Vimercate, Italy, 10-14 March 2014

ICT developments in public education in

HUNGARY

Hungary ……. from touristical perpsective

Dénes Gábor (1947)

Holography is a technique that allows

the light scattered from an object to

be recorded and later reconstructed .

László Kozma (1955)

was the designer of the

first Hungarian digital computer

(mesz 1)

ICT related inventions in Hungary I.

László József Bíró (1930)

The ballpoint has

replaced the fountain

pen as the most popular tool for

everyday writing..

János Neumann (1946)

Nowadays the computers still use

the Neumann architecture. He wrote

five main architectures.

ICT related inventions in Hungary II.

Marcell Jánosi (1970)

Inventor of floppy disk that is a data

storage tool composed of a thin

flexible disk ("floppy") which is

magnetic storage device.

János Kemény (1964)

Inventor of BASIC computer

language which is

a family of high-level programming

languages in computer programming.

ICT related inventions in Hungary III.

• integrated software & harware

which helps creating virtual

reality….

• …and creating, analyzing,

changing objects in 3D

environment

• various application

• Vimensio - solution built in

Leo 3D platform used in

education

• more awards

ICT related inventions in Hungary III.

Dániel Rátai (2009) The Leonardo 3D project

ICT statistics focusing on Hungary

Teachers’use of ICT in at least 25% of lessons in

Hungary & EU (in % of teachers 2011-2012)

Percentages of students using ICT equipment

in class, at least once a week in Hungary & EU

(in % of students, 2011-2012)

Digitally equipped schools in Hungary & EU

(in % of students, 2011-2012)

eLEMÉR self-evaluation system (in frame of SROP 3.1.1)

723 schools answered*:

*: OFI, 2011

**: UNESCO/IFIP categories

Self-evaluations of the ICT usage at schools in Hungary

“ICT is emerging” category: some tools are available but the school management and teachers are only

beginning to explore the possibilities of ICT, and ICT is never used by pupils.

“ICT is applied” category: ICT is used by pupils but mostly for activities that have already been carried

out before in traditional classroom settings without ICT.

The institution system for implementation

of ICT strategy

• Ministry of Human Resources, State Secretariat for

Education

• Ministry of National Development, State Secretariat

for Infocommunication

• Educatio Public Services Non-Profit Limited Liability

Company

• Education Office

• Institute for Education Research and

Development

• Klebelsberg Institution Maintenance

Centre

In 2011 new Public Education Act was accepted:

• Informatics was introduced as a subject in grade 6.

• Students have 1 to 2 classes per week from grade 6 to 12.

The National Core Curriculum (NCC) defines the key

competencies and priority areas to be developed.

Development tasks regarding ICT:

1. Using the tools of informatics

2. Knowledge of ICT applications

3. Problem-solving with ICT tools &methods

4. Info-communication

5. Information society

6. Library informatics

ICT in the National Core Curriculum

Social Renewal Operational Programme (SROP)

EU funded projects enhancing the improvement of

digital competencies 2007-2013

Main aim in ICT: supporting the dissemination of competence-based

education

• developing programme packages, tools, and methodologies, digital

content and learning materials providing appropriate educational

content for institutions

• establishing of conditions for training educators to implement

competency based education, and transforming of the mindset and

contents of teacher training

• development of key competencies, adapting and enhancement of

competency based learning materials regarding the digital literacy

Main aim in ICT: developing information infrastructure via ICT supported

methodology „Intelligent School”

• the establishment of infrastructure necessary for acquiring ICT

skills, on an equal access principle

• the establishment of ICT based infrastructure supporting

competency-building

• the establishment of a community and service infrastructure

supporting the acquisition of essential lifestyle ICT

competencies

• the establishment of the infrastructure necessary

for electronic measurements and evaluations

Social Infrastructure Operational Programme (SIOP) I.

infrastructure developments contribute to the moderation

and equalisation of geographical differences

• the establishment of a management system supporting the

development of an IT based information system in public education

• the development of a system of IT-based tools assisting educational

work

• the development of infrastructure supporting community

development, community cooperation and content services

•

The objectives of the development

of „Intelligent School” II.

The main aspects at the establishment of the ICT infrastructure

• ensuring equal access, integrating existing devices

• considering local needs, ensuring the longest possible stability of value

• obtaining the lowest possible operational costs

• ensuring large-scale technological interoperability

• using renewable energy resources and energy saving technologies

Tenders

Total

budget

(EUR)

Grant

approved

(EUR)

Conracted

(EUR)

Number of

approved

projects

Number

of

contracts

SROP-3.1.1-08/1. and -11/1 XXI. Century public

education – development coordination I. term 70 080 000 59 900 000 59 900 000 2 2

SROP-3.1.2-12. New content development in the public

education 13 330 000 13 110 000 13 110 000 16 16

SROP-3.1.2-B/13. Improvement of National Public

Education Portal suiting to National Core Curriculum 8 670 000 0 0 0 0

SROP-3.1.4-08. and -09. Competency based education in

innovative schools 81 320 000 73 150 000 73 070 000 453 453

SROP-3.1.4-12. Development of innovative schools 66 730 000 66 170 000 66 160 000 211 211

SROP-3.1.4.B-13/1. Public education in the school 33 330 000 33 330 000 33 330 000 1 1

SROP-3.1.5-09. and -12. Teacher Training 56 530 000 52 430 000 52 070 000 560 560

SROP-3.1.12-12/1. Improving mathematical, nature

scientific and technical competencies in public education,

developing digital curriculum and train the trainers

program

7 670 000 7 670 000 7 670 000 1 1

SIOP-1.1.1-07. and -09. Improving ICT infrastructure

supporting pedagogical and methodological reform 97 740 000 94 970 000 94 850 000 1 107 1 107

SIOP-1.1.1-12/1. Improving insitutional ICT

infrastructure in public education 31 330 000 31 320 000 31 320 000 1 1

CHOP-4.6.1/D-13. Improving ICT infrastructure

supporting pedagogical and methodological reform 480 000 0 0 0 0

TOTAL 467 210 000 432 050 000 431 480 000 2 352 2 352

ICT tenders supported by EU funds 2007-2013

Digital learning resources and services

• e-content development

(SROP 3.1.2)

• Educatio Digital Toolbox

(//ede.educatio.hu) 8

educational softwares

• user-generated content

Sulinet Digital Knowledge

Base

• web 2.0

Sulinet + Programme

Coordinated by Ministry of National Development

Main objectives:

• ensuring ICT tools in all schools

• digitalizing of educational contents

• generalizing of multimedia and 3D e-learning methods

• generalizing of e-school books, secondary materials

• acquirement of e-competences for teachers

In 2013 increasing broad band in 1,000 schools

In 2014 the programme will extend other 3,800 schools

Digital Renewal Action Plan 2014-2020

Coordinated by Ministry of National

Development

Main objectives in education sector:

• ensuring ICT tools in all schools

• digitalizing of educational content

• generalizing of multimedia and 3D e-learning methods

• generalizing of e-school books, secondary materials

• acquirement of e-competences for teachers

lined with the Europe2020 Digital Renewal Action Plan Strategy

The action plan includes 83 specific

recommendations in frame of 4 action plans

Good practice –

Samsung SMART School

in Jászfényszaru

• equipped with 35 Samsung

Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition

tablets and 2 Samsung

interactive tables

• teaching of 8-13 year old

pupils and unemployment

people

• adult training programme in a

course of 190 hours

• project coordinated by

Foundation of Budapest

College of Communication

• project budget: 7,670,000

EUR

• natural science digital

content with GeoGebra open

source software

• developed content available

on GeoGebraTube

• in 800 schools 2400 teachers

for training

Good practice –

GeoMatech project

http://www.ofi.hu/english

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-

agenda/files/Hungary%20country%20profile.pdf

http://itec.eun.org/web/guest/knowledge-map/hu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&

v=ECRwp7uj2_4

http://leonar3do.com/

http://www.geogebratube.org/

for more information please visit:

Thank you for your attention!

Tibor Stelli

desk officer

Ministry of Human

Resources

Budapest, Hungary

e-mail:

stelli.tibor@gmail.com

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