21 Sep 2009
Today, the progress of information technologies stimulated their wide implementation in different spheres of social life. At the same time, new information technologies are currently widely implemented in education, especially in distant learning. However, the effective use of new information technologies confronts a number of problems, among which it is possible to single out the problem of reliability of information systems of colleges and Universities as one of the major problems. In addition, often students can face a problem of control of students’ enrollment. In such a way, it is obvious that numerous problems accompanying the introduction of new information technologies and development of information systems are very important and can prevent them from effective functioning if colleges and Universities fail to improve the reliability of and control over their information systems.
In this respect, it is possible to recommend implementation of information technologies which can decrease the risk of errors in the information system and increase its reliability. However, it is important to understand that the problem of control over the students’ enrollment as well as the problem of the information system’s security and reliability and its inappropriate use is not problems of the University and students, but they are serious problems which refer to the entire network used by the University and students. This is why, speaking about the security of information system of the University or college, it is important to speak about the security of its network and clear rules of its usage.
