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School reform is process that develops from within, but under the pressure of external influences. Externally, social demands and the increasing pressure of technologies and research that find a field of application in education are acting. From within can act the desire for modernization, the accumulated competence. The article combines the two forms of pressure in the form of solutions already implemented in the CyberTrainer™service (www.cybertrainer.online), a professional service to assist learning processes. It is justified, for the beginning, the need to integrate information technology in the school concept. Subsequently, the set of requirements of the specification is built and the details of developing and implementation of the solution are provided. The chosen path is to treat the school as a second-order cyber system and to build a holonic control system. In this system, students and instructor are holons. The main features provided by the control system are the student’s autonomy and the high degree of cooperation during the learning process. The effects of applying the solution indicate a sketch of the change of school idea: the teacher becomes an instructor, the student becomes more responsible and involved in his work, and the school activity more and more efficient and adaptable.
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Isoc, D., Isoc, AH., Surubaru, T. (2021). Cybertraining – A Development by Using a Holonic Control Structure. In: Auer, M.E., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions. ICL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68198-2_29
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