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Computer support of teaching is linked to terms like e-Learning, Technology-enhanced learning and Educational technology. Despite the very high level of the global IT services, networks, and actual clouds, which are also used in education, from a personalized teacher point of view, this is mostly only technological infrastructure that can be used for handling a curriculum content. A set of successfully used educational IT tools could be also mentioned, however, these are often only single-purposed static solutions. One needs not to do a research review – he can simply ask his colleagues – how many barriers are caused by incompatibility of the software formats, and short life cycle of software, hardware and networks solutions. Paradoxically, it is automatically supposed in the actual scientific papers that digital technology functions without any problems. Additionally, many questions arise regarding the IT sustainability for long-term teaching within engineering education. This paper describes some categories of the barriers to embedding the digital technology into teaching and shows some key points derived from around 12 years of the practical experience related to solving the personalized IT support of teachers within teaching bachelors students. As for the long-term teaching, it also demonstrates that state-of-the-art of the IT support for university teaching is not yet suitable including indicated lower IT skills of students. In real life, to be sustainable, a teacher should be teacher, programmer and researcher in one person. Regarding elimination of the barriers within long-term teaching, an all-in-one universal approach is presented by using the in-house educational software BIKE(E), based on design of a “virtual knowledge”. This specific default data structure enables solving knowledge (educational data) transmission through the off-line and online environments. In comparison with other solutions, it seems to be the most universal and sustainable solution for personalized IT support.
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Svetsky, S., Moravcik, O. (2019). Some Barriers Regarding the Sustainability of Digital Technology for Long-Term Teaching. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 880. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02686-8_71
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