SEEU Review vol. 6 Nr. 2 (pdf) - South East European University

Marika Apostolova Trpkovska, M-r.; Burim Ismaili, BsC.skills are starting to become one of the most significant things to learnin any classroom.->3em. In order to show the benefits if each student had a laptop, on theexamining session for the course IT-Skills Fundamentals,because it is an online exam, we told 5 students to take theirlaptops, to connect them to the campus network and to log intothe INSOFT system. The login process was successful and noproblems appeared when students were completing and sendingthe test. It is good to say that nearly 450 students took this testand the computer center has only two computer labs in whichMS Office 2007 applications are installed. Because thesestudents took their laptops with the appropriate version of theMS Office package, they helped the testing to be completed in ashorter period without issues.->4em. Another experiment was done with CST students from aDesktop Publishing course. Five students were told to bringtheir own laptops and the rest of the students used the availablecomputers in the lab 701. From session to session, students whoworked on their laptops did not face problems like slow logginginto the network, opening the software application withouttime-consuming and disconcerting difficulties. From the otherside, those students who worked on lab computers had severalproblems like waiting a long time to log on into the network,slow opening of the applications, computer log, no internetaccess, namely working with limitations which badly affectedtheir concentration and work.->5em. A practical experiment was designed to observe thecircumstances without laptops (IT) and with laptops in theclassroom. Therefore, a lecture about “The History ofComputers” was presented to 2 groups of different studentsfrom the Computer Science and Business Informaticsdirections. The difference was that in the first group, they usedan ordinary method for teaching – with no IT, while in the otherthe subject was presented using IT (projector and computer). Atthe end, the same quiz was given to both groups of students,with several questions from the subject. The goal was to checkthe supposition that IT improves learning. That was proved. Thegroup which followed the lecture where laptops were included120