Information technology, support for innovation in education sciences

Nowadays it is recognized that information technology has a powerful impact on learning. The central idea of the current e-learning technologies is to provide to the users ability of using and reusing learning objects. These must be compatible with the learning management systems and any other future technology in the education area. New informatics technologies like the components-oriented programming or services-oriented architecture enable easily handling and composing of learning objects even by non-specialists, teachers who make up their lessons according to their vision, or students who can practice the knowledge acquired through solving the variants of problems studied. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.