“SMART INTERNET, SMART APPLICATIONS, SMART EDUCATION“

 

by Prof. Dr. Gyöngyi Bujdosó (PhD, Senior lecturer) Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary

 

 

Abstract

Education has to always change because the environment and the conditions are changing in every second. Students live a smart technological life, they do not only use technology, but they live it. Education must follow the achievements of sciences, and it has (or should) use modern technology. New smart devices and software applications must be applied for improving the educational efficiency not only because education needs to transfer information faster, but because they may fit the educational methods into the students’ everyday life. Students have smart devices, spend their free time with smart applications in smart virtual environments. When they step or look out from their ‘normal’ milieu in, e.g., a scholar environment, they find themselves in a little bit strange, very slaw, quite simple and not sufficiently motivating environment. How can we motivate these students? How can we involve them in tasks that require long and deep concentration? What kind of software and hardware technologies should we use for making the learning processes more motivating? In the other hand, do students have suitable and sufficient knowledge to use new technologies – others then the smart phones and the well-known applications – without pre-training them? Does education pay attention to train their students to be prepared for the new technological developments?
We have many adequate questions concerning smart education. There are number of surveys with the aim to discover the students’ needs and the effectiveness of the applied new educational methods on each level of education. All of them can help us to get closer to choose optimal solutions for our educational processes.
In this presentation we attempt to discuss about some important concepts and some major definitions of this field. We present some good practices that can bring closer the educational methods and processes to the students’ everyday operations. That is one of the most important and sometimes extremely complex task for educators of the future.

 

Short Biography

Gyöngyi Bujdosó, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen in Hungary. She has MSc degrees on Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Chemistry, DEA and PhD in Informatics.
She worked as a database programmer and as the copy-editor of some scientific journals. Later she became a lecturer at UD. She has had courses in several fields of Computer Sciences.
She is the E-learning Coordinator of the university’s Teacher Training Center, a member of the Women in Informatics Research and Education at Informatics Europe, and a regional representative of the Women in Sciences Association.
Her research interest includes Electronic Teaching, Information Transfer in Virtual Reality, IoT and ICT in Teacher Training, E-Learning, Designing and Developing Digital Curricula, Digital Literacy, Gender Studies.
More information on the internet:
http://inf.unideb.hu/hu/bujdoso.gyongyi