M.I.T & bit media

The SOKRATES Bund school administration system developed by bit media was introduced nationwide in Austria on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research in order to replace the previously operated decentralized solutions with a uniform central administration system.

The system covers all administrative tasks and processes of schools. SOKRATES Bund offers, among other things, a complete organizational structure of all federal schools, procedures for enrolling and admitting students, curricula and subjects, classes and groups, grades, examinations, certificates, as well as statistical data and analysis.

The system is hosted and operated in the federal data center in a secure server infrastructure GDPR-compliant. In addition, SOKRATES Bund represents an important central data provider for further specialist applications in the field of education.

The school administration register project (in German “SV-REG” for short) represents a central data hub for educational data in Austria. The aim of the SV-REG is to manage data from all school administration systems (as data providers) in a standardized way in a central data pool in such a way that authorized users (data consumers) can process the data in their applications.

Examples of data use are the digital student ID card that was newly introduced in 2023, the management of information as part of school medical services, or the generation of digital identities for the Digital School portal, which is the central access point using single sign-on (SSO) to numerous important educational applications.

The declared goal is to make the school administration register compatible with the Gaia-X federation services in the future and thus to connect a large number of service providers in the education sector in a standardized way.

LONA (Learning On Air) is a learning platform from bit media especially for schools, with the aim of making students fit and competent for their later professional future. LONA contains numerous content libraries with interactive and multimedia learning content, which can be mixed and used flexibly in the classroom as well as at home or according to the “blended learning” principle.

The topics of the learning content offered on the platform range from digital skills, economic and financial knowledge to leadership and management skills as well as soft skills. LONA offers an insight into skills that are in demand in the working world as it looks today and in the near future.

Further information at www.bitmedia.at/lona-education

The DigiSET project aims to contribute to the effective and efficient support of teachers in educational institutions and student teachers in the development of digital skills using digital tools, through the production of practical competence assessments and digital learning content.

The target group for the testing and development of the DigiSET toolkit includes active teachers and student teachers. It can be a challenge for teachers to implement new forms of digital learning in their own teaching contexts. The project is therefore intended to ensure that all active teachers and teachers who are still being trained can reflect the current and future requirements of education in a digitized world.

Further information at www.digiset-project.net

The online research training teaches the basics for well-founded scientific research for specialist work, presentations and other topics relating to media competence in grades 10 to 13. The skills taught in the research training correspond to the qualifications required in school and the contexts that build on it.

In order to be able to offer all students in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg a training, learning content from classroom training was taken up, further developed and methodically and didactically implemented for the first time for an online research course. Together with the Hamburg Library, a teaching and learning tool for secondary school students was developed, which is unique for public libraries in German-speaking countries.

The project is being developed on behalf of the Authority for Schools and Vocational Training (BSB). It is funded by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.