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Basic company’s sources and the elements of evalua- tion have a very old history. The usage of informationBog'liq Knowledge and information systems– promoting digital literacy
(icT contribution to
learning particularly to those who have not an easy
access to the traditional education and training)
– european virtual campuses
(this line builds on the
existing cooperation programmes such as Erasmus
with an e-learning component, encourages new
organisational models for European universities:
virtual campuses, virtual mobility)
– etwinning of schools in europe and the promo-
tion of teacher training
(the aim is to support
networking among schools: taking part in educa-
tional projects with counterparts in other Euro-
pean countries, fostering a European dimension
in education and awareness of multilingual and
multicultural societies, updating teachers’ profes-
sional skills in the pedagogical and collaborative
use of icT (hughes 1994).
Learning portal can depict and provide information
for users according to their educational plan or their
personal priorities. The following characteristics will
be important for a final user:
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report setups about every training course
–
tools for communication among participants of
the training
–
support in a form of hints
–
providing the users with a certain space for storing
of adjusted materials
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it can contain the tool for content creation and an
electronic signature
–
search possibility
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personalisation possibility
–
well-arranged
Learning portals can be divided into internal and
external ones. The external portal is a public envi-
ronment which is accessible to most organisations
by the means of the internet.
The internet is often described as the biggest com-
munication revolution since the advent of the printed
book. nowadays it is a thriving community with
many millions of people exchanging information,
ideas and opinions (Dudeney 2006). The internet is
the largest, most powerful computer network in the
world connecting personal computers, sophisticated
mainframes and high speed supercomputers around
the globe. With access to the internet, educators and
students can use the World-Wide Web (WWW).
officially WWW is described as a “... wide-area hy-
permedia information retrieval initiative aiming to
give universal access to a large universe of documents”
(hughes 1994).
in 1989, a group of scientists at the European Labo-
ratory for Particle Physics (cErn) in geneva started
to develop an internet tool that would link informa-
tion produced by all of the cErn researchers. The
tool provided a way to link textual information on
different computers and created by different scien-
tists. The objective was to overcome the issues of
incompatibility and utilize a new way of linking made
possible by computers, called “hypertext”. rather than
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