Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries had to switch to online education from one day to the other. To aid the educators and students, the NKP 2.0 national educational portal was made publicly available by the Hungarian government in March 2020. This sudden emergency situation urged us to renew and reform the current learning methodologies. Thus, it can be viewed as an accelerator of advancements in this field. The requirements stated in the Hungarian Digital Educational Strategy were almost fully met by the NKP 2.0 portal. It also gained high popularity since its announcement, the number of unique visitors per workday was reaching 82 000. This is a considerable amount, knowing that the number of children in Hungary between the age 7-18 is around 1 million. In this paper we briefly introduce the learning methodological background of the NKP 2.0 portal, and we also describe its main components and intelligent solutions. Furthermore, we present statistical foundings of the usage of our portal during the pandemic, i.e. for what tasks, on which devices and how people were using it. At the end of this school year we carried out a survey to assess user satisfaction, the results of these questionnaires are presented in this paper.
Experiences of the NKP 2.0 educational portal during COVID-19 pandemic induced online education
