The “Home of Hungarian Educators” subject gateway is
the virtual implementation of the real home. This home is a complex institution
with the aim of being a foundation and background for the identity of the
educators. A place serving both in-service and pre-service teachers, taking
into account their actual needs, giving them opportunities for self
instruction. Our user survey proved that there is a strong need for such kind
of places. Teachers are not competitive with other occupations in everyday use
of modern technology and ICT. The Home of Hungarian Educators would be a help
for solving this problem, being a collection of all those information
resources, which are useful for the teachers to their work, education, further
education and self instruction.
The goal of the new subject gateway is to collect,
organise and give access to the Hungarian and foreign electronic resources made
for instructional work, educational innovation and educational research. The
users (teachers, students and researchers) can get all necessary and relevant
information starting from one place. Our portal gives additional value, because
the resources are selected based on quality issues, processed, and can be
searched from many aspects. The database is also searchable in foreign
languages (especially English).