Title Pažangių technologijų, taikomų nuotoliniame švietime, tyrimas /
Translation of Title Research of modern technologies applied in distance education.
Authors Žižienė, Vida
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Pages 52
Keywords [eng] modern technologies ; distance education ; interactive communication
Abstract [eng] Modern and fast developing information and communication technologies directly influence the development of the information society. They create the assumption to the space electronic to integrate to all the fields of society life: economics, business, culture and education. The society is changing and we must to change too. The education system is renewed by new principles, relevant values and objectives. The education system is the system which provides necessary skills that our nation could appreciate its values and dynamics in the multinational arena. The concept of lifelong learning is one of the assumptions of the development of modern Society. This concept appeal to the attitude that the biggest value of contemporary person is knowledge and constant perfection, and without fear of changes in life. The new method of learning is distance education based on the innovation of information and communication technologies. The virtual environment and mobile technologies are used in the process of learning. These technologies became available for all people independently from living place, the sphere of activity or age. In consideration of the requirement the foundation of virtual university is planned in Lithuania. The use of progressive technologies in distance education creates the possibilities to improve interactive communication between teachers and students. These technologies are used more and more often in secondary schools and the learners improve their skills of ITC that become assumption of the development of the personality in the future. The mobile phones are popular among the students. The qualified use of possibilities of mobile phones and their coordination with progressive information technologies allow to improve the communication and cooperation between teachers and students and to achieve better results in learning. The analysis of the use of progressive technologies in distance education was done in this work. The Internet website was created using the possibilities of GOOGLE. The tool for sending SMS messages was integrated in this website in order to send the messages to the indicated mobile telephones numbers in purpose to improve the interactive communication between students and teachers. The experimental course of online information lessons was created too. By the way to sum up all these means allow students and teachers to communicate and cooperate successfully and to achieve better results in learning. It was aimed to establish the influence of the mobile and virtual technologies for the results of learning in this work. The hypothesis of this work: The teacher using the tool of sending SMS can achieve better results of learning and improve the motivation of students and the discipline in the process of doing the different activities.
Type Master thesis
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2008