The Hungarian Association for Electronic Signature (HAES, MELASZ) made a survey about the teaching of electronic signature in Hungary at 2007. This survey contained the following statements:
A) The electronic signature knowledge is not teached in practice at primary and high schools.
B) The schools have no tools for to teach the knowledge o f electronic signature.
C) The teachers have not educated to teach the knowledge of electronic signature yet.
D) The pupils are not familiar with the using of electronic signature in practice.
The HAES - as it is written in the mission of HAES - supports the dissemination of electronic signature in Hungary and does several steps for it. The HAES evaluated the above survey and wrote an Action Plan to support the teaching o f electronic signature. The main elements of this Action Plan are the following:
• Support the teaching of electronic signature with hardware and software tools (e.g.
signature creation data, smart card reader, signature application etc.)
• Guides for teachers (syllabus, handbook)
• Developing a training system for teachers (included the educational model and guides) The HAES has sought strategic partners to achieve the Action Plan in 2008 and has initiated several projects to develop the element of Action Plan. This projects have produced the following results in 2008:
a) Syllabi to 5-12. classes for teaching electronic signature
b) Teaching Guide for teaching electronic signature (13.12.2008, version: 1.0)
c) Cooperation Agreement between HAES (MELASZ) and Information and Computational Sciences Teacher's Association (ISZE) regarding to training the teachers continuously on methodological basis
d) Pilot education project in 10 schools based on the above Teaching Guide
The HAES and his partners would like to extend the scope of this educational project in entire Hungarian Information Society, therefore there are more steps in prepared state. The lecture shows the history of this results and will introduce to the next conception of the HAES for significant growing the use of electronic signature in Hungary.
Electronic administration: MODULO
Tóth Péter <toth.peter@dexter.hu>Dexter Informatikai Kft.
It is not too bold to say that in every higher educational institution there are some kinds of administration processes. Essential requirements of these processes are the forms, which are materialising the case in every stage of the process, containing the data and the decision in each case. Let’s just think about it: a man fills in a form, put on his/her personal data and the aim of the request, and then passes it to an administrator. After this our request form gets into hands o f several proposers and decision-makers within the organisation, who brings in the verdict according to what is written in the form, and puts the decision on the paper. A long, and for the client often an untraceable procedure starts, and at the end a verdict brought in,
and man gets notice about it.
The MODULO is a web-based, web browser-independent application, which is capable of creating, displaying electronic request forms, supports the on-line filling in, storing, forwarding and partly or fully automated processing or decision-making. MODULO can be attached to any outer system. It provides the possibility that the data appearing on the forms are coming from different system, and the brought in verdict can be automatically shown within the data in the outer system.
MODULO is successfully used in several higher educational institutions. The number o f the electronically filled-in and processed forms is well above several ten thousands, and thank to the positive experiences the number o f new forms is ever increasing. It can be said, that the MODULO is popular not only in some institutions, because more and more higher educational institutions are introducing it into their daily procedures to make them more effective, and flawless, and with this to raise the level o f services provided for the students.
In the presentation I will show the administration procedure, the operation of the MODULO, and its’ main functions, such as managing organisational units, users and user’s rights, designing forms, terms of form-processing, handling multiple languages, filling-in the forms, processing the forms and creating reports.
Central systems for the quality of the higher education
Csulyák Gábor <csulyak.gabor@educatio.hu>Educatio Társadalmi Szolgáltató Kht.
Fejérvári Bence <fejervarLbence@educatio.hu>
Educatio Társadalmi Szolgáltató Kht.
The goal of our current presentation is to introduce the Higher Education Information System, which has been developed and put in practice during the last two years. Besides we will give information about the Data Warehouse based Management Information System, which will be used to help the decision-making of higher education sector.
Introducing the Educatio Public Benefit Company
Educatio Public Benefit Company was founded by the Ministry o f Education in 2000, in 2007 Diákbónusz Public Company and SuliNova Public Company were merged into the Company.
The main goal of the Company is to develop and operate services in public and higher education on the fields of methodology, content and registration development. Other important fields are the coordination o f the implementations of the public education reform program and establishment of equal opportunity in education.
The Higher Education Information System
The Act on higher education coming into force on March 1, 2006, modified on September 1 2007, obligates the establishment of the Higher Education Information System. The main functions of this system are as follows:
• ensuring the publicity o f registered data managed by the Educational Authority,
• establishing and maintain the database of higher education institutions,
• supporting the implementation of obligations declared for higher education institutions by the Freedom of Electronic Information Act,
• establishing and maintaining the registration data o f students and professors,
• registering study time of school attendance in higher education supported by the state,
• registering certificates and degrees issued by higher education institutions,
• implementation of certain statistical programs of higher education,
• execute certain information queries regarding the management o f higher education.
In the presentation we will introduce the development, testing and deploying of the Higher Education Information System highlighting the IT challenges, arise and resolving of problems.
The Data Warehouse based Management Information System
A project called „Decision support system with data warehouse based index” was launched at the beginning of 2005 by the higher education department o f the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Using the results obtained so far, this development - as part o f the TAMOP 4.1.3 (Social Renewal Operational Programme) - aims to serve this type o f information demands of the Ministry.
The immediate goal of the project is to build up a central data warehouse that combines the academic, financial and other data bases of the higher education institutions as well as other central registers and also to work out an indicator number system and managing information system.
Another goal of the project is - parallel to the development of the central data warehouse - to provide support to the higher education institutions for the development of the institutional data warehouse and managing system that can guarantee the strategic and operational decision making at a local level.
The concept o f the data warehouse based management system will be described in our presentation. We will introduce the planned systems and their background and the proposed steps of the development.
With this presentation we would like our audience to have a deeper insight into the services and procedures that are being developed.
New tools and scope in CooSpace
Golobics Pál <golobics@dexler.hu>Dexter Informatikai és Tanácsadó Kft.
The ETR (Unified Student Registering System) is providing solutions for the higher educational institutions not only in fields of education management, but in the whole process of educational activities for several years from now. One of our solutions, the CooSpace provides the virtual co-operational space for extending the on-course co-operation. It enables such teacher-student co-operation which can be beneficially used to support the gradual form of education, and can be the key-supporter of the courses in forms of distance learning, and also can be the framework o f the pure distance learning education.
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In the main aspect of the CooSpace is co-operation. It provides services not along a bound methodology, but offers a flexible variety o f tools, which can be chosen by the teachers, education managers and tutors according to peculiarities of the given disciple. Maybe the hardest part in the process of education management is the support communication in a free and at the same time practically organised way. The system helps the users in dissemination, mediation of educational content, in organising and registering meeting sessions, in maintaining communication, in scoring of the tasks and deadlines, and in monitoring of the knowledge.
According to several years of usage and users feedback numerous tools had been modified or improved, to comply with the meanwhile changed or supplemental users’ requirements or expectations, as well as numerous new services had been implemented into the system, which helping the co-operation of the users.
In the first part of my presentation I would like to introduce you the CooSpace system, broadly review the services in the fields of educational co-operation, the main components of the systems’ operation, and in the second part of the presentation I would like to point out those tools which had been improved according to last years’ experiences, and finally I would like to mention some new scopes of operation o f CooSpace o f which we, the developers didn’t even thought about at the beginning, but the users did.
Effectiveness Analysis of Users of Learning Frameworks
Horváth Cz. János <horvath.cz.j@eik.bme.hu>BME Műszaki Pedagógia Tanszék
Large groups of people are acquiring new habits of managing personal and community information as heading toward a knowledge-based society form. The education needs to remain integrated, so the main actors (teachers, trainers and tutors) must be prepared to understand, support and teach these new ways. Teachers have to know and learn how to use these new information management habits and methods.
Recent past in Hungary the professional groups dedicated to help and aid the inquisitive part of the teacher society have gained strength. As a result of this fact several learning frameworks became well-known (e.g.: ILIAS, Moodle). Unfortunately these frameworks are not wide prevalent. Usually some enthusiastic colleagues keep alive these systems supporting the everyday education and training courses. In this article a positive pattern is presented as a fruitful and successful blended training model based on Moodle framework. More than two thousand university students have been trained who are member of a correspondence course or a regular department. We introduce the conformation o f operable education organization with personal rules and tasks.
With data mining software technology, we performed a complex analysis o f the last complete semester of courses of our department. We worked out satisfying methodology to mark specific “digital activities” o f teachers and students. Furthermore data mining tools helped us to process a method to rate and order courses in learning frameworks. These information help
the training organizers to set up following courses in next semesters and evaluate teachers' performance and effectiveness.
Finally we examine new information managing teaching materials (topic maps) which are suitable bases to evaluate “creativity level” o f the users (teachers and students) of learning frameworks.
E-learning for teaching
Cserhátiné Vecsei Ildikó Dr. <vecsei@kfrtkfhu>
Kölcsey Frenec Református Tanítóképző Főiskola
Some parts o f the students enrolled into the higher education can not complete all the subject easily at the firs occasion. Since the introduction of the Bologna process, there are more and more students who are marroned from their fellow students. One o f our most important task is to bring these students to the necessery level. To perform this, extra courses should be introduced, with special curriculum and excercises. This work put a lots of load onto the instructors. A well functioning e-leaming learning management system, may release this, since one can get lots of different features which gives possibilites to the instructor to organise and administrate his/her courses and motivate the students for individual and cooperative learning.
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