E-learning Aspects of NODES Project

The NODES project aims at promoting the use, in adult training/lifelong learning, of multimedia knowledge, in order to facilitate competitiveness, employability and mobility of adults who are victims of the digital divide or of some of its components, such as distance, initial level of knowledge, language, and use of complex technologies. Our task in the project is studying the existing free or commercial licenses e-learning software. The aim of the investigation of these systems is surveying the most important functional features, modules, standards, and hardware and software requirements. After the comparison of the e-Learning systems by several methods, have to evaluate the most important parameters, which are suitable suggestion for the project management. These parameters were evaluated. Reviewing these parameters, our suggestion is the Moodle or the aTutor

Multidisciplinary Aspects of Learning Information Technology in Accredited Agricultural Education Programs

During the transformation of the Hungarian Higher Education System new educational programs were developed on different levels in the agricultural higher education. The levels of the programs are Postsecondary, BSc, MSc and PhD programs. Most curricula required learning information technology on different content and level. These educational programs are accredited and the curricula are very similar in every university. The contents of the computing subject are almost the same on the BSc level. There are 15 BSc, 15 MSc programs in the Hungarian Higher Education System in 2009. The content of the informatics subject are the most important subtopics such as spread sheet and database handling, networking, etc. The professional subjects contain some informatics knowledge, but it depends on the educational program, subjects and professors. In the MSc programs the informatics topics differ by name and content according to the target of the training program. On this level more professional subjects can be found which contain applied informatics knowledge. But we think this is not enough in our education systems so we accredited the agricultural engineer in agricultural informatics and government BSc program. This program started 3 years ago and 5 Hungarian Universities offer this training program in 2009. The subject group of basic informatics has 36 credits and applied agricultural informatics subjects need 29 credits. It means that the rate of informatics and specialized informatics knowledge is more than 30% in the curriculum. The newest effort is that we have developed the Master of Business Informatics program with a “Informatics for Rural Development” specialization. The next development is a one year vocational training program in agricultural informatics. In the paper we discuss the demand of informatics knowledge on different educational levels and in programs based on the accredited training and outcome requirements as well as our training experiences

Evaluation of elements uptake in soil and different plants

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Digital Europe: chance for job in Hungary

The 35 percents of EU total population use the advanced Internet services. This rate is very low and has to increase in the next years, because the employed person needs ICT user's skills. At the first level the digital literacy and at the second level the higher knowledge of ICT acquiring is very important, because nowadays, without these abilities it is not so easy to get qualified jobs in Hungary. In the information society it is very important to measure the digital literacy. For this measuring we have to ask the users to evaluate their own knowledge. In the World Internet Project evaluation we did not find a significant disparity between the evaluation of average Internet knowledge usage and that of the computer usage. In both cases, most people thought that their knowledge was good. Approximately every tenth person surveyed characterized his or her knowledge as outstanding and in a similar proportion the users thought their knowledge is weak. Taking part in organized courses and training can help to increase the digital literacy and ICT users’ skills. This taking part is decreasing parallel with increasing of age. That is why we need to take into account how we can connect these “older” people to the lifelong learning programmes, where we use the e-Learning tools. Nowadays, the importance of e-Learning is growing rapidly, partly due to the information and communication technologies in the information/knowledge-based society is developing. The goal is to enable the knowledge and skills to help the individual to become an active member of society, teamwork, motivation, and to possess the skills necessary for finding a place in the labour market

Advantages of Open Source Based e-learning Tools in the Collaboration and Training in the Agricultural Education

Abstract. One of the primary benefits of open source software is that it reduces the costs to produce systems and services. Traditional proprietary software vendors are realizing this fact, and are beginning to build their closed software products quietly using lots of open source software. In the long-run, competition will force these cost savings to be passed to the consumer. In this paper the most important free and commercial e-Learning systems and their functional features, modules, standards, hardware and software requirements by Vendor’s Web sites and different e-Learning service portals are shortly summarized and compared. We selected the Moodle system within an European projects, which is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education. The aim of our European project was to promote the use of multimedia knowledge in adult training / lifelong learning in order to facilitate competitiveness, employability and mobility of adults who are victims of the digital divide or of some of its components such as distance, initial level of knowledge, language, use of complex technologies. One of the results of the NODES project is that we introduced the Moodle system into the graduate, postgraduate PhD, adult trainings programmes and it is a very successful system as an educational portal system for our faculty. We are using some extended tools in Moodle such as the Word templates for easy making Moodle questionnaires, Covcell Audio/Video Conferencing Tool, Inwicast Mediacenter, Audio recorder, AutoView Presenter which allows you to put video on-line with synchronised slides

Compare Different Methods for Extensibility of Measurement Results of Point Samples of the Soil Protection Information and Monitoring System

The Hungarian Soil Information Monitoring System (SIM) covers the whole country and provides opportunity to create similar information systems for the natural resources (atmosphere, supply of water, flora biological resources etc). The aim of the SIM is to relate these databases. The SIM territorial measuring grid consists of 1236 measuring points with 21 elements content in Hungary. These points are representatives. Distribution of the points by soil types represents the variety of soil types of the country. The SIM is the essential basis of rational agri-environmental management and at the same time is an integrated unit of the environmental diagnosis of soils. Our aim is developing a statistical based information system from the data of the measured SIM points. We developed a method for estimating element content. To determine the concentration of the elements, need only the GPS co-ordinates of the place based on the number of nearest neighbouring points. This method does not calculate with spatial circumstances. The other possibility is using the kriging method (spatial interpolation) for estimating more precisely the element content. In this study these two methods are compared. After building our statistical based information system we can develop an Internet-based service that makes it possible to reach the objectives through arranging the results of analyses into a database. Based on available data, the developed Internet-based service makes it possible to estimate element content at a certain diagnostic point with some statistical errors; it can also be applied in analyzing effects of environmental pollutio