NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND EDUCATIONAL SPACE

Abstract

Fast and widespread development of modern Information and Communication Technologies resulted in a creation of new type of students, to whom teaching is more common by using electronic approaches rather than traditional ways of learning. Alongside with the increased number of employed students it is impossible to maintain the existed methods of obtaining education without any changes in a traditional approach to teaching and learning. It is very important for educational institutions to review their methods of teaching and operate them with the coincidence to modern trends. The new approach to learning – technology-enhanced learning – is concerned with wide inculcation of informational and communication technology in the learning process. The main goal of modern education is to give knowledge to students so that this knowledge was gained through active and creative processes. This approach will give them a chance to obtain education without any time and space limitation within and/or out of educational institution. Based on the analyses of existing trends in education and ICT development, technology-enhanced distance education is one of the most perspective approaches to modern and future education. According to a common definition, distance education is an educational process where the learning group is separated by time and/or space, and where communication systems are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors.
Online education is one of the forms of technology-enhanced education. It is organizational, methodological and technical modification of traditional education. Online education is characterized by constant evolution, which is the natural result of the development of modern information and telecommunication technologies. Commonly there are different ways and schemes of organizing and distributing technology-enhanced distance learning. In this work it is described existing experience in this field in details, and is represented different ways of building learning process on distance, using advanced Information and Communication Technology. Besides, there are also discussed modern didactical, instructional design methods and principles, which make a pedagogical base of this approach to learning. Technology-enhanced education is one of the challenges of modern reality, which draws heavily on existing educational traditions and culture. The main issue is to join existing experience and innovative approaches effectively so that students could get an effective and most comfortable educational environment to achieve their learning objectives. Clearly, existing experience is an important basement and resource in a process of implementation and distribution of technology-enhanced education. But since this form of learning is new and even revolutionary in some cases, it is important to build it on existing traditions of education and expand them to the newest levels. Therefore, it is very important to research Georgian educational environment in order to identify the ways of implementation of above discussed forms of learning in Georgian reality. In this work there are discuss and summarize the results of researches made by us especially for this case.