Studia Informatica Pomerania
WNEiZ
Autor: Janusz Janczyk 135
Strony: 135-145
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EDUCATION IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EXTENDED SOCIAL SPACE OF THE INTERNET

Summary
The expectations concerning the Internet have been steadily growing for a few years. A lot of spheres of social life have come into existence and are developing spontaneously on line. A new cultural relation between education and the extended social space of the Internet has become more signifi cant for the development of the information society. A number of education initiatives connected with WBT (Web-based trainings) have set standards, not so much in the fi eld of education methods and ways of acquiring knowledge as in the scope of organization of educational processes. A lot of education institutions have already felt euphoria connected with the WBT application and a time for refl ection has come now. The educational perspective of the extended social space of the Internet will be presented in this refl ective mode. The outcome of these studies are educational applications of Information Technology only in the conditions of new educational culture which is the result of the incorporation of IT into the existing culture in the
framework of so-called blended learning. An important context, also analysed in these considerations, of educational applications of the Internet is the subjectivity of a learner, which cannot be pushed into the background by technological objectivity (IT).