ICT in Hungarian Public Education 2003 2005 The Educational ICT Strategy and its Results Education i

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ICT in Hungarian Public Education 2003
2005 The Educational ICT Strategy and its
Results(Education in Hungary 2006)

• Márta Hunya
• IFIP Conference, Alesund, Norway, 2006

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PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

• Infrastructure
• Content development
• SDT
• RD Programmes - Digital pedagogy
• Celebrate
• SDT-related projects
• Methodology and in-service teacher training

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INFRASTRUCTURE

• Dec 2005 all schools connected and broadbanded
• Freeing ICT from computer labs 2200 digital
  trolleys and suitcases
• Interactive whiteboards (500) mostly vocational
  schools
• Tax refund program to develope or buy home
  computers
• Sustainability plan head quota of 16-20
  euros/year
• Phare Programme 196 schools improved the school
  buildings to house ICT
• Microsoft Clean Software Programme
• Educational administration system, along with T/S
  identification

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

• State initiative since 2003
• Aim to cover the core curriculum of all subjects
  in all 12 grades of public education and provide
  the frame systems (LCMS LMS) to handle the
  materials
• Tenders to fill up the Digital Knowledge Base
  with free online resources, National
  Development Plan, EU
• Years 7-12, 1-6 also vocational training
• SDT content and LCMS
• National Digital Data Archive the organisation
  for and the result of the national digitalisation
  programme

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RESULTS IN THE END OF 2005

• Sulinet Digital Knowledge Base (http//sdt.sulinet
  .hu)
• 65 000 learning objects
• 3400 lessons in 750 topics
• 3300 simulations, animations, 900 collections
• 6700 tests
• 12 000 images, 1200 sound clips, 1100 videos
• 200.000 learning objects until the end 2005
• Supplementary databases, background information

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RD Programmes - Celebrate

• 9 schools in the content development process
• More than 150 Hungarian teachers made digital
  resources
• 20 schools in the pilot, using the resources and
  the tools creating LOs themselves
• 2 case study schools
• http//demoportal.eun.org/ (password protected,
  but accepts new users)
• http//celebrate.digitalbrain.com (free use, the
  nest of the Hungarian LOs)
• Lessons learned
• Keeping the pedagogy out of the LOs (Bob
  McCormick, UK)
• Mentors are badly needed where innovation takes
  place
• No or little text

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RD Programmes SDT Ped

• SDT the Hungarian digital educational resource
  base
• Learning resources in lesson format, made of
  elements
• All lessons include advice on using them, - for
  the teacher and the student (SDT)
• Study on the necessary, useful elements of this
  support for teachers - OKI, 2004-2005.
• Result 6 aspects should be covered
• 1. General introduction
• 2. Technical information
• 3. Previous information, key concepts, links to
  other curriculum areas
• 4. Task sheets, links to further resources
• 5. Methods that are suggested
• 6. Evaluation

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RD Programmes SDT Monitor

• A 3-year programme regarding the methods of
  embedding ICT in subject teaching
• Research
• Year 1 Survey of the most innovative schools to
  learn about present best practice
• Interviews to create ICT school portraits
• Year 2-3 Survey of each school 3 times,
  comparative analysis
• Overview of teacher training, further interviews
• Development
• Year 1 6 project schools 30 teachers 300
  lessons
• Year 2 Workshop schools franchising the
  methods, best practice handbook
• Year 3 Cooperation with local pedagogical
  institutions

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Methodology and In-service Teacher Training

• Teachers rarely use ICT in class
• Reasons
• Slowly developing infrastructure, laboratories
• Little content for subject teaching in class
• LACK OF EXPERTISE mostly in methodology
• Hope for the near future
• Infrastructure is much better
• There is a lot of content
• There are methodology oriented in-service teacher
  trainings available SchoolnetSulinova, also
  EPICT

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For further information

• OKI (National Institute of Public Education)
  homepage,
• Report on Public Education 2003, soon 2006
• http//www.oki.hu English
• SDT to test http//sdt.sulinet.hu
• Celebrate http//demoportal.eun.org/
• (password protected, but accepts new users)
• Hungarian Celebrate LOs http//celebrate.digitalbr
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• Thank you for your attention
• Márta Hunya
• hunyam_at_oki.hu
• Bp.