Topic: distance education on geography. The target of this master writing is to research the usage of distance education courses to teach geography. This title gives overview on history, popularity and the spread of learning on distance education in Lithuania and the World. It analyses learning procedures and techniques, overviews existing education courses, evaluates distance education software and web services, gives overview of the distance learning course development stages, includes sample courses and even has step-by-step instructions for creating lessons for those courses. Some distance K-12 classes were observed during the year to realize the need and potential of distance education. The need of distance education in Lithuania isconstantly raises with reference to the information contained in this writing. Sometimes distance education is most convenient and evens the only way to achieve K-12 education (i.e. for physically disabled people, for children constantly traveling with their parents, etc.). Students select geography as suitable for distance education like other non-math disciplines. Great success in developing distance education geography courses gives the ability to enrich them with visual aids. Sadly not all available communication techniques are used by distance education in Lithuania and also sometimes issues with authenticity of qualification and students motivation for learning arise. This gives an opportunity to improve the procedures. Hopefully this... [to full text]

SUMMARY Author: Jurgita Babilienė Title: The Research on Posibilities of Distant Learning in Kaunas College of Forest and Landscape Engeneering. Place of research: Lithuanian University of Agriculture. Department of professional pedagogics and psychology. Akademija, 2006. Volume: 55 pages Research contains: 2 charts, 20 pictures, 3 supplements. Literature sources: 34 Object of the research: students, their possibilities to learn distantly. Research methods: 1. The analysis of scientific methodical literature related to distant studies. 2. The questionnaire of student learning motives, level of self-sufficiency and computer literacy. (used in 2005). 3. The questionnaire of change in student knowledge about distant learning (used in 2006). 4. The analysis of statistical data made with SPSS software. Research results: Research results show that half of college students are willing to study distantly, because they are motivated, disciplined, concious persons, who are attending lectures and other activities, who are making their assignments on time, with the knowledge what is the distant learning. We can state that the first hypothesis is disproved. It was determined that half of KCFLE students have good computer literacy skills, assume to be able to work with computers, one third of them have the computer with internet at home. 58.3 percent of the respondents think that some teaching material could be found on the internet. 43.5 percent of the respondents... [to full text]

The main focus of the research was laid upon the application of educational technologies in vocational teaching. The results reveal that all educational technologies are applied in teaching process of Kėdainiai vocational training centre Lančiūnava branch. The majority of students are completely satisfied or satisfied with the application of educational technologies. The beginning of the research covered the development of the hypotheses – modern educational technologies help to master new information quicker than the traditional ones. The results of the students’ questionnaire confirm the hypothesis. According to the teachers’ position, the traditional technologies facilitates learning more than the most modern ones. In this case the hypothesis was rejected.

Education methodology of people with disabilities is not very well developed and it is the reason why disabled people are facing problems in using of unadapted educational materials. More and more disabled people are choosing distance learning due to its convenience and possibility to learn from home. In most cases materials are presented in hypertext format. There are no sufficient tools for adaptation of hypertext documents for disabled people usage and it makes work with those documents very hard or even impossible. Due to the fact, that preparation of teachers and professors for work with hypertext may be very time consuming and difficult, this thesis’s where trying to use different approach - find a solution for non HTML literate person to adapt HTML documents for disabled people. Set of rules was created and flexible tool lets effectively adapt hypertext materials for disabled.

The main goal of this project is to analyze structure, possibilities, principles of creation, users requirements and extend functionality of the present system (ViPS), which is designed for distance education. This system gives possibilities to Lithuanian institutions of science and education to supply distance studies in all over the country. Besides that, it gives possibility of life-long learning to all people. System is oriented to synchronous education, but it also supports asynchronous. Material of lectures contains of video records and lecture material (usually slides) made by professor. ViPS can be used by four types of users: lecture listeners (outside users), professors, institution and system administrators. Users activities are: • Outside user – has an opportunity to look through the list of courses, participate in lectures, get news by email, execute search, change data of profile and accession. • Professor – despite outside user’s functions, can also give lectures, describe courses and lecture material (metadata). • Administrator of institution – despite professor’s functions, has a possibility to attach non-grouped users to institution, give special access rights (can change user status to professor) to users, register institution resources. • System administrator – despite institution administrator’s functions, can create groups, send system news to users, create licenses, register institutions, control user groups. The modern CASE tool “Rational... [to full text]

The key aim of the designed system is to create the e-teaching and e-learning tool to be applied for the studies of the module “Designing Hypertext Systems”, taught at the Faculty of Business and Technologies of Utena College. The major objective of the system is to facilitate the studies of the abovementioned module and ease the communication between professors and students, who are not able to attend lectures due to reasonable excuses, as well as part-time students. Seeking to clarify the relevance of the designed tool, as well as the need for it and, in pursuance of its efficiency, the following directional issues have been analysed: institutions that organise training based on distance technologies; spheres that cover the majority of offers for such training; tools that are accessible to all the persons requesting them; the number of offers in relation to particular title of the designed system “Designing Hypertext Systems”; its accessibility to common users and conformity of its contents to the contents of the mentioned module; advantages and disadvantages of distance education; possibilities to make use of the system for presumptive users of the system, their motivation, requests and proposals; supply of website design tools, educational material for e-teaching, as well as training methodology. In addition to that, the analysis of the already existing decisions has been also carried out. In the result of what, conclusions have been drawn on the fact that designing of... [to full text]

SANTRAUKA Darbo autorius Irma Kačinienė Darbo tema: E-mokymo/si sampratos ir plėtotės galimybių tyrimas LŽŪU pedagogų bendruomenėje Darbo rengimo vieta: Lietuvos žemės ūkio universitetas, Profesinės pedagogikos ir psichologijos katedra, Akademija, 2008. Darbo apimtis: 56 lapai Darbe yra: 5 lentelės, 25 paveikslai, 2 priedai Literatūros šaltiniai: 35 Tyrimo objektas: LŽŪU pedagogų bendruomenės narių samprata apie e-mokymą/si ir jo plėtotę universitete Tyrimo metodai: 1) Mokslinės literatūros ir dokumentų analizė; 2) LŽŪU pedagogų anketinė apklausa; 3) kiekybinė (procentinis duomenų vertinimas, koreliacinių ryšių nustatymas) ir kokybinė (sisteminimas, klasifikavimas) duomenų analizė Tyrimo tikslas: Ištirti LŽŪU pedagogų bendruomenės narių sampratą apie e mokymą/si ir įvertinti e-mokymo/si plėtros strategijos pagrįstumą universitete. Tyrimo rezultatai: Tyrimo rezultatai patvirtino hipotezę, jog LŽŪU pedagogų bendruomenės nariai nėra tinkamai pasirengę taikyti e-mokymo pedagogines technologijas. Dauguma respondentų žino pagrindinius e- mokymo ir nuotolinio mokymo metodų principus, bet tik nedidelė dalis iš jų yra praktiškai ruošę e-mokymo medžiagą. Tyrimas taip pat parodė, jog pedagogai nėra abejingi moderniems mokymo metodams: turėdami didesnį institucijos paskatinimą bei geresnį metodinį pasiruošimą, jie aktyvintų šias veiklas. Ypač tai linkę daryti jaunesni ir žemesnes pareigas užimantys dėstytojai. Šiuo metu esančią nuotolinio mokymo situaciją universitete pedagogai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Author: Irma Kačinienė Subject: Research of E-learning/ e-teaching Notion and Development Possibilities in LŽUU Pedagogic Community Location: Lithuanian University of Agriculture, Department of Vocational Pedagogy and Psychology, Akademija, 2008. Coverage: 56 pages Volume: 5 tables, 26 pictures, 2 annexes References: 35 literature sources Research object: LŽŪU pedagogue community members’ understanding of e-learning/ teaching and its development Research methods: 1) Analysis of scientific literature and documents; 2) Questionnaire survey of LŽŪU pedagogues; 3) Quantitative (percentage data evaluation, establishment of correlative connections) and qualitative (systemizing, classification) analysis of the data. Research purpose: To research the LŽŪU pedagogue community members’ understanding of e-learning/ teaching and to evaluate the reasoning of e-learning/ teaching development strategy at the university. Research results: Research results confirmed the hypothesis that members of LŽŪU pedagogues’ community are not properly prepared to apply e-teaching pedagogical technologies. Most of the respondents know the main principles of e-teaching and remote teaching methods, but only small part of them were practically engaged in preparation of e-teaching material. The research also revealed that pedagogues are not uninterested in the modern teaching methods: in case of motivation from the institution and better methodical preparation they would be engaged more actively in these... [to full text]

Geiščiūnas Gediminas. Informatikos magistro darbas. Nuotolinis studijų kursas „Fizika 10“. Darbo vadovė: Doc. S. Turskienė. Šiaulių Universitetas. Šiauliai, 2007. 45 puslapiai. Mokykloms kompiuterizuojantis, tikslinga kurti fizikos mokomąsias kompiuterines programas ir panaudoti jas mokyme. Fizikos mokymo kompiuterizavimas turėtų pagerinti mokytojo darbą, padidinti jo efektyvumą. Šio darbo tikslas – sukurti nuotolinio mokymo kursą „Fizika 10“, skirtą X klasės mokiniams. Kursas leistų mokytojams greičiau ir efektyviau pateikti mokymo medžiagą ir padėti mokiniams mokytis savarankiškai, ypač tiems, kurie negali atvykti į mokyklą ar tiems, kurie turi fizinę negalę ir negali pakankamai dažnai lankytis pamokose. Pagrindiniai uždaviniai: • Išanalizuoti fizikos mokymo kompiuterines programas. ����� Sukurti kompiuterinę mokomąją programą „Fizika 10“. • Sukurti nuotolinio mokymo kursą „Fizika 10“. • Atlikti Šiaulių apskrities mokytojų ir mokinių apklausą apie šį nuotolinio mokymo kursą. Darbo realizavimui buvo panaudota nuotolinio mokymo sistema Moodle. / Geiščiūnas Gediminas. Informatics Master’s Final Thesis. The course for distance learning „Physics 10“. Lecturer S. Turskienė. Siauliai University. Siauliai, 2007. 45 pages. Working on computerization at schools it is purposeful to make a physical educational installation programs and use them in the learning process. The computerization in the teaching process of physics should give teachers a great push in their educational work and up rate its efficiency. The aim of this master work is to create the course for distant learning under the title “Physics 10” for X formers. The course would give teachers the opportunity to impart learning material faster and much more efficiently and especially to those who cannot come to school or to those who have some disabilities and cannot often attend the lessons. The main goals: • to analyze computer-based programs for physics’ teaching; • to design computer-based educational program “Physics 10”; • to create the planned distant learning course “Physics 10”; • to quiz teachers and pupils in Šiauliai district about distant teaching course; The Moodle system for distant teaching was used to implement the goals assigned.

SUMMARY Nowadays everyone must learn and his (her) learning process goes on all life long. So teachers should give pupils good skills for learning and living qualitative way of life. The survey made in Aukštaitija district in 2003 and the survey made by KTU scientists in 2005 showed that teachers haven’t got skills how to organize learning process. ICT is not in use in lessons in common as often as it is possible to do. The object of this work is distance education at secondary schools. The aim of the work is to analyze the real situation at secondary schools, identify the real problems and give some solutions for solving these problems as well as give advices. The problems: • Few teachers are capable to create courses for distant education. Courses that teach this subject are almost unreachable for them; otherwise they are too short and it is hard to get the right skills; • There are many gifted children that are given too little attention. This is the reason for their less motivation to learn; • Schools have problems with missed lessons. Distant education as a method to solve such kind of problem is almost unknown. The goals: • Analyze theoretical aspects of distant education in secondary schools; • To make survey that will show pupils and teachers’ experience in using ICT in lessons; • To create a course for teachers that will show how organize learning process using virtual learning environment (VLE) ATutor. The subject is – the situation in applying ICT and distant... [to full text]

Darbe analizuojami įvairūs metodai, tinkami mokyti(s) matematikos nuotoliniu būdu. Išnagrinėjus ŠMM dokumentus ir pedagoginę literatūrą, daroma išvada, jog nuotoliniam matematikos dalyko mokymui yra tinkamas mišrusis dalyko mokymas,kuomet tarpusavyje derinami programuotas mokymas (įgūdžių įtvirtinimui, turinio diferencijavimui) bei tradiciniai metodai (naujos medžiagos aiškinimui, konsultavimui). / In teaching mathematics it is not enough to realize the only one method. The analysis of scientific literature has opened, that for distance learning of mathematics it would be effective to realize composite method there programmed learning would be combined with traditional methods.