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Use of Smart Technologies in the e-Learning Course Project Management

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Modern technologies have entered into all area and levels of education. This paper aims to introduce the Project Management e-learning course which was primarily designed for public administration. The paper describes the current situation and the specifics of public administration and also focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of the application of project management in public administration. The practical demonstration of the course describes the smart technologies that are used in the course, SWOT analysis of the course and then, according to the questionnaire, the evaluation of the success of the course and its possible ways of improvements.

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This study is supported by internal research project no. 2103 Investment under concept Industry 4.0 at Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. We would like to thank student Petra Henclova for cooperation in the processing of the article.

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Hedvicakova, M., Svobodova, L. (2018). Use of Smart Technologies in the e-Learning Course Project Management. In: Uskov, V., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Education and e-Learning 2017. SEEL 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 75. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59451-4_17

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