STUDY REGARDING THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

The technology of information and communication is a constant of contemporary education. The efficiency of the learning process in its entirety depends nowadays, according to the studies, on the use of digital resources. The internet and the digital technology favour both the process of teaching-learning-assessing and the process of self-teaching / self-formation. The progress of digital technologies has generated a series of positive aspects which can be observed in society in general, such as : the accessibility of informational resources and the prompt it use of correct information, the possibility of identifying and using the new acquisitions and technical discoveries from various areas as solutions to existing problems, integrating new information in structures of inter and trans disciplinary curriculum, decreasing the costs of formation and information for school communities and society in general. The informatized society of the future needs the development of the digital competences at all levels in the educational communities, which means responsibility and self - responsibility for the educational institutions and for the educators. Our study attempts to observe the level of the differences between the way in which the technology of information and communication is used by the full-time students and by the distance-learning students, from various perspectives, such as: the frequency of using digital resources for bibliography, their real utility as well as the negative effects of the phenomenon of mass converting of bibliography into digital form. (C) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK