Abstract
Technology is more and more present in our daily activities, whether we are talking about telephones, cars or smart homes, automation and even robotization of industry and agriculture, etc. People's physical work, usually repetitive, is gradually taken over by machines so that intellectual work and investment in human capital become an essential condition for carrying out lucrative activities. The educational system has evolved in the direction of using new technologies, from Power-Point presentations to complex e-learning systems. Online programs dedicated to learning or testing of students are working tools, increasingly popular, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study aims to reveal a part of the opportunities brought by technology in the higher educational system but, also, to underline some limits of the current national context in the implementation of modern systems and methods for learning and teaching. If the opportunities of a digitized education system in the context of the knowledge economy are undeniable, the forced education of young people, only by electronic means, has exacerbated the problems of the Romanian education system such as limited access to education of social groups such as rural students, coming from disorganized and/ or low-income families, institutionalized ones, etc., or the teachers lack of training to adapt to the new work conditions, all these accompanied by numerous legislative and leadership changes starting to 1990. Despite of these problems, in tertiary education the technology is a must be and the post-pandemic period will be an opportunity for blended-learning implementation in universities and, gradually in all levels of training and education. |
