Abstract:

Education is nowadays being affected by the digital transformation. The distance education, which has been also performed due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, has become an integral form of teaching. The role of the teacher is to create the most suitable conditions for its pupils and students resulting in an effective educational process. We recognize the implementation of information and communication technologies in the specific way of teaching management, as well as in the direction of the education itself. New technologies are changing the labour market as such. This change is related to the required certain level of employee’s qualification. Companies increasingly invoke to reform the education system, to maintain and reduce the distinction level between the skills that graduates acquire at school and the skills required by employers themselves. Thus, resulting in changing the goal, methodology and the content of pupils/student’s education. The next generation must already possess digital skills, rehears and learn how to use technologies. In addition to ability to implement these digital skills, pupils/students should gain abilities on how to communicate, present, convince, develop, create and much more. Therefore, teachers face these changes. Teacher’s role is changing, new competencies are expected. In this article, we focus on the elements of modern education of the 21st century - innovation, a wide range of digital tools, flexibility, experimentation in teaching. We refer that the digital era evokes challenges for both teachers and students.

Keywords:

Digitization, distance learning, innovation, flexibility, digital skills.