Education Reboot: Reinventing the University

AbstractSources of information, in increasingly numerous varied forms, are an aggressive alternative to the educational system. Television and Internet monopolize more and more leisure time and create or modify individual personalities. Education must come forward on this track and,,battle” with these technologies in order to provide information and create individuals that cover the society needs. The new developments in Information Technology and Communications (IT&C) and the growth of mobile communications have developed new ways of interaction between the individual and the information. In this regard, our option is that an online educational system suited for national expansion based on the existing infrastructure in our university and an even distribution of broadcast servers. This structure must consist in permanently accessible servers and make available educational materials and scientific conferences (recorded or live). Also it can be easily extended from the North-East region to the whole country. Implementation of broadcast server system not only benefits the universities which use these services, but also has a positive impact on the productivity and costs of these organizations. The system has also a structure that allows communication assessment synchronous or asynchronous, real-time discussions (verbal or written), audio-visual contact. The system supports simultaneous data transmission channel to presentation/audio-video communication channel. The one who presents, the teacher or the lecturer, will be able to make changes on the video channel and simultaneous on the material and will be able to display in real time, for visible and long-distance viewers. At the same time this broadcast will be recorded to be seen in asynchronously mode whenever is needed. In terms of cost, the financial support can be provided by the university, by a consortium of universities and/or through advertising, like television The paper presents a summary of the characteristics of the broadcast server system, some major issues that justify the necessity of using this model to disseminate information and knowledge and identify the potential that it possesses, but also the problems that concerns such an activity (trust, security risks, privacy risks)