Between 13 and 17 November 2006, ten Romanian teachers from Hungarian Schools had been trained in using computer in the teaching process and the multimedia content as a complementary instrument for learning.

This training stage aims to initiate the teachers in using the AeL platform and puts at theirs disposal a useful learning instrument that offers the possibility to experiment and to see phenomena difficult to be reproduced in the school laboratory.

The action from N. Bălcescu High school from Gyula, the single bilingual (Romanian-Hungarian) scholar institution from Hungary, represents an extension of the training offered to the Romanian teachers within Romanian IT Based Educational System (SEI) started in 2001, simultaneously with the delivery of IT laboratories and implementation of AeL platform in high schools. The computer assisted training is an interactive and autonomous modality of accessing knowledge based on a learning process in the students rhythm, by observing, experimenting, and discovering, all of this thanks to computers and multimedia technology.

Instruirea asistată de calculator este o formă interactivă şi cvasiautonomă de acces la cunoaştere, bazată pe demersurile de informare şi prelucrare a informaţiilor, pe o învăţare în ritm propriu, realizată practic prin observare, experimentare şi descoperire, graţie utilizării calculatorului şi tehnologiei multimedia.

The IT laboratories from Gyula High School, Bătania, Micherechi , Chitigaz are equipped with educational software for teaching and learning that offers numerous advantages:

• the interactive content has been developed for numerous fields of study (Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Economy, Psychology, Romanian Literature);
• the pupils have their knowledge and abilities evaluated with the help of electronic tests;
• teachers can develop and adapt multimedia lessons and their lesson planning.

The teacher has at his disposal also a virtual library that can be used within the classroom and the possibility to create his own lesson, benefiting by specific editing instruments. In this way the classes become motivating, the teaching process being realized by discovering and experimenting, not by memorizing the information.

“eLearning became the best friend for Romanian students and for teachers, a useful assistant that brings innovation and adds value to each lesson. We want that the interactivity and the advantages offered by AeL multimedia lessons to help the Romanian teachers from Hungary to motivate their students. I am very confident that once discovered the functionalities of AeL platform and the benefits of the interactive courses, it will be used with trust as a complementary instruments in the teaching/learning process”, declares Dana Vlădoiu, Training Project Coordinator at SIVECO Romania.