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ELearning Department Head of department Balázs Wagner Address: 1111 Budapest, Lágymányosi u. 11. Room number: L 417 Phone: +36 1 279 6182 Fax: +36 1 209 5269 E-mail: wagnerEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu [More information] Secretary Ágnes Merényi Szereminé Address: 1111 Budapest, Lágymányosi u. 11. Room number: L 418 Phone: +36 1 279 6193 Fax: +36 1 209 5269 E-mail: merenyiEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu [More information] Generic information Homepage: http://www.sztaki.hu/elearning Description MTA SZTAKI has become a key player of the domestic eLearning market in recent years profiting from its multimedia technology experiences on different areas of eLearning including research, expertise, product and content development. According to our active participations on different forums, the eLearning standards nowadays are already widely applied in Hungary supporting the free transfer of contents. Our Department works on four main areas. - Applied research, professional consultancy Our research includes several topics such as adaptive multimedia contents, which can be successfully applied in eLearning environment as well. In the area of the research of Adaptive Multimedia Technologies, we joined program "Adaptive Distributed Multimedia Server” (ADMS) of the University of Klagenfurt who are considered as one of the leading research groups of Europe in the area of multimedia. Under the leadership of Prof. László Böszörményi, the Information Technology Department of the University is developing an architecture for the distribution of video streams over wide area networks, an architecture that is able to install individual proxy components to new network nodes in the case of network or node overload. Several valuable domestic and international publications were created in this topic. Within the framework of the four-years long Mobile Innovation Centre (MIK) project, we work on creating an adaptive content development architecture which is able to store eLearning materials independently from the platform and it provides them in the appropriate time and place for the clients having different platforms. The colleagues of our department work in several domestic and international committees examining different aspects of eLearning. We founded the already mentioned eLearning Forum conference series in 2002 and later we participated in it as co-organisers. - Software development We developed several software products in the last years that became widely known and they are used in different eLearning applications. SZTAKI SCORM eLibrary training material repository: It is used for managing standardised SCORM-compliant training material packages. SZTAKI SCORM Viewer 2.1: An application enabling to view packages off-line in SCORM format. SZTAKI SSS ® Technology (Synchron Slide and Stream): Comparing to several products available on the market, it is a really platform independent solution for synchronising video streams, slides and animations. - Development of training materials We develop specific or generic training materials very efficiently for the satisfaction of our clients due to the experiences collected for several years. Our colleagues have experiences in development of several thousands multimedia elements. Our products are developed in harmonised teamwork and the results are always standardised training material packages, their local installations and configurations. We gained experiences with several eLearning Learning Management Systems LMSs available in our country which helps us in fine tuning the eLearning materials. - Complex domestic and EU projects We participate in realisations of several domestic and international projects. They are focused on the application of multimedia and the ubiquitous learning. We are interested in areas beyond the traditional TCP/IP technology, e.g. we apply the results of interactive digital television iDTV. Another important area is the determining the position of the client since the accurate coordinates and intelligently collected further information can make the life-long learning more comfortable. More information Staff Werner Ruotsalainen Address: 1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17. Room number: K 621 Phone: +36 1 279 6296 E-mail: wernerEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu [More information]