The aim of the thesis is the design and development of a simple information system to support teaching. The first part of the thesis explains the basic concepts of e learning, the selection of systems for analysis and evaluation. The beginning of the second part aims to define the general and functional requirements necessary for a simple portal to support teaching. This system should be an alternative to selected robust systems. The work also deals with the description of technology and system architecture developed. The final section of the thesis regards the installation instructions and user manuals which contain screen shots of the system in addition to the system's features. The practical output of the thesis is a modular web application which is available to users through a web browser. The developed system can be extended with new modules. The system architecture allows for future development to be distributed between developers devoted to creating the user environment and developers involved in the application logic

SUMMARY Nowadays everyone must learn and his (her) learning process goes on all life long. So teachers should give pupils good skills for learning and living qualitative way of life. The survey made in Aukštaitija district in 2003 and the survey made by KTU scientists in 2005 showed that teachers haven’t got skills how to organize learning process. ICT is not in use in lessons in common as often as it is possible to do. The object of this work is distance education at secondary schools. The aim of the work is to analyze the real situation at secondary schools, identify the real problems and give some solutions for solving these problems as well as give advices. The problems: • Few teachers are capable to create courses for distant education. Courses that teach this subject are almost unreachable for them; otherwise they are too short and it is hard to get the right skills; • There are many gifted children that are given too little attention. This is the reason for their less motivation to learn; • Schools have problems with missed lessons. Distant education as a method to solve such kind of problem is almost unknown. The goals: • Analyze theoretical aspects of distant education in secondary schools; • To make survey that will show pupils and teachers’ experience in using ICT in lessons; • To create a course for teachers that will show how organize learning process using virtual learning environment (VLE) ATutor. The subject is – the situation in applying ICT and distant... [to full text]