eLearning as an information system

More significant application of ICT in education alters the position of certain education process elements as to their function as well as structure. The speed, quality and quantity of such changes lead to the need of re-defining the usual forms of context organization in which education is done. This paper considers the consequences of such changes stressing the need for systematic approach, i.e. the need to treat education as an informatics system. It is also stresses the position of knowledge as a product of education and the consequences of information processing in a multiple-structured manner. Important is the need of parallel or reference relation to contents from both the aspects of the student and teacher. Effort will be made to give replies to the following questions: Should education be treated as an information system and which arguments are necessary for such an approach? Are education phases from the basic, expert to high education parts of such a system? Is the paradigm of whole-life learning the initial point for defining education as a continuous process? How does the context in which education is carried out determine eLearning as an information system?