scholarly journals Social Mission of Students in the Educational Process: The Past and the Present

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Maksymovska Nataliia Oleksandrivna ◽  
Shepelieva Nataliia Viacheslavivna

Abstract The article considers the interconnection between students’ social mission in the conditions of information society and improvement of higher educational process. The aim and tasks of the article are to examine the dynamics of students’ social mission, to study out the characteristic features of improving educational process in relation to contemporary tasks of training a competent professional, empiric verification of proposed scientific positions. To investigate the connection between students’ social mission and optimization of educational process a set of methods was used: theoretical – historical analysis to define students’ social mission; comparison, generalization of scientific facts to uncover contemporary interaction tendencies of students’ social role and the flow of educational process; synthesis for clarification of the “students’ social mission” concept; empiric – experimental research of students’ satisfaction with the educational process, survey through online questionnaire, mathematic processing and generalization of acquired data. Analysis of open-type responses regarding the proposed remarks and recommendations enabled the formation of action directions to improve the conditions of educational process, such as support and facilitation of students’ academic mobility, usage of new forms and means in educational process (distance learning, training, contemporary information technologies and others), correspondence of the contents of educative qualification study programs with contemporary demands of a job market and others. Results of this study will be useful for scholars of social pedagogy, teachers, methodologists and heads of higher educational institutions, social pedagogues, social workers, students, etc.

Author(s):  
Yu. Atamanchuk

The article deals with the creation of unified information-educational environment of an educational institution, requirements to it, the organization of the educational process based on it, as well as all its constituent parts presented in an educational institution. A promising field of research of the problem of information technologies usage in students' learning activities can become the experimental study of the beliefs of students, scientific-pedagogical and pedagogical staff of higher education institutions on e-learning tools and their application in the educational environment. Moreover, it is worthwhile to mention that the problem of effective use of modern ICT disciplines is studied by many professors of higher educational institutions. However, its incorrect usage leads to the substitution of the learning objectives. Nowadays it is possible to reduce the educational process in universities not only by knowledge mastering, but also teaching students to learn and apply their new knowledge and information as effective, as it is possible. Numerous theoretical and practical research characteristics of the information technology in the students’ educational process claim that this approach is a response to students’ social demands and needs, since it contributes to the formation of professional competence of future professionals. One of the most important factors that significantly effects the quality of education is the usage of modern information technologies. Modern graduate students should have special professional tools and solve working problems, using information systems. Thus, the introduction of innovative information technologies in higher educational institutions enables future professionals to expand their potential abilities and encourages active learning.


Author(s):  
Olena Kravchenko

The article argues that the relevance of providing the quality of the official website content of modern universities is predetermined by the objective requirements of the present day, such as the priority of the state policy in the field of integration of higher educational institutions into the European education space, the globalization of information technologies and increasing of the Internet activity among the population. The subject of the study is the features of the websites' information content of the universities from different countries. It is determined that the website content of a modern institution of higher education contains information on various types of university activities (educational, scientific, pedagogic, financial, and marketing). The content of websites of foreign and universities was analyzed according to the following criteria: language; informativeness; utility; administrative and financial transparency; technical design. The analysis of website content of various universities was carried out in accordance the availability of information of university’s general characteristics, of the organization of the university’s educational process and features of student life, of university's scientific activities, of ways of advertising and the formation of a positive image of an educational institution in the imagination of Internet visitors. The attention is focused on the features of the websites' information content of the leading foreign and domestic universities. The main distinctions are in the ways of positioning the institution in the future; outlining the competitive advantages of an educational institution and highlighting the opportunities for improving the quality of the educational process; popularizing the university's scientific activities, and identifying the ways to confirm the reputation of the university. It is proved that the development of top-quality content contributes to the improvement of the image of the higher educational institution on the Internet, as well as increases the competitiveness of the university in the market of educational services both in the country and abroad. Awareness of the relevance of providing the quality of the official website content of the institution of higher education allows to tackle the problem of creating and distributing vital, unique, classified, and interesting information.


Author(s):  
Natalia Hrytsak

The article deals with theoretical substantiating of the concepts “innovative education” and “innovative technologies”. The state of scientific researches of the problem of the introduction of innovative technologies in the educational process of students-philologists in higher school is explored. Three aspects of the notion “innovation” are examined in the article. The principle components of innovative education are analyzed. Innovative education predicts a new inquiry-based approach in teaching the traditional learning courses at the faculty of philology of higher educational establishments. The role and importance of information technologies are exposed; the expedience of the introduction of new information technologies in the educational process of higher educational establishments is advanced arguments. It is demonstrated that the tendencies of the development of higher education in Ukraine require the search and realization of different forms, methods, principals of education which facilitate the progress high results in educational process. The concept innovative pedagogical activity is ascertained. Innovative education is the realization of the novelty in contents, methods, techniques and forms of education. Innovative education is the opposition to the traditional forms of education as provides changing of educational priority. One of the principle aspects of the problem of the effective introduction of Innovative education is removal accent of lecturer’s functions. Innovative pedagogue’s activity needs special knowledge, skills and mastering logical thinking, creativity and finding the ways of solving the problem. Innovative pedagogical activity is the activity in consequence of which the complex of developed (different levels of complexity), novelty or reinterpretation, and accordingly creative realization of the heritage of other scholars and pedagogues is developed. The author partly propounds the most effective methods and forms of educational work of students-philologists at the classes of world literature of the institutions of higher education. It is defined that the application of innovative technologies concentrates the student audience’s attention, stimulates the retention of educational material, forms the information culture of students-philologists, and improves creative components of the traditional forms of education.


Author(s):  
Yelizaveta Kriukova ◽  
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Svitlana Buha ◽  

The development of modern society in the world takes place in the era of rapid development of information technologies in all fields of human activity, including education. Therefore, one of the main ways of solving the problem of education modernization is the introduction of information technologies and combination with traditional educational means. The issue of ensuring the high level of information and communication technologies in the educational process becomes more urgent every year. The experience of teachers of higher education institutions shows the effectivenes of information and communication technologies integration in teaching English. Information and communication technologies enable students to be involved in the learning process, increase students’ motivation and their interest in learning English. The use of information and communication technologies in the educational process gives the possibility to reduce the time for mastering the material at the expense of clarity and to check students’ knowledge in the interactive form. The article deals with the use of modern information and communication technologies in the process of teaching English in higher education. Aspects of information and communication technologies in the process of learning a foreign language are theoretically grounded. The experience of information and communication technologies implementation in the educational process of higher educational institutions is analyzed and the main advantages and disadvantages of their application are characterized. The experience of using Quizlet (an application that helps in learning new words, phrases, terms faster and more effectively) in teaching English at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of Igor Sikorsky” was analized in the context of the analysis of information technologies in higher educational establishments of Ukraine.


Author(s):  
Stelian Brad

Developing engineering study programs of high quality, able to satisfy customized needs, with flexible paths of study, with easy and rapid access to the most appropriate educational facilities and lecturers is a critical and challenging issue for the future of engineering education. The latest developments in communication and information technologies facilitate the creation of reliable solutions in this respect. Provision of web-based courses in engineering education represents one of these solutions. However, the absence of physical interactions with the training facilities and the specificity of remote collaboration with lecturers rise up additional challenges in designing a high-quality web-based engineering course. In order to define superior solutions to the complex set of requirements expressed by several stakeholders (e.g. students, lecturers, educational institutions and companies), a comprehensive planning of quality and an innovative approach of potential conflicting problems are required during the design process of web-based engineering courses. In this context, the present chapter introduces a generic roadmap for optimizing the design process of web-based engineering courses when a multitude of requirements and constrains are brought into equation. Advanced tools of quality planning and innovation are considered to handle the complexity of this process. The application of this methodology demonstrates that no unique, best-of-the-world solution exists in developing a web-based engineering course; therefore customized approaches should be considered for each course category to maximize the impact of the web-based educational process.


Author(s):  
Stelian Brad

Developing engineering study programs of high quality, able to satisfy customized needs, with flexible paths of study, with easy and rapid access to the most appropriate educational facilities and lecturers is a critical and challenging issue for the future of engineering education. The latest developments in communication and information technologies facilitate the creation of reliable solutions in this respect. Provision of web-based courses in engineering represents one of these solutions. However, the absence of physical interactions with the training facilities and the specificity of remote collaboration with lecturers rise up additional challenges in designing a high-quality web-based engineering course. In order to define superior solutions to the complex set of requirements, quality planning and an innovative problem solving are parts of web-based engineering courses design process. In this context, the present chapter introduces a generic roadmap for competitive design of web-based engineering courses. Methodology application is illustrated in a case study. An important conclusion arising from the case study is that no unique, best-of-the-world solution exists in developing a web-based engineering course; therefore customized approaches should be considered for each course category to maximize the impact of the web-based educational process.


Author(s):  
N. O. Fedchyshyn ◽  
N. I. Yelahina

It has been considered the principles of professional training of future PE teachers. The modern challenges in the professional training of future PE teachers at the higher education institutions are analyzed; the main directions of introduction of pedagogical technologies in the process of vocational training are specified. The article emphasizes the need for systematic introduction of innovative and information technologies, content updating, use of new forms, tools, methods and principles of education in the educational process of the higher educational institutions in order to improve the quality of future PE teachers’ professional training. It is established that the system of physical education at the higher schools faces the fact that it is necessary to go beyond the traditional activity of teachers at these establishments, and therefore requires a social and psychological rethinking of the system of teaching and the proposed amount of knowledge.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-197
Author(s):  
I. V. Sosnovskaya ◽  
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I. Z. Sosnovskiy ◽  

Introduction. The paper examines the problem of updating the literary education toolkit in the context of the new longread technology. The study aims to substantiate the application of this technology in literary education, to prove that the work with classic literature can be interesting and effective, and analyze the developmental and motivational resources of this technology. Materials and Methods. The study relied on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and was aimed at updating the technologies applied in the educational process. The longread technology used in journalistic practices was considered as a new toolkit. The substantiation of its application in literary education involved a survey of schoolchildren and students. Analysis and systematization of the survey results proved the assumptions of the authors’ to be true. The study was conducted in the schools in Irkutsk and at the Humanities and Aesthetic Department of the Pedagogical Institute of Irkutsk State University. Results. The scientific literature has been analyzed and the characteristic features of the current socio-cultural situation, which determine the specificity of perception and thinking of modern schoolchildren, have been identified. Developing resources and problematic aspects of the longread technology application in literary education are described. The findings indicate the reserves of this technology for the reader and creative development, its controversial aspects, and the specifi city of the longread when used in diff erent stages of literary education. In conclusion, the authors emphasize that provided there is an understanding of how, under what conditions, and to what works the longread can be applied, this technology can undoubtedly contribute to the involvement in reading and co-creation. Mastering new information technologies is a requirement of the time for a modern teacher and opens up prospects for their professional development. Keywords: digitalization, media space, communication, technology, creolized text, longread, multimedia elements, editing, text markup, interpretation


Author(s):  
Olha Krichker ◽  
Natalia Yeremeieva

The article considers the peculiarities of the application of innovative, in particular, information technologies to develop communicative competence in English in the students of technical higher educational institutions. It is analyzed what the professional competence is, what are the tools of innovative technologies and how they can be used to form communicative competence in English in the students of technical higher educational institutions. It is highlighted that working with the help of information and computer technologies on the formation of communicative competence in English, students acquire and improve their professional competence and its integral components: ability to plan and control their work, understand the logic of decisions, competence in achieving the goal, and the desire to reach high quality of their work, as well as self-confidence. It is proved that the implementation of modern computer technologies into the educational process to form communicative competencies promotes more active and conscious assimilation of knowledge by students, creates a positive attitude of students to educational material, strengthens internal motivation to form communicative competence in English, stimulates students' interest in learning, promotes logical, creative thinking. It is noted that the problem of the formation of communicative competence in English for students of technical higher educational institutions to promote their further development as competitive specialists should be solved by means of integrating into the content and technology of formation of communicative competence in English structural components of training, such as attitudes, motives, knowledge, skills, experience, competencies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 80-96
Author(s):  
T. E. Isaeva

During the period of the forced remote learning caused by the threat of the coronavirus infection spread, Russian university teachers, as well as their foreign colleagues, had to acquire quickly new skills in the field of information technologies and organization of classes exclusively in electronic mode. However, the changes in the structure of the teachers’ personality were not limited only to informational and methodological competences. The relevance of this research is to test the hypothesis about the emergence of a new type of teacher’s pedagogical culture, characterized by a special awareness of the humanistic and social role of a teacher in the course of e-learning. The aim is to study the content of a new type of pedagogical culture, as well as its structural components performed by the competences, the presence of which was actualized during the pandemic. The theoretical research methods (study and analysis of scientific publications on the teachers’ competences, especially in demand during the pandemic, synthesis, systematization, comparison, etc.) and empirical methods (conversation, questioning, observation) were used in the study. The conducted empirical research, as well as the analysis of domestic and foreign publications show that, despite a short-term nature of remote learning, the transformations in pedagogical culture have the character of a qualitative leap and are global in nature, as they have affected the teachers in all countries. This allows us to declare the emergence of a new type of pedagogical culture, namely the “electronic” pedagogical culture of a higher school teacher, which is a natural result of the development of “basic” culture and is characterized by a change in priorities in the structure and in the content of its constituent blocks of competences. The article compares real changes in the structure of a teacher’s personality with forecasts regarding the “competences of the future”, as well as with the “information pedagogical culture”, which is believed to have arisen in the process of information technologies penetration into the educational process. The scientific novelty of the research consists in substantiating the possibility of transforming the “basic” pedagogical culture of the teacher under the influence of external and internal factors. In theoretical terms, the study expands the scientific understanding of the essence of the teacher’s pedagogical culture, the patterns of its development and transformation, as well as its competence-based structural organization.


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