digital literacy and ecdl in hungary
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DIGITAL LITERACY AND ECDL IN HUNGARY. ECDL Office of John von Neumann Computer Society, Hungary. Our common mission: Equal opportunities to everyone in the information society What to do? Let’s bridge the digital divide How? By spreading digital literacy. The Mission. The solution. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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DIGITAL LITERACY AND ECDL IN HUNGARY
ECDL Office of John von Neumann Computer Society,
Hungary
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• Our common mission: Equal opportunities to everyone in the information society
• What to do? Let’s bridge the digital divide• How? By spreading digital literacy
The Mission
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The solution
Which is the best tool?
Of course ECDL!!!
With ECDL save 420 Euro/employee/year *
save 20% of time ** refer to Hungary
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Why is so important?The Cost of ignorance
• 2 hours 51 min/person/week lost• ~ 1 billion Euro lost/year only in Hungary!
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Organisation of the Hungarian ECDL
• Accreditation Committee – the main decision maker body– representatives of ministries (see next slide)– representatives of main users (e.g. Telecom, Post,
and the most relevant Test Centres)
• Quality Assurance Committee – members are the most prestigeous experts, cca. 350 site visits/year
• National ECDL Office – the operative government of the Hungarian ECDL
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Close cooperation with
• the following ministries– Prime Minister’s Office– Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour– Ministry of Education and Culture– Ministry for National Development and Economy– Ministry of Health
• the local governments• the public education, the higher education
and the vocational training
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Recognition of ECDL
• Resolution 1035/1998. of the government• ECDL for Public Officials - accredited program• ECDL for teachers - accredited training since 2000
(Teacher Upgrading Program)From July 2009: Credit points for ECDL acquired anyhow/anywhere
• ECDL in the schools – ECDL based final exam• ECDL in VET• ECDL as a National Accredited program (FAT)
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How ECDL Hungary works
• since 1997• 400 Test centres• more than 350 000 candidates more than 3,5%
of the population• 230 000 certifications• 2045 testers• severe quality assurance
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International TOP 10 – August 2009 (% population penetration)
• Hungary is the 8th in cumulative sales to date.
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Number of registrated Candidates/years
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• International QA System (plus Hungarian representative in the Quality Assurance Committee)
• Public Test Book (Syllabus 5.0 - official deviation)• Imagemaker• ECDL SELECT• New module for Blinds• Electronic Signature
Hungarian initiatives for the sustainable increasing
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Public QTB
Approved as an accepted deviation by ECDL-FRequirements: • to multiply the number of tests/module (the
multiplication factor is cca. 8)• To ensure conformance with Syllabus and CTTBenefits:More satisfied consumers – major interest for ECDLGuaranteed Quality! (can the „Secret QTB and its few tests really remain a secret after a while…?)
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Imagemaker module
• About digital photos – fulfills a new requirement of the market (most of the people now have digital camera)
• Photoshop and GIMP versions, • Cca. 25-30 hours course, 45 minutes test• Dozens of Test Centres, hundreds and more
candidates• Optional module for ECDL Select • Hungary since April 2006: becoming more and more
popular• The most enthusiastic are the students, but not only
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The only courseware accredited by ECDL-F
• contact for more info: [email protected]
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• Piloted in 2006• Launched in 2007
7 ECDL (core) modules
+ W ebstarter
+ I magemaker
As N ew modules
9 modules = more flexible system
ECDL Select
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ECDL SELECTModules 1,2,3,7 for everyone
+3 modules to be choosen fromModule 4 (Spreadsheets)Module 5 (Database)Module 6 (Presentation)ImagemakerWebstarterOCR (for Blinds)
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ECDL SELECT
• 70% of the Test Centres joined• 50% of the Candidates choose SELECT
The preferred modules to leave out of the 7 modules:
IT Concepts + Database: both „ignored” by 92,9%
IT Concepts ignored by 97,4%
Database ignored by 95,5%
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ECDL SELECT – The choice is yours!
Can you imagine a „better best practice”…?
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Endorsed Products
ScreenReader and OCR• a real alternative for visually imapared people instead
of Presentation, in order to ensure equal opportunities for everyone in using PC
• possible part of ECDL Select for Blinds (instead of Presentation)
Electronic Signature• accepted by the ECDL-F in July 2009
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Help with ECDL• Children with cancer• ECDL for refugees
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SUMMARY
What Hungary gives to the ECDL/ICDLCommunity:
• Basis of the QA System and help to maintain and develope quality
• 3 new modules (Imagemaker, Endorsed Modules: OCR - for Blinds, Electronic Signature)
• More flexible system: ECDL SELECT• Idea of the Public Test Book to satisfy consumers
and to maintain quality• The practice of the cooperation with the main
stakeholders of the digital literacy
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Add success after success
We are ready to support your efforts
Bea and Istvan
on behalf of the Hungarian ECDL