ITACA

IT ADMINISTRATOR COMPETENCES
DEVELOPMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGE
LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME
LEONARDO DA VINCI - TRANSFER OF INNOVATION
2012-1-IT1-LEO05-02806

D.6-2
HUNGARIAN COURSES
FOR TEACHERS

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This plan reflects the views only of the author, and the
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Document Title

Hungarian Courses for Teachers

Author(s):

Mria Hartynyi (Prompt), Ildik Balassa (Szmalk), Dr.

Lszl Papcsi (GAK)

Confidentiality Status:

Public

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INDEX

1. The Project ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Training activities .................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.2 ITACA Objectives from Hungarian point of view ...................................................................................... 4
1.3 Partners in Hungary.............................................................................................................................................. 5
2. Teachers training in Hungary .................................................................................................................. 6
2.1 ITACA Work Phases................................................................................................................................................. 6
2.2 Cascade course - Teachers training in Hungary.......................................................................................... 6
3. Learning Platform ........................................................................................................................................ 8
3.1 eLearning (Moodle) platform for the Hungarian cascade course ....................................................... 8
3.2 Online learning course for teachers - Startup phase ................................................................................ 8
3.3 Adaptation of the EUCIP resources for the teachers.............................................................................10

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1. THE PROJECT
1.1 Training activities
The following image shows the training activities scheduled for the ITACA Project. The grey boxes
refer to the activities for teachers, the lobster-colored to the activities addressed to the students.

1.2 ITACA Objectives from Hungarian point of view

In Hungary a modernization process of the vocational educational system started in 2012 with the
main objectives as follows:

transparency, transferability and comparability of national qualifications;

support lifelong learning;
reinforce the use of learning outcomes in standard-setting, curricula and assessment;
to make Hungarian qualifications easier to understand abroad and make them more
comparable, more transparent;
to improve the relevance of qualifications in the labour market;
to support the career orientation and counselling system.

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As a results the ongoing developments in the Hungarian VET are:

Renewing the National Qualification Registry.
Develop learning outcome oriented, modularised syllabuses.
Development of Hungarian Qualification Framework (MKKR).
Establish more and more dual VET system (like in Germany.
Introduce ECVET system (presently only in HE).
Establish comprehensive QM systems in IVET and CVET.
These aims were highly represented in ITACA project aims and objectives:
"ITACA promotes the adoption by the schools of the EUCIP IT ADMINISTRATOR competence and
certification system as a tool and opportunity to:
1. overcome self-referring to meet standards established in the market and an external
certification;
2. provide transparency and recognition to training paths by specifying them in terms of
"learning outcomes;
3. adopt teaching methods in which the acquisition of knowledge and skills takes place in
project activities and work-based learning to develop real expertise.
The correlation between the Hungarian and ITACA aims helped the Hungarian partners to be
deeply involved into the two years long collaboration, and to exploit the results not only during but
also after the project period.

1.3 Partners in Hungary

The Hungarian partnership involved partners the formal vocational educational system and from
the adult education providing certificates on the field of IT as well. Hungarian ITACA partners:
Hungarian vocational training centre in the informatics field: Szmalk-Szalzi Vocational
Educational Highschool.
PROMPT-H Prompt-H IT Training, Trade and Service Limited, a Hungarian organization
specialized in IT training and certifications (ECDL Test Centre).
GAK, Hungarian organization founded to offer services to companies in the agro-industrial
sector. While Assintel has a systemic vision of the informatics professional profiles, CNA
Lombardy and GAK provide the project with a broad view of the needs of all those small
businesses that require people able to manage their computer system, which is precisely
the function of an IT Administrator.

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2. TEACHERS TRAINING IN HUNGARY

2.1 ITACA Work Phases
According to the ITACA workplan the main tasks of the Hungarian partners were related to the
work packages as follows:

WP5 Hungarian Adaptation

WP7 Teachers
training in Hungary
WP8 Training
for Students

2.2 Cascade course - Teachers training in Hungary

In Hungary 45 teachers were enrolled in the pilot, which started face-to-face seminars in Budapest,
and continued on the ITACA Moodle platform implemented by Prompt-H Ltd.
The participant teachers were delegated by vocational high schools with IT specification from three
regions of Hungary: Central Hungary, Southern Great Plain and Central Transdanubia.

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The teachers taking part in the cascade course were collaborating several months long in
understanding the EUCIP certification and competence system, they studied the EUCIP IT
Administrator, IT Administrator Fundamental and EUCIP Core syllabuses and the ITAF practicing
test provided by AICA.
Beyond the EUCIP System they studied the European educational tools and the standard
recommended for IT professionals (EQF, ECVET, e-CF), The topics were highly relevant for the
VET teachers, as during the last years new developments has been launched in Hungary related
the renewal of the vocational education with the aim of implementation ECVET and EQAVET in
both the CVET and IVET systems.

The teachers analysed the EUCIP ITAF syllabus (in English and in Hungarian) and a discussion
started on a possible learning path which would help to build in the ITAF exam into the regular
education of the students of IT curriculums. The experts of SZMALK and Prompt moderated the
collaboration and discussions. After understanding clearly the concept behind the ITAF syllabus,
the participants started a discussion on European and Hungarian Qualification Framework, and
agreed, that ITAF could be fit to the level 4 in both systems.
Meanwhile the Hungarian partners have to count with the ongoing changes of the Hungarian
vocational educational system, as the strategic document entitled Concept for reforming the VET
system and harmonising it with the economic needs was completed and adopted by the
Hungarian Government in 2011. The reform started with the content regulation, the National
Qualifications Register was fundamentally changed in 2012. Regarding ITACA concept, we had to
involve students who started their curriculum in the former system, but during the development of
the ITAF learning path, we had to take into consideration the new curricula of the National
Qualifications Registry (NQR) published in 2012. According to the final agreement the teachers
developed the ITACA learning path for the IT System Administrator qualification defined by the
new NQR, as they wanted to work for the future, with the aim of ensuring the opportunity for the
Hungarian IT students entering the VET schools during the next years to obtain an EU-level
recognised EUCIP certification.

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3. LEARNING PLATFORM
3.1 eLearning (Moodle) platform for the Hungarian cascade course
All the translated contents have been reviewed by experts and teachers involved into the project
work. The final Hungarian versions of the syllabuses are published on the Moodle platform
together with the ITAF practicing tests, which are freely available for the Hungarian students (both
in English and in Hungarian) who intend to prepare for the official exam.
The link and the account to the Hungarian platform is:
http://oktatas.itstudy.hu/course/view.php?id=10
user: huteacher
password: huteacher

3.2 Online learning course for teachers - Startup phase

In the Startup phase the teachers learned the tools and methods of navigation and collaboration in
the Moodle environment. The learning content for this phase was published on Youtube in the form
of video tutorials.

The
link
to
the
videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ks8kWGRI&feature=youtu.be&list=PLTM8KA1THI1QuKF2_S4wtz5StsyTDm8cC

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Phase 1 - Competence-based learning and European Frameworks in the

informatics sector
1.1 European Qualifications Framework: EQF

1.2 The 8 key competences for citizenship

1.3 The competences of information technology professionals: e-CF and EUCIP

1.4 ECVET

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Phase 2 - Students' learning path

Phase 3 Case studies

Phase 4 Course design

3.3 Adaptation of the EUCIP resources for the teachers

In the frame of the adaptation the Hungarian partners translated
the contents into Hungarian for further use in the Hungarian
vocational education.

EUCIP Syllabuses
The EUCIP ITAF and ITA Syllabuses were translated into Hungarian for the cascade course with
the teachers. The Hungarian versions are available on the Moodle portal:
http://oktatas.itstudy.hu/course/view.php?id=10
user: huteacher
password: huteacher

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The translated resources:

EUCIP IT Administrator Module 1 PC Hardware V3.01
EUCIP IT Administrator Module 2 Operating Systems V3.01
EUCIP IT Administrator Module 3 Networks V3.01
EUCIP IT Administrator Module 4 IT Security V3.01
EUCIP IT Administrator Fundamentals V1.01

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