Przemysław Różewski

• PhD (habilitation) Eng.
• Professor (Assistant) at West Pomeranian University of Technology

The European Union began research on Learning and Skills for the Digital Era in 2005. The result is the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp 2.1), which is built on five dimensions, each of which has eight proficiency levels. Nowadays DigComp has become a main standard of competencies in Europe, if not in the world. In this article we...

The competencies standards for the occupational information are expressed by classification of identifies and categorizes skills, competencies, qualifications, and occupations relevant for labor market and education. Based on the knowledge, skills, competencies factor’s relationship analysis the metadata profile can be generated. However, there is...

Visual literacy is becoming increasingly important in the digitalized economy, as it determines the ability to perform and communicate effectively. The need to close skills gap and provide engineers and engineering educators with practical, transferable skills based around visual literacy is a topic attracting growing interest at national and inter...

The digitalization of education is a continuously developing process, aimed at the use of information and communication technologies. However, engineering education utilizes several forms of learning, with laboratory experiments being one of them. The use of digital learning materials (DLM) in labs is still limited due to numerous existing factors....

Nowadays there is a huge number of learning resources, covered different digital skills, on the Internet. In the framework of European Erasmus+ project: ‘Digital Skills Accelerator’ we developed dedicated to digital skills set of learning resources. Moreover, the test to analyses the level of user digital skills in form of the Online Self-Assessmen...

In recent years personality assessment utilizing computer science methods has received a lot of interest among researchers. Many teams are looking to use different approaches to measure personality traits, using technology as an alternative to self-report based questionnaires. Many interesting studies have been carried out using social behavior ana...

Nowadays, the amount of different type of data for analysis is growing at an alarming rate. Moreover, the size and quantity of textual materials make the extraction of specific information from them more and more complicated and sometimes impossible. The use of external data sources, Linked Data and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) presents a po...

Digital skills are key enablers in a wide spectrum of jobs that require the use of digital tools for information search, communication and problem-solving. The interest on digital skills training has resulted in frameworks and offerings at different educational levels. However, there is a limited understanding on the relative importance of these sk...

Text summarization (TS) is a significant part of the human text understanding process. A large number of summarization methods has been developed in the last decade. TS is important because human have limited cognitive abilities, which makes impossible to them to deal with a large number of text documents. There are two fundamental approaches to te...

The article describes a system analysis in the scope of conducting human capital measurements and, as a result, proposes an appropriate IT solution architecture. The presented approach takes into consideration primarily the issues of the optimal model of cooperation on the line of the measuring organization and vendor of the IT tool. Focusing on th...

The current situation on the market shows, that if companies want to stay competitive, they need to focus on their core activities and reduce non-value added operations to a minimum or even delegate them outside the company. This approach, called “Outsourcing” started in 1979 and is expanding the market rapidly. Nowadays, there are enormous Busines...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web, KESW 2017, held Szczecin, Poland, in November 2017. The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on natural language processing; know...

Motivation and social aspects as interaction among teachers and students are essential for a successful learning process in an Open Distance Learning environment, and the goal of this paper is to develop an interactive model to manage motivation between the participants of that process. The article contains the concept of developing a motivation mo...

This book demonstrates how to apply modern approaches to complex system control in practical applications involving knowledge-based systems. The dimensions of knowledge-based systems are extended by incorporating new perspectives from control theory, multimodal systems and simulation methods. The book is divided into three parts: theory, productio...

Growing role of intellectual capital within organizations is affecting new strategies related to knowledge management and competence development. Among different aspects related to this field, knowledge diffusion has become one of interesting areas from both practitioner and researchers perspective. Several models were proposed with main goal to si...

Growing role of intellectual capital within organizations is affecting new strategies related to knowledge management and competence development. Among different aspects related to this field, knowledge diffusion has become one of interesting areas from both practitioner and researchers perspective. Several models were proposed with main goal to si...

Computations related to learning processes within an organizational social network area require some network model preparation and specific algorithms for implementing human behaviors in simulated environments. The proposals in this research model of collaborative learning in an organizational social network are based on knowledge resource distribu...

The competence-based learning-teaching process is a significant approach to the didactical process organization. In this paper the mathematical model of the competence-based learning-teaching process is proposed. The model integrates three models: a knowledge representation model (based on the ontological approach), a motivation model (as a behavio...

The issue of the integration of ontologies in production management systems has not been solved yet. There are a number of methods, each of which is adapted to some special cases. In our opinion the multimodal approach can reduce cost of the ontologies combining problem. We recognize two multimodal-based approaches: Multimodality Theory and Multimo...

The COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf components) selection process is difficult due to the huge number of existing COTS components. Moreover, the price of a mistake is great due to the complex nature of information systems. In this paper an analysis of different COTS component selection methodologies is presented. Based on this, the ontology for supp...

Competence management systems are an important addition to knowledge management systems. Competencies can be processed, during the identification, assessment and acquisition processes, because there is a certain set of tools used to test competencies and estimate their levels. In this paper, we focused on the analysis of the concept of Dynamic Comp...

This article regards analysing the literature of processing competence in education, as well as competence management systems (CMS) and their role in developing competencies for students of higher education cycle. The Bologna Process and its results are described later in the text, explaining the need for National Qualification Frameworks and the b...

The fours model designed to support competence management are presented: the model of knowledge processing in Open and Distance Learning, the motivation model, the model of developing a curriculum oriented on competence acquisition, the model of competence development in an intangible production network. All the models are integrated through common...

The ability to create new knowledge and to manage it is commonly recognized as one the most important quality of the modern and innovative organization. The management and control of knowledge and skills, and more recently the management of firms’ competencies have turned out to be essential factors of industrial processes’ performance. In the pape...

The community-build system is a production system for content creation by a community operating on a dedicated engine. The community-build system demonstrated how collaborative efforts can be a powerful feature to build a massive data repositories or other knowledge-related products. In the paper the community-build production system will be discus...

One of the more important factors of human civilisation is proper organisation of education system. The system-based approach allows to interpret the open and distance learning phenomenon as a complex information system. The authors perform a soft system analysis based on the theory of hierarchical multilevel systems, which allows developing a mode...

In the knowledge-based economy intangible production (de-materialised production) plays the main role. Intangible production is an advanced manufacturing process performed on the information level, where input materials, semi products and final products are in a digital form. The production network consists of nodes, each of which performs processi...

Analysis of scientific literature, projects and existing market products show that distance learning is a new direction in the development of information systems. The literature, however, lacks a system-based insight at distance learning understood as a complex information system. Authors of this article perform a soft system analysis based on the...

The community-build system (CBS) is a system for content creation by a community operating on a dedicated engine (e.g. Wiki). The CBS demonstrated how collaborative efforts can be a powerful feature to build a massive knowledge repositories. In the paper the model of community-build system is presented. The model is focused on the knowledge-base co...

In the world where promotion of mobility makes more, diverse, possibilities of further education available, where importance of life-long learning constantly increases, and changes on the knowledge and skills market are more dynamic, choosing an education offer becomes even more difficult than before, and at the same time even more important. There...

In the knowledge-base organization the Intellectual Capital is derived from the different form of knowledge owned by the organization. The knowledge is stored mainly in the employee’s mind (tacit knowledge) and knowledge repositories (explicit knowledge). The authors assume that the increasing knowledge repository content enlarges the organization’...

Many modern knowledge-based organizations (i.a. IT companies) apply the project-oriented model to manage all their business activities. Projects run within knowledge-based organizations consisting primarily of intellectual tasks require adequate knowledge from the organization staff. The knowledge logistics process assumes that the knowledge has to...

Every person can be characterized by motivation. Therefore, a collective motivation model of users of an information system can be applied for increasing its overall efficiency and productivity. In this chapter, the motivation model for an environment of community-built system is proposed. The model’s objective is to maintain control of social and...

The idea of Open and Distance Learning System is considered as a highly interesting subject of scientific research and practical developments. However, if one chooses to confront the outcomes of theoretical considerations with reality, or attempts to quantify the effectiveness of the effectuated deployments, it is likely he or she will meet signifi...

The concept of distance learning has already been studied for many years. As shown in [40], at the beginning distance learning systems were used primarily at universities. The next step in the evolution was using distance learning systems in organizations and supporting knowledge workers [16] and to become an important element of corporate informa...

High quality of virtual education cannot be simply achieved by means of using a better computer and faster networks. The bottleneck of the problem is in the question: what is the right division of roles, functions, tasks and competences between the IT utilities and the human teacher? Without answering this question we cannot expect both good econom...

Modern technologies allowed for breaking the immemorial paradigm of educating. It was mainly due to internet that the phenomenon of distance learning emerged [6]. Earlier, learning relied on creating an integral relationship of the teacher and the student. Such conjugation allows for creating an effective platform of knowledge exchange. The existen...

Currently important changes are taking place in the European education system, caused by applying the system tool called Bologna Process. The Bologna Process is a social and organizational program that includes a set of activities concerning i.e. organization of the education process, ensuring transferability of the achieved results, creating a com...

Due to the constant development of expert systems, broadening of the application area of decision support algorithms, and together with the appearance of new organizational structures, which were defined in world literature as knowledgebase organization, more and more often we come across the concept of competence in the context of information syst...

The idea of an Intelligent Open Learning System assumes development of distance learning systems in the direction of open, personalized systems based on knowledge management tools. The aim of such systems is to support education on the level of passing knowledge, through creating of a computer environment dedicated to a specific student. Knowledge...

Etymology of the term “repository” defines that object as a place intended for storage of records and official materials preserving the ability to use them. Present resources significantly extend the nature of functioning of repositories [37]. Currently, they are considered as a place for storing collections of digital documents and sharing them in...

The last decade of the 20th century, sometimes called the time of the Information Revolution, has a decisive influence on how we live and work today. Development of such domains as computer science and telecommunication is the source of formation of economy based on knowledge. Knowledge begins to play the role of a strategic factor, often more impo...

The problem of knowledge management has become increasingly important in the mainstream of contemporary science. From the information technology standpoint, the predominant research problems are knowledge storing and knowledge sharing, determination of methods dealing with knowledge expansion and refinement along with adapting knowledge structures...

The student’s creativity comes into action when student produces an outcome or product that is both novel and useful as defined within some learning context. The creative distance learning environment supports student’s creativity on the social, cognitive and technology levels. In this paper the method for creativity environment development is pres...

Nowadays, e-learning systems take the form of the Distance Learning Network (DLN) due to widespread use and accessibility of the Internet and networked e-learning services. The focal point of the DLN performance is efficiency of knowledge processing in asynchronous learning mode and facilitating cooperation between students. In addition, the DLN ar...

The student’s creativity comes into action when student produces an outcome or product that is both novel and useful as defined within some learning context. The creative distance learning environment supports student’s creativity on the social, cognitive and technology levels. In this paper the method for creativity environment development is pres...

Authors present the method and tools for competency management in knowledge-base organisation. As an example, the higher education organisation working under Open and Distance Learning condition is examined. Competency management allows to management knowledge in the efficient and effective way on the stuff’s and student’s level. Based on the syste...

In the article authors consider applying the concept of a virtual laboratory to creating intelligent systems of competency examination. Competences make up the base for building qualifications on the basis of transferring theoretical and procedural knowledge. Three types of virtual laboratories are distinguished regarding their purpose. Additionall...

The decision about curriculum modification usually takes place at the knowledge level, mainly with consideration of individual academic staff competences and qualifications. However, traditional approaches to cost estimation of curriculum modification are focused on material resources only. In this paper we present a cost estimation method and deci...

In the article the authors propose a model of an educational social agents collaboration between students, teacher, and an e-learning information system (repository). The system will support the competence-based learning process by means of social network creation in order to exchange ontology in the repository environment. The proposed model consi...

W artykule przedstawiono rolę metafor komputerowych w procesie transferu wiedzy w nauczaniu zdalnym. Metafory komputerowe wspierają kognitywny proces wizualizacji wiedzy proceduralnej i fundamentalnej oraz mogą być wyrażone zarówno za pomocą tradycyjnych ilustracji, jak i zaawansowanych interaktywnych środków medialnych. Z poznawczego punktu widzen...

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Presentation of the e-Quality project The e-Quality project, partly funded by the European Commission under the Socrates/Minerva Programme 1 , while deeply rooted into the on going normalisation work, proposes to offer a ground for practical design and implementation of a quality methodology, a training package for staff in charge of its implementa...

The article describes a knowledge model, oriented to the asynchronous mode of distance learning. The formalization of the knowledge model for a given domain, the operations on the knowledge and the algorithm of the knowledge model creation are submitted. All received decisions can be realized in a program environment compatible with the SCORM stand...

In the article authors propose an extended ontological model for distance learning, concerning pedagogical and cognitive requirements of the teaching/learning process as well as environmental requirements represented by SCORM standard. The main characteristic of the dedicated ontological model is reusability, which manifests itself in the possibili...

The authors discuss the method of designing the distance learning didactic materials for the asynchronous mode. The approach is based on the modular structure of the fundamental knowledge. The new role of the teacher is being discussed as well as its impact on the didactic materials’ structure and content. The paper introduces the knowledge represe...

Due to large number of the traffic's accidents necessity of immediately traffic safety increasing is appearing. The most reliable way to achieve safety increase of traffic safety is to pay more attention to the driver's education process. The authors introduced the National System of Education and Verification Traffic's Knowledge as a solution of t...

The authors discuss the method of designing the distance learning didactic materials for the asynchronous mode. The approach is based on the modular structure of the fundamental knowledge. The new role of the teacher is being discussed as well as its impact on the didactic materials’ structure and content. The paper introduces the knowledge represe...

In this paper the distance learning systems are considered as the solution to the Open Distance Learning issue. The modern university structure is discussed according to nowadays market requirements. Presented analysis introduces a new student's role in the distance learning process. The best practice examples demonstrate different aspects of the s...