ISSN 2738-0971 | eISSN 2738-1013

Nebojša Denić

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Pristina, Kosovska Mitrovica

Articles

Open Access Original Scientific Paper

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING

Modern way of living and functioning of human society requires a new principle of decision making and adjusting to contemporary living needs. In times when humans have perfected the contemporary living needs with their technological achievements yet another disadvantage among those needs has appeared. Studying possibilities and adjusting to educational requirements have hardly made any progress in years. Traditional learning methods are implemented by means of book, pencil and paper, as was the case thousands of years ago, supporting functioning of human society. This paper, based on researches founded on implementation of educational software and researches founded on postulates of implementation of frontal education and summarizing related specialized literature from this area, will set forth possibilities for implementation of information and communications technologies (ICT) and educational software in teaching. The results of this research indicate that the students who were using electronic methods of learning in combination with traditional learning had become more motivated, skilled and interested in a new way of thinking that activates all senses in order to form their intellectual personality.

Open Access Original Scientific Paper

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES IN FUNCTION OF TEACHING PROCESS

This paper, based on the extensive research of relevant professional literature, will present and elaborate possible aspects of influence which information-communications technologies (ICT) have on educational process. Contemporary information-communications technologies and their use in teaching process resulted in numerous enhancements of teaching process altering traditional methods of learning and teaching. With the aim of confirming theoretical postulates researches were conducted on candidates with specific educational degrees in various forms of traditional teaching and teaching with educational software. The survey was conducted on a control and experimental group, on a sample of 1542 candidates. The candidates were observed in a period of approximately five months. The results of this research indicate that the candidates taught by use of educational software have shown far greater level of achieved knowledge and significantly higher motivation for learning. The participants of the experimental group actively participated in the acquisition of their competences. The contribution of this paper is in the new methodological approach to the organization of education, which significantly improves the teaching process, its goals and outcomes.