Knowledge Flow Analysis to Support the IT Ecosystem in the Process of Continuing Education

Continuing education is an important activity for the active involvement in a social environment and enhancement of competitiveness. Knowledge flows are invisible but very essential to achieve individual or organizational success. The application of information technologies in the continuation of education facilitates knowledge flow and makes its contents accessible regardless of an individual's location and time. Each of the applied technologies in continuing education provide a particular service or help to find a solution for a specific problem. The various applications of technologies ensure the potential for acquisition of diverse learning contents; on the other hand, it may impede the learning process due to underestimation of its use in the particular situation. Application of ecosystem theories in the development of an information technology model offers a possibility to evaluate and predict the impact of technologies on the implementation of continuing education processes and the required time for an individual to achieve the desired competencies. The objective of this article is to show the results of implementation of ecosystem principles to support the knowledge flow analysis within educational processes.