E-services in the higher education system

Abstract

The development of technological networks and the Internet had a serious influence on the current functioning of Polish universities. The existence of websites, electronic mail, of the possibility of making payments by the Internet and teaching by e-learning, these are only some of the ways of using of the Internet to the purpose of servicing students and employees of higher education institutions. The assumptions of the development of the information society consist above all in the phenomenon of information society services, i.e. the performance of service in a knowledge-based society, based on modern technologies. The author of the article is explaining basic terms and definitions associated with the Internet in the formal, legal, technological and functional meaning. He is dedicating a lot of attention to the functioning of university systems of servicing the studies (USOS), on the example of the Warsaw University.