University Education in the Development of Knowledge-based Society: Network Technologies of Scientific Research and Cyberscience as Factors of Education Professionalization

The paper analyzes conversion factors of organization forms both in education and research under conditions of developing knowledge based society. Features of the knowledge based society as service based society were investigated. The transformation process of knowledge status in the information society, socio-cultural implications of knowledge and information powers, changing nature of power relations were regarded. The author proposed the definition of cyberscience as a fundamentally new form of science organization, considered the stages of modern science development in the context of information and communication technologies, analyzed the informatisation model of scientific process.