The company Teacher.sk, s.r.o. was established in 2009. Development and application of modern educational approaches to computer science education have a prominent position in the company’s activities. It is involved in developing new digital skills for creating interactive educational resources, educational software applications, e-learning courses and implementation of learning analytics. Teacher.sk offers innovative projects for secondary and higher institutions education. It provides support for e-learning education for secondary schools and the portal studuj.it focused on developing IT skills for students of secondary schools who would like to take a professional IT career. The professional staff, which varies between 4-8, is specialized in mobile and web applications, development of e-learning solutions, popularisation of computer science, and publication of educational resources focused on informatics, e-learning, programming languages and data science. The company cooperates with Slovak universities: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Comenius University in Bratislava.
The experience of the partner can be divided into several areas:
- Technological: application development for different platforms (web, mobile, desktop, server) and different audience (technological, educational), implementation of information systems including Learning Management Systems and integration of these systems into existing infrastructure. Teacher.sk together with UKF are the authors of the educational microlearning programming platform Priscilla, which was developed as part of the FITPED projects and is used in several European countries in higher and secondary education to teach programming and artificial intelligence topics.
- Educational: development of e-learning courses, development of e-learning content, implementation of e- learning solutions, micro-learning application and architecture development.
- Management of a large educational information system: management experience with web portals for schools and the public, user support, knowledge of processes and legislation for dealing with personal data.
Key persons:
- Doc. PaedDr. Jozef Kapusta, PhD., is a co-founder of the company Teacher.sk. His activities are focused on the implementation of natural language processing, e-learning and data mining solutions in education. He is responsible for developing and integrating Moodle extensions into virtual learning systems, machine learning, and analytical methods application to knowledge discovery from educational data. His expertise consists of natural language processing, web mining and machine learning, deep learning, knowledge engineering, web and mobile application development (languages and framework for web and OS Android). Jozef Kapusta participated in the language part of the EWA application, which won the IT PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 2023 award. The application can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease based on the speech of people.
- PaedDr. Peter Švec, Ph.D. is a co-founder of the Teacher.sk company. He has twenty five years of experience in Linux system administration and computer networking. He is a security advisor in several companies, including public ones. He will guarantee that all the software applications developed by the Teacher.sk in this project will meet all new requirements for privacy and security. The combination of security and web development expertise guarantees a trouble-free software development process and system maintenance. He is responsible for delivering solutions to partners and maintaining the secure and private systems supported by the Teacher.sk company. He is well known in the Worldwide Moodle community for his help to solve problems in the Moodle platform. He is a member of the Working group to standardise e-forms in egovernment at the Ministry of finance SR. He is one of winners in the national security games in Slovakia (Cyber game 2023) and Czech republic (The catch 2023).