Enrichment of the educational environment with information and communication technologies: state of art at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Kaunas University of Medicine.
Both traditional and new educational environments, the latter enriched with information and communication technologies, coexist in today's university. The goal of this article is to present the concept of educational environment enriched with information and communication technologies, to reveal the main features of such environment, and to present the results of certain investigation on the application of information technologies in teaching/learning processes at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Kaunas University of Medicine. The discussion object of this paper is the educational environment enriched with information and communication technologies. In designing the environments of this type, positive aspects of traditional teaching models are being developed by integrating them into the new educational environment. The concept of educational environment enriched with information and communication technologies is reviewed in the first part of this paper. The structure and main features of educational environments enriched with information and communication technologies are highlighted in the second part. The results of the study on the application of information technologies in teaching/learning processes at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Kaunas University of Medicine are presented in the third part.
Butrimiene
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Kaunas University of Medicine, A. Mickeviciaus 9, 44307 Kaunas, Lithuania. edita.butrimiene@med.kmu.lt
Stankeviciene
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D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003142:Communication; D003200:Computer User Training; D003201:Computers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000639:trends*; D018961:Educational Technology / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007858:Learning; D008097:Lithuania; D009862:Online Systems; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface