FŐKIR - Educational Information System of The Capital
Szabó András <szaboand@ fok.hu>
Fővárosi Oktatástechnológiai Központ Kht.
Szántai Ján os <szantai@ fok.hu>
Fővárosi Oktatástechnológiai Központ Kht.
FŐKIR (Educational Information System of The Capital) is an integrated information system developed by the Municipality of Budapest. The aim of the development and operation of the system is that in the institutions managed by the Municipality of Budapest:
• the system provides a uniform local registry according to the laws and regulations available at all times (mainly in the fields of public education, child protection, vocational training and financing),
• the system backs up uniform data supply towards the Municipality and the State (database management, electronic data production and supply, ensuring the possibility of on
line revision of data (e-govemment, paperless office)),
• the system provides further possibility to process data in order to prepare and make decisions.
The system was introduced in 2003. It works in 150 educational institutions.
The technical structure of the system Institutional subsystem
The data is stored on independent servers in the institutions, which the users can access using their own workstations. The WEB-based institutional subsystem uses Java with Apache Tomcat web server. The system can be used on Windows and Linux operating systems as well.
Communication subsystem
All institutions access the server of the Municipality of Budapest directly through a Virtual Private Network.
This electronic channel enables
■ The communication between the schools and the Municipality
State accreditation of FŐKIR
The Ministry of Education and Culture invited applications for the development and state recognition of school administration systems. FOK Kht, as developer of FOKIR, gained the qualification.
Higher Education Information System - The Way of Realization
Csulyák Gábor <csulyak.gabor@ felvi.hu>
Educatio Társadalmi Szolgáltató Kht., OFIK Fejérvári B ence <fejervarLbence@ felvi.hu>
Educatio Társadalmi Szolgáltató Kht., OFIK Introduction of the National Higher Education Information Centre:
The new Act on higher education came into force on March 1,2006, obligates the
establishment of a higher education information system. The main functions of this system are as follows:
a) ensuring the publicity of registered data managed by the registration centre, b) establishing and maintaining the database of higher education institutions, c) establishing and maintaining the registration data of students and professors,
d) registering study time of school attendance in higher education supported by the state, e) registering certificates and degrees issued by higher education institutions,
f) implementation of certain statistical programs of higher education,
g) execute certain information queries regarding the management of higher education.
According to the above mentioned details it is necessary to establish a central system for which higher education institutions are obliged to provide information.
The system's construction began in July 2006 and was followed by the realisation in co
operation with the higher education system developers this autumn.
The goal of our current presentation is to inform the participants of the results and to introduce the further duties of realisation. We are going to report on the work we have done until now, the following important periods of the realisation process according to the construction schedule and additional tasks.
We also want to include a short presentation on the National Higher Information Centre and its previous results and achievements. The goal of our presentation is to provide a deeper insight into the planned services, procedures and future availabilities with the higher education information system.
We are planning to give a presentation in the future again with the purpose of introducing and discussing the implementation process.
The NODES e-Learning architecture
Herdon M iklós dr. habil < herdon@ agr.unideb.hu>
Debreceni Egyetem ATC, A VK, GAIT Várallyai László dr. < varal@ agr.unideb.hu>
Debreceni Egyetem A TC, A VK, GAIT Charles Burriel, charles.burriel@ educagri.fr National school ofhiger agronomy studies, Dijon, France
The SOCRATES GRUNDTVIG NODES project aims at facilitating the use of multimedia knowledge for adult and lifelong training, to improve competitiveness employability and mobility of handicapped adults (physical and sensory) and of adults that are victims of the digital divide or of some of its components, and have problems with e.g. distance, initial level of knowledge, language, or use of complex technologies. The project will provide an open platform for content providers (teachers, trainers, researchers and academics but also workers, farmers, entrepreneurs, etc.) who are willing to disseminate their knowledge. NODES will provide local support and will enable consortia of educational partners to develop the contents required for a broader audience or use this knowledge to build educational and training curricula, even individual (self education for instance). This process of knowledge dissemination will encourage linking and partnerships between educational, cultural organizations, NGOs and companies in both the public and private sectors. There are 3 levels of target groups: content producers; intermediary structures (between content producers and final users), i.e. training centres and trainers; final users, i.e. learners. Technologies and media have been increasingly finding their way into the adult educational and training process in the last few years, but educational concepts of how these technologies could be used constructively need further attention. The consortium developed the books of specifications which based on the planned e-leaming network system architectures. The books of specification describe the needs of adult education, the needs of the trainers, tutors and monitors; the needs of the administration of the education; the needs of the Educational Content providers in a broad sense; and the needs of the Content Manager of the technical system (System to manage Content, Access and Services). The technical architecture is part of the books of specification from the bottom to the top of the system. This architecture define the following parts: 1) The trainee / learner workstation, 2) The Teacher / Trainer / Tutor Workstation, 3) The local network infrastructure (training centre), 4) The personal Internet connection (at home, at the farm, etc.), 5) The Internet connection for the training centre, 6) The NODES point of access and services (logical architecture), 7) NODE point: Physical implementation and network infrastructures, 8) The NODES central services and infrastructure, 9) The services of the NODES project management as collaborative working environment: the Marratech system, IP video conference and infrastructure for supporting the
eLibrary ALMS (adaptive content representation of MTA SZTAKI eLearning Department)
Fazekas László <fazekas.laszlo@ sztaki.hu>
MTA SZTAKI
Sim onies István Dr. <sim onics@ sztakLhu>
MTA SZTAKI
Wagner Balázs < wagner@sztaki.hu>
MTA SZTAKI
These days more and more Internet users use various devices to access Internet instead of desktop computers. Because of the broadband Internet connection, many users access the World Wide Web through mobile phone, or interactive Digital Television. The evolution of devices is very fast, but the content providers are not ready to the challenges of these new devices. The eLearning Department of MTA SZTAKI is developing a possible solution to solve the problem of content provision to these different devices. Although we would develop a universal solution, the major aim is to create a solution for platform independent eLearning content provision. For this reason a substantial part of the presentation is about the usage of mobile devices and platform independent content in eLearning.
In the first part of the presentation I will show the advantages of mobile device based mLeaming, and the Digital Television based tLeaming. After this short introduction, I will talk about the major problems and challenges, which should be solved by content providers.
In the second part of the presentation, I will show our adaptive content solution, which is a possible solution for the content providers to efficiently develop content to these various devices.
E-learning target group segmentation
Bodon Géza < bodon@ exos.sk>
EXOS Consulting
For successful e-leaming course is necessary to create and distribute a product, which meet the needs of target group. Course design is already supported by various standards, best practices with integrated development and running environments. We focus now to features of target groups and theirs acceptance of e-leaming. There exist maturity in school we can speak about e-leaming maturity also, in meaning of level of acceptance of e-leaming courses.
Describe a method, what help us to measure the level of maturity of target group for e- leaming acceptance.
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