New Trends in Technology Application in Education and Capacities of Universities Lecturers during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Information technology has been changing basic education in a basic and comprehensive, systematic and highly integrated way at the beginning of the 21st century. The explosion and development of educational technology will create non-traditional methods of education, strongly promoting the development of deeply transformative education for people. Teaching students, increasing knowledge and sharing are more important than ever. This process leads to the need to revisit the value and significance of teaching in general, in terms of the relationship between the development of technology and changes in the nature of the implementation process of educational programs. However, besides information technology, people still play a leading role in teaching. Therefore, the role and capacity of university lecturers also need to be changed to fit the trend of the world, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, the competencies of university lecturers as well as the importance of applying information technology in teaching are mentioned and analysed in detail.