Informatization as a Measure for Improvement of the Education Policy – Case Study: Electronic Content Portal

摘要

The intensive development of information technology in the new millennium has redesigned the functioning views, rules and principles of educational organizations. They have been set to the challenge of how and in which way information technologies influence the improvement of the effectiveness of the educational surrounding. As a result of this process, the overall improvement of the education system, analyzed as a whole, as well as its compliance with modern trends and needs, inevitably leads to the necessity of improving the process by applying information technologies. The extent by which a geographical area, an economy or a society is becoming information-base, increase in size of its information labor force, is referred to as informatization, whereas the principles and government policy-making in educational sphere, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems is an education policy. In this paper, the need of creation of educational policy by using information technology is examined, with particular reference to one of the measures for improvement of the education policy, such as an online resource (www.skoool.mk), as a case study, on the bases of which appropriate conclusions and recommendations are drawn.