USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING

USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING

1. Education is the key resource in a world where the source of power and wealth is the ability to process information into applied knowledge. (Castells, 2007).

2. There must be commitment and active participation on the part of teachers and a great deal of responsibility on the part of the university

3. Universities must be flexible with their procedures and adapt to the needs emerging from today's society

4. It is important to mention that universities are in charge of promoting research and therefore the improvement of a great number of failures in all processes of a society

5. The society of the future requires that universities implement a new educational system that is innovative and competent, shaped by the use of TIC's

6. One of the advantages of adding of TIC's to education is the access to the thematic content by the students at any time and place

7. Teachers and students should work and learn autonomously in order to achieve the stipulated goals

8. The actors in education must have a technological device, a powerful network, audiovisual material and a basic level of knowledge to handle the pages and tools.

9. The teacher becomes a guide and mediator between knowledge and students, as well as facilitator of academic resources