This paper describes several process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) activities focused on soft computing (genetic algorithms, neural networks, and fuzzy systems). The paper provides background on POGIL, illustrates several activities, summarizes student feedback, and discusses lessons learned and possible future directions.

Service oriented architectures (SOAs) are a new paradigm in IT-management. This paper presents an SOA-implementation in the intranet portal of a 520-employee research institute, which was launched to accompany parallel knowledge-management (KM) activities. Furthermore it explains the benefits of an SOA-based IT-landscape for KM-activities.

Entrepreneurship can provide a creative, disruptive, problem-solving-oriented approach to the current economic, environmental, and social challenges of world. This article aims an analysis about way universities have impact on developing entrepreneurial competence in students through extracurricular activities. The research relies questionnaire survey at University Petrosani, who participated r...

An integrated management of business processes demands a strictly process-oriented development of the supporting IT. Process-orientation is especially promoted by Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), where loosely coupled business services are being composed to executable processes. In this paper we present a model-driven methodology for a top-down development of a process-oriented IT support ...

Learning activities carried out in schools today lack innovative and varied approaches. There are few learning that can help develop students' meta cognitive abilities. Meta abilities important for students to realize their weaknesses strengths studying utilizing materials. This study analyses the effectiveness of developing revised Bloom's taxonomy-oriented improve A quasi-experiment was used ...

Turkish universities are not among the top 500 in most of world university ranking systems and have had difficulties maintaining their current place for last five years. The important reason this decline is that they cannot produce high-quality research outcome. In literature higher education studies, there a limited number studies on how state governed with solely public resources could follow...