Hungarian Telecom

The Hungarian Telecom, Training and Knowledge Management Directorate (Magyar Telekom Nyrt., Hungarian Telecom) supports e-learning.

The Hungarian Telecom 's main office is in Budapest, Hungary.

According to the second MegaTrends report this is a corporate training provider and:

The Hungarian Telecom started experimenting with e-learning in 1996 by introducing a rented WebCT Learning Management System. By 2005, the Hungarian Telecom had above 8000 enrolments for about 150 courses, and between 20 and 40 online teachers. Presently, the timewise distribution of online and face-to-face courses taken by the company’s learners is about 50-50%.

• Number of teachers teaching online in 2005 was 20-40
• Level of education system was Vocational training
• Number of course enrolments in 2005 was >8000
• Number of online courses in 2005 was 150

The first online interdisciplinary training, entitled “Media-engineering”, that consisted of about 35 30 hours long modules had been carried out in cooperation with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics between 1999 and 2001. The user group was 30 post graduate students selected from about 60-80 candidates. Their motivation to enrol was the new experience and the chance to earn a postgraduate degree. All 30 learners finished the training successfully. Although not all modules had been accredited at last, but certain courses of the training are still run by the University. This obviously justifies the quality and success of T-Com’s pilot initiative.

The Hungarian Telecom web site is at http://www.telekom.hu

Reports

This organisation was discussed as a case study in the Megatrends project in its second report, Megaproviders of e-learning in Europe (PDF - 212 pages - EN), 2007 (ISBN 978 82 562 88184).

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