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[EN] Control education is a mature area in which many professors and researchers have worked hard to face the challenge of providing a versatile education, with a strong scientific base. All this without losing sight of the needs of the industry; adapting the contents, methodologies and tools to the continuous social and technological changes of our time. This article presents a reflection on the role of automation in today s society, a review of the traditional objectives of control education through seminal works in the area and finally a review of the main current trends., [ES] La educación en automática es un área madura en la que multitud de profesores e investigadores han trabajado intensamente para afrontar el reto de proporcionar una educación versátil, con una fuerte base cientí­fica. Todo ello sin perder de vista las necesidades de la industria; adaptando los contenidos, las metodologí­as y las herramientas a los continuos cambios sociales y tecnológicos de nuestro tiempo. Este artí­culo presenta una reflexión sobre el papel de la automática en la sociedad actual, una revisión de los objetivos tradicionales de la educación en automática a través de los trabajos seminales del área y finalmente una revisión de las principales tendencias actuales.

International audience; This paper proposes a new architecture of incremen-tal fuzzy inference system (also called Evolving Fuzzy System-EFS). In the context of classifying data stream in non stationary environment, concept drifts problems must be addressed. Several studies have shown that EFS can deal with such environment thanks to their high structural flexibility. These EFS perform well with smooth drift (or incremental drift). The new architecture we propose is focused on improving the processing of brutal changes in the data distribution (often called brutal concept drift). More precisely, a generalized EFS is paired with a module of anticipation to improve the adaptation of new rules after a brutal drift. The proposed architecture is evaluated on three datasets from UCI repository where artificial brutal drifts have been applied. A fit model is also proposed to get a "reactivity time" needed to converge to the steady-state and the score at end. Both characteristics are compared between the same system with and without anticipation and with a similar EFS from state-of-the-art. The experiments demonstrates improvements in both cases.

The article reviews the importance of long-life learning nowadays and the new semantic e-learning environment creating during the last years to support the requirements of that conditions. The education in 21st century is a long-life learning education with the commitment to formal, non-formal, and informal learningsupportedbyNew Learning Environments. The eAcademia framework has been adopted and created with real and virtual members of organizations, applications for communication and collaboration, e-Learning, and directory services. The aim of the article is to describe the changes in the education system in the last decades forced by the innovations of technology and their implementation in life. The characteristics of the New Learning Environments are analyzed and the concept of long-life learning.

Most important conceptualizations of quality of life have in their definitions three basic pillars: psychical dimension, psychological dimension and social dimension (OMS, 1948, Schalock and Verdugo, 2003; Walker, 2010). In this communication we focus our attention on the last dimension, in detail how the long life learning could improve seniors’ quality of life.The purpose of this study is to analyze social networks of the seniors’ students in the UniversitatOberta per a Majors (UOM), -an educational program intended to adults over 50 years- from 2006-2007 to 2011-2012 academic years. Method: Application of social support questionnaire. A total of 261 questionnaires were used for the analysis by SPSS program. Dimensions evaluated were: lost relationships (and sources) versus new relationships (and sources), feeling of loneliness, perception of changes on their social network from to 5 years before and for next 5 years and influence of the educative program in these changes. Findings and results: Most of the sample affirm that lost relationships of working environment, but in general they have increased their social network; rarely they have loneliness feelings and they think that their social network will be stable during next 5 years. They considered that UOM program have a strongly positive effect in their social networks.Conclusions and recommendation: positive effects of long life learning are demonstrate in this study, specifically improving social networks’ senior students

Due to the increasing average age of skilled professionals in the field of construction and municipal facilities as well as increasing the number of migrants who often do not possess the necessary skills to carry out construction work and research, there is an urgent need to an influx of skilled workers with different levels of education and training. In this regard, it is necessary to improve the skills of teachers and trainers, to help them in their acquisition of professional experience in work with the modern technological equipment, contribute to the development of innovative technologies applied to the leading construction companies in the region; and train the concept of “double teacher”, who can solve several problems. Solving this problem allows Technical College will contribute effective organization of production practices, will increase interest in the building trade, the formation of the graduates of the college corporate spirit and the emergence of confidence in their own employability.

Urban gardens are spreading in many cities across Europe, with community gardening being a fundamental form of urban agriculture. While the literature reveals the essential role that community gardens can play in terms of learning and education, no studies have investigated the training needs for participants in community gardens to ensure their successful development. The goal of this article is to evaluate the training requirements of urban community gardens to ensure their successful implementation and their contribution to sustainability in European cities. Two questionnaires of users&rsquo, needs analysis were designed and implemented in Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, and Cartagena. The results unveiled the need to re-enforce the training in the formation and community building phases of community gardens towards ensuring the creation of an engaged gardening community to maintain activity, particularly for top-down activities (e.g., research-related gardens). Users claimed their need for being trained on crop management skills (e.g., maintenance, bed preparation, organic practices) and on communication skills to further disseminate their activity, thereby increasing the potential for citizen engagement. Such requirements could be overcome with the creation of urban gardens networks, where experiences and knowledge are shared among practitioners. Policy recommendations are provided based on the outputs of this study.

This article explores the features of assessments which Russian managers used when they asked to assess the aged subordinates' professional performance. We studied, how the manager prefer to assess aged professionals' planning, control and work process. To reconcile aged professionals work experience and organizational changes the Matrix of competitiveness of work experience (Matrix CWE) proposed. Эта статья исследует особенности оценки российскими руководителями среднего возраста деятельности пожилых специалистов. Изучаюсь оценка руководителями особенностей планирования, контроля и организации работы пожилых специалистов. Для того, чтобы помочь таким работникам согласовать их опыт работы с организационными изменениями и эффективно обучать пожилых работников предлагается использовать матрицу конкурентоспособности профессионального опыта (CWE).

This thesis introduces issues of globalization in the context of work (not only employment) and education. Further, it follows up the impacts of globalization processes on forms of work and on (working) individuals. The topic of globalization is examined in more detail in the first part of the thesis with emphasis on different concepts and approaches to globalization. At the same time this part defines the contemporary globalization. Work as such is introduced by historical excursion and by a list of changes of work in modern society. There are also presented some of the experts' solutions or recommendations for the labour markets including solutions through long-life education and learning. In most cases the "pros and cons" of changes of work and the submitted solutions are confronted. Main findings of this study are: globalization brings contradictory conclusions which provide advantages and disadvantages to various people and groups; there is a link between globalized economy and working individuals; and at the same time that the link between globalization processes and education is in such a sense that changes in education are often derived from the ideas of economics.

This paper presents the research approach designed for EScAlADE, an EU funded project that sees the participation of five European countries and focuses on adult participative e-learning. EScAlADE aims at investigating about the educational needs of adults (range: 50-65 years) involved in e-learning programs. This paper reports on the projects methodology and on the necessity of educational strategies able to provide adult trainees with the skills required by the labor market.

This paper introduces a proposal for a smart environment capable of deploying enhanced services by using a synergic approach based on Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Fuzzy Markup Language (FML). In detail, this approach realizes a long-life learning strategy able to generate context-aware services and actualize them through abstraction techniques in order to maximize the users' comfort and hardware interoperability level. As will be shown in experimental results, where a usability study has been performed, the proposed approach is capable of anticipating user's requirements by automatically generating the most suitable collection of interoperable services for improving users' comfort. © 2012 IEEE.

Este artículo plantea la necesidad de incluir la orientación personal y profesional en los planes y actuaciones de formación profesional que se desarrollan en la actualidad. Es preciso elaborar programas y herramientas específicas para orientar los procesos de aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida . se propone que se tenga en cuenta las aportaciones que se vienen realizando desde la pedagogía sistémica para enfocar las labores de orientación para la elaboración del proyecto profesional y de vitala This paper is about the need to include personal and professional guidance into present professional education plans and actions. It is necessary to develop specific programmes and tools to guide long-life learning processes. It is put forward to take into account the contributions that are being carned out from the systemic pedagogy approach to focus the guidance processes for the development of the life and professional project.

The unstoppable growth of market demand for good knowledge workers in an imperative for educational institutions to continuously improve their programmes and provide to young people the best possible approach to the business world. We analyze responses of the faculties of economy in the Republic of Croatia by means of a survey. Our wish is to find the connection between the awareness in application of ICT with the basic principles of TQM, all this in relation to the use of e-learning systems.

In Ambient Intelligence (AmI) vision, people should be able to seamlessly and unobtrusively use and configure the intelligent devices and systems in their ubiquitous computing environments without being cognitively and physically overloaded. In other words, the user should not have to program each device or connect them together to achieve the required functionality. However, although it is possible for a human operator to specify an active space configuration explicitly, the size, sophistication, and dynamic requirements of modern living environment demand that they have autonomous intelligence satisfying the needs of inhabitants without human intervention. This work presents a proposal for AmI fuzzy computing that exploits multiagent systems and fuzzy theory to realize a long-life learning strategy able to generate context-aware-based fuzzy services and actualize them through abstraction techniques in order to maximize the users' comfort and hardware interoperability level. Experimental results show that proposed approach is capable of anticipating user's requirements by automatically generating the most suitable collection of interoperable fuzzy services.

The term Electronic Learning or e-Learning is being used in Russia rather rarely. It integrates a number of terminological notions in the sphere of application of modern information and communication technologies in education such as multimedia, education on the base of web-technologies, etc. Teachers and learners must realize that new opportunities are offered by modern on-line communication. A person with basic Internet and Web skills is open to a new world of knowledge, from free Web surfing and self-organized education – through on-line resources and familiarization with Internet culture, its places, sites, search engines etc. – up to a more structured approach.

The paper aims to present the process and partnership building in multicultural project teams through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) taking into account the Cultour+ communication project management plan to build virtual teams. CULTOUR+ is a Strategic Partnership (SP) of universities, local governments, SMEs and NGOs, that following the mainlines of the Higher Education Modernization Agenda, will offer high quality and innovative courses and tools, integrating innovation, international mobility and cross-border cooperation to enhance capacity building in higher education curricula in the fields of cultural tourism and hospitality, cultural management and shared cultural heritage. This paper aims to enhance the effective use of ICT in project work by analyzing the way it fits in with various project activities having as an example the Cultour+ project. This approach may facilitate the choice of appropriate tools by each project team and show how ICT can support key processes like leadership, management, communication and co-operation within other European project teams.