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New concept of education at NTK
Horová, Iva
The presentation describes new principles and direction in the education of National Library of Technology, both for internal staff and for professionals.
Slides: idr-1085_2 -  PDF
Video: idr-1085_1 -  MP4
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Cooking Stone Soup: Porous Workforce Training at the Czech National Library of Technology as a Supplement to (Impermeable) University Education
Chodounská, Alena ; Krueger, Stephanie
As in many other countries around the world, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) libraries in the Czech Republic are facing the difficult challenge of meeting the rapidly-evolving service needs of the communities they support in an environment in which the current university educational system does not provide graduates—neither those from STEM subjects nor those graduating from Czech library/information professional schools—with the appropriate set of skills needed for working in today’s specialized information provision settings. As a result, the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) has been forced to provide on-the-job workforce training since early 2015 to its reference, instructional, and front-lines services staff simply in order to keep pace with STEM library developments outside the Czech Republic. This weekly workforce training effort, christened NTKu (short for NTKyouniversity), does not resemble traditional university education with its rigid structures and focus on the attainment of a degree. NTKu is, instead, porous: traditional “impermeable,” less flexible university curricula are supplemented with on-demand, ever-changing targeted instruction on specific issues, topics, and skills applied immediately to real-work settings. This manner of instruction, as the authors discuss in the paper, can yield highly effective results; however, unique challenges can emerge in an instructional environment lacking traditional measures of effectiveness (i.e., grades) and requiring voluntary participation by both learners and instructors. Such porous instructional efforts resemble those of open source software (OSS) communities, in which voluntary effort can produce results benefiting a particularly community—but only to the degree of investment provided by contributors. Such initiatives resemble cooking stone soup: the results can be tasty, but everyone involved needs to bring something to the table.
Fulltext: idr-1016_1 - PDF
Slides: idr-1016_2 - PDF
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Application of knowledge and skills gained by participating in the project OP VK "Professional support of teachers of preschool education" into practice - qualitative research
ŠŮSOVÁ, Lucie
This Bachelor thesis is focused on the project ,,Professional support for teachers of preschool education." The goal of the study was to determine the motives for signing up for the courses. Furthermore, it relates to benefits and difficulties perceived by the course participants themselves, but also by education employees of kindergartens, where the participants work. The thesis consists of two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part contains chapters concerning further education for teachers and adults, and it reviews the project itself. The practical part describes the research. For a comprehensive insight into the problems, the kindergartens are investigated as multiple case studies. The results are for clarity set in the tables that correspond with chosen research questions.
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Further Education for Social Workers in Institutions Providing Services to Infant Clients
BÍLKOVÁ, Ladislava
This bachelor's thesis determines the contribution of continuing education for social workers in day centres for clients aged 1 to 26. The theoretical part describes education in general, differences in adult education, factors and motivation involved in adult education. Lists the requirements for education and lifelong learning of social workers. Identifies social worker's skills developed during lifelong learning, personality development and other virtues important for social work. It further deals with day centre, its purpose and client's support in comprehensive rehabilitation in relation with social workers' education and interdisciplinary cooperation. The research part evaluates the benefits of continuing education for social workers.
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Oportunities for Development of Small Enterprises
Polok, Jiří ; Vrátná, Jarmila (referee) ; Dvořák, Jiří (advisor)
The (Master) thesis deals with a part of a project application for financial resources from the European union using the Operational Programme „Lidské zdroje a zaměstnanost“. This programme represents one of the possible way, how to obtain funding of the educational activities for public. The aim of this thesis is to provide a complex summary about the application process and to point how difficult it is to get this kind of financial support. Despite this uneasy process it tries to obtain the financial resources for the activities of EDLiT Ltd., which would enable to extend the portfolio of its services.
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