With the increasing popularity of phone application development, a number of features have surfaced that enable users to utilize extended functionalities with their phone. With a single device, a user is now able to have access to the latest trends. As a result, functionalities from various products such as personal computers or GPS devices can now be accessible in one place. While this technology is evolving at a fast rate, it is the embedded technology and hardware that drive it which facilitate the innovative designs and solutions. At the other end of the spectrum of embedded systems, companies continue to maintain legacy products that use embedded chips programmed through their flash memory. With this perceived commitment to stay loyal to their older product designs, it has become rather cumbersome for such companies to stay current with the latest hardware and software trends. The result is higher costs to the customers for their high-end products. While the average user invests in newer and faster Google phones or iPhones, it is unlikely that the same can be said for commercial products such as a refrigerator or a ball machine. What if a development framework existed that allowed customers to have access to better user interfaces and functionalities over the lifetime of their product? In this Masters report, an innovative approach is discussed which demonstrates the latest mobile phone technology combined with an existing embedded device being applied to the conversion of a low-end tennis ball machine into an affordable high-end one. / text

Šiame darbe nagrinėjama klasės auklėtojo vadybinė kompetencija ugdymo procese. Pagrindinis darbo tikslas- ištirti klasės auklėtojų vadybinės kompetencijos naudojimo ugdymo procese lygį. Teorinėje darbo dalyje pateikiama medžiaga apie kompetenciją, pedagogo kompetencijas, vadybą, pedagogo vadybinę kompetenciją bei klasės auklėtoją, apimant jo atliekamas funkcijas ir pareigas bei jas siejant su vadybine kompetencija. Praktinėje darbo dalyje pateikiami klasės auklėtojų ir mokinių apklausos rezultatai: teorinės klasės auklėtojų žinios apie vadybinę kompetenciją, vadybinės kompetencijos naudojimo ugdymo procese dažnumą bei kokybę bei vadovavimo klasei stilius. / The article provides management competence of classroom tutor and management competence using level and using rate in education process. This work concists of two parts: theoretical part in wich are introducing educator competences, educator management competence and classroom tutor and practical part in wich it is given four research work results evaluations: classroom tutor distribution af academic management competence knowledges; respondents (classroom tutor, pupil) assesment of management competence level; respondents (classroom tutor, pupil) assesment of management competence using rate and respondents assesment of mostly usable management style, wich is using in the classs.

Rapidly developing technological progress of the 21st century, as well as social and psychological conditions of the recent decades determined certain changes in the schools of our country. Today schools have an important task – to prepare children for full-fledged life with consideration to the changes and development of our society. The programs of Lithuanian schools of general secondary education (V., 1997) declare that the key indicator of good psychological atmosphere is active cooperation of school executives, teaches and parents in solving general pedagogical problems. Here, class tutor plays one of the most important roles. In response to today’s challenges, the educational system of Lithuania is seeking to develop: - Independent and responsible person, who is able to improve his abilities throughout the whole course of his/her life; - Self-ruling and solidary civil society, which is based on knowledge and is able to preserve its oneness, create and develop its state, communicate and compete in the global world. In the way of reaching the above listed goals, the role of teacher is changing quintessentially in the educational process: the teacher, as knowledge owner and moderator is changed by teacher, who is able to organize educational process, create learning possibilities, be advisor and partner. Consequently, the class tutor plays extremely important role in whole educational system. The goal of this research paper is to analyze certain aspects of... [to full text]

The present study firstly aimed to identify children with delayed reading who were missing the component skills of decoding fluency and who also displayed antisocial behaviour in the classroom. It also aimed to replicate with them an intervention designed by Church, Nixon, Zintl and Williams (2005). The study finally aimed to explore the question of whether children who have both a reading delay and a disruptive behaviour disorder require a reinforcement scheme to maintain their engagement in learning activities. Six participants worked with same-age peer tutors on specially-designed practice activities for approximately 20 minutes a day, four times a week, for 8-18 sessions. Improvement in decoding fluency and prose reading fluency was tracked for each child throughout the intervention. Results showed that the six participants gained, on average, sixteen months on their age-equivalent score for reading rate. Decoding fluency scores increased from a pre-test average of 16 correct graphemes per minute to 32 correct graphemes per minute at the post-test measure. Reading accuracy improved by an average of five months and reading comprehension by an average of six months. The gains in reading rate are most likely due to the practice opportunities afforded by the testing procedures as decoding fluency scores did not improve enough to have had a direct impact on the learners’ prose reading ability. Implications for remedial reading interventions with children with behaviour problems are discussed.

Förutom att uppfylla gällande regler och riktlinjer för rollen skall den som är verksam som handledare för studenter i deras fartygsförlagda utbildning även känna ett stöd från arbetsgivare och kollegor. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om handledarna upplever att de får detta stöd och även undersöka vad lärosäten, SUI och studenter kan göra för att underlätta handledningen. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer ansikte mot ansikte. Fem respondenter intervjuades var för sig mellan den 24:e februari och den 11:e mars 2014. Resultatet visade att det finns utrymme för förbättringar i form av olika sorters stöd till handledare. Majoriteten av respondenterna ansåg sig behöva mer stöd i form av utbildning, seminarier, extra avsatt tid för handledning, information om kommande studenter, deras kursplaner och förväntade studieresultat samt även att få återkoppling från studenter vid avslutad praktikperiod. / Except to fulfil the current rules and guidelines, persons that are active in the role as preceptors for students in their on board training shall experience a support from their employer and their colleges. The purpose of this study was to examine if the preceptors experience that they´re getting that support and also to examine what HEIs, internship administration and students themselves can do to support the preceptors. The study was implemented with a qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews. The interviews were carried out face to face with five respondents between February 24th and March 11th 2014. The results showed that there´re room for improvement in form of various kind of support for the preceptors. The majority of the respondents’ experience that they need better support in terms of education, seminars, extra time set aside for tutoring, information about the forthcoming students, their syllabuses and expected learning outcomes as well as receiving feedback from the students on completion of the internship.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). "September 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-96). Also available via the World Wide Web.

The purpose of this study was to determine the roles that Native English speaking (NES) and non-native English speaking (NNES) tutors play in sessions with NES and NNES tutees in a U.S. Midwestern university's writing center, according to the perceptions of both types of tutors and tutees. The study also aimed to determine the extent to which the "native speaker fallacy"--the preference for anything related to native speakers over anything related to non-native speakers--was evident in these perceptions, particularly in tutoring strategies, difficulties in tutoring, and tutoring competence. The researcher collected data for the study from pre- and post-session interviews of both types of tutors and cross-analyzed coded patterns from this data with patterns found in pre- and post-session interviews of both types of tutees and with the researcher's observations of the participants' sessions. According to the research results, both tutors' and tutees' perceptions as expressed in their interviews were more affected by the tutors' status, NES versus NNES, than by specific qualifications of the tutors to assist tutees, with the responses revealing the participants' assumption of native speakers' superiority. Despite cross-analyzed findings that NNES tutors were perceived as more able to explain the causes of error, findings also revealed NES tutors' confidence in their NES status as compensating for their lack of grammar knowledge and NNES tutors' perception of themselves as inferior and needing to compensate for their non-NES status through teacher-like directness in assistance offered. Also, despite tutees' expressed appreciation for NNES tutors' explanations of errors, tutees still expressed a preference for NES tutors and applied a double standard, with NNES tutors seen as effective only if proved to be good writers and NES tutors assumed to be effective by virtue of their native speaker status. Drawing upon findings suggesting the influence of the native speaker fallacy on the participants' perceptions, the researcher concludes by discussing the significance of this study for identifying possible university initiatives to enhance appreciation of diverse cultures and for suggesting that although intrinsic knowledge of language seems preferred over learned knowledge, possessing both types of knowledge and the flexibility to employ more fluid roles as both peer and teacher would seem to equip tutors for more productive sessions.

The thesis deals with the role of a tutor in the Therapeutic community Karlov within a group of drug addicted mothers and their children. The thesis introduces the drug issue, including the general specification of a therapeutic community. The status of the non-profit organization SANANIM in the Czech Republic is described herein, as well as detailed characterization of its Therapeutic community Karlov which focuses on treating drug-addicted mothers along with their children. Another part of this thesis concentrates on the treatment of drug-addicted mothers along with their children and highlights the role of the tutor in the whole process. The last part of this work is dedicated to a qualitative research conducted within a group of abstaining mothers that received a treatment in this Therapeutic community. Over the course of this research a hypothesis that a tutor has positive influence on the relation of mother and her child/children during the treatment phase was confirmed.

The diploma thesis deals with possibilities and usage of e-learning in the field of education of employees of Ministry of Interior through the Police schools. Its aim is to analyze e-learning training at the Police College and Secondary Police School of the Ministry of the Interior in Prague, to identify opportunities for improvement resulting from the practical experience with a chosen e-learning course, to create corrective improving measures and the verification in practice. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the explanation of the concept of e-learning, the historical development of this phenomenon, the familiarization with the forms and last but not least with its advantages and disadvantages. The practical part is mapping the level of e-learning and its forms at the Police College and Secondary Police School of the Ministry of Interior in Prague. It examines the impact of e-learning on increasing the qualifications of employees and their attitude towards this form of education. It also describes the practical experience with the chosen course, including the identification of opportunities for improvement, and their verification by the participants through a questionnaire survey. On the basis of this experience some measures were suggested and subsequently verified in practice.

O presente estudo tem por objetivo principal a identificação e caracterização das competências fundamentais requeridas ao tutor para atuar em programas de educação a distância mediados pela internet, utilizando o caso do curso de graduação em Administração, modalidade a distância, da Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. A motivação para a realização deste estudo surgiu das dificuldades enfrentadas pelas instituições de ensino superior em capacitar profissionais para atuar como tutores em cursos on-line, dada a velocidade com que a modalidade a distância vem crescendo no Brasil, e a própria necessidade de identificar quais recursos são fundamentais para o trabalho dos tutores. Neste contexto, a pesquisa parte de um referencial teórico sustentado pelas seguintes temáticas: educação a distância e competências, com ênfase nas contribuições de Zarifian (2001) – noções de competência, evento, comunicação e serviço – e Le Boterf (1999) – conceitos de competência e recursos. A partir de tais conceitos obtidos durante o estudo bibliográfico, foi elaborada a pesquisa exploratória, composta de uma etapa de coleta de dados e de análise do caso do curso de graduação em Administração, modalidade a distância, da Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Na etapa de coleta de dados, foram realizadas entrevistas com 13 tutores, 03 coordenadores de pólo, 02 gestores e 05 alunos e foram analisados documentos do curso. Durante a execução do estudo, o pesquisador atuou como Coordenador de Tutoria do curso em questão, sendo, então, um observador participante. Após a triangulação dos dados e retorno ao referencial teórico, iniciou-se a etapa de análise. Os documentos foram analisados por análise documental e as entrevistas por análise de conteúdo. Ao final da análise, os resultados obtidos foram duas competências fundamentais: atendimento aos alunos e interação com a equipe de EAD para trocas de informações, conhecimentos e inovações, além de um conjunto de recursos: pessoais, de conhecimentos e de habilidades, que são os elementos que possibilitam aos tutores agir com competência nos cursos de EAD mediados pela internet. / The present study aims to identify and characterize the fundamental competences required to the online tutors for working in internet based distance education programs. The case study was done on the undergraduate management course at the Management School of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The motivation for this study emerged from the difficulties faced by universities on training teachers to work as online tutors, considering the huge growth distance education programs in Brazil and the intrinsic need for identifying which are the fundamental resources for the online tutors job. Within this context, this research initiates based on a theoretical frame of reference supported by the following topics: distance education and competences, emphasizing the studies of Zarifian (2001) – notion of competence, event, communication and service – and Le Boterf (1999) – concepts of competence and resources. Initiating from these concepts gathered during the literature review, an exploratory research was developed, including a stage of collects of data and an analysis of the undergraduate management course at the Management School of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Documents and interviews with 13 online tutors, 03 class coordinators, 02 managers and 05 students were analyzed. During the present study, the author worked as an online tutor coordinator on the case study course, characterizing himself as a participant-observer. After the triangulation and the return to the theoretical frame, the analysis was initiated. The documents were analyzed by documental analysis and the interviews by content analysis. As results, two fundamental competences were obtained: students attendance and interaction with distance education program colleagues for information, knowledge and innovation exchanges. It was also obtained a group of personal, knowledge and skills resources which able online tutors to act with competence on internet based distance education programs.