsion or fear) stimuli. The thesis discusses the structure of the ability to learn as that to raise learning objectives, to plan the learning process and to act purposefully in order to achieve the learning objectives (the ability to relate the new learning material or experience to what is know; the ability to clarify misconceptions and correct them accordingly; the ability to select and apply appropriate strategies; the ability to use sources of information; the ability to cope with learning difficulties; the ability to cooperate). With a view to measuring the 4th – graders‘ level of learning ability and expression of learning motivation, a questionnaire and a situational method were constructed. The reliability of the answers was tested at interviews and with the help of a questionnaire in which some teachers evaluated their pupils’ ability to learn. The computer programmes Excel and SPSS were used to process and correlate the data about the pupils’ learning ability and learning motivation. 305 4th – graders from Vilnius schools... [to full text]

Siekiant išspręsti didelio studijuojančiųjų bei norinčių studijuoti geografinio išsibarstymo bei laiko, galimo skirti studijoms, stokos problemas Kauno medicinos universitete įsteigtas nuotolinių studijų centras. Tačiau, pradėjus rengti nuotolines studijas, susidurta su Studentų bei dėstytojų kompiuterinio raštingumo stokos, mažo studentų aktyvumo paskaitose bei atliekant užduotis, nuolatinio vėlavimo atsiskaityti bei nepakankamo studijų dalyvių tarpusavio bendravimo problemomis. Atlikus sinchroninių ir asinchroninių informacinių komunikacinių technologijų lyginamąją analizę medicinos specialistų tęstinio mokymo nuotoliniu būdu aspektu įvertinta, jog asinchroninės komunikacinės priemonės studentams yra daug priimtinesnės ir tinkamesnės mokymosi procesui. Dažniausiai ir efektyviausiai naudojama priemonė yra elektroninis paštas. Siekiant bent dalinai išspręsti kursų organizaciniame etape kylančias problemas bei tokiu būdu užtikrinti teikiamų kursų kokybę, sukurta studentų savalaikio informavimo sistema, kurios pagrindinė funkcija yra laiku informuoti studentus apie artėjančius atsiskaitymus, paskaitas ar kitus įvykius elektroninio pašto žinute. Tyrimas rodo, kad studentų savalaikio informavimo sistemos veiksmingumas pasiteisino, todėl tikėtina, kad ši sistema bus plačiai naudojama ateityje rengiant medicinos specialistų nuotolinio mokymo programas. / Distance learning center was established in Kaunas medical university trying to solve the problems of large distribution of students and lack of time, that could be spent on learning,. When distance education was started, new problems were encountered: weak computer knowledge of students and teachers; low activity in video lectures and performance of tasks; permanent lateness with performing task or taking tests; not enough of communication between participants of studies. Synchronous and Asynchronous information communication technologies comparative analyses in aspect of continuous medical distance education showed, that asynchronous communication technologies are more suitable and preferable for the process of studying. Most frequently and most effectively used asynchronous communication technology is e-mail. Trying to solve problems occurring in the stage of presenting distance courses and thereby to ensure the quality of courses, well-timed information system for students was constructed. Main function of the system is to inform students about the forthcoming events – tests, videoconferences, group discussions and etc., by sending e-mail messages. The investigation shows that well-timed information system for students is effective, so, most probably, it will be used in future distance courses in Kaunas medical university.

Šiame darbe buvo nagrinėtas kompiuterinės grafikos mokymas taikant IKT, analizuojamos mokomosios medžiagos pateikimo ir įsisavinimo problemos, aptarti aktyvieji mokymo(-si) metodai, atlikta elektroninių mokymo priemonių interaktyvumo lygių analizė, aptariamas modeliavimo metodas bei jo pritaikymo galimybės kompiuterinės grafikos pamokose. Suprojektuotas modelis, skirtas mokomųjų užduočių konstravimui iš realizuotų elementarių komponentų (Flash filmukų), pateikiami modelio etapus iliustruojantys pavyzdžiai, analizuojamos sukonstruotų užduočių galimos scenarijų išpildymo technologijos, aprašoma sudėtinių elementų realizacija bei pateikiamas vartotojo vadovas. Taip pat darbe analizuojami sukurtos mokymo priemonės praktinio panaudojimo rezultatai. / This work researches the training of computer graphics using ICT (information communication technologies), analyzes problems of presentation and assimilation of learning resource materials, considers methods of active learning, completes analysis of interactivity levels of electronic tutorial aids, discusses simulation (modeling) technique and it’s customization possibilities in computer graphics lessons. Here is designed model for learning tasks construction from created elementary components (flash movies), presented examples illustrating model stages, analyzed technologies of eventual completion scenario for created tasks, described realization of composite elements and presented user manual. Also, the work summarizes results of experimental appliance of created tutorial in learning process.