INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, EDUCATION QUALITY AND CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2013, Vol 56, Issue 11
Abstract
The role of ICT in education on the whole and particularly in science education is a very important topic. The growth is characteristic not only at university level but also at other levels of the education system. It is accepted that ICT makes the process of teaching/learning more effective and beneficial whereas the education system starts functioning faster. The implementation of new technologies in the educational process raises new possibilities for both teacher and learner, enhances education quality and makes the educational process more versatile (Lamanauskas, Šlekienė, Ragulienė, 2010). The opinion, that prevails in Lithuania is, that part of the problems related to ICT are determined by technical resources, computer literacy, lack of methodics and methodology, wrong attitude to the usage of technologies in general. Speaking about teachers (they are central part of education process), it is important to form an understanding, that ICT is not a thing in itself, i.e., it is necessary to use, because the others do this and do somewhere else and finally, that it is fashionable. ICT, first of all, is a didactic support seeking better education results. Not only nowadays, but in future as well, ICT have to be attractive for the learners, comfortable to use for the teachers and specially made for teaching/learning purposes. Selection process problem, in didactic respect, will get more acute, because market (producers’) pressure on education system will, undoubtedly, increase. Profit seeking in any way and by any means has overshadowed the purposefulness of ICT usage in education field, so far. So, is ICT in reality a bridge to future and higher education quality? Thus, the discussed field remains problematic. New, exhaustive, empiric research studies are necessary.
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Vincentas Lamanauskas
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