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E-learning in the management of Polish companies
Abstract
E-learning, or to put it simply learning through the Internet becomes in Poland more popular every year and managers of companies increasingly opt for conducting courses for their employees with the use of this method of knowledge transfer. Many advantages, which influence this view, can be underlined. First of all, it is far cheaper than the organization of conferences and training for a large group of people at the same time. The article presents the benefits of practical use of e-learning for business owners in their own companies. On the basis of own research, the impact of technological progress into the training and development of staff in Polish enterprises has been presented as well. In addition, the article contains description of the way Polish employers use new technologies in learning, which forms are currently used and which methods do they plan to use in future. © 2015, Czestochowa University of Technology. All rights reserved.
... xAPI xAPI (Experience Application Programming Interface) stanowi specyfikację zaprojektowaną dla wspierania gromadzenia i standaryzacji formalnego i nieformalnego nabywania wiedzy realizowane przy wykorzystaniu technologii internetowych. Stanowi ona element architektury szkoleń i uczenia się (TLA -Training and Learning Architecture) 37 . Celem specyfikacji jest zapewnienie dostępu do doświadczeń edukacyjnych osób nabywających wiedzę oraz możliwość porównywania ich rezultatów w różnych kontekstach, platformach czy technologiach, a także zwiększenie interoperacyjności usług, które te dane gromadzą, przechowują i przetwarzają 38 . ...
Technologia mobilna jest obecna w niemal każdej dziedzinie współczesnego społeczeństwa wpływając na funkcjonowanie zarówno jednostek, jak i organizacji. Urządzenia mobilne, jako jeden z kluczowych elementów tej technologii, stają się wszechobecne zapewniając wyrafinowaną funkcjonalność wykorzystywaną zarówno w życiu codziennym, jak i obszarze zawodowym. W gospodarce opartej na wiedzy efektywne zarządzanie wiedzą w organizacji pozwala uzyskać przewagę konkurencyjną na rynku i ma zasadnicze znaczenie dla przetrwania firmy. W związku z tym dynamiczny rozwój technologii mobilnych obserwowany w ostatnich latach może w istotny sposób przyczynić się do osiągnięcia tego celu. Celem opracowania jest w pierwszej kolejności próba usystematyzowania terminu „urządzenie mobilne” który, choć powszechnie używany, nie posiada dokładnej definicji, a klasyfikacja urządzeń ma zwykle charakter arbitralny. Jednocześnie zostanie dokonana analiza aktualnego stanu istniejących specyfikacji i standardów dla dostarczania wiedzy zwracając uwagę na możliwość ich stosowania w kontekście użycia technologii mobilnych.
... Distance learning is widely applied not only in education (Fallon & Brown, 2016). It became very popular while training HR departments of enterprises and institutions, mainly due to the cost reduction of raising qualifications as well as the opportunity to complete the knowledge of people located in various places around the world (Cupiał et al., 2017, Kuboń & Krasnodębski 2010, Wyslocka, 2015. Many companies create e-learning courses, thus giving the opportunity to acquire knowledge to people who would not be able to participate in the training in its traditional form. ...
The modern education process requires introduction of modern information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to make classes more attractive, to properly implement curricular content and, as a consequence, to provide students with education compliant with applicable standards. Some didactic classes are more predisposed to the use of ICT, and others to a lesser extent. The Faculty of Production and Power Engineering of the University of Agriculture in Krakow has been using modern IT solutions to support the teaching process for many years. The mentioned ICT tools include the e-learning platform Moodle, office packages (Microsoft Office, Open Office), groupware tools, Internet platform Google Apps, Microsoft IT Academy and many specialized software. This study presents a case study of the use of ICT tools during selected subjects at the faculty.
... Knowledge distribution is interrelated with education and in recent years e-learning has become widely recognized as a promising contemporary method of employee education Stal, Paliwoda-Pękosz Towards Integration of Mobile Technology and Knowledge Management in Organizations: a Preliminary Study (Wyslocka, 2015;Cheng et al., 2014). The interrelation between e-learning and knowledge management focused attention of numerous studies that concerned the following aspects of knowledge management (Judrups, 2015): knowledge creation and acquisition, tacit knowledge conversion into explicit knowledge, knowledge organization and storage, knowledge dissemination and retrieval, and evaluation and feedback. ...
Mobile technology is commonly present in almost every domain of a contemporary society. Numerous examples include successful projects, specifically the use of mobile technology in knowledge management. It should be noted, however, that the vast majority of existing publications and research in the field of knowledge acquisition pertains to the use of mobile technology and mobile learning in education. The research works concerning the investigation of the real benefits and possibilities for utilizing mobile technology in knowledge management are still scarce. In a knowledge-based economy, effective knowledge management in an organization allows to get competitive advantage in the marketplace and is essential for a company’s survival. Hence, the dynamic development of mobile technologies observed in recent years can make an important contribution to achieve this goal. This study aims to analyze the state of the art in the field of utilizing mobile technology in knowledge management. It attempts to identify and discusses the key research gaps in the field of mobile technology and knowledge management integration highlighting future research directions.
... In fact, all the cultural experience that people are confronted with is actually represented by rites of passage. Liminality is turning out to be more present; TV is a standout amongst the most critical elements that force the individuals in the liminal period, yet in an advanced manner (Voinea, Busu, Opran & Vladutescu, 2015;Wyslocka, 2015). Mass media has a series of events that are categorized in three forms: Contest, Conquest and Coronation. ...
This study aims to clarify the meanings and the semantic articulations of the concept of liminality. The method used in the study is meta-analytic. a) There is first achieved a historical reconstruction of the concept. The semantic nucleus of the concept is represented by the action of spiritual configuration of events by which individuals are introduced in a transition state from separation to incorporation. This existential event is theoretically approached by Arnold Van Gennep through the syntagm “rites of passage”. Subsequently, Victor Turner subsumes the meanings of the spiritual event of passage to a single-word concept “liminality” and talks about “liminoid” events. b) Afterwards, there is carried out a logical-semantic reconstruction of the concept and there is concluded that the practical articulations of liminality consist in going over three stages of the process of liminality: the ambiguous state, the adaptation to new norms, rules and values and the pre-integration. As illustration of liminal transition, there is presented the current mass media case in which there is mobilized the idea of persuading the consumers of media messages to adopt a behavior which represents a passage from lack of involvement to social, economic and political involvement/engagement. The conclusion is that a) the world and people in general, are in a constant process of passage, of change, b) that liminality constitutes an important factor of individual and social development, c) and that society is marked by liminality.
Non-formal education taken up over the entire professional life is one of the basic ways to build an individual career, as well as significant factor of improvement quality of human resources in general, which exerts ever increasing impact upon development of countries, especially in global economy conditions. The basic objective of the work we conducted was to perform comparative analysis and to identify changes, if any, in education in the non-formal system in Poland in years 2006 and 2011, in the area of: percentage of persons making use of education in this system, age of persons being trained, educational institutions, number of hours dedicated to education, and reasons to take up education and fields of education.