Introduction
The innovative kinds of pedagogy enabled by recent advances in computer-supported collaborative learning, hypermedia, and experiential simulation make possible an evolution of traditional forms of education of type “teaching by telling” in an alternative instructional paradigm based on the “learning by doing” concept. ...
Higher education is constantly changing due to government and policy related pressures, market requirements and demographic changes. ... Introduction of new forms of ICT in education is a process which involves several stages: initiation, implementation and institutionalisation. Mooij and Smeets (2001) identified five phases of ICT implementation:
a) incidental and isolated use of ICT by one or more teachers,
b) increased awareness of ICT for education, at all levels,
c) emphasis on ICT coordination and hardware,
d) emphasis on didactic innovation and ICT support,
e) use of ICT –integrated teaching and learning.
Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana has already passed the first three phases and is now facing the last two phases. ...
This organisational approach is transition from single-mode, where all students have to be physically present at the university for lectures, seminars and practical sessions, to dual mode education, where student has his choice of options with respect to delivery location. ...
ICT bring high degree of flexibility into education as regards connections among people and resources that can be used to support teaching and learning process. ...
Flexibility in forms of communication: ICT allows all participants in the process of education to select appropriate communication channel. ... Local documents can be extended by means of hypertext links to any resource available in the Internet. ... The tools from this category allow users to perform advanced operations on the documents available in the local ICT supported learning environment as well as on the documents available in the global Internet. ... Examinations can be done during the course as self-assessment tool that can be used to improve efficiency of educational process or, after the course is finished, to verify the results of education. ... Most applications of ICT are not so much distance learning as they are use of networks and information services to enrich their learning activities.
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