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Abstract: The paper deals with the process of the ICT implementation within the tertiary education on the example of the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove. The institution prepares students in bachelor and master study programmes in the field of information technology.
Keywords: Engineering pedagogy. Engineering education. Tertiary education. E-learning. Key competences. Information and communication technologies.
Introduction
Increasing the number of educated people should be prioritised in every society. In the last decade the university education changed substantially but numerous problems still exist. Making the university education accessible to everyone and developing the system of further, lifelong education are the most important ones. The combined (part-time) and distance form of education are often the only ways to increasing qualifications and thus meeting the growing requirements of the labour market. A high level of motivation and mature personality of students enable teachers to apply self-study methods supported by information and communication technologies (ICT) implemented in the process of instruction. This way is mostly used in the field of lifelong education but it is steadily spreading into educational institutions of all levels.
1 Running the process of ICT implementation
Having undergone the starting period of material and technical problems, the time came to deal with didactic aspects of the ICT implementation of the process. And what are the results? Are teachers able to apply suitable methods and forms of instruction, create and use appropriate didactic means which are offered by new technologies? Do students have higher level of knowledge if they attend lessons managed by ICT or run traditionally by teachers? Are the new didactic means (methods and forms supported by digital technologies) able to optimize the cognitive process of creating knowledge?
Current changes in the social development can be defined by following theses:
- Fast development of ICT and their influence on the educational proces.
- Globalization and new key competences.
- Availability of education, the influence on changes in the lifestyle.
The current society offers people new chances but at the same time it requires new competences from them. In the last decade the lifelong professions disappeared (Turek, Hrmo, 2003). Competences aimed at one profession are useless and non-valuable. It is necessary to find, define and develop such competences which...