Лесотехнически Университет

Summary

The traditional forms of education used to answer the needs of the young people at a time when it was possible with a relative certainty to foresee the knowledge and skills from which they are going to need in the years of their mature life. Today it is not like this. The young people cannot expect already to spend their whole life in one and the same sphere of activity and even at one and the same place; their professional way is about to change in a way could not be foreseen, and they need a broad circle of common skills, which will let them adapt. In a more complex and globalized world the creative skills, the ability to think in a multifunctional way, the skills in different fields, and their adaptability as a tendency are valued more than the specialized knowledge.

To answer these needs, it is necessary as part of the syllabuses on the disciplines, apart from the knowledge, which should be taught, to be given the results (the skills and the habits which are expected to be developed from the educated at different stages of their education).

In the present research a theoretical framework for electronic education is introduced and the issue for discussion is: Could the modern systems for electronic education provide the young people with skills and motivation for the turning of education into a whole life activity?

Summary

Strengthening the links between education systems, in order to develop the potential of young people is at the core of European cooperation process. Leading institutions are there to introduce and provide better teaching and learning through use of new information and communication technologies (ICT). One of the priority areas of the Strategic framework for education and training („ET 2020“) is to promote and develop creativity and innovation through new instruments, which use modern ICT and by training teachers to use ICT.

Information and communication technologies provide a variety of methods and tools that open up new opportunities in distance learning students from the University of Forestry. They allow supporting the educational process by organizing it in a way, that takes into account the individual needs of students and allow building up of important digital competencies needed to achieve "knowledge-based" economy.

Summary

This article presents the results of a research carried out by the authors of three different approaches of creating work programmes for universal woodworking machine center with computer control (CNC woodworking centre) on work productivity – input of operations by the CNC software, import from CAD software and using created macros. 

The analysis of the results proves that the programming and the use of macros greatly increases work effectiveness when creating work programmes for CNC woodworking centres which leads to increased productivity and competitive advantage.