E ‑learning in Higher Education

Abstract

The vast use of the Internet and the increasingly widespread access to the latest technologies 
 have become the main reason for the development of remote teaching services. In an 
 effort to modernize the educational offer, higher education institutions placed, in their 
 programs of studies, different possibilities of teaching using „distance learning”. This trend 
 is already very common in the world’s largest universities. The Polish higher education 
 system, keeping the pace with current trends, has created a legal foundation for the use 
 of modern forms of teaching. The current approach to teaching is also a response to the 
 offer of leading universities of the world and thus the search for competitive advantage in 
 the international educational market. The aim of the article is to present main objectives 
 of the teaching method of e 
 ‑learning, and at the same time, to present the legal status 
 and the rules for the use of e 
 ‑learning in Polish higher education. The article is based on 
 the experience of such teaching introduced at the Pontifical University of John Paul II 
 in Krakow.