The first and foremost focus of The University of Wroclaw is scientific research. Our scholars cooperate with researchers from higher education institutions in Poland and throughout the world & the university has achieved significant results in research & education. This has been noted by the Polish government which has significantly increased funding of the university for further development of research, education, & infrastructure.

In 2017 9 out of 10 of our Faculties were qualified by the Polish Ministry of Education in the highest categories in the field of education quality.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences is organized in two institutes and employs an academic staff of more than 120 & 1551 bachelor, master and PhD students – the Institute of Mathematics & the Institute of Computer Sciences. The Institute of Computer Sciences’s staff are devoted to research into educational science for optimising the learning outcomes of its students & for their realisation of their potential during studies. The staff experiment with didactics & try new forms & methods of organising the teaching & learning processes on the master level study programme in ICT. The most recent areas of pedagogical research & practicing are measuring the level of improvements in the didactics & methodology of teaching & learning with a series of methods of measuring & data processing & analysing for further updates. This has become one of the elements of the internal quality assurance system at the Faculty level.

Having more experience than the other 4 BY universities in the development of internal QA and project management in a HORIZON 2020 project, it will co-lead in WP6 (Quality Control), & WP8 (Project Management) to assist the EU partners – UWR in WP6, & HSEL in WP8.

UWR participation will consist in assisting the BY partners at the development of a methodology for assessing the activities carried out at the beginning and end of the course, to develop & adopt evaluation tools for the learning process, to assess the quality of education on the modernised MSc programme in ICT. Therefore, UWR will lead on WP5 “QA guidelines & procedures for the MSc” & WP6 “Quality of the project progress”. UWR will also contribute to WP2 “Modernisation of the MSc study programme in ICT“ by sharing the experience of using new teaching methods with holistic approach “TCHAT” with the BY colleagues during their training visits & workshops planned in the project. UWR will also be the place where workshops on the internal QA system on the similar MSc programme will be arranged in Year 2 of the project. It will also be the place where International Conference on ICT Management will be held for the first MSc graduates to present the results of their master theses in June 2021 (Part of WP3). UWR will take part in arranging pedagogical workshops in the start of the project & in consulting the BY colleagues in pedagogical reflections. UWR will then share their use of pedagogical approaches & methods in teaching/learning with their BY colleagues during the extensive 14-day internships for 15 staff members from BSUIR (3), PSU (3), GSTU (3), BrSTU (3), & YKSUG (3). UWR will also consult the BY staff during the whole process of pedagogical evolution from the first glimpse via piloting to analysing & mastering pedagogical approaches (didactics). UWR will assist & consult the BY colleagues during their elaboration of the modernised MSc study programme in ICT, at the pilot running of the programme, at the evaluation of the piloted 1st & 2nd years of the MSc, analysis of its quality & conducting follow-ups. The university will host 5 BY MSc students representing each BY partner university & send their own 5 best MSc students to the BY partners (1 to each) to hold international student groups’ real-life problem-solving projects. UWR staff will interact with their BY colleagues during the master theses preparation and presentations of the results at the ICT Management Conference in 2021.

UWR will disseminate the project and its results in its region & will take part in posting information on the project web-site & social media pages of the project, as well as in the final dissemination conference at BSUIR in Minsk, BY.

). UWR will assist & consult the BY colleagues during their elaboration of the modernised MSc study programme in ICT, at the pilot running of the programme, at the evaluation of the piloted 1st & 2nd years of the MSc, analysis of its quality & conducting follow-ups. ITU will send its representative to UWR to hold workshops in QA for BY staff.

UWR staff will interact with their BY colleagues during the master theses preparation and presentations of the results at the ICT Management Conference in Wroclaw, PL, in 2021.

EU partners have extensive expertise in using advanced pedagogical approaches & methodology, & applying QA strategies & instruments, therefore will lead in WPs 1 (HSEL), 4 (ITU), 5 & 6 (UWR).

UWR will add to this their rich experience in pedagogical data analysing & ITU will add their expertise in socially-oriented interdisciplinarity in teaching & learning on ICT master programmes.

WP5 will be led by UWR known for its QA instruments & co-led by YKSUG who is on the forefront of approaching quality culture in BY.

UWR is known for its pedagogical undertakings in ICT & development of methods of assessing the degree & effects of improvements in pedagogy & education. They will actively participate in training BY teachers in pedagogical reflections, didactics, & innovations in pedagogical approaches & methods. UWR will also offer their expertise in expert systems & formal languages for the updates of the courses “Translators, Formal Languages, & Grammars” & “Knowledge Bases & Expert Systems”, as well as in soft skills training in career development. UWR will add to this their rich experience in pedagogical data analysing & in QA of ICT MSc.

Her research interests include methodology of socio-economic sciences, economic psychology, management, and multicultural influences of psychoanalysis. She published in the journal of Information Systems Management, Information Technology for Development, the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, the Journal of Global Information Technology Management, and in proceedings of AMCIS, HICSS, IEEE, and ICTM. She is an associate editor for the journal Information Technology for Development, for the journal Information Systems Management, among many others.

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He authored over sixty scientific publications mainly on attitudes towards social inequalisties, mass media effects and moral emotions, numerous popular texts and reviews. He edited or co-edited six books devoted to various fields of psychology. He was a member of The Committee on Psychological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2007-2011. He has been a member of editor’s team of ‘Social Psychological Bulletin’ (formerly: ‘Psychologia Społeczna’) since 2012.

Diplomas and Degrees Held

-2012 — 2015 — postgraduate training: "Systemic understanding offamily; systemic approach in family therapy", The M. Orwid Foundation for the Development of Psychotherapy in Cracow, Psychiatric Clinic for Children and Youth, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian, University, Cracow
-2004 - Ph.D. in psychology, Institute of Psychology, the Catholic University of Lublin, dissertation title: Forms ofFocus on the Present and the Satisfaction With Life in the Context of Full Temporal Perspective.

In 1979, she graduated from pedagogical studies at the University of Wrocław [1], on January 1, 1990, she defended her doctoral thesis on Educational functioning of television in a large-city family, on June 6, 2001, she obtained her habilitation on the basis of a thesis entitled Teaching audiovisual culture for young people [1]. On May 9, 2019, she was awarded the title of professor in social sciences. He is an associate professor at the Pedagogy Institute at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences of the University of Wrocław.

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