Existing Typologies of Internet Applications in
Education
According to Khannanov (2003: 14) the application
of the Internet in education is understood as the usage of Internet
technologies to solve various educational tasks, namely, teaching, learning and
management of the educational process. The systematic analysis of experiences
in using the Internet in education implies that the types of such application
provide an opportunity for comparisons and generalizations that can be
preliminarily identified and defined. Depending on a chosen typology, the
analysis will cover different aspects of the experience.
Various typologies of Application of the Internet
in Education have been proposed the literature recently. At the same time, due
to the accumulated experience in the use of the telecommunication technologies
in education, one should note two main approaches in selection of the grounds
for segmentation of this project-domain.
The technology-oriented approach is most
widespread. For example, the statistical study on the use of the electronic
communication in open learning and distance education, conducted by UNESCO in
1995, has used the following matrix based on
the types of the applied telecommunication media to collect information
on interactive technologies in educational programmes: telephone, fax,
audio-conference, video-conference, electronic mail,and access to databases.
