Quo vadis, IT education?

Human society is rapidly growing into knowledge society, which is based on all-increasing use of Information Technology (IT). Rapid development of IT technology has posed before the IT-education several challenges: rapid, all-increasing flood of new information (half of this what IT student learns in his/her first year of study is already obsolete after three years, and estimates show that we are only in the middle of the information revolution), very heterogeneous population of students - different ages, from different countries, from EU and from Far East, who nearly all are already working (full-time), thus having very different background knowledge, who record lectures (if they are present) with their iPhone/iPad images and videos, who communicate with their mentors sending links to video clips in YouTube; changing nature of Universities, which are transforming into commercial enterprises (based on profit) and are forced to act correspondingly. The whole value of higher IT education is sometimes questioned - Bill Gates and Steve Jobbs both dropped out from college and many employers believe school-leavers make better workers than university graduates [1]. In the paper are discussed current developments in society and IT, challenges of IT education and considered changes what the IT education is currently having in our countries in the general context of EU efforts for promoting e-Skills and lifelong learning.