DIGITAL LIBRARY
SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Žilinská Univerzita (SLOVAKIA)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN17 Proceedings
Publication year: 2017
Pages: 4064-4071
ISBN: 978-84-697-3777-4
ISSN: 2340-1117
doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2017.1875
Conference name: 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 3-5 July, 2017
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
In the future, job positions are going to be specified not by requirements for "profession", but by the requirements for knowledge, which has to have an applicant for occupation. This will mean new requirement to supplement the curricula of universities by transferable skills and elements of IT and digital skills. Transferable skills, such as search and work with information, digital competence and language competence will play an increasingly important role in the field of lifelong learning, the importance of which is increasing with the dynamics of changes becoming more and more. Nowadays the demands on graduates are increasing. These graduates are able to meet such requirements, and thus find a place in the labour market. The future of education supports new courses focused on interdisciplinary integration and interdisciplinary experience. The paper deals with the used methods of education at universities and education support by method of e-learning. In the paper there is present a comparison of e-learning education systems at universities in selected European Union countries. The output of the contribution is an evaluation of education systems and direction of education in universities in accordance with the dynamic development of information and communication technologies.
Keywords:
education systems, digital competences, e-learning, language competences.