Activating Resources and its Use in e-learning☆

Abstract Education has been always linked with the human kind and it has been undergoing continual development and gradual innovative processes. E-learning became a phenomenon of the second half of 20th century and the beginning of 21st century; it comprises variety of individual elements which are usually complexly interwoven, creating a comprehensive system and allowing for en effective development of one's personality, mainly – but not exclusively – of its cognitive part. This kind of development should be resulting from active learning when a student dedicates himself/herself to an intensive studying activity arising ideally from his/her own interest, without any apparent pressure or more or less without someone else's help. The activity, however, must be specifically aimed, controlled, guided and provided with feedback. In order for students to be able to learn actively, it is essential to create appropriate situations, involving the activating resources. Modern education technologies represent such resources, which is reflected in this theoretical study focused on activation of a student. From a technological point of view, the resources can involve extensive full-distance education systems with sophisticated tools securing cooperative learning, but on the other hand, the resources can involve simply support for real-time traditional classes. Nevertheless, e-learning can only be an adequate alternative or part of the traditional education, if it is build upon deep and comprehensive pedagogical analysis of the educational process and all its elements, processes and relations.