Characteristics of the Information Society: Implications for Education System

Antonijevic, Radovan

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Characteristics of the Information Society: Implications for Education System

Radovan Antonijević * aa_radovan@yahoo.com * ORCID: 0000-0003-4959-376X * ResearcherID: M-2929-2017
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy

Open Journal for Information Technology, 2018, 1(2), 43-50 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojit.0102.03043a
Online Published Date: 28 December 2018

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KEY WORDS: information society, knowledge society, education system, IT in education.

ABSTRACT:
Implications of the main features of information society for education system are discussed in this article. Information (knowledge) society is a society based on the implementation of information and communication technologies in all areas of society, in which knowledge is a worthy product. It is also a society that imposes new ways of social organizing, with the capacity to set new roles to different systems, as well as redefining and objective evaluating of different types of resources, including human and other resources. Connections and mutual dependence between the main characteristics of information society and education inside information society are very complex. Education system potentially can become the key factor of social and economic development, today and in the future. One of the main preconditions for achieving of this role of education in the actual and future society is the broad and strategically well-designed process of implementation of information technologies in the process of education and teaching. This process can be more effective and successful if the state agencies take over responsibilities for its realization.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Radovan Antonijević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Čika Ljubina 18-20, 11000 Beograd, SERBIA. Mail: aa_radovan@yahoo.com.

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