Miloš Lansky

Miloš Lánský (born July 30, 1926 in Prague , † May 13, 2005 in České Budějovice ) was one of the founders of the school of cybernetic pedagogy or educational informatics with Helmar Frank and Felix von Cube . This school of thought arose through the application of information theory to didactics .

Life

Miloš Lánský attended school in Prague and studied mathematics and physics at Charles University after the war . In 1952 he obtained his doctorate there. He received the candidacy for technical sciences (C.Sc.) in 1957 at the Czech Technical University in Prague and completed his habilitation in 1963 at the Charles University for mathematics . 1960–1964, after several years of political and judicial disputes with the university administration in Prague, he temporarily held the chair for mathematics and physics at the Pedagogical Institute in Karlovy Vary and then worked for a year at the Pedagogical Faculty in Pilsen before returning to Prague.

Since these years he has been working on theoretical foundations and didactic-technical developments of teaching machines and teaching programs, later increasingly on the pedagogical use of computers, a research and development area that he initially called mathematical pedagogy , later educational informatics and with which he is one of the five main sponsors worldwide the cybernetic pedagogy became known.

After the Prague Spring emigrated Lánský 1968 to Austria, took over in Linz , the set up for him chair of Cybernetic Pedagogy at the Technical and Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Linz , which elected him Dean, also acted decisively in setting up the Education Sciences University Klagenfurt as its prorector and was appointed to Paderborn in 1971 .

With some of his Linz employees, he began to set up the Institute for Educational Informatics at the State Research Center FEoLL and took on the role of scientific director of the FeoLL. In 1972 he succeeded Klaus Weltner as chairman of the GPI, the professional association for educational technology, which at that time was still called the “Society for Programmed Instruction”. At the same time Lánský was professor of educational informatics at the University of Paderborn , to which he transferred full-time in 1981 with some of his institute members.

He worked here until his retirement in 1991 on the further development of educational informatics and pushed through the introduction of informatics as a school subject and teacher training course in North Rhine-Westphalia .

He then returned to Czechoslovakia, where he introduced educational technology as the doctoral program at Charles University and the Slovak Pedagogical University in Nitra , and as a professor supervised a large number of doctoral students.

Miloš Lánský was one of the co-founders and full members of the Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj (AIS) San Marino , AIS Germany eV and the Czech AIS Association. With a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service , he was an academic guest at the Institute for Cybernetics at what was then the Berlin University of Education for a year from 1967–1968 . Since 1991, together with Helmar Frank and Manfred Wettler, he has formed the directorate of this institute, which in the meantime had moved its main activity to Paderborn and was elevated to the status of the AIS institute.

Works

The first attempts at computer-aided teaching ( e-learning ) represent an important contribution by Miloš Lánský to didactics . Since personal computers were only in their infancy at the time , Miloš Lánský and his employees developed and built teaching and learning machines themselves. An example this is where the “Linz Didactic Automat” (LINDA) is used.

Important theoretical works by Miloš Lánský were cybernetic models of teaching and learning, such as the theory of super signs in the learning process and the “conservative learning model”.

The educational cybernetic writings, which are mainly published in Czech and German, but also partly in English, were published, edited by his daughter, as volumes 8 and 9 of the comprehensive source collection "Cybernetic Pedagogy".

Web links

• Literature by and about Miloš Lánský in the catalog of the German National Library