Nataliia Morze

Ways of formation of effective students' collaboration skills based upon the usage of WBT

The article is devoted to the analysis of the ways of forming students collaboration skills based upon the usage of information and communication technologies. The authors specify the conception of effective students collaboration while studying as one of the skills of the 21st century. The main task in the organisation of students collaboration is providing a definition of the common aim in the studying process which is shared by everyone, and a strict division of roles for the solving of problems and tasks. Separately is examined the conception of students e-collaboration, separate elements and forms of this conception are defined.

Quality of Higher Education and Structure of ICT Competence of Teachers in Ukrainian High Schools

Abstract This article examines ways of improving the quality of higher education in Ukraine in context of European quality standards for University educational space. The European standards and guidelines are considered in relation to internal quality assurance. The paper describes interdependence between the education quality of the University and the ICT competence’s level of its educators. It presents the indicators to achieve internal quality standards in educational process. There are results from the questionnaire of the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University’s educators about dependence between the level of educators’ ICT competency formation and the quality of educational services. We describe the model of ICT competence corporate standards for the educators developed in the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. There are also presented the indicators and tools to measure the level of educators’ formation in the corporate standards.

METHODOLOGY OF MOOC CREATION ON WIKI-PORTAL

The use of information and communication technologies contributes to the development and reorganization of the information environment of modern society, in particular, the educational sphere. The modern education system is in a stage of global changes worldwide, it focuses on the all-round development of the person, prepares for life in open information space, provides training during the life, formation of tolerant worldview. There is an interaction of various social, economic and technical developments in education in a global context. Open education plays an important role in the authorization to education for everybody and in overcoming the difficulties created by constantly changing circumstances in education. Therefore many modern types of research are focused on the identification of features of the use of mass open online courses (MOOC). It is one of the current trends in the field of open distance learning. This article investigates the most important questions concerning MOOC. The international experience of courses development and training at the MOOC platforms have been analyzed. Wiki-portal which allows creating an open online course, participation in which can be accepted by a large number of users was chosen among various platforms for the creation of mass open online courses by Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.

Training of E-learning Managers at Universities

The article offers the theoretical-and-methodic aspects and practical experience outcomes of implementing the master’s program “E-learning management” for the students of pedagogical specialities of the University, which forms professional competences in the field of innovative methods, Web-services 2.0, e-learning expertise, projecting of e-environment, IT-infrastructure management, as well as develops soft skills. It suggests the solution to the training of specialists, who will have an ability not only to use ICT in their academic activities, but will also master the competences of e-learning. The article features the model of professional competences of e-learning manager, the content of the training program, methods, forms and training tools, efficiency indicators. Examples of competency tasks for measuring levels of professional competencies according to the developed model are given. Experimental verification of the developed model was carried out at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. The results of measuring the level of professional competence of e-learning managers before and after training in the master’s program “E-learning management” have been analyzed and statistically confirmed. Defined outlines the directions of research results dissemination.

CREATING MODERN CLOUD-ORIENTED PERSONALIZED EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION EDUCATIONAL PROCESS PARTICIPANTS' ICT COMPETENCIES

This article studies students‘ ICT competenciesxa0 and their ability to use information and communication technologiesxa0 to carry out information activities in their professional field. And focuses on specific factors of creating modern cloud-oriented personalized education environmentxa0 taking into consideration educational process participants ICT competencies. DOI:xa0 https://doi.org/10.28925/2414-0325.2017.3.27482

Robotics in primary school in the opinion of prospective and in-service teachers. A comparison study

This article describes some issues concerning the use of robots in primary school as an object and subject of learning. The authors conclude, based on an analysis of earlier research as well as their own study, that educational robots can stimulate learners learning motivation. Compared with other media, programmable bricks provide children with the opportunity to create their own products and, through this process, to express creative thinking. Studies have found that learning robotics or integrating programming bricks into courses can help to develop students problem-solving abilities and enhance their learning performance. Besides, an analysis is presented of basic legal regulations in this matter, primary school curricula as well as some results of a survey conducted in Poland and Ukraine among in-service teachers and prospective teachers.

Using effective and adequate IT tools for developing teachers' skills

This article describes preliminary results of the implementation of Work Package 4 Selection and testing new IT tools within the framework of the international research network IRNet (www.irnet.us.edu.pl) and by researchers from partner institutions from Portugal, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Turkey. These results relate to an analysis and study of a category of IT tools for making presentations and didactic videos, for formative continuous assessment (real-life and online), remote collaborative work and virtual meetings, virtual rooms, learning management systems for educational process support, online tutoring and social media. The package period has been divided into main stages: 1-5.

Identification of differences in university e-environment between selected EU and non-EU countries using knowledge mining methods: project IRNet case study

We propose indicators for evaluation of e-environment and evaluation of ICT competences. We analyse data gathered from the research, which was conducted in several European and non-European universities joined in the 7RP project IRNet. One part of the survey was focused on identifying the ways students use IT tools available in the e-environments of the universities and outlining possible ways for improving educational interactions in a network learning community. We tried to find groups of respondents, which differed in their answers to the questionnaire. We tried to discover knowledge and characterise universities based on the survey results. The most important questions identified in decision rules divide the respondents of the questionnaire into EU students and non-EU students groups. We found some differences between answers of students which belong to each of these groups. This case study provided an example of further analysis of the survey conducted in several participating countries.

Quality Hybrid Education Evaluation: Academic Staff Performance Assessment (Cases: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University and the University of Silesia)

Abstract The process of adjusting transformation of education to dynamics of civilization development requires from systems of education to respond to constant corrections from all the stakeholders, agents and processes to upgrade its elements and parameters, which can be facilitated by real-time feedbacks at all levels of systems. Studying quality education in the context of the goals that the mankind has been setting for its sustainable development helps realize the changes in the attributes of educational system and subsystem elements, given quality of education reflects a level of disorder providing objective data on interactions of system elements and their discord with normative goals forecast for certain educational systems. The paper analyzes hybrid education as a form of education which is being determined by transformation of educational systems under applying ICTs for educational processes and by external factors connected with determining sustainable development and with hybridization of environment, which requires new instruments for quality assessment that are currently being under development.

Selected aspects and conditions of the use of robots in STEM education for young learners as viewed by teachers and students

Purpose n n n n nThis paper aims to discuss issues related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. It is emphasized that the need to prepare students with twenty-first-century skills through STEM-related teaching is strong, especially at the elementary level. The authors present selected previous experiences, publications, research into the study topic, and review examples of primary school robotics and programming curricula, as well as associated educational activities. The authors stress that workshops, using kits to build and programme robots, are a modern form of interdisciplinary education of children and youth. n n n n nDesign/methodology/approach n n n n nThe rationale for conducting such activities in schools is found in the European reference framework in the context of training of key competences. Classes in robotics – if properly taught – will have an impact on the development of mathematical literacy and scientific–technical information and social competences. At the same time, competence is understood to mean a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the situation. Besides, an analysis is presented of basic legal regulations in this matter as well as results of a survey, conducted in Poland and Ukraine among in-service teachers and prospective teachers. n n n n nFindings n n n n nThe study was carried out with the participation of 91 primary school teachers and future teachers in the province of Silesia and at the University of Silesia in Poland, and in Ukraine, at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. The survey contained 15 questions about the pedagogical research “Robotics and children”. The study was carried out to determine the needs of modern education to introduce the basics of robotics in the educational process of primary school. n n n n nOriginality/value n n n n nIt can be expected that the findings from the prior Polish and Ukrainian surveys can be extrapolated into curricula for secondary schools and vocational education and training (VET) in the coming years.