The authors of this article have major contributions to the implementation and the efficient use of the cloud technologies within DDLUB. DDLUB is an acronym associated with the Distance Learning Department, founded in 1999 through the University of Bucharest Senate's Decision. During the last 18 years, the DDLUB was focused on: (1) DL (Distance Learning) study programs (design, accreditation, implementation, development); (2) the efficient use of digital technologies in education. That is why the central theme of the eLSE'2017 conference ("Could technology support learning efficiency?") is very exciting for the authors! In brief, the key points are to communicate and to collaborate with students and teachers through electronic platforms, in the cloud. This article is organised into 4 chapters. Chapter 1 will give a general review of cloud computing concept and will present the digital technology services usually provided in the “cloud”. Chapter 2 will include a number of initiatives and projects promoted by the authors; those projects demonstrate interest and concern of the authors in promoting digital technologies in education (continuously, during the last 25 years!). Chapter 3 - Starting with 2010, the authors developed projects including cloud computing /technologies especially those related to Google and other electronic platforms. The authors develop their activities in the academic institutions where the communication and collaboration between students and teachers are crucial; the authors have used efficiently cloud technologies like Gmail, Google Classroom, Google Drive etc. Chapter 4 includes authors' conclusions and recommendations for decision makers in the domain of education.
The authors of this article have major contributions to the establishment and development of DDLUB which is the acronym for Distance Learning Department, founded in 1999 through the University of Bucharest Senate's Decision. During the last 18 years, DDLUB has focused on DL (Distance Learning) study programs according to Romania legislation. DL in RO is equivalent with blended learning concept known all over the world. This article is aiming to present DDLUB's initiatives and achievements, reported early in 2017. Chapter 1 will present the socio-economic context. There are remarkable events that have been taken into consideration by DDLUB team. The main conclusion of these events can be summarized as follows: we are living, teaching/learning and working within the Information Society. Teaching and learning according to the 21st Century requirements (including digital technologies) are our main responsibilities! Chapter 2 is dedicated to the educational context. There are worldwide trends focusing on "rethinking education". The authors took into consideration the recent evolutions within the domain of online education: Coursera, edX, Khan Academy, LinkedIn Learning, MIT Open Courseware, and CISCO Networking Academy. Meanwhile, we notice that a significant number of voices underline specific weaknesses of the RO system of education (e.g. “Court of Auditors Report 2016”, “Study-42% of Romanian is functionally illiterate").The following two chapters will present: achievements related to DL study programs provided by DDLUB for the target group of teachers (in-service and pre-service), in Chapter 3; initiatives and achievements related to the use of digital technologies in education, in Chapter 4 5 are dedicated to DDLUB 2017(+) vision on education.
University of Bucharest, together other public and private Romanian universities, have implemented ID/IFR study programs starting with year 1999. We will use the acronymes: ID for Distance Learning and IFR for part-time on-campus study programs. The starting point was the project "Phare Multi-country Programme for Distance Education", 1994 - 1999, aimed at creating a network of 40 study centers IDD(CSIDD) in 11 countries of Central and Eastern Europe. University of Bucharest run one of seven CSIDD centres in Romania. Based on the Order no. 3289/02.19.1998, the Ministry of National Education CSIDD officially recognized the CSIDD centers, their managers. These CSIDD centres were afiliated with the European Training Foundation (ETF) in Turin. By decision of the Bucharest University Senate in May 1999, the CSIDD center was defined as the Department for Distance Learning, Lifelong Learning and Professional Conversion. During the last 14 years, this department has designed and implemented new ID/IFR study programs. These programs were authorized and acreditated by CNEAA and ARACIS, the national authorities in charge with authorization and accreditation of the study programs in higher education institutions, in Romania. At the same time, Lifelong learning and Professional conversion were also succesfully implemented: CISCO Networking Acdemy, Microsoft IT Academy, ECDL. All these initiatives are examples of good pratices for the public-private partnership. To illustrate this, we can refer to the learning resources provided to the University of Bucharest students that were produced in eLearning technology, early in 2003 (http://ecdl.credis.ro/cursuri-ecdl.html). As far as we know there is no other university that has similar learning resources. The paper will present in details the best ID/IFR practices implemented during the last 14 years within the Department for ID/IFR of the University of Bucharest.
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