Abstract:

This paper presents a way of using eLearning in the Technical Higher Education by maintaining some balances in order to preserve the main advantages of standard education. It is about informative / formative, individual / guided balance, maintaining standards and skills, etc.

The use of eLearning technology has shown major advantages especially in companies that develop new equipment or new technologies to train employees to increase work productivity. Teaching and learning in Higher Education has other objectives, of which the most important are: Teaching and learning in Higher Education is oriented for the adults in such a way to become professionals’ managers able to research, educate, lead processes, train themselves continuously etc. In the case of Engineering Education, the problem becomes even more complex because they must lead processes where people interact not only with each other, but also with machines, equipment’s and energy. Standard education (sE) has solved this problem using an extensive educational algorithm facing the educator-student in the following stages: course; seminar; laboratory works; project; research; practical activity. It is important to maintain the benefits of standard education (sE), namely:
• Teaching and learning is based on paradigm “informative-formative”.
• Student assessment is made in front of the teacher.
• The sE education is guided by “standards and competences”, has extensive material support accumulated over many years by an army of staff trained to deliver education in line with these standards.

But there are disadvantages which by eLearning can be eliminated or reduced, such as:
• With all methods used for teaching-learning-evaluation, the requirements of the labor market are not met.
• Curricular Development of sE reform has produced a sophisticated curriculum that has complicated and further hampered educational processes so the reform has turned almost to the contrary.
• Moreover, some activities performed in schools are antagonist, say critics.

Technologies of eLearning can make a major contribution to education such as:
• Using the eLearning-synchronous variant combined with the seminar through tests.
• The tests will be continued by individual students through eLearning-asynchronous. This makes the transition to the Teach less-learn more paradigm.
• Laboratory works will be individually modeled / simulated by the students through asynchronous eLearning.
• The project will take place largely through synchronous eLearning, contributing to the development of students' research and design qualities.

The above leads to the education paradigm: Teach less-learn more that eliminates many of the disadvantages presented above. In the final of the paper an example of application in the field of Automatic Control Systems is presented.

Keywords:

Education algorithm, advantages disadvantages, educations paradigms, e-learning algorithm, system control applications.