CHALLENGES TO ALBANIA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE DIGITAL AGE

New information and communication technologies are seriously challenging the system of higher education and exceeding the outdated methods of teaching in schools and universities; they are indeed threating the status quo of the latter. The knowledge students receive and the teaching methods through which knowledge is being disseminated need to be changed accurately because of the numerous new possibilities and resources of informal learning that are now available to everyone. In the midst of a broad transformation of its higher education system, one of Albania's most serious challenges is how to cope with the fact that, being very different from all previous generations of students, today's students, growing with digital technology, are no longer those our educational system was designed to teach. In their search for new information, today's students are practical and largely driven by quick results they now easily find on the Web. This paper looks at some of the implications such developments have for Albania's system of higher education now under reform.