The sixth technological development, potentiates the use of information and communication technologies in Higher Education

Abstract

The imminent transformations that take place in the higher education system take on importance due to the circumstances that arise in a technological revolution and a rapid change in the practices of society, with a prevailing use of information and communication technologies ( ICT), and that can affect the functions of the education system, allowing innovation in the transmission of new knowledge and that can offer students access to knowledge sources in an unlimited way. Currently, the technological tools of information and communication have produced a profound change in the practice of learning, in addition to the way in which individuals communicate and interact with the prevailing need to manage and administer knowledge, these types of practices produced a change in the way of doing business, causing significant changes in the different areas of organizational operation as they are; commerce, industry, administration, medicine, agriculture, engineering. For this work, a documentary exploration was carried out describing the importance of information and communication technologies as a potential tool in the learning of higher education.