53
the teachers and the administrative
staff in the educational institutions
have been trained. In addition, 150
teachers attended training on the
IT security (1.5 %). The level of the
development of the digital materials
for teaching and learning is insufficient (didactic software, e-books, e-learning, etc.).
There is an evident deficiency of the
primary and secondary education,
which, either due to the late introduction of the information technology subjects, or the content of the subjects per se, pays little attention to
the importance of the digital competences in the information society, despite the fact that 90% of job positions require workforce with acquired
digital skills. This situation is further
complicated by the fact that the educational system lacks educated staff
for teaching IT-related courses.
Number of the graduates in ICT-related study programs is at the low
level.
Strategic development tools
Starting from the national context
and conditions in e-education, it is
necessary to work intensively on the
Internet signal coverage of the regional units of the primary schools, as
well as to increase the Internet speed in the main units of the educational institutions which are covered
with the Internet. Providing educational institutions with the computer
equipment must be a continuous
process in order to provide enough
equipment for the teaching performance and improve the computerstudent proportion.
In addition to training teachers to
use the information technology at
a basic level, it is of particular importance to train them to apply the
ICT in the teaching process itself, so
the students can benefit more from
the Internet and the technologies as
such. Consequently, it is necessary to
further promote the web portal for
teachers. It is also necessary to provide didactic software that will enable better and more effective application of the ICT in the teaching process. However, the e-education process must take into account students
as well, so it is necessary to establish
a suitable portal for students, which
would accompany the curriculum,
enable some kind of knowledge evaluation and offer extra curricular
activites aimed at general education
such as culture, sport, music, film
and such.
It is important to establish a system
of distance learning and upgrade
the curriculum with the aim of introducing larger number of the IT
subjects, due to the current state of
late introduction of the information
technology in the primary education
and substantial lack of a mid-level
education, which can, with a change
in the concept, create useful experts