ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION SYSTEMS

• Published in: eLearning and Software for Education 2013, Vol.9 (2), p.301-306
• Main Authors: Grecu, Gheorghe, Păcuraru, Raluca Olguţa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Education
• ISSN: 2066-026X; 2066-8821

The multitude of innovations which assault us in all areas of life made necessary „the education for change”. Through education, people must ensure the ability to develop the capacity to understand and respond appropriately to various challenges from society, to become agents of their own training, to organize and structure their own knowledge. As time goes by, it becomes more and more obvious the need for diversification and institutional personalization in Romanian education system, diversification of types of study programs, the need to promote lifelong learning and reform the existing legislation in this area. From the perspective of the education system, the evolution towards the knowledge society is a revolution in how people think the whole process of education - both as management as well as structure. In higher education is a tendency to an "education of the masses" - undergraduate studies, followed by higher cycles - master’s degree, doctoral studies. It also tends to lifelong learning, appreciating the return in the educational process should be at least every five years to ensure competence in a particular field. In the knowledge society, the very paradigm of education has changed, the role of ICT has become more and more important and present in an increasingly wide range of activities. Nowadays the use of an e-learning system is a must for any university that wants to align to the existing trends and have a high quality of educational process. More than that, computerassisted instruction systems (commonly called today “e-learning platforms”) are also used for lifelong learning - regardless of whether it is done in universities, specialized organizations or at job. This paper aims to deal with some aspects of the design and architecture of computer-assisted instruction systems, so that choosing, implementing and developing such a system could have a well-documented starting point.