E-learning in terms of sustainability at the university - digital competencies (test results at the Faculty of Education of Presov University)

The presented paper brings a comparison of digital skills test results of students of the Faculty of Education, University of Presov within their undergraduate training with the aim to estimate the level of their digital skills in five defined domains. The paper provides an interpretation of the selected research findings (total mean scores and mean scores for the given domains). The results of digital skills testing point out the tendency of the overall overestimation of Digital Natives Skills. The demands of pedagogues as well as teaching practice itself give rise of new challenges for students. Within the preparation process of the new study programs accreditations it is therefore necessary to modify the curricula of IT-oriented subjects and include further activities allowing for the development of the lacking “Digital Skills”, since these are needed not only for students' own study but also due to the increasing demands related to the use of digital technologies in primary and pre-primary education. One of the possible solutions seems to be e-learning, which we consider to be useful in the entire education process, as well as a powerful tool in today's globalised world. E-learning has gone through different phases from “the only effective adult learning option”, later to “an impersonal instrument distorting education and devastating social contacts”, and has recently identified itself as a tool that can deliver the comfort of learning with its own pace, cost reduction, prosocial contacts and convergence of distant worlds