Abstract:

The new information and communication technologies are seriously challenging the system of higher education and exceeding the outdated methods of teaching in schools and universities; indeed they are threaten the status quo of the latter. The knowledge students receive and the teaching methods through which knowledge is being disseminated need to be transformed accurately because of the numerous new possibilities and resources of informal learning that now are available to everyone. In the midst of a broad transformation of its higher education system, one of Albania’s most serious challenge is how to cope with the fact that, being very different from all previous generations of students, today’s students, growing with digital technology are no longer those our educational system was designed to teach. In their search for new information, they are practical and largely driven by the quick result they now easily find on the Web. This paper looks at some of the implications that such developments have for Albania’s system of higher education now under reform.

Keywords:

Higher education, information and communication technologies, Albania.