Education in Computer Science and the Role of the Teacher in the Environment of Open Educational Resources

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2013

Open Educational Resources (OER) are a new phenomenon that may significantly impact higher education, and may even potentially lead to the disappearance of the occupation of university professor. On the other hand, OER have a number of advantages, including adaptive learning and an automatic analysis of the learning process data and thus improvement of the curriculum. The article examines the current state-of-art in education and the related problems. It brings reflections on the impact of the new means on the education in general and on the education in computer science and its specifics in Bulgaria, in particular.

Association for the Development of the Information Society, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences