Mihai Onita

• PhD
• Lecturer at Polytechnic University of Timişoara

Parking is a very common problem that the modern society is facing nowadays. Numerous countries are working to manage their current transportation systems and road infrastructure to enhance traffic flows, mobility, and safety. The city of Timisoara has already taken the first steps towards this in the past, but the city is still afflicted by excess...

The concept of a smart city was born out of the need to provide improved quality of life to citizens in various fields, such as environment, governance, education, economy, infrastructure, transportation, traffic, and parking. There are many countries, many players and many projects already finished or underway. The city of Timisoara has already ta...

In the recent years, the globalization and massification of video education offer involved more and more eLearning scenarios within universities. This article refers to interactive video and proposes an overview of it. We analyze the background information, regarding the eLearning campus used in virtual universities around the world, the MOOC movem...

This paper is addressed to an area with a significant development in recent years: Digital Rights Management (DRM). These data copyright can be applied to several types of digital materials as images, audio recordings, videos, and text. To be more specific, we present in the paper, Creative Commons (CC) technology, as an alternative to classical DR...

Lately, the globalization and massification of higher education offer involved more and more e-learning techniques inside universities. The article brings a perspective on our analyses of different trends in online education, especially MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Our research raised some questions, which are answered in this article, such...

Computer generated video materials are primordial elements in day-by-day entertainment life and become an important factor in the educational environment. They bring diversity and modern ways to present spaces (laboratory, classrooms and buildings). On the other hand, they offer enthusiasm and a new challenge in teaching and learning. We show our f...

The growth in the use of mobile devices in everyday life determined an increasing demand to access educational information using mobile technology. Nevertheless, most existing computer based Learning Management Systems still do not have advanced access support for mobile devices. This paper presents the basis of an in-progress research, aiming to e...

The growth in the use of mobile devices in everyday life determined an increasing demand to access educational information using mobile technology. Nevertheless, most existing computer based Learning Management Systems still do not have advanced access support for mobile devices. This paper presents the basis of an in-progress research, aiming to e...

For indexing an image databases there are used many features. In this paper are used features like histograms for the color components, stochastic moments, few parameters of the co-occurrences matrix and the Gabor filters decomposition. Using all of them we obtain good performance in the field of content-based image indexing and retrieval. There ar...

Podcasting can no longer be considered a novelty in the world of Internet users. Nevertheless its penetration into the educational field is limited to some of the most prestigious universities worldwide, which generally use iTunes U, the application offered by Apple. At “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, we have implemented a podcasting module...

Semantic Web appears as the much awaited technology of the future, an extension of the current Web, where the information receives a structured meaning used by intelligent agents to better find and process the web data. Microformats, designed both for humans and machines, are amongst the first steps towards this desideratum. The current paper conce...

Semantic Web is the next big thing on the Internet. It implies the general movement towards standardization and machine processable Web information. As a part of this new wave, Microformats appear as the link between present and future Web. They are the lower case semantic Web, dedicated to both humans and machines. We used Microformats in the dist...

Due to its adaptability, ease-of-use, and open-source status, Moodle [1] is usually the learning management system of choice when starting a course repository of any kind. It has an advanced learning process management system, as well as content management and user tracking. The communication tools that come pre-installed (as well as those develope...

In order to have an effective and comprehensive eLearning or blended learning educational system, various types of media and communication tools need to merge. We have email, chat, IM, remote conferences (streaming audio and video), forums, white boarding, shared workspaces, and last, but not least, Web sites for collaborative activities. The prese...

An important part of the eLearning experience is the availability and readiness of the didactical content. A digital student must have access to all sorts of learning material from any location, at any given time. Therefore, there should be a great emphasis on mobile accessibility. The emergence of media-rich learning material means that the old co...

Virtual communities are a huge step forward in the development of business and educational structures. They consist in groups of people that communicate and interact in an “electronic” environment. These Online communities are places where social interaction happens over the Internet, with little or no face-to-face contact. Over the last few years,...

Advances in IT and new organizational concepts have led to the emergence of new types of organizations. In eLearning virtual communities, activities are based on technologies such as Web2SMS, Instant Messaging, Blog, Wiki, Forum, E-mail or RSS Feeds. Also, most of the information presented on the IMM platform arises as a result of interaction betwe...

Recent progress in information and communication technology has opened a variety of new ways for education. Although slower than the business to catch up with these new developments, the educational field has gradually migrated towards the WWW, mostly under the slogan of free, accessible education, to and from anyplace, at anytime. For obtaining cu...

The higher education system in Romania has seen a series of transformations which reflect European tendencies but also the growth of the Romanian economy. These changes affect also Distance Education, a growing method for delivering several specializations, as off-campus solutions. The “Politehnica” University of Timisoara is at the avant-garde of...

In this paper the methodology and the development of e-tasters is presented. A wide range of ODL (Opening and Distance Learning) actors from EU and CEE countries, partners in the EU Socrates Minerva ‘e-Tasters’ project focus on developing an innovative approach for enhancing international e-learning course development and delivery.

In our contemporary era of ICT rapid developments, where media goes almost entirely online, the need to improve the Internet, digital TV and other interactive services for students and teachers becomes not only urgent, but also essential. Nowadays, the access to information constitutes the most undeniable right of all people (Goggin 1982) (1). As f...

Learning takes time and patience. It is a process -a journey. Online learning material comes under different forms and, as underlined by Tim Berners Lee in his articles "The Semantic Web" (from the Scientific American), there is an acute need for better integration and organization of the many types of media [1]. There are quite a few different app...