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Current learning technologies do not meet the needs of teachers and individuals. There is an information overload and the academic field has also become technology driven. Rather than technology operating according to the teacher’s needs, individuals are required to adapt to the existing software. Due to the incompatibilities between software, hardware and the formats of computer files, information chaos is growing to huge proportions. Unless educational algorithms (i.e., what is done with educational content) are defined, computer algorithms, software, and systems for the integration of IT into teaching cannot be designed. As part of our research into the automation of knowledge-based processes, which includes educational processes, we have managed to solve the problem of how to simulate human knowledge and pass it on to a computer, so that it can ‘understand’ it. Our solution is a model of virtual knowledge that can be processed quickly by a computer. The computer ‘understands’ this as a universal representation of knowledge, while from a teacher's point of view, it is an ordinary table into which the teacher inserts educational content. This virtual knowledge (having the structure of a database table) acts a kind of knowledge container that isomorphically connects the mental processes of the teacher with the physical processes of the computer. Our WPad educational software is programmed to control the structure (content), so, it is possible to create educational knowledge tables and personal knowledge base for any activity that the teacher performs during teaching, or research. The teacher does not need to adapt to the technology; instead, the technology adapts to the teacher's activities. Since the software runs on every Windows computer and works as a multiple-in-one educational IT tool for a variety of lessons, it is probably the most efficient and cheapest technology solution. It is used to support the integration of technology into classroom and distance learning. Future research will focus on the creation of multilingual educational packages.
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Svetsky, S., Moravcik, O. (2023). A Universal IT Support System for Teachers for Educational Processes, Publishing and Academic Research Using All-in-One Educational Software. In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 3. FTC 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 561. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18344-7_48
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