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Abstract: This article deals with the impact of the ICT-supported instruction within the tertiary education. It introduces results of the comparative study running in 2009-11 at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove. It focuses on students' knowledge developed in the process of the traditional face-to-face versus ICT-supported instruction. The research was run in a technical subject - Database Systems. The research focused on two key parts: (1) the comparison of outcomes in the process of education, (2) university students' attitudes, opinions, perception and acceptance of modern educational methods and technologies, especially of e-learning. The project "Evaluation of the modern technologies contributing towards forming and development university students' competences" was solved in last three years at the University of Hradec Kralove. The project verified the hypothesis whether the appropriate implementation of ICT within university education supports the process of forming new competences and leads to comparable students' achievements in the cognitive process. The research subject was defined as the comparison of students' performance in the experimental and control groups within the cognitive processes (committing to memory, understanding and application of gained knowledge). The experimental group includes data from ICT-supported instruction, while the control group contains data collected within the traditional face-to-face instruction. The main hypothesis was defined as follows: "The proposed ICT-supported concept of university instruction enables to reach students' performance comparable to the traditional face-to-face instruction. Students accept eLearning form of education in a more positive way - in the area of attitudes, opinions and perception. The null hypothesis was accepted. The main objective is to analyze students' acceptation of eLearning in the above mentioned fields. An active students' approach to education ranks among primary principles of the successful process of education. This approach is considerably affected by perception and acceptance of educational methods. Due to this fact it is desirable to deal with students' attitudes and opinions on this issue.
Keywords: comparative study, eLearning, face-to-face, ICT, instruction, university education
1. Introduction
An active students' approach to education ranks among primary principles of the successful process of education. This approach is considerably affected by perception and acceptance of educational methods. Due to this fact it is highly desirable to deal with students' attitudes and opinions on this issue.
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