THE EDUCATION IN ENGINEERING FIELDS IN FRONT OF MARKET DEMANDS

Impacts of globalization on the engineering profession create a challenge in understanding what it means to be an engineer in the global economy of the 21st century and how should be prepared the future engineers. Engineering education today faced with request for preparation of the engineers with the necessary skills to cope with and benefit from the great changes that globalization brings. In this context, to understand how and how well we need to prepare the future engineers should be known the new capabilities that businesses and industry require from engineers. Fulfilment of all the requirements of a global economy and coping of challenges from the Institutions of Engineering Education directly requires the integration of competency based on new technology in curricula of programs they offer. So in this context, this paper it aims to identify the IT skills required by the market and to identify the quality of delivery of those skills from the Institutions of engineering education. To achieve this purpose were conducted interviews with directors/ managers of companies and teacher from institutions of engineering education. Outcomes of this research show that there is somehow a line between what is on offer in Institutions of Engineering Education and market demand for graduates in these institutions. But it remains that engineering education must increase performance of students in IT.  Article visualizations

Exploring e-Government Implementation in Kosova's Food Processing and Agriculture Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

The application of e-government in the food and agriculture sector enhances governance efficiency, transparency, and food safety. This study examines the implementation of e-government in Kosovo's agriculture and food industry. The research employs qualitative methodology and includes eight interviews with government officials responsible for digitalizing processes in this sector. Our data analysis utilizes content analysis, quantitative analysis, and comparative methods. The results show substantial advancements in the digitization of services by government entities, leading to enhancements in the agriculture and food sector. Efficiency and transparency have improved, benefiting both farmers and food processors. Food safety monitoring and collaboration between the government and the sector have strengthened, resulting in cost reductions and time savings. However, challenges persist, encompassing a lack of awareness about e-government, resistance to change, inadequate technical skills among officials, insufficient ICT infrastructure, corruption, lack of connectivity and standardization of existing systems, staffing shortages, political changes, bureaucratic procurement procedures, and budgetary constraints. These issues demand government attention and resolution

Coaching teachers to integrate technology: The effects of technology integration on student performance and critical thinking

This article presents the results of a mixed-methods study that investigated effects of technology integration practices of teachers in a 5th grade students’ scores and critical thinking in a public school, and introduced coaching for technology integration as a strategy to train in-service teachers for technology integration. The purpose of the research was to analyse how technology integration in science course effects on student's performance and critical thinking. The participants were 132 students and four teachers in elementary public school. The study used an experimental research design by having a control and research group (68 were in the two teachers’ classrooms that were using technology without coaching intervention and 64 were in the other two teachers’ classrooms, coached by the researchers to integrate available technologies). The data were collected through pre-test and post-test, classroom observation and semi-structured interview with teachers. The results showed that coached teachers integrated technology more frequently, purposefully and diversely. Additionally, the results indicated that technology integration positively affected student performance and student critical thinking behaviours in the 5th grade science unit

Teachers’ Perception on the Benefits of Using Online Resources

This research elaborates the perception of the teachers in relation to the benefits of using online resources in their educational activities, respectively the impact of the utilization of the platform “School Me” in the teaching and learning pro-cess. This was a longitudinal research and it included teachers of various sub-jects. The key research question tends to address the teachers’ insight for the benefits of using online resources. Taking into account that the nature of this study is of the evaluative character, a mixed methodology has been implemented by using questionnaires and interviews in order to study and analyze the problem focus. The results show that teachers have a positive attitude towards usage of the platform in their teaching, which also influences for their lessons to become more attractive and comprehensive for the students and easier for the teachers. As far as the usage of online resources for the students’ learning concerns, the findings of the performed research indicate a positive attitude of the teachers in schools for the affirmative impact that the usage of online resources has for the students’ learning. This research also indicated that there are still technical prob-lems present which in many cases hindered the utilization of the online re-sources