Third‐generation pioneers—ICT culture in Hungarian education at the end of the second millennium

Abstract

The paper analyses the third phase of Hungarian computerisation and discusses Hungarian results of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development study, ‘ICT and the Quality of Learning’. The computerisation of Hungarian schools, a major national investment, started in the 1990s. In its first phase, all Hungarian secondary schools were connected to the Internet and equipped with a computer laboratory mainly used for teaching information technology, a compulsory school discipline. In the second phase (1998–2001), teacher training and securing Internet connectivity and basic infrastructure for primary schools was the focus. In the third phase, (2001–2006), discipline‐based use of ICT culture to promote contemporary educational paradigms is promoted through a large‐scale development of high‐quality, Hungarian‐language digital teaching materials.