Informatics as a basis for a knowledge — Based society

This paper deals with information education in development of a knowledge-based society in Croatia. The basic objective of the paper is focused on systematic comprehension and analysis of the situation related to information education and its tendency. Hence, some concepts and models for IT education in Croatia were propounded. Accordingly, these tasks were fully accomplished. Application of ICT has contributed to education and introduced the possibility of distance education using the Internet and computers, without space and time limits. Nowadays referred to as electronic education, such an education is a trend in society. Acquiring electronic education, incorporated in different levels of educational systems - undergraduate, graduate postgraduate and especially lifelong education - is a demand of contemporary education and Bologna process requirement.