Magyar Digitális Oktatásért Egyesület (Association for Hungarian Digital Education)

Who are we?

The Magyar Digitális Oktatásért Egyesület (MDOE) is the leading professional association and knowledge-network of and for the most innovative teachers, pedagogy experts and schools. The members are dedicated to the use of digital and mobile technologies and innovative pedagogy based on gamification, collaborative, active and inquiry learning, especially in STEAM education.
AHDE represents:
1140 teachers from 417 Hungarian public and/or VET schools – as individual members;
58 researchers of digital education – as experts;
71 public and VET schools.
The main activities of MDOE is to focus on teachers’ digital competences development, and support the school leaders on development of the school culture. These areas are as follows:
runs continuous professional development of math and science (STEAM) elementary, secondary and VET teachers in Hungary to use ICT/GeoGebra/digital tools, mobile tech(applications) in the classroom teaching an Technology Enhanced Home-learning;
builds up capacity of teachers in digital pedagogy, and develop their digital competence;
runs OD workshops/training for the headmasters about developing digital learning culture in the schools;
supports the school leaders and teachers in digital transformation, managing the change, development of digital learning/teaching school culture and development of the school as a learning organisation;
supports the development and implementation of SELFIE based institutional digital action plan;
creates a knowledge sharing/network of “what works network“ of and for teachers and schools at national (European level later)
partnership in various Erasmus+ projects in line with its mission and activities.

The MDOE has a national pool of mentors/trainers for (i) building up the capacity of STEAM teachers in digital pedagogical approaches and their digital competence; (ii) mentoring the implementation of mobile devices ,digital educational resources in classroom teaching and supported distance education.

Why we are Participating in the Project

The mission of MDOE is to promote, encourage, train and support the quality classroom and home-learning use of digital teaching technologies from K1 to K12 in order to maximize the students’ learning motivation, effectiveness and success.
As a part of its mission, MDOE wants to initiate and/or be a member of projects that fully support the ambitions and objectives of the Association.
Accordingly, one of the Association’s core activities is
to support school leadership in the institutional development of digitally enriched quality digital teaching/learning (DELT),
including the development of teachers’ digital teaching and students’ digital learning competences,
setting up and implementation of the institutional digital education development plan
development of the school organisational culture and building capacity of the teachers and leaders (including inclusivity, democratic participation, autonomy, equality, respect and compassion).
This last one is precisely what the project aims to do and, with the practical implementation of the inclusive education in VET. It fully covers part of the Association’s ambitions and objectives. Through this project, we want to give active knowledge and effective practical support to our members (directly) and to schools in the country (indirectly) in development inclusive education in VET based on the outcomes of the project WPs, like self-assessment of school inclusivity, developing action plan of inclusive education in their institutions and adapting them to the needs of their students and teachers.
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Our Role in the Project

The Association will be responsible for co-coordinating and co-leading the development of CPD self-learning programmes resulting from the project. In doing so, the partners will assess the knowledge gaps of the three target groups (management, teachers/trainers, students) that may be barriers to the effective implementation of the inclusive education in practice.
MDOE wants to bring and share its – involving and relying on the experiences and knowledge of its members – experiences and knowledge in these fields (content and curriculum development, upskilling the teachers, mentoring the use of IoT in teaching and for learning, huge experiences of running community of practice, organisational development and managing organisational change)

Our Team