scholarly journals ETHICAL ASPECTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN THE EPOCH OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Osvitolohiya ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Maria Chikarkova

The article focuses on the ethical issues of distance learning as a challenge faced by education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author considers the moral and value aspects of distance learning at different levels - from problems of an international nature to individual communication between teacher and student. The range of problems related to the ethical component of distance learning is quite wide: digital inequality, digital literacy, pedagogical relations between "digital aborigines" and "digital immigrants", features of the use of digital material, etc. The author demonstrates the ambiguity of the problems that arose in the era of the pandemic. Thus, on the one hand, distance education requires a complete transition to digital format, on the other - both sides of the educational process are not ready for this format, because they do not have the necessary technical knowledge. Ethical issues are often financially related, such as addressing digital inequality or digital literacy. The article emphasizes that the digitalization of education requires a high level of responsibility and trust from all participants in the educational process. The most important condition of ethical behavior is awareness of digital etiquette and the effectiveness of penalties for its violation or incentives for its observance: compliance with ethical standards is a fundamental condition for success in the format of distance learning. At the same time, this requires first of all the development of distance learning principles and a corresponding code of ethics at the level of a specific educational institution.

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-72

This study aimed to identify the difficulties that parents of students in the elementary stage faced during their distance learning and to identify statistical differences according to the study variables. The researcher used the descriptive method and prepared a questionnaire that included 22 items consisting of three subscales. The participants comprised a total of 456 parents of elementary school students in the Eastern Region, Riyadh, and Asir. The results showed the difficulties were at a high level, and the difficulties were in the following order: the organizational difficulties related to the learning environment, the difficulties related to the educational process, and the difficulties associated with technology. The results also showed statistically significant differences due to the gender, region, age, and educational level variable and that there were not statistically significant differences due to the number of children variable. The researcher recommends the necessity of intensifying efforts from educational institutions to prepare for distance education especially for the elementary stage and providing courses at the elementary stage using distance education to develop study skills and self-learning. Keywords: Distance learning, elementary stage, parents of pupils


Author(s):  
Ihor Hevko

The article shows that the introduction of distance learning courses, trainings, webinars, workshops, round tables, etc. at a more systematic level are the effective ways of forming digital literacy. Possibilities of using distance learning in higher education institutions are considered. The article emphasizes that digitization affects not only the content of education but also its organization. These processes have mixed implications for positioning of universities and teaching work. Digitalization of education opens up new perspectives for any professional field, as it enables to expand the context of activities, organize international cooperation, create virtual groups and communities, forums and chats, provide access to materials of various formats (texts, multimedia, television, etc.), expand communication with native speakers through various Internet systems, etc. The advent of distance education has led to a whole new understanding of the learning process and has expanded its capabilities. The introduction of distance learning in Ukraine is currently in its active stage. At the beginning of the XXI century The Concept of Development of Distance Education in Ukraine and the Regulation on Distance Learning were approved. Today, the role and importance of digital educational resources and technologies in the educational sector is increasing; a great deal of efforts are being made to harmonize the structure of national HEIs with European requirements and to improve the quality of distance learning, which should lead to an increase in the level of training of specialists. Distance education is an important component of modern specialist training in many countries of the world, based on the use of both the best traditional teaching methods and new DER, as well as on the principles of self-study, intended for the general public irrespective of material security, place of residence, health status. A distinctive feature of distance education is interactive learning. Students have the opportunity not to attend classes, but to study at convenient time and in a convenient place. The main goal of distance learning is to ensure further development of the education system towards providing it with features and characteristics of open education (accessibility, mass, personal orientation, real continuityetc). Thus, distance education is a 21st century specialist training system, characterized by high professionalism that strives for collaboration, self-affirmation and a high level of communication with colleagues. It is characterized by a great intensification of socially significant motives: business, cognitive, cooperation, self-realization and development, self-affirmation and communication through the use of open and computer-based learning and modern means of communication.


Author(s):  
Sviatlana A. Kouchur

Based on the analysis of the concepts of “distance education” and “distance learning”, we proposed components of the quality of the remote education system (availability of educational standards and distance learning programs, high efficiency of remote learning technologies, evaluation of administrative and management decisions on the creation and functioning of the system, degree of regulatory and legal regulation, assessment of the level of technical and resource equipment, personnel readiness to organize and monitor the educational process in digital format) as well as the quality of distance learning (assessment of the content of digital educational content, the degree of innovation of the distance learning course, the effectiveness of feedback pedagogical communication, the degree of student training, the strength of residual knowledge, the effectiveness of digital educational means, the intensity of pedagogical interaction, the level of digital competencies of teachers and the readiness of students for independent educational activities in the digital environment). On the basis of these conditions, we formulated external (administrative, regulatory, material and technical, personnel) and internal (didactic and personal) factors affecting the effectiveness of distance learning. We also specifiedAspects related to internal factors, such as determining the pace of completing a distance course, requirements for academic support, reliance on internal motivation, managing student activity, using tools for measuring learning, substantiating methods of feedback pedagogical communication, studying student satisfaction with a distance course.


Author(s):  
Ganna Dekusar ◽  
Nataliya Davydova

The article considers the essence of development and dissemination of distance learning as an innovative technology in the Ukrainian and foreign education space in the context of the historical and pedagogical approach. The authors study the conditions of implementation of this education technology, teaching aids and features of teaching. An important point of the article is the analysis of the genesis of the educational process at different stages, positive and negative aspects of distance education, as well as the authors' own practical recommendations for using modern distance learning platforms taking into account the needs of education and information environment. A large number of works in modern general and professional pedagogy are devoted to the study of such an innovative education technology as distance learning. Using comparative and descriptive research methods, the history of this phenomenon in education is considered, the main pedagogical categories are identified, the advantages and disadvantages of the distance education application and difficulties of this technology implementation are identified. Despite the high level of the problem elaboration and introduction of distance learning in modern education, there is a need, taking into account modern realities, to analyse the significance and essence of this innovative approach in more details. The authors of the article consider modern distance learning platforms in terms of intensification of foreign language and other humanities learning. The necessity of distance education technologies implementation under conditions of modern technogenic civilisation is proved, when traditional models of organisation of the educational process fail to satisfy the education needs of a large number of population. The result of the work is a substantiated statement of the authors about the necessity to combine traditional and distance learning models to ensure the competitiveness of the modern educational process.


Author(s):  
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pivovarov

The article analyzes the problem feld of the distance education system. To determine the popularity of distance learning in Moscow universities among teachers and students, a sociological survey was conducted, which allowed us to identify an increasing trend in the number of students who would prefer distance learning to traditional with a strict schedule and draw conclusions about the prospects for distance education in Russian higher education institutions. The article presents a model of the educational process in the distance learning system with a brief description of each block. The model includes all the stages that a student goes through when entering, studying and graduating from a higher educational institution before receiving a diploma confrming the appropriate level of education. Each of the blocks contains descriptions of the actions required to pass this stage, as well as recommendations for improving and extracting the maximum result for both teachers or educational institutions, and for the students themselves. Alternative options are provided if one of the stages is stopped or impossible to overcome. Conclusions are drawn, in which cases the presented model of the educational process is applied, and the prospects of distance education in General are considered.


Author(s):  
Dmytro Hertsiuk ◽  
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Liubov Nos ◽  

The organization of the educational process in higher education institutions in a pandemic is analyzed. It is focused on the relevance of using distance learning. It operates on the basis of modern psychological, pedagogical and information and communication technologies. Based on the researches of scientific and pedagogical sources, global and national trends in the development of distance education in Ukraine are named according to certain features. Global trends include globalization, integration, internationalization, informatization. National trends identify the renewal of regulatory and legislative support for distance education, regulatory policy for the provision of distance learning and educational services and practices for ensuring their quality. Attention is drawn to the problem of teachers’ digital competencies development, finding ways to form and develop the readiness of teaching staff in the field of adult education to carry out professional activities in terms of distance learning. The analysis of normative documents regulating distance learning is carried out. The results of the Polish-Ukrainian study on “Students in the terms of the COVID-19ˮ, organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Pedagogical University to determine the features of distance learning in the terms of COVID-19 pandemic is described. The study covered 412 various specialties students of the Faculty of Pedagogical Education. The survey reflected the issue of distance learning assessment and the tools used by teachers. It was found that the most teaching staff used Zoom, Viber and the MOODLE platform, which meets all the basic criteria for e-learning systems. During the quarantine period, the University administration created all the conditions for the use of this platform. It is concluded that it is necessary to update the legal framework for distance learning, to adapt practical and seminar classes to the conditions of online learning, to increase the level of digital literacy and readiness teaching staff to use distance technology, to provide scientific and methodological support for the educational process in terms of distance learning. Keywords: distance learning, pandemic, digital literacy, technological competence, Internet technologies.


Author(s):  
Dmytro Dzvinchuk

The article considers some psychological, pedagogical and technical aspects of the introduction of distance learning. It is emphasized that the main purpose of creating a system of distance education is to ensure free access to educational resources through the use of modern information technologies and social networks and to create conditions for citizens to exercise their rights to education. The main disadvantages of distance education are depersonalization, lack of proper motivation of participants in the educational process, loss of educational and socialization functions of education, hyperbolization of independent work, low level of control over the educational process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
I.P. Pashkova ◽  
H.O. Palahniuk ◽  
M.O. Matokhniuk

The present article considers the results of implementing the distance learning technologies at Vinnytsia National Pirogov Memorial Medical University in the process of mastering the discipline "Internal Medicine". Today, the amount of information that is so necessary for obtaining, understanding and mastering knowledge is growing rapidly. Given the current pace of development of education, today it is quite important to find innovative forms of quality organization of the educational process. This led to the introduction of information technology in education and the formation of a separate type of learning - distance learning. Now in Ukraine, distance learning is widely developing at all levels of education, this makes it possible to individualize the process of acquiring knowledge, abilities, skills and methods of human cognitive activity, which occurs mainly through the indirect interaction of participants in the educational process distant from each other in a specialized environment, functioning based on modern information and communication technologies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Olha Volodymyrivna Berestok ◽  

The article deals with the main strategies, methods and objectives of synchronous and asynchronous E-Learning Modes from a scientific and practical point of view. A detailed description of the synchronous and asynchronous online-learning at different historical stages is presented. The task of the distance education in light of the trends of modern society and its role in the implementation of professional and social aspirations of an student is shown. The basic problems of contemporary ICT, the difference and peculiarities of the synchronous and asynchronous methods of e-communication are determined. The general tendencies, content, sources, means, forms and methods of ICT implementation in terms of strict quarantine circumstances are highlighted. Certain ICT tools implemented by higher educational establishments to provide distance learning in the educational institutions are defined. The key ways of overcoming the contradictions that arise in the path of self-improvement of a student in the present are called. The application of ICT tools by the teaching staff as an essential and effective instrument to modernize the educational process is emphasized. Online-learning environments, namely synchronous and asynchronous ones, essential to provide distance education, are mentioned. Various forms of interaction involved in synchronous and asynchronous modes are pointed out. The current practices of synchronous and asynchronous e-learning/teaching in English language are established. The results of the case study of the effectiveness of a/synchronous environments towards better English language learning are evaluated. The analysis of the strategy used in distance learning is presented. The leading instruments and tools for synchronous and asynchronous online-learning are stressed on. The description of "high degree of interactivity" between participants who are separated from each other geographically and in time by asynchronous learning environments is provided. The basic measures for the introduction of distance learning technologies in the educational institution, which do not contradict the principles of pedagogy, but supplement and promote the development of the process of education, are formulated. The preferences of students as for methods used during remote education are noted. Basic challenges for teachers, institutions, and students, provided by both synchronous and asynchronous modes of distance learning, are described.


2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-194
Author(s):  
B. Zhetpisbayeva ◽  
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D. Dyakov ◽  
S. Shunkeyeva ◽  
G. Khamitova ◽  
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This article proposes a research vision of the problem of using CLIL training in the context of distance education in schools and universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The relevance of the study is due to the lack of the research devoted to the content analysis of the integration of CLIL learning and distance learning technologies, as well as the need to identify the features and universal problems, characteristic of the practice of CLIL learning in distance learning format. The diagnosis of this problem was carried out through an online survey of school teachers and university teachers acting as experts on the implementation of CLIL training in educational institutions of the Republic. To develop a methodology and tools for online survey of teachers scientific works in the field of CLIL training and distance education technologies on the creation of educational resources and a virtual learning environment and on the sociology of education were studied. When processing the results of the survey, we used statistical and descriptive research methods. The results of the online survey confirmed the hypothesis of the study that the main problem of using CLIL technology is the problem of resource provision of the CLIL training program in the context of distance education, as well as the level of methodological and IT-training of school teachers and university teachers. Other features of using CLIL technology in a distance format are as follows: the school teachers and university teachers have an appropriate set of basic competencies of a teacher practicing CLIL training, and, at the same time, their insufficiency for the implementation of the educational process in the context of distance education and, accordingly, the need to acquire additional competencies required by the teacher for the application of CLIL technology in a distance format


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