1 Utilization of Videoconferences in Educational Environment

The progress in the information technologies has impact not only in the area of computer sciences, but also in the area of education. Following this trend, students have not only a great oportunity to search for the information resources on the Internet, but they can also use plenty of media with various information for their study. Nowadays the number of services providing not only the textual information, but also multimedia information, is growing. Many of them have educational character, so they can be used for wide educational purposes. This paper is focused to the problem of videoinformation usage for the educational purposes; the usage of videoconferences for the distance learning; and the usage of distributed systems for the creation of archive service of multimedia content based on the running videoconferences, which can be used later in the educational process. In this paper also an idea of creating a formal model of presented distributed system is imposed, with regard to its use within an educational process in all aspects of system’s design and implementation.