Transmission of knowledge in the modern information society and the organization of CLASSES in higher education
The article considers the evolution of transmission of information from traditional to informational society. It shows the ways of knowledge transmission by components in traditional and informational society. Thus, the traditional society is noticed by the following sources of information: oral transmission, manuscripts, typed products, radio and television. In turn, this society has the following information channels: physical space, libraries, radio and television signal, and it also has a fixation methods such as information recording and writing. However, the informational society is marked by: manuscripts, printed matter, radio and television, the World Wide Web, electronic resources, mobile devices. Communication channels: real physical space, libraries, TV- and radio signal, data transmission, electronic devices. Methods of reception: remembering, record of information, video and audio recording, information preservation in the form of files. The following regularity is revealed: the number of information sources and data channels increases twofold in the informational society, and the number of ways of preservation increases threefold. Furthermore, there is a pattern according to which the amount of information handling is reduced from source to receiver. It has been shown that changes of information transmission are to lead to a complete restructuring of classes organization in higher education. The paper presents the ways of organization of lectures and practice work in accordance with the realities of information transmission in the informational society. It shows the ways of classes organization in higher education with the use of modern methods of knowledge translation in the conditions of absence of the Internet access. In particular, the teacher can print multiple copies of the text of a lecture, divide the audience into groups and give each group a copy of the lecture for self-study. It reveals the problems that are caused by changes in knowledge translation in today’s informational society. In particular it concerns such issues as: vanish of a gap between lectures and workshops. Probably, it is not reasonable to divide the classes in lectures and practical works, the line between them should be the need for special equipment and materials. The role of the teacher is completely changed. Now the teacher is not a translator of knowledge, but a specialist who explains complex issues and becomes an organizer of educational process. The teacher’s activity assessment and his remuneration should be changed in connection with the emergence of new forms of information transmission. The use of modern means of information transmission raises the question of the revision of knowledge control method in higher education.