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Ferdinand Uličný and Teaching of Archival Sciences in Prešov (UPJŠ/PU in Prešov 1990 – 2003) The paper presents the personality of the university teacher, archivist and historian Ferdinand Uličný (born in 1933), who spent a significant part of his professional life in Prešov. While working at the university, he taught the Slovak history in the Middle Ages, archival studies, and auxiliary historical sciences. In Prešov, he founded and also guaranteed a university course in archival studies at the Faculty of Arts in Prešov (1991). He was the head of the Department of History and Archival Studies at the Faculty of Arts in Prešov, Pavol Jozef Šafárik Univesity in Košice (1997 – 1998), and later of the Department of Slovak History and Archival Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov (1998 – 2003). The paper also discusses other members of the department, the forms of the study field of archival studies, curriculum (study plans), and the profile of the graduates.

The article is based on research aimed at exploring how teachers from the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University integrated digital technologies into their teaching in connection with the transition to emergency remote teaching. The main research question was aimed at identifying the role played by peer learning among university teachers in integrating digital technologies into higher education teaching. The data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 34 teachers from the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in the fall semester of 2020. The results indicate that although teachers valued the support of a technological workplace, they more strongly considered consultations with and advice from their colleagues. I identified four main roles played by peer learning among university teachers in integrating digital technologies into higher education teaching. The roles are: offering emotional support, understanding needs, providing intelligible advice, and mediating experience. I also address two limitations to peer learning that need to be considered: the limited variety of technological tools and fragmented and unsubstantiated procedures. Studies have repeatedly shown that peer learning plays a long-term role in the process of integrating and adapting technologies into higher education; however, until now we have lacked information on the significance of peer learning for teachers in integrating digital technologies and on its limitations, both of which I address in this study.

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The Return. The Faculty of Arts of UPJŠ/PU in Prešov and Ferdinand Uličný in the 1990s In the life of Ferdinand Uličný, the last decade of the second millennium was intensely connected with his workplace – The Department of History of the Faculty of Arts in Prešov, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and, later, the University of Prešov, but also with their faculties of arts. In a specific sense, it was also connected with the both eastern Slovak universities. As a convinced traditionalist, he rejected the division of the UPJŠ into two universities because he saw no rational reason for it. However, as a dean of the Faculty of Arts, he was forced to defend its interests, especially in the area of financial resources, which were not always distributed correctly to the individual faculties at the UPJŠ. This eventually placed him in a paradoxical position. He stood for the preservation of the unified university, but at the same time he advocated for the economic interests of the Faculty of Arts. This meant abandoning the platform of the unified UPJŠ and leaning towards the creation of the independent University of Prešov with its seat in Prešov. It was interesting that all these dilemmas took place simultaneously. At the end of 1996, F. Uličný still stood equally on both platforms. In the sphere of historical sciences, F. Uličný was working on his comprehensive monographs on the settlement of Šariš, Uh and Zemplín counties at this time. In the field of university education, he was responsible for the establishment of a new field of study in the 1990s: archival studies, which soon became firmly established not only at the University of Prešov, but also in the Slovak academic and educational space.

The paper will describe the features and show advantages of process orientation in all phases of university course design and implementation applied in an introductory course on environmental science at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics in Brno, Czech Republic. It will demonstrate the principles of process-oriented learning design and its support in the open-source based Medusy project. Primarily, it will show the integrated approach to learning process design, tooling, runtime environment, and learning process pattern repository.

We live in a time where teachers and lecturers need to cope with new coming challenges. Deeply focused experts are confronted with the fact that knowledge and information from different domains are intertwined in real projects more than ever. For example - artificial intelligence augmented and virtual reality are all used in medicine, expertise in management and marketing needs to be mixed with knowledge of construction, etc. Generally, the main task of education, especially higher education, is to teach students to understand, analyze and solve complex tasks and problems. The paper focuses on a specific example of this phenomenon which is teaching information and communication technology (ICT) with a big overlap to service design. The main motivation is to improve the study curricula to help the students implement ICT in real projects properly. For that, they need to understand the complexity of the problem and be able to analyze the source of the problem from different contexts. The researchers at the Faculty of informatics at Masaryk University in Brno, CZ have developed a comprehensive theoretical framework that should be used for leading the process to solve this problem. The paper will present the results of a survey among the students on how they understand the analytics tools of decomposing a multicontextual service. Next, the paper will introduce the main insights of the way on how to improve the study materials and teaching focus to achieve a better understanding of the practical impacts of the framework. The main value of the paper will be the overview of the principles the tutors should follow to acquire a better understanding of multicontextual environments and their peculiarities.

Classical notions of disjunctive and cumulative scheduling are studied from the point of view of soft constraint satisfaction. Soft disjunctive scheduling is introduced as an instance of soft CSP and preferences included in this problem are applied to generate a lower bound based on existing discrete capacity resource. Timetabling problems at Purdue University and Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University considering individual course requirements of students demonstrate practical problems which are solved via proposed methods. Implementation of general preference constraint solver is discussed and first computational results for timetabling problem are presented.

The T-shaped model of education, which combines a broad understanding of various IT domains with deep expertise in a specific area, is a valuable approach for preparing students to contribute effectively to multidisciplinary teams. However, the role of T-shaped experts in academic research deserves more attention. This abstract explores how T-shaped expertise can enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, foster innovation, and advance IT academic research.The T-shaped model enables researchers to bridge disciplinary boundaries and collaborate across diverse fields within IT academia. Interdisciplinary collaboration, a key aspect of the T-shaped approach, allows researchers to integrate their strengths to address complex problems, leading to innovative solutions and transformative discoveries. It also promotes a holistic understanding of IT phenomena and uncovers new research opportunities at the intersection of technology, society, and the environment.Effective communication and collaboration skills are emphasised in the T-shaped approach, facilitating interdisciplinary research endeavours. By fostering a culture of open dialogue and knowledge sharing, interdisciplinary teams can leverage the collective intelligence of their members and maximise the impact of their research outcomes.This abstract also presents the methodology of managing, maintaining, and developing a team of T-shaped members, using the Laboratory of Service Systems at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, as an example. The laboratory’s wide-ranging aims include Smart Service systems, such as Smart Cities, the application of Open Data, data quality investigation, analytical work in the domain of Smart services, and methodological expertise in the domain of Smart Cities. The lab members collaborate in synergy, work on various types of projects, grow through these experiences, and contribute to the lab’s diverse tasks. Their T-shaped knowledge is crucial for achieving this synergy. The paper also discusses the successful collaboration of the lab with external partners, such as companies and public institutions, and how it benefits both the academic and the practical aspects of the research. Best practices will be presented in the paper.

At the faculty of informatics, Masaryk university, Brno we developed the AUDIS system recently. Description of the system can be found in P. Gaura (2000), P. Gaura, P. Nygryn (2000) and I. Kopecek (1998). AUDIS is developed primarily as a multimodal support that would help visually impaired students to study various materials. For proper functionality of the system inputs and outputs, we need also high quality speech synthesis. Unfortunately, it is not available for Czech language. Therefore, we are developing a speech engine that allows us to produce high quality Czech speech for some limited domains together with the average quality of general Czech speech synthesis (where average means well comprehensible). Limited domain speech synthesis will be used for frequently used speech outputs (e.g. navigation in a document, control of the system), while general speech synthesis will be available for common text. For these purposes we have developed the automatic recording system that allows us to collect and process the large amount of speech data. The basic principles of our speech synthesis, the recording system and the speech segments selection and processing are described in the first part of the paper. The second part of the paper deals with methods for choosing the best set of speech data to be recorded into the corpus and the speech data segmentation.

The paper deals with the role of ontologies in e-learning. We report our research on the application of ontologies in intelligent platforms for self-learning and computer-mediated education that are developed at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The use of ontologies in the organization of knowledge about the area of learning management systems is tackled first. The next part discusses a new direction of our research aiming at automatic generation of e-learning self-tests based on information extracted from ontologies. A very new topic deals with the preliminary experiments on an ontology-based automatic evaluation of student essays.

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1 Masaryk University, Faculty of informatics (CZECH REPUBLIC)2 Prague University of Economics and Business, Faculty of International Relations (CZECH REPUBLIC)

Event Abstract Back to Event Building neuroinformatic data collections with respect to re-usabilityand sustainability Simon Rerucha1* and Ondrej Kotek1 1 Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Czechia During the research on the field neuroinformatics a large amounts of experimental data are created. These data often contains valuable information that might be re-used withing other research on similar fields, nonetheless the data are often insufficiently organized and described - that factor makes repeated use difficult. Our effort is aimed at reduction of costs to data exploitation ratio, the principal idea is that by spending of certain effort on data organization beyond the scope of their primary use can significantly enhance the value of the data. However the problem is complex and incorporates several aspect, each of which brings different requirements "e.g.data diversity, generic annotation techniques, data sustainability, methods of publication and interchange and finally the motivation of the data sets creators. This contribution proposes a series of methods and recommendation on building reusable and sustainable data collection in the scope of research within Czech National Node for Neuroinformatics (CNNN), but with respect to standards within international neroinformatic community. It is developed on the basis of particular experience with the research within CNNN and the outcomes of the INCF efforts.

The chapter deals with the latest problems within the ICT-supported instruction and is structured into four parts. The introductory part emphasizes the importance of information and communication technologies implemented in the process of instruction and attracts attention to the didactic aspects of this process (i.e. whether teachers are able to apply suitable methods and forms of instruction, create and use appropriate didactic means which are offered by new technologies, and whether students reach a higher level of knowledge if they attend lessons managed by ICT or run traditionally by teachers). Part two deals with e-learning related phenomena as definitions and basic terminology which has not been clearly defined yet, evaluating pedagogical research in the field of e-learning. Part three focuses on results of analyses of research studies presented in three important e-learning conferences within the last decade in the Czech Republic: eLearning (Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove), ICTE (Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Ostrava), and SCO (Sharable Content Objects, Masaryk University, Brno). Part four introduces a new approach to tailoring the online courses to individual student´s needs and results of research in this field. Not only the learning content but the methodology is considered here from the teacher´s point of view, and the expectations (hypotheses) are verified by the pedagogical experiment.

The project REMathEx is developed at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno as a support for blind students allowing them to study complex mathematical expressions. The system uses the combination of the braille display and the speech synthesis outputs to provide the user with all the information concerning studied mathematical expressions. The basic principles of the system and its use are described in the paper.