Lifelong learning of teachers at primary and secondary schools with the support of e-courses

In the paper we focus on the area of lifelong learning, specifically on continual learning of teachers of Informatics at primary and secondary schools. The teachers had the opportunity to improve their qualification by means of national project executed in 2008-2011 called Further education of the teachers of primary and secondary schools in the subject of Informatics. During the execution of the project, regular meetings were held, supported by an electronic environment. The environment LMS Moodle served as means of material distribution, exercise assigning, testing, but also to gain feedback. While the project was successfully completed in 2011, as participants, we were interested in whether the graduates of this type of studies further use the obtained materials in their practice, whether they apply gained experience and knowledge, whether they have in any way innovated their way of teaching. We acquired the needed information from the graduates of the learning by a survey conducted in January - March 2012 using the method of a questionnaire. The paper also describes the current situation in learning of informatics subjects in Slovakia.