The Integrated Educational System. The Impact of Information Technology on the Educational Process

摘要

SEI (computerized educational system) governmental program, initiated in 2001, is anational approach whose objective is to computerize the education system by giving schools thenecessary equipment, by designing a large number of software for the interaction student-contents ofsubjects taught, by offering psycho-pedagogical training to teachers in order to ensure the placing ofthe student at the centre of the teaching-learning process and by setting the premises of a computerizednetwork as support of a modern management (Ilia F., 2003, p. 34). As a generic term, the “impact”envisaged in this paper is noticed in the analysis of the beneficiaries’ opinions – managers, teachers,and students – about the usefulness and need of using the information technology in the educationprocess. Probably the most significant answer obtained in this respect is the general opinion ofstudents concerning the legitimacy of using the new technology in order to avoid socio-professionalcast out. Most students consider that those who do not have access to a computer will be in adisadvantaged position later (90,4%), while only 8,7% think this issue is not important. The impactplans of the new technology on the educational process and system are countless, and determiningthem is a difficult and complex process. Anyway, a few incidence points have been found during theevaluation and they concern aspects of institutional development of schools, some implications for theprofessional training of teachers, as well as perceptions of beneficiaries regarding the effects of TIC(Information and Communication Technology) on students’ proficiency and the development ofdigital skills.