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Bizoi, M., Suduc, A. M., & Gorghiu, G. (2010). Teachers Perception on Developing and Implementing Virtual Experiments. (pp. 133–136). 1st International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT – INNOV 2010. Science and Technology Publications.
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Kordaki, M., Bîzoi, M., & Gorghiu, G. (2010). Teachers' Computer Supported Constructions within a European Virtual Community Collaborative Space for Sciences Education – An Experience Achieved in a Multinational European Project. (pp. 349–356).
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Suduc, A. - M., Bîzoi, M., Gorghiu, G., & Gorghiu, L. M. (2011). Information and communication technologies in science education. (pp. 1076–1080). 3rd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES-2011, 15.
Abstract: The advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) provide significant opportunities to improve teaching and learning. The use of ICT in science education offers even more advantages due to the attractive premises to simulate and interactively explore and test experiments which would be too expensive or too dangerous in real settings (for example in nuclear physics). The aim of this paper is to contribute to the research field of technology based learning by presenting several findings obtained during a multinational educational project (Comenius) regarding the use of computer in classroom, in science education, in Romania, Spain, Poland, Greece and Finland. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Gorghiu, G., Bîzoi, M., Gorghiu, L. M., & Suduc, A. - M. (2011). Web tools and instruments created in the VccSSe European project with the view to support Science teachers' experimental activities. (pp. 1231–1235). 3rd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES-2011, 15.
Abstract: Nowadays, the presence of ICT in education became a common fact and its importance cannot be overlooked. Starting from connecting people and resources, ICT was implemented in teaching and learning on a large scale, offering a real added-value to the educational process. One of the most common implementations in education is strongly referred to the use of World Wide Web. In many applications, it is explored through its navigating functions or exploited as an information resource, but it has an important potential to be used even as a tutor. Specific web-tools, gathered under an environment called e-Space, – were created during the three years Socrates-Comenius 2.1 European project “VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education”, which supported the pedagogical use of virtual experiments, as a new technology in the common Science teaching and learning process. The paper presents the instruments included in the e-Space and emphasizes also on its particular aspects, organized and developed as a web resource, useful for Science teachers. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Bîzoi, M., Suduc, A. M., Gorghiu, G., Gorghiu, L. M., & Brezeanu, I. (2011). Using the free integrated technologies to provide online collaborative learning at reduced costs. (pp. 1291–1295). 3rd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES-2011, 15.
Abstract: Traditional learning process involves a series of costs related to the resources used and assumes certain restrictions to the lessons because of the way they are planed and deployed. Technological development has allowed the removal of certain restrictions, but it has also led to additional consequences, inexistent in traditional learning. This paper presents an analysis, in terms of costs and resources, which is needed in the implementation and operation of the systems that provide environments for collaborative learning, by highlighting some designed elements that can lead to reduced costs. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Gorghiu, L. M., Gorghiu, G., Bîzoi, M., & Suduc, A. M. (2011). The electronic book – A modern instrument used in teachers' training process. (pp. 563–567). 1st World Conference on Information Technology, WCIT-2010, 3.
Abstract: Since Internet became in the last years the biggest source of information, the book concept has been dramatically redefined, especially in terms of separating of its content and the related support. Practically, when using the electronic media, a book could take a different look – the electronic book (e-book). Due to their widely spread in the last period, the e-books are one of the most effective ways to support distance learning (e-learning), as they can be read by thousands of readers. Due to the fact that the teachers have limited time for participating to the face-to-face training programmes, the e-books became an important tool for promoting different training courses organized in the frame of various projects. It was also the case of the three years Socrates-Comenius 2.1 European project “FISTE – A Future Way for In-Service Teacher Training across Europe” – code 118766-CP-1-2004-1-RO-COMENIUS-C21, when the partnership organized the on-line courses entitled “Integrated ICT in Traditional Training” and “ECSUT: Educational Challenges & Solutions in Using ICT” [1]. The best practices and experiences of the teachers who achieved the on-line courses were collected and help the partnership to design a web-guideline entitled “Best Practices Guideline for Educational Use of ICT Tools” as a final output of the project. The content of the European course and the web-guideline have been produced as an e-book format by using Desktop Author software application. In this sense, the paper aims to present the most important features proposed by Desktop Author software during the design process of the mentioned e-books, together with the main facets presented by the related e-volumes. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Gorghiu, G., Gorghiu, L. M., Suduc, A. M., & Bîzoi, M. (2011). Considerations related to the videoconference with European Science teachers organized in the frame of vccsse project. (pp. 574–578). 1st World Conference on Information Technology, WCIT-2010, 3.
Abstract: Nowadays, the videoconference represents a spread technology in the distant training processes but experienced also in the traditional ones, mostly in the frame of national and international projects. Taking into consideration the last type of actions, the paper emphasizes on the main aspects carried out for organizing a Meeting with European Science teachers, under the umbrella of a videoconference, as a distinct dissemination activity, planned in the frame of the three years Socrates-Comenius 2.1 European project “VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education” – code 128989-CP-1-2006-1-RO-COMENIUS-C21. The project partnership consists of 9 institutions, coordinated by Valahia University Targoviste, Romania. The paper offers an image on the videoconference organization and feedback collected from the participants. There were taken into consideration and discussed aspects like: technical and organizational criteria, content of the videoconference, communication and feedback criteria, strong and weak points met during the videoconference session. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Suduc, A. - M., Bizoi, M., Gorghiu, G., & Gorghiu, L. M. (2010). Web conferencing: A tool for knowledge transfer between universities and business organizations. (pp. 165–168). 1st International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT, INNOV 2010.
Abstract: It is commonly accepted that universities are an important source of new knowledge, especially in the science and technology sector. The mechanisms to transfer this new knowledge from academia to business organizations are widely discussed by many authors. This paper presents how web collaboration environments may help in distance knowledge transfer and also a web conferencing example meant to stress the factors which led to a successful web meeting for knowledge diffusion. There is presented also the positive feedback of the attendees, in the conditions of low participation rate in previous similar experiences.
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Bîzoi, M., Suduc, A. - M., & Gorghiu, G. (2010). Teacher's perception on developing and implementing virtual experiments. (pp. 133–136). 1st International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT, INNOV 2010.
Abstract: Technological progress has allowed the emergence of new approaches to teaching. The virtual instruments development has led to lessons based on virtual experiments – applications that simulates real-life phenomenon and are specially designed for students use. Many virtual experiments can be obtained free of charge from the Internet, but their use in the classroom involves more than these tools availability. It involves the use of new teaching techniques and training materials. Through a European project, hundreds of teachers of sciences were trained to develop and implement virtual experiments in the classroom. This paper presents some of the expectations of teachers before the start of the training course and their opinion after the class implementation.
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Suduc, A. M., Bîzoi, M., Gorghiu, G., & Gorghiu, L. M. (2010). Using web conferencing for disseminating the educational projects results. (pp. 2813–2818). 2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES-2010, 2.
Abstract: Within European projects, the knowledge dissemination represents a very important activity claimed by the European frameworks. Beside the traditional dissemination methods, there are used specific technologies for knowledge dissemination which range from the classical telephone to ICT technologies. The paper aims to identify if web conferencing can be successfully used for educational projects outcomes dissemination and what are the factors that may lead to its success or its failure. The paper presents the experience of a dissemination videoconference organized in the frame of the European project “VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education”. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Gorghiu, L. M., Gorghiu, G., Dumitrescu, C., Olteanu, R. L., Bîzoi, M., & Suduc, A. - M. (2010). Implementing virtual experiments in Sciences education – Challenges and experiences achieved in the frame of VccSSe Comenius 2.1. project. (pp. 2952–2956). 2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES-2010, 2.
Abstract: Since the beginning of the 21st Century, massive changes took place in the field of education. New teaching and learning methods based on using modern ICT tools – like virtual experiments, educational video-clips or other multimedia products – have been implemented in the educational process. The paper presents an analysis of the impact produced by the implementation of new virtual experiments designed by 146 teachers who participated to a 40 hours training modules “Virtual Instrumentation in Science Education” organized in the frame of Socrates-Comenius 2.1. European project “VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education”. Different aspects and interpretation related to the challenges and difficulties encountered during the implementation process are also included. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Gorghiu, G., Gorghiu, L. M., Bîzoi, M., & Suduc, A. - M. (2010). Setting up of a web educational video-clips exhibition related to the implementation of virtual experiments in Sciences education. (pp. 2906–2910). 2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES-2010, 2.
Abstract: The paper emphasizes the principal steps developed for setting up of a web educational video-clips exhibition, composed by 50 representative video-experiments related to the implementation of the virtual experiments in Sciences education, as this was done in the frame of the Socrates-Comenius 2.1. European project: “VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education”. The Exhibition represents a web interface that contains the best virtual experiments produced by the in-service teachers who finalized the Virtual Instrumentation in Science Education training modules, carried out as a main output of the mentioned project. Beside the educational video-clips, other 9 on-line / remote simulating laboratories (produced by the project partnership) allow teachers and students to work directly inside the experiment. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Kordaki, M., Bizoi, M., & Gorghiu, G. (2010). Teachers' computer supported constructions within a European virtual community collaborative space for sciences education: An experience achieved in a multinational European project. (pp. 349–356). 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2010, 2.
Abstract: This paper presents some essential considerations referred to the constructions performed by European teachers in terms of virtual experiments and lesson plans within the framework of a Virtual community collaborative Space for Sciences education. This framework was set up in the context of the Socrates Comenius 2.1 European project: “VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education”. In this project, teachers from five European countries (Romania, Poland, Finland, Spain and Greece) participated in blended learning courses aiming their training for the use of Information and Communication Technologies in real teaching and learning practices. Within this framework, on-line training materials and virtual experiments were created and developed. After the end of the designed courses, teachers were asked to form their own virtual experiments and lesson plans and then to implement their products in the classrooms. The analysis of the data shows that teachers who participated in the VccSSe Project encouraged by the aforementioned blended course, expressed a favourable feedback related to the implementation of their own virtual experiments in the teaching activities.
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Bizoi, M., Suduc, A. - M., & Gorghiu, G. (2009). Hybrid method to design multi-language web sites. (pp. 427–430). 1st International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2009, 1.
Abstract: Language promotes the most suitable way for expressing ideas, habits and values. For a multinational educational project (Comenius 2.1.) with a widespread European target group, it is very important to provide the online educational resources (courses, virtual instruments, etc.) through the project website, in several languages: English (as a worldwide spoken language) and partners' languages. This paper briefly presents three methods to create multi-language web sites and proposes a new architecture – the hybrid method architecture. In addition an example of a multi-language web site implementation is illustrated.
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Suduc, A. - M., Gorghiu, G., Bizoi, M., Masior, W., & Latka, M. (2009). A comparative analysis on using several virtual instrumentation software in education. (pp. 435–438). 1st International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2009, 1.
Abstract: Using Virtual Experiments become one of the main methods for Science teaching in actual Education. Their power on creating simulation-based learning environments is well-known and many teachers have already adopted the virtual experiments to be used in their classrooms. The great extension of the Virtual experiments determined 9 institutions to propose a Socrates-Comenius 2.1. European project called VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education project (code: 128989-CP-1-2006-1-RO-COMENIUS-C21) coordinated by Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania which has as main objective to adapt, develop, test, implement and disseminate training modules, teaching methodologies and pedagogical strategies based on the use of Virtual Instruments, with the view to their implementation in the classrooms. In the first year of the project, three software products were chosen for developing the process of training: Cabri Geometry II, LabVIEW and Crocodile Clips. This paper presents the results of comparative analysis, made by the tutors who trained the in-serviced teachers on using the mentioned software products.
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Kordaki, M., Bîzoi, M., & Gorghiu, G. (2010). Teachers' Computer Supported Constructions within a European Virtual Community Collaborative Space for Sciences Education – An Experience Achieved in a Multinational European Project. (pp. 349–356).
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Gorghiu, L. M., Gorghiu, G., Olteanu, R. L., Dumitrescu, C., Suduc, A. M., & Bizoi, M. (2013). Delphi Study – A Comprehensive Method for Outlining Aspects and Approaches of Modern Science Education (Vol. 83).
Abstract: In the last period, there are several studies that emphasized a drop of young students' interest for the Science lessons. In order to alleviate this tendency, Valahia University Targoviste started together with other 21 institutions from 20 countries to implement the FP7 European Research Project “PROFILES – Professional Reflection-Oriented Focus on Inquiry-based Learning and Education through Science”. The aim of the project is to promote Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE) through “raising the self-efficacy of science teachers to take ownership of more effective ways of teaching students, supported by stakeholders” (PROFILES Consortium, 2010). In order to achieve the aim of the project, the partners agreed to carry out a curricular Delphi Study with the view to engage various stakeholders in reflecting on contents and aims of Science Education as well as in outlining aspects and approaches of modern Science Education. In this paper, the framework, the procedure and the interim results of the 1st round of Curricular Delphi Study on Science Education, carried out by Romanian partner, are presented. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Bizoi, M., Suduc, A. M., Gorghiu, G., Gorghiu, L. M., & Brezeanu, I. (2011). Using the free integrated technologies to provide online collaborative learning at reduced costs (Vol. 15).
Abstract: Traditional learning process involves a series of costs related to the resources used and assumes certain restrictions to the lessons because of the way they are planed and deployed. Technological development has allowed the removal of certain restrictions, but it has also led to additional consequences, inexistent in traditional learning. This paper presents an analysis, in terms of costs and resources, which is needed in the implementation and operation of the systems that provide environments for collaborative learning, by highlighting some designed elements that can lead to reduced costs. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Gorghiu, G., Bizoi, M., Gorghiu, L. M., & Suduc, A. - M. (2011). Web tools and instruments created in the VccSSe European project with the view to support Science teachers' experimental activities (Vol. 15).
Abstract: Nowadays, the presence of ICT in education became a common fact and its importance cannot be overlooked. Starting from connecting people and resources, ICT was implemented in teaching and learning on a large scale, offering a real added-value to the educational process. One of the most common implementations in education is strongly referred to the use of World Wide Web. In many applications, it is explored through its navigating functions or exploited as an information resource, but it has an important potential to be used even as a tutor. Specific web-tools, gathered under an environment called e-Space, – were created during the three years Socrates-Comenius 2.1 European project “VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education”, which supported the pedagogical use of virtual experiments, as a new technology in the common Science teaching and learning process. The paper presents the instruments included in the e-Space and emphasizes also on its particular aspects, organized and developed as a web resource, useful for Science teachers. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Suduc, A. - M., Bizoi, M., Gorghiu, G., & Gorghiu, L. M. (2011). Information and communication technologies in science education (Vol. 15).
Abstract: The advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) provide significant opportunities to improve teaching and learning. The use of ICT in science education offers even more advantages due to the attractive premises to simulate and interactively explore and test experiments which would be too expensive or too dangerous in real settings (for example in nuclear physics). The aim of this paper is to contribute to the research field of technology based learning by presenting several findings obtained during a multinational educational project (Comenius) regarding the use of computer in classroom, in science education, in Romania, Spain, Poland, Greece and Finland. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Suduc, A. - M., Bizoi, M., Gorghiu, G., & Gorghiu, L. - M. (2012). Digital images, video and web conferences in education: a case study (Vol. 46).
Abstract: Although the access to the computers and the Internet at home is quite widespread in the European countries, the use of them at home for school related learning activities comparing to the use for entertainment is much lower with about 30 percentages (Eurydice, 2011). The paper aims to present an analysis of the feedback collected from a group of teachers, from 9 counties, after they have been trained, within a POSDRU project, to integrate in education different multimedia applications. Among others, the results shows that although most of the teachers have a computer in their classroom or constant access to a computer room (78%) with Internet access (66%), only a low number of the teachers have used in the past digital images, videos and web conferences in the teaching-learning-evaluation process. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu
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Gorghiu, G., Gorghiu, L. M., Brezeanu, I., Suduc, A. - M., & Bizoi, M. (2012). Promoting the effective use of ict in Romanian primary and secondary education – steps made in the frame of edutic project (Vol. 46).
Abstract: The great potential of introducing ICT in nowadays education is well-known. Teachers become more familiar on using ICT in schools and as their experience grows, they are able to develop effective ICT-based teaching and learning tools. Many teacher training programs or continuing professional development opportunities were proposed with the declared aim to support the integration of ICT in the actual education, but also to develop on-line training / e-learning in schools. This paper illustrates the main aspects developed in a Romanian teacher training program, dedicated to all the educational levels, organized in the frame of the project called “EDUTIC – A network for teachers professional development with the view to increase the quality of ICT implementation in the Romanian primary and secondary education” (code POSDRU/19/1.3/G/37002). The overall objective of the project was to improve teachers' skills and attitudes by developing and delivering a training program which aimed to integrate ICT tools in the educational process. The training program proposed one compulsory module and two optional ones – the teachers having the possibility to select one of those last two. After the ending of the training phase, the teachers expressed their feed-back in related on-line questionnaires. In this sense, the paper presents some of their main opinions. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu
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NICOLESCU, C. L., GORGHIU, G., Simion, A., SUDUC, A. - M., & BIZOI, M. (2008). Developing And Using Sustainable Management Systems For Monitoring And Evaluating Air Environmental Risks In Industrial And Urban Area. Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Horticulture, 65(2), 560–565.
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Kordaki, M., Bizoi, M., & Gorghiu, G. (2010). Teachers' Computer Supported Constructions within a European Virtual Community Collaborative Space for Sciences Education-An Experience Achieved in a Multinational European Project. In Csedu (2) (pp. 349–356).
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Bizoi, M., Suduc, A. - M., & Gorghiu, G. (2009). Hybrid Method To Design Multi-Language Web Sites (Vol. I).
Abstract: Language promotes the most suitable way for expressing ideas, habits and values. For a multinational educational project (Comenius 2.1.) with a widespread European target group, it is very important to provide the online educational resources (courses, virtual instruments, etc.) through the project website, in several languages: English (as a worldwide spoken language) and partners' languages. This paper briefly presents three methods to create multi-language web sites and proposes a new architecture – the hybrid method architecture. In addition an example of a multi-language web site implementation is illustrated.
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