How did electronics turn from subject and tool of education to scene of education?

How did electronics turn from subject and tool of education to scene of education?

Start of Public Radio and TV broadcast made the electronics new important subject of education in 20^th and 30^th of the last century.

A „Wireless University” has been broadcasted in the infant BBC in United Kingdome already in 1926.

Spreading of schools' broadcast and the school televisions' made the electronics tool of public education in 40^th, 50^th and 60^th.

The first on the world Open University was founded in 60^th in United Kingdome and interesting lectures of Professor Öveges were broadcast in the Hungarian School TV in the same decade of the last century. 

Electronics became tool of education in schools when audio and video recorders’ and PCs’ price turned into one which can be reached in 70^th and 80^th.

Using of audio recorders mostly increased efficiency of language learning, and the teachers can made their own multimedia curriculum with video recorders and PC programs.

But the wide-ranging application of the internet and the fast internet availability leads to a big breakthrough in the 90^th and in the 1^st decade of the new millennium.

Any kind of curriculum became accessible for anybody, anywhere and anytime under real time with help of digital audio or video recording and broadband data transfer on the internet.

For example, popular lectures of the Hungarian “University of Omniscience” (“Mindentudás Egyeteme”) could be seen real time in TV in the 1st decade of the new Millennium, and they can be watched permanently in the internet.

So, the building of eLearning, the internet has been built. The classrooms, in other words the local intranet networks equipped with Learning Management Systems are being built.

The computers – the most modern desks – are ready to welcome students.

All the imaginable and unthinkable forms of demonstration multimedia devices, as blackboards and presentation software, as boxes of chalk – are available for teachers.

There is the situation, when electronics turned from subject and tool of education to scene of education.

We must to get acquainted with a new concept at begin of the 10^th of the new millennium – it is the Cloud Computing.

Running of increasingly more complicated application programs, transfer and storage of increasingly more data files and increasingly more speed of data transfer or processing make an increasingly more hardware and software demand on users.

It is the recognition, which born service of Cloud Computing. Heart of this service is that: all ambitious tasks of data storage and processing are executed by providers in the Cloud, and user must have a simple internet browser. More Cloud Computing services are free, or for any price – which is significantly lower than users own hardware and software charge should be.

Cloud Learning, as all open and flexible forms of knowledge acquirement, needs a thoughtful preparation from the side of educators. Learning contents should be arranged in a structure which can be handy for all the learners coming with different precognition and different learning goals. The methodology “Life-Tailored Learning" seems to provide a technology (a practical guideline) for planning, organising, carrying out, evaluating as well as governing knowledge/competence acquisition in a learning process having several possible routes between the proper learner's starting point and the desired outcome.

Modern interactive education in our time can be up-to-date and cost effective if it takes up special educational Cloud Computing – Cloud Learning – services and Community portals.

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SysAdminLess Club

SysAdminLess Club
There is an online SysAdminLess Club for e-learning researcher-educators in Hungary. Permanent members of the Club are lecturers in different Hungarian Universities or Colleges.
Short story of the Club
A doctoral topic – „Use of e-learning and distance learning in military higher education” has been called at PhD School on Military Technology of Hungarian Zrinyi Miklos National Defence University (ZMNDU) in 2007 year by me.
Because my 10 years old personal homepage was unable for interactive distance learning, that’s why I created a new Drupal engine based Web 2.0 portal – named E-TEACHER.
The new portal has been discovered by great searching providers without any advertisement, and many – more than 5000 – quests were directed by them to the portal from the entire world.

I called a distance e-learning course on the new portal by curriculum “IT bases of interactive e-learning and d-learning” three years ago. Many people begun the course – and some of them have successfully performed it. Four persons from them report for doctoral student at PhD School on Military Technology of ZMNDU successfully.
A six person’s researcher team came into being as an outcome of the course. All of us are lecturers in different Hungarian Universities or Colleges. All of us have individual personal homepage and professional educational portal without system administrators. That’s why we established SysAdminLess Club and the portal was altered to blog form .
Permanent members of the club meet weekly on Skype, on WiZiQ or other virtual classroom among the Clouds A lot of individual and common publications, lectures at scientific conferences, applications and awards and four individual Moodle portals were born as a result of our meetings.
And we learn so much from one another.
Research topics
Members of the Club research some aspects of e-learning since more than three years.
First aspect is progress of technological environment of e-learning – how did electronics turn from subject and tool of education to scene of education?
Second one is method of the experience pedagogy in e-learning – motivation for learning, commitments, attitudes, personalities, interactive teaching materials and learning by enjoying.
Third aspect is coherency of lifelong and life-wide learning – formal and/or informal sides of e-learning.
Fourth topic is opportunity of application software robots in e-learning – searching robots, translating robots, text recognition robots, speech recognition robots, person recognition robots, plagiarism-recognition robots, simulators, tutor robots.
Last research line of members is life-tailored learning – principles of the new competence-oriented methodology, methods and culture using of technology and virtual classrooms.