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Nowadays technology is growing very fast, almost faster than we can imagine. Therefore as people who are responsible for the education and training of future Cartography specialists, we should improve our educational process to keep up to date. Students are educated in the disciplines of Cartographic drawing, Computer graphics and Desktop publishing of maps at the Cartographic Faculty, in the Department of Drawing and Map Designing. A few years ago it was decided to reconsider these educational methods. Because the cartographic agencies have highly modern equipment the students graduated from the University should have sufficient knowledge about it. Graduating students who find employment in government or private cartographic agencies face a severe problem if they begin work without adequate training after the University. Reconsidering the education process involved bringing the latest technology into practical training. This included improved computers, graphics pads with a stylus instead of traditional pen and ink, digitizers, digital cameras, professional scanners, Internet resources, special software used at agencies, digital manuals etc. Reconsidering the way of lecturing involved using a multimedia projector and laptop computer for presentations, online Internet shows, cartographic animations etc. There are some problems when trying to improve knowledge for students by modern methods. As any progress has negative and positive sides for human beings, new technologies could help us to educate people and could also introduce new and unexpected difficulties. The paper is dedicated to talking about these problems.