EFFECTIVE TOOLS FOR TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Cost-Effective Maintenance Tools for Proprietary Languages

Maintenance of proprietary languages and corresponding tooling is expensive. Postponing maintenance to reduce these costs is an often applied, short-term solution which eventually may lead to an unoperational toolset. This paper describes a case study carried out in cooperation with Lucent Technologies where maintenance cost is decreased by simplifying the development process of languages and t...

Blended Learning in Teaching Foreign Languages

Traditional educational system is slowly adapted to fast technological changes in the contemporary information-oriented society. So, constant refreshment and improvement the content and methods of teaching are needed to prepare “new generation engineers” who will be capable to take responsibilities in decision making, capable to apply critical thinking and creative approaches to their work. The...

Real Time Collaborative Platform for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages

The paper describes a novel social network-based open educational resource for learning foreign languages in real time from native speakers, based on the predefined teaching materials. This virtual learning platform, named i2istudy, eliminates misunderstanding by providing prepared and predefined scenarios, enabling the participants to understand each other and, as a consequence, to communicate...

Effective University Teaching and Learning

University teaching and learning has been a contentious issue for many decades. This was largely due to the tension between the predominant functions of universities, namely, research, teaching, and service or leadership (Dewar, 2002). Traditionally, research has been perceived by academics as the more prestigious activity due to its potential to contribute to the knowledge base, build scholarl...

Teaching, Learning, Assessing: A Guide for Effective Teaching at College and University