Lina Kaminskienė

A Responsive Paradigm for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Integration into Business Organizations

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore the main barriers and enablers for integrating technology enhanced learning (TEL) into a business organization based on a responsive paradigm. The study is based on a current literature review on challenges and learners’ needs for TEL and the preconditions for TEL curriculum integration into business organizations. The theoretical study is matched with a qualitative research on learners’ needs for TEL in two international business organizations from IT sector. Technology enhanced learning (TEL) is tackling different barriers for learning in organizations. However, to make it effective, specific technological and teaching solutions must be implemented. The research revealed that companies’ employees give preference to TEL than other forms of learning, and defined specific requirements for successful technology enhanced learning integration into business organisations. A theoretical literature review is followed by empirical findings of a qualitative research (focus group interviews) in two international IT companies. The findings of the research offer valuable insights for a responsive TEL integration into business organizations from the point of view of companies’ employees.

Student internships in Lithuania: a stakeholder perspective on management and economics programmes

Abstract The article discusses the practice of internships in Lithuanian higher education in the context of changes and challenges to educational reforms, particularly in the enhancement of relations with the labour market and related stakeholders. Higher education institutions are grappling with the changing conception, and duration, of the internship. Internships have become an integral axis of the study programmes, contributing to the formation of a students personality and the application of his or her theoretical knowledge in practice. This article presents the results of quantitative research carried out in 2011 in Lithuanian higher education institutions offering programmes in Management and Economics. Overall, 317 students, 42 teachers and 63 employers participated in the survey.