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Based on the children’s road traffic injuries analysis and field pedestrians’ behavior observations during the roadway crossing, in order to reduce accidents among pedestrians-children, to create safe approaches to educational institutions is proposed.

The article describes the results of modern technologies usage in the advanced training programmes for the academic staff of a technical university. The characteristic features of the stakeholders are defined. Trainings, business games, discussions, modern technologies (webinars) are widely used in the education process. To exchange advanced pedagogical experience the professional learning community of university professors “Pedagogy of Higher Education” was organized on the Ning platform. The functions of the platform are described. It is proved that to increase the quality of continuous pedagogical education it is necessary to enhance dialogue forms of work, to introduce communicative approach, and to encourage selfexpression.

There is growing recognition that children and young people have valuable contributions to make within their schools and communities. This special issue, which focuses specifically on the notion of ‘pupil voice’, brings together a collection of articles and reports presented and developed as part of the 2004–06 ESRC seminar series ‘Engaging critically with pupil voice’ (RES-451–26–0165). The seminar series brought together representatives reflecting a range of practices and research that can be identified as ‘pupil voice’, with the aim of identifying ‘pupil voice’ activities, delineating key advances, gaps and debates in theory, methodology and ethics. The series helped advance records and forums through which ‘pupil voice’ work is documented and can be further developed. This journal considers cross-disciplinary research and practice which explores the complexities of ‘voice’ in varying contexts and how ‘voice’ can be used in school improvement initiatives.

This paper describes the work in progress for education in Electric Power, Control and Energy Systems (EPCES) at undergraduate and graduate levels, initially commencing in high schools. Further, the paper describes a methodology to build a robust pipeline of high school students who go on to choose electric power/control/energy as a field of study as undergraduates. This paper describes the graduate courses developed and being developed. This paper is based on previous papers and provides the updates since the results reported therein. Resulting from this process are students having the flexibility upon graduation to work in industry or to go on to graduate school and doctoral research, or to work in a field different than power/control/energy.

A concept of mathematics is one of the essential goals in learning mathematics. Providing an understanding that the material taught to students is not only as a recitation but also as the concept of the subject matter itself. This study aims to develop student worksheet based on realistic mathematical approach. The method used in this study is the stages of 4-D development research which consists of defining, designing, developing, and disseminating. This study employed two data collection instruments. The first is expert validation which was used to measure the validity. Meanwhile the second is questionnaire which was used to measure students’ practicality and to get product development assessment from experts and students. The results showed that the developed worksheet is valid with the validity level of 3.67 for the content aspect, 3.60 for the constructed aspect, and 3.50 for the language aspect. The worksheet was tested to 21 students of grade VII in MTs N 2 Gunungkidul Indonesia. The test results stated that the worksheet received a good response from students. Therefore, it can be used in the process of learning mathematics in class.

The purpose of this study is to determine factors that influence the selection of student career as a public accountant. The data collection method was conducted by distributing questionnaires to Universitas Tarumanagara students. The questionnaire distributed from August to October 2018. Data processing methods were carried out by using partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), which is the contribution of our research, whereas previous research used SPSS as their statistic tool. We also added the motivation variable that not used in the research that we replicate. The data is first tested for its validity and reliability followed by the multicollinearity test, F2 test, adjusted R2, and finally the t test. The results showed that only financial rewards had a positive influence on the selection of student career as public accountants while professional training, professional recognition, social values, work environment, labor market considerations, personality, and self-motivation had no influence.

Abstract This paper examines the impact of m-learning as an innovative tool that is still in its infancy in many countries, but that can significantly contribute to effective teaching and learning in the context of the digital age. Based on the theoretical principles of learning, the uses of m-learning are reviewed. To provide complete insights into its potential adoption in higher education institutions in countries such as Mauritius and Nigeria, the various emerging issues such as technical issues, usability issues, content security and copyright issues as well as issues relating to privacy and cyber bullying are discussed. The paper suggests some of the future trends in the adoption of m-learning, but it concluded that it may not be successful due to other challenges that are typical to many countries in Africa. African countries are faced with context-bound and technological constraints that are hindering the leaners of higher education institutions to benefit from the learning advantages that they may get to improve their learning and for the countries to give more access to higher education through the use of open education that may be technologically enhanced.

Nowadays the governments of several nations must address the challenge of providing a high-quality education for all persons from the perspective of an inclusive focus. In this line, in the e-learning area exist several standards and models aimed at establishing quality guidelines or structures to certify an optimal process of development, implementation, and evaluation of Learning Objects (LO). Given that the teaching-learning process goes beyond the use of technological tools, it is necessary understanding that must exist a synergy between the technology and the methodological design used to establish an innovative and high-quality model. However, LOs have been developed to respond only to the needs and requirements presented by "standard students." For this reason, these objects have lost the universality of their purpose as well as the functionality of responding to the diverse learning needs. For these reasons, in this paper, we present a novel approach that uses ontologies and knowledge modeling to support the accessibility analysis and evaluation of learning objects. Our model extends existing ontologies such as WCAG 2.0, Schema DRD and SKOS to represent how accessibility metadata relates to the most common types of disabilities (intellectual, physical, visual, auditory, etc.). We have validated our proposal with the support of a multidisciplinary team of experts, and the achieved results are encouraging.

Abstract Nowadays, residential heating and cooling are responsible for a significant part of the total global energy consumption. In order to create environmentally friendly buildings, the application of renewable energy technologies is recommended. Such a technology is GSHP 1 systems. This study examined the level of consumers׳ awareness on this technology, their perception on considering installing such a system, as well as the factors influencing the above issues. According to a logistic regression analysis, knowledge concerning the use of a GSHP system for residential use is positively related to the existence in the residence of a person with an occupation or interests associated to environment, technology or engineering, as well as the awareness about RES 2 issues and higher educational level. Also, considering installing a GSHP system is positively related to the existence in the residence of a person with an occupation or interests associated to environment, technology or engineering, awareness on RES and alternative technologies, as well as younger age groups, higher income groups, university and technical vocational education graduates.