Web Based Tools For Education

This year the world wide web celebrates 30 years of existence, and the Internet 50 years. Despite the 20 years gap between the two innovations, today these two terms are overlapping and are used with the same meaning. The fast development process together with other technologies resulted in increased accessibility and wide use in different domains. Education took advantage of the Internet, WWW and other technologies since their emergence, and since then many studies on the field were conducted, most of them showing the multiple advantages that education could benefit from.Still, the process was not simple, neither the transition smooth, being influenced by many external factors: financial, openness to innovation, teaching habits, learning support, community's feedback. Most of these factors are still valid today, only the proportion of their influence changing.The main issues in implementing new technologies were financial ones, but over time these became more accessible for education providers, despite still having teachers with high resistance to change or very weak support for teachers who wanted to use technology in their classes.The aim of this paper is to present some technological innovations used in education with minimal costs for institutions, with facile implementation and user friendly interfaces. These are cloud based technologies and their development has increased to the highest levels in the last decade.