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Climate Change Education in the Curricula of Technical and Classical Universities
2010
Climate change education is becoming an integral part of the education in study programs at universities in Latvia offering environmental education study programs. In this article, a comparison of approaches of climate change education in classical (University of Latvia) and technical (Riga Technical University) are discussed. Requirements of the labour market are the key factors influencing study content and study methods. Therefore, consultations with major stakeholders and with academics involved in environmental education (e.g. the Council of Environmental Education and Science), may be some of the main tools to implement new concepts.
An Indo-French Virtual University Project
2016
Indo-French cooperation has existed for several decades, and has flourished in the recent period, with a number of flagship programmes and cross-border schemes in science, technology and management. Virtual universities refer to both conventional campus-based (hybrid and brick-and-mortar) universities offering online courses, and purely virtual universities with all their activities delivered online via the Internet. A virtual university is involved as a direct provider of learning opportunities and uses the Internet to deliver its programmes and courses while receiving tuition support. We propose in this ultimate chapter an innovative architecture for an Indo-French knowledge management sy…
Physical Properties of Latvian Hemp Fibres
2015
Each year more and more people focus on healthy, ecological and environmental-friendly living. Environmentally friendly lifestyle doesn’t mean that we are using only natural products, but attention is pointed to the manufacturing and production process also. The rapid development of recycled and biodegradable products causes expanding usage of hemp fibers both in household and technical textiles. The analysis of hemp cultivation and usage trends in the world and Europe shows that hemp cultivation and processing in Latvia has good perspectives. Product quality is influenced by raw materials. In this case it is hemp fiber descriptive characteristics. Hemp fibers are natural fibers and their p…
International Conference on Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies (FM&NT2012)
2012
The International Conference Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies (FMN ferroics; multiscale and multiphenomenal material modeling and simulation 2. Nanotechnologies including progressive methods, technologies and design for investigation of nanoparticles, nanostructures, nanocomposites, thin films and coatings; 3. Energy including perspective materials and technologies for renewable and hydrogen energy, fuel cells, photovoltaics and developing diverse energy systems. A special section devoted to Organic Materials was organized to commemorate a long-time organizer of the FM&NT conference series, Dr. habil. phys, academician Inta Muzikante who passed away on 15 February 2012. The number …
Viabilidad de la informatización del examen lengua extranjera de las Pruebas de Acceso a la Universidad
2016
[ES] Tras el anuncio por parte del Gobierno de la inclusión de una sección oral en el examen de lengua extranjera de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad, que estaba prevista para 2012, diferentes posibilidades en cuanto a la informatización de dicha sección se analizaron en un esfuerzo por encontrar una propuesta viable para la evaluación de las destrezas orales y un estudio cualitativo se llevó a cabo con 286 participantes. Los resultados arrojaron luz en cuanto a la recepción inicial de las soluciones tecnológicas desarrolladas dentro de un sistema de gestión del aprendizaje y en cuanto a la viabilidad de la informatización de la sección oral de la prueba, mostrando que es posible implan…
The role of Ukrainian universities in the development of the global information society
1997
This paper presents an observation of the positive experience obtained by Kharkov State Technical University in the area of education specialists for the development of an information society programme. Economic problems postponed the beginning of the information society programme in Ukraine. Nevertheless, Ukraine now has good possibilities to apply the best experience of western universities and speed up the process of transferring existing education to the European level. The paper also presents an analysis of the main trends that are taking place in that education. The paper uses the example of one of the leading Ukrainian technical universities to show the possible ways of positive chan…
La escritura expresiva en la orientación. Una metodología educativa para la construcción del proyecto de vida personal y profesional
2020
La scrittura espressiva adottata a scuola come strumento di autorientamento dell’adolescente di 17-18 anni non sostituisce l’intervento educativo dell’insegnante, piuttosto può considerarsi una tecnica efficace per raccogliere tutte le informazioni necessarie con cui formare, con il consenso dell’alunno e insieme a lui, un quadro esaustivo in cui includere lo stato attuale delle sue competenze, le sue attitudini, i suoi interessi, le sue motivazioni, la sua storia formativa, il suo profilo di personalità, i suoi limiti, nonché i suoi obiettivi e le modalità concrete con cui egli pensa di raggiungerli. Essa è pertanto un metodo educativo con cui gli studenti che si approssimano a svolgere gl…
Pedagoģijas un psiholoģijas fakultāte
2000
Profesors Dmitrijs Ivļevs: biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs
1992
Saturs: Priekšvārds. Filoloģijas zinātņu doktors profesors Dmitrijs Ivļevs ? Ļ. Sidjakovs. Profesora D. Ivļeva publicētie darbi. (1962.-1990.) Profesora D. Ivļeva rediģētie un recenzētie darbi un izdevumi, par kuriem atbildīgs profesors. Profesora D. Ivļeva vadītās disertācijas. Raksti par profesoru D. Ivļevu. Sarunas, intervijas. Profesora D. Ivļeva publicēto darbu alfabētiskais rādītājs. Personu rādītājs.
Profesore Marta Rudzīte: personālais bibliogrāfiskais rādītājs
1984
Personālajā bibliogrāfiskajā rādītājā ar atlasi ietverti filoloģijas doktores, valodnieces, profesores M. Rudzītes darbi un literatūra par viņas dzīvi, zinātnisko, pedagoģisko un sabiedrisko darbību.