Mária Harty

Maria Hartyanyi is a Managing Director of the Prompt-G Educational Centre for Informatics Ltd. in Hungary. She holds MA in Mathematics and she worked 15+ at the Department for Mathematics and Information Technology of the University Szent István, where she gave lectures at distance learning and regular division on the fields: OOP languages, Relational Databases (SQL). She works as an expert for the Adult Education Accreditation Body of the National Institute of Vocational and Adult Education, and has a mandate (as a chairwoman) to be in charge of committees of state exams in the IT sector.In 1996 she started her own company the Prompt Education to provide IT trainings, and certifications in the vocational and adult education. E-learning has been in the focus of her professional work ever since the first computer-aided educational softwares were released. She coordinated several e-learning development projects with primary, secondary schools and HE institutions. Under her management Prompt has carried on RD projects with success both at national and European level. She initiated in 2008 the foundation of a Hungarian e-learning cluster – Innolearn – the cluster of Knowledge Network”, to engage intensive collaboration among higher educational institutes, e-learning providers and consumers in order to facilitate the utilization of the cutting age learning-, teaching technology and methods. She coordinated the Leonardo da Vinci project TENEGEN (“Connect the Teachers to teach and reach the NET GENeration”) in 2008-2010, that has brought together a consortium of members from five European countries to explore how to bring alive the theory of “networked learning” by involving teachers in an online learning community