STRATEGY FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT 2020.
the lowering of the training price
and time saving .
The new risk of the digital age is in
focus - the emergence of the digital
divide between those students who
have access to the innovative education based on the use of the advanced technologies and those students
who are, in this sense, digitally marginalized.
According
to
the
European
Commission’s position in this matter, open technologies, which provide access to the education for
everyone, represent the solution to
the problem. Owing to the technologies, students can build-up their
knowledge out of the open and free
resources, create the educational
communities both within the school
and classrooms and outside of them,
learning becomes personalized activity, customized for the individual
student, teachers create a community where they can share experience
and teaching materials, access to a
wider range of the educational resources is provided.
Problem of greater inclusion of the
ICT in education concerns mainly
the fact that the European Union,
due to the lack of the ICT professionals, can expect the number of up to
825.000 vacant jobs by 2020.
A total of 9 EU countries have integrated or will integrate the program-
ming at the elementary school level
in the curriculum. At this level, programming is part of the curriculum
in Estonia, France, Spain, Slovakia,
United Kingdom, and will become
part of the curriculum in Belgium,
Finland, Poland and Portugal.
A total of 12 EU countries have already integrated or will integrate the
programming at the upper secondary education level - Austria, Bulgaria,
Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary,
Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia,
Spain and the United Kingdom.
National
context
All of the main units of the educational institutions, up to the university level, have access to the Internet
connection (ADSL - 4Mbps or satellite internet - 8Mbps). The regional
units of the educational institutions
are not covered by the Internet connection. In all educational institutions up to the university level the
minimum amount of the computer
equipment is provided. The computer - student proportion in primary
schools is 1:16, and 1:14 in the secondary schools.
When it comes to the basic level of
the IT skills, a series of the trainings for the teaching staff have been
conducted, in order to provide them
with the basic knowledge in this field. Through the project “ECDL for
digital Montenegro” around 20% of