Abstract
Lately, distance studies, which are attempting at the best possible education for students and satisfaction of as many of their study needs as possible, are gaining wider popularity. Online questionnaires are increasingly used to get detailed opinions of distance learning students on various issues of studies. During the project EURASIA, it was identified that VEBER online questionnaire can be a useful tool for VGTU beyond the scope of the project EURASIA. An online questionnaire has been developed to facilitate the process of surveying related to implementation of the project EURASIA. The assessments helped to recognise that this tool helps VGTU to enhance its institutional system related to e‐learning. Having identified the potential of this tool outside the scope of the EURASIA to project, further experiments have been carried out to assess how this tool can be further developed to accommodate the requirements of the project EURASIA other institutional systems. The research showed that distance learning students not only want to express their opinion about the study process, but also to be active participants in shaping strategic alternatives of the study process by electronic means. In order to implement this idea, the authors proposed the Web‐based Model of Multiple Criteria Ethical Decision‐Making for Ethical Behaviour of Students and used as a basis to develop the Ethical Web‐Based Decision Support System (E‐DS). Using the features of the VEBER online questionnaire, the developed Model and the E‐DS System, the process of distance learning can be additionally humanized and adjusted to ethical norms, which would have a positive effect on the whole distance learning process. Thus, the institutions participating in the project EURASIA or offering distance learning studies could use the features of VEBER online questionnaire, the developed Model and the E‐DS System in their activities. It would stimulate more efficient application of moral norms in the distance learning process.
Highlights
The e-learning Master’s degree studies “Real Estate Management” were introduced at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) in 1999, Master’s degree studies “Construction Economics” from 2000, and Master’s degree studies “Internet Technologies and Real Estate Business” from 2003
The VEBER online questionnaire has been used within VGTU distance learning environment to administer student feedback questionnaires and surveys
With the success of the VEBER online questionnaire being used in VGTU, the intention of joining institutional systems in development process within the EURASIA project is to share the experience and the technology across all the partners and beyond
Summary
The e-learning Master’s degree studies “Real Estate Management” were introduced at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) in 1999, Master’s degree studies “Construction Economics” from 2000, and Master’s degree studies “Internet Technologies and Real Estate Business” from 2003 (seehttp://odl. vgtu.lt/). The proposed Web-based Model of Multiple Criteria Ethical Decision-Making for Ethical Behaviour of Students provides a logical system and gradually guides and helps the stakeholder in the creation of acting in a way that includes moral behavior These stages are the main steps of action and can be shaped into the framework of particular circumstances (Fig. 1). The utility degree is directly proportional to the relative effect of the values and weights of the criteria and is considered as the efficiency of the alternative This helps a decision-maker to decide what ethical alternative best fits the ethical behaviour of students that is under evaluation (i.e. the best solution achievable given the available resources and the circumstances of the dilemma). Development of comparative tables of ethical behaviour of students and evaluation of ethical alternatives of ethical behaviour of students
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