LEARNING VERSUS ELEARNING FOR IT PROFESSIONALS
LEARNING VERSUS ELEARNING FOR IT PROFESSIONALS

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, there is a certain deficit of, and an increased request for, IT specialists. How to get them? On one hand, a multitude of eLearning platforms are nowadays available for education in IT. On the other hand, there are also different levels of IT education comprised by national education systems. Both directions are facing the challenge of rapid changes of the technologies in IT. Also, the big companies are offering IT courses specific to their purposes. So we can say that two different approaches are co-existing now: the classical, academic one, and a more technology oriented one, through eLearning classes or in-place, highly specialized classes. We give a survey of the nowadays situation for the aspects mentioned above, also corresponding to different countries. Our aim is to address a fundamental question: what could the future look like, in preparing IT specialists? From a student perspective, this has a simple translate: what to do to become IT specialist, which type of education to follow? Our purpose is to offer a few answers, and to derive several conclusions. The IT university curricula should be more mobile, and the academic classes should become more practical; moreover, the teaching academic positions should be open to non academic lecturers with specific high competences proved. There should be established standards for recognizing eLearning classes, with possibility to offer recognition and equivalence of the diploma offered. The academic form cannot disappear, but it should be reorganized, while the eLearnig and distance learning in IT, even though very much technological, should be given academic level recognition.

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