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The study reports on research carried out at the five major technical higher institutions in Romania. It views the human values students bring with them to the educational setting as rhizomatic lines, in the Deleuzian sense, and aims at identifying the intensity of each value, respectively, at grasping the correlations between the students’ values...
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... next step in the research was to identify the correlations between the extracted factors. Table 3 below presents these results. The following correlations can be highlighted: ...Context 2
... variables, i.e., the extracted factors are represented by the three ovals. The correlations between factors are represented by the curved lines with arrows at both ends and have values listed on them and detailed in Table 3. Each variable (rectangle) has two arrows pointed at it, on the one hand from the extracted factor whose feature it measures, and on the other hand a measurement error denoted by e1 . . . ...Similar publications
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... Only five universities are mentioned in a UNESCO communication on Romanian educational sustainability-related programs. Not many universities include in their strategic documents sustainability goals [38], even if students' sustainable (or unsustainable) beliefs and behaviors receive attention, in the context of generational features [39,40]. Narrowing the sustainability topic to energy, it is important to note that for Romania, educational institutions, out of which 5% are universities, represent significant consumers of electricity, contributing 10% of the final amount of energy used by the public sector [22]. ...
The understanding of student profiles is critical in educational processes, providing valuable information on the learner’s knowledge, aspirations, expectations, and behaviors. The research aims to profile students’ relationship with electric energy resources across three issues: the use of energy-efficient devices, interactions with available devices and utilities, and the display of adaptive behaviors to environmental conditions and exploitation of resources. The research is undertaken in the oldest university in the western part of Romania, schooling 13,000 students. The methodology consists of monitoring energy consumption on the university campus hosting around 6000 students in 16 dormitories, and of a survey mapping of their energy-related consumption behavior. A total of 1023 participants participated in the study, with responses indicating significant differences in the studied population, which cannot be viewed as a homogenous group. Gender and place of residence influence the results. While the respondents display a relatively high overall awareness and responsible energy-saving behaviors, women and on-campus students seem to be more inclined to adopt energy-saving, sustainable behaviors. The findings of the research are useful for developing data-driven strategies to enhance and consolidate student energy saving behaviors and to plan for nudging messages to induce sustainable choices in the student body.
... In this instance, it is appropriate to know the research interests and experience of the professors. It is also key that the professor can meet potential thesis students, and it is a great opportunity for a student to demonstrate their interests and skills through participation in classes and standing out by obtaining good grades [68]. ...
Many university students have doubts about how or where to start writing their undergraduate thesis work; it is common not to be clear how to identify a research problem or even towards which topic their research is oriented, and there are doubts about how to process and systematize so much information available in the era of digitalization. This article presents learning strategies to formulate a research thesis for engineering undergraduate programs, with an emphasis on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) toward a University Education 4.0 paradigm. The main themes and issues discussed in this article, carried out through learning strategies for students based on the scientific method, are the following: (i) Recommendations for choosing a research topic, (ii) Guidelines for problem identification and question research, (iii) Suggestions for choosing a thesis advisor, (iv) Instructions for finding suitable sources of information, (v) Structure of the table of contents for writing the thesis manuscript, and (vi) Indications for preparing an oral defense of thesis research. This article highlights recommendations and precautions directed towards professors and students with the use of the chatbot-type artificial intelligence (AI) tool called ChatGPT for the formulation of the thesis under a responsible conduct approach in research. This article concludes that the application of tutoring/guidance strategies between professors and students requires an adequate ethical use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) during the development of a research thesis to generate a comprehensive educational environment that encourages research and develops a sustainable learning process in the context of the University Education 4.0 paradigm.
... In general, the studies are carried out in the Bucharest-Ilfov area, but not only (Târţiu, 2011;Iojȃ et al., 2012;Sima et al., 2019;Ianoş et al., 2021), while the western part of the country has not been researched regarding the educated young people's perception on environmental problems. This category of respondents, i.e., the students of Politehnica University of Timisoara, was included in several other studies, which mainly focused on topics regarding students' human values (Dragomir et al., 2020) or their attitudes on electricity, water, plastic or paper consumption but did not discuss the abovementioned topic. ...
The reduction, reuse, collection and recovery of recyclable materials are sustainable behaviors and people’s awareness of them plays an important role in implementing strategies and policies in this field. The quantitative analysis performed on a group of 816 students of Politehnica University of Timisoara, aimed at finding answers to important environmental concerns and observing the students’ behaviors of reuse and selective collection of the waste resulted from plastic containers, paper, aluminum, batteries, iron packaging waste, electronic equipment, used cooking oil and printer toner. The research has shown that ‘increased amounts of waste’ (63.5%) is among the first three concerns Romania has to deal with, besides ‘air pollution’ (67.9%) and ‘deforestation’ (63.7%). Moreover, the study highlights the existence of the behavior toward the selective waste collection among students (plastic – 60.3%, paper – 57.8%, and glass – 55.3%). although there are some areas (e.g., selectively collecting used cooking oil or printer toner, their level of knowledge regarding the color code for the recycling bins, etc.) that students still need to be familiarized with through different campaigns, trainings, courses, etc. The results can be used in the development of institutional strategies or of strategic documents targeting environmental protection and sustainable development.
... Therefore, it seems that most studies on Romanian students focus either on their food behavior or on the need for educational programs on sustainable behavior. There were other studies conducted on the students of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, but they focused more on topics such as migration, the students' values or their attitudes regarding online education and were not related to the topic of this paper [46][47][48]. ...
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... Although there have been numerous studies conducted on various topics related to the polytechnic university environment in Timis , oara, such as migration, student values, the development of the concept of sustainability in the University's strategic plan, the use of educational resources, Artificial Intelligence [AI], etc. [18,[38][39][40], none have addressed the issue of online education, either from the perspective of the students or from that of the teachers. Nevertheless, as there are no studies to be found on the perspective of students' online behaviour regarding choosing not to turn on their webcams, as well as on the usage of webcams and their effect on students' behaviour and impact, the present research aims, on the one hand, to identify the motives that the students at the Politehnica University of Timis , oara have regarding the use of webcams in online classes, whatever their behaviour and, on the other hand, to find solutions to improve the online educational process. ...
Since, in some higher education institutions, it is not mandatory for students to turn their webcams on during online classes, teachers have complained that their students have adopted this behaviour once the educational activities moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering this, the present research aimed to identify the reasons behind students’ choice to hide their faces during online classes and find possible solutions to remedy the situation to enhance the educational process’s sustainability. Thus, this article presents the results obtained by applying an online questionnaire between December 2020 and January 2021 among the students pursuing an academic degree, recording 407 responses. The results highlighted the fact that more than half of the students participating in the study reported that they do not agree to keep their webcams on during online classes, the main reasons being anxiety/fear of being exposed/shame/shyness, desire to ensure privacy of the home/personal space, and chances that other people might walk into the background. The relevance of the research, besides the scarcity of studies on the topic, is also given by the fact that finding and understanding the reasons for this behaviour are, in fact, the first steps in undertaking regulatory interventions on it.
As the effects of climate change on today’s society make the headlines across the globe, urging all stakeholders to join forces to act and to create a sustainable world, universities have started engaging in the process of building a sustainable future for the generations to come. The sustainable university has thus emerged, a pro-active and collaborative university that performs in several domains. Since the university’s strategic plan is an instance of official and public communication on the future institutional development, its investigation reveals the university’s position towards sustainability. This study highlights the explicit use of the concept of sustainability in the strategic plans for 2020–2024 of the twelve Romanian top universities and points to the sustainable domains associated with it. Moreover, to determine the direction towards which the Romanian top universities are heading, in terms of sustainability, the article draws a comparison with previous research conducted on the strategic plans for 2016–2020. The main conclusion reached is that although there is an increasing tendency to use the concept in the latest strategic plans, building sustainable universities in Romania is still a goal to be achieved in the future.
