Abstract
A careful review of documents reflecting Bulgarian policy in the field of the ICT in education—strategic documents and national programs—shows that components of smart education are part of their content. The same could be said in a review of educational practices in secondary, higher and non-formal education in Bulgaria. In the last few years, several leading strategic documents and national programs have been developed at the national level, and in particular at the level of educational policy, related to the digital transformation in Bulgaria. In all these strategic documents and national programs, there are accents related to the components of smart education. There are also components of smart education in the curricula of compulsory subjects in the field of ICT within secondary education. In the pandemic situation, some platforms that have been used from Bulgarian teachers and university lecturers to work with students for the needs of education from distance in electronic environment realized some possibilities of the smart education. A portal of the Ministry of Education and Science was created to help teachers that work distantly by offering access to virtual classrooms and applications that teachers could use, different types of resources and up-to-date information on distance learning in the e-environment, and many teacher practices have been uploaded. Training for teachers and lecturers to work with these platforms has been organized.
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Smart classroom. (2021)
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Tzokov, G. A. et al. (2020)
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Uchilisgte v oblaka (School in the cloud). (2021)
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Izlez ot tyaloto si—istoriya na Ani, razkazana ot “The Brave Stories” (2019)
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Postanovlenie № 27 ot 1 fevruari za izmenenie i dopalnenie na Naredbata za darjavnite iziskvania za pridobivane na profesionalna kvalifikatsia “uchitel”, prieta s Postanovlenie № 289 na MS ot 2016 g. (2016)
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Chavdarova-Kostova, S. (2023). Report on Smart Education in the Republic of Bulgaria. In: Zhuang, R., et al. Smart Education in China and Central & Eastern European Countries. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7319-2_4
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