Karmela Aleksic-Maslac

ICT as a Tool for Building Social Capital in Higher Education.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in building social capital and human capacity, in terms of knowledge sharing, targeted training and developing education initiatives in higher education institutions.Design/methodology/approach – The critical organizational form in the information age is networking. This new organizational principle is manifested through the processes of internationalization and global academic cooperation, which have become inevitable strategies for every higher education institution in order to be competitive in a global education market. The focus of this paper is on such positive practices implemented at Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM). Since its foundation in 2002, a systematic use of new technologies in education has been encouraged, which in turn has provided the basis for major advances in development. Today ZSEM has around 1,400 students and about 150 courses with an integrated e‐lea...

Holistic approach in education - filling the gap between different disciplines

In the research, education and in everyday practice, a need for and general understanding and a holistic approach is becoming more and more important. Still in concrete cases such approaches meet many challenges, mostly in form of misunderstanding between involved partners experts from different disciplines. Education in general does not provide training for such approach. This paper describes a case - a course which goal was to transfer knowledge from one area to another: A software engineering and management of software development projects was taught to students of management and economy. In addition to this the course provided new teaching methods that students were not used to. Finally the course has been taught as a distance course, using Internet-based technology. All this elements made the course very challenging. The paper gives an overview of the case, identifies the challenges and discusses the lessons learned

Practical examples used information and communication technologies in study of "Signals and Systems"

The study of Signals and Systems is one of the basic subjects of study at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. For a better understanding of this subject, it is necessary for the students to connect theory with the practical examples. The introduction of new technologies discloses great opportunities for a high-quality organization of the study. The purpose of this paper is to shows in detail two examples where theory is linked to practice in order to achieve a better education. The examples have been chosen according to the criteria of proximity, comprehension and actuality. We assume that the majority of students taking Signals and Systems have a basic knowledge of electronics and an elementary everyday understanding of economics. This paper therefore portrays a simple electronic amplifier as the first example and a game based on a simplified economic interaction as the second example of the application of the theory of signals and systems. This is going to show how to bring the theory closer to the students through practical examples by means of ICT.

Straight lines, windows and background current synthesis in deconvolution procedure

Abstract Three ways of data pretreatment which can be used as part of a deconvolution procedure are shown. One way consists of subtraction of a straight line from the processed curve so that the resulting curve starts and ends with a zero value. The second way accomplishes the same result by multiplying the curve by the appropriate window, while the third way synthesizes the background current by interpolation with a cubic spline which yields the same result. Calculations on simulated differential pulse polarography curves performed with the software package MATLAB were undertaken. All three methods should be kept in mind and used according to the shape of the signal and the level of the available software package.