scholarly journals Zoom Technology as an Effective Tool for Distance Learning in Teaching English to Medical Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Guzacheva

The paper presents issues associated with the introduction of effective educational technologies to distance learning a foreign language at the university. The review of the author’s use of Zoom technology in medical education is presented. The current problems of introduction of distance learning technologies in teaching English language to medical students are determined. The experience of distance learning for teaching medical students a foreign language by the electronic educational resource Zoom is described.

Author(s):  
M.G. Yanova ◽  
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Yu.A. Olentsova ◽  

Statement of the problem. The article studies the problem of formation of students’ readiness for independent work when studying a foreign language. The article substantiates the necessity of using distance learning technologies for the effective organization of students’ independent work in foreign language classes. The article analyzes the work with a foreign text in the formation of students’ readiness for independent work through distance educational technologies. The purpose of the article is to identify methods and tools for step-by-step work on the text of a foreign language through distance educational technologies for the formation of students’ readiness for independent work. The methodology is based on the analysis and synthesis of the experience gained in science and practice of teaching a foreign language to students of various specializations. Research results. Based on the analysis of published scientific studies, the methods and tools of working with a text in a foreign language are identified. The choice of the methods and tools is determined by the purpose of the lesson, the type of text chosen for reading, and the stages of working with the text. A system of exercises for students’ independent work on the development of reading skills based on the electronic platform LMS Moodle is proposed. LMS Moodle has many tools for creating these exercises. One can select tools that correspond to the level of students’ training, the type of text and technical capabilities. Conclusion. The use of distance learning technologies in teaching a foreign language significantly increases the intensity of the educational process. It contributes to the formation of students’ readiness for independent work when learning a foreign language in general, and, in particular, when working with a text.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Maliataki ◽  
K. A. Kirichek ◽  
A. A. Vendina

Purpose of the study. Currently, the issues of informatization of education and the use of information technologies in the educational process are receiving new development. At the same time, high-quality training of future lecturers is possible only if innovative methods are used in the process of their training, reflecting modern, activity-based approaches to the organization of the educational process, forms of educational work, and also assessment methods. In this connection, the aim of the study was to find one of the solutions to the organization of independent work of students of a pedagogical institute using active and interactive learning technologies within the educational information environment of the university, as well as testing the identified innovative methods using distance learning technologies.Materials and methods. To resolve this problem, the authors of the article carried out the analysis of pedagogical literature, practical experience in organizing student learning, as well as self-analysis of the use of distance learning technologies in the process of teaching bachelors in the direction of preparation “Pedagogical Education”, followed by a generalization and systematization of the identified features. The study made it possible to distinguish three areas of educational and informational interaction within the framework of organizing and supporting students' independent work, namely, cloud technologies, social networks and distance learning technologies, as well as identify the strengths and weaknesses of each of the areas. At the same time, it is determined that the use of distance educational technologies has the greatest number of advantages. A questionnaire of 216 first-to-fifth year students of the Stavropol State Pedagogical Institute made it possible to establish the attitude and readiness of students to use distance learning technologies, to identify specific methods (namely, the project method and case method), which were later tested by us in the process of preparing bachelors using the distance learning system of the University, implemented on the basis of LMS Moodle.Results. The implementation of the project method based on the use of distance educational technologies allowed us to organize a comprehensive process of students' project work, which contributes to the manifestation of their independence in the planning, organization and control of their educational and cognitive activities. To implement the project method, the capabilities of such LMS Moodle elements were used and described as: “Hot Question”, “Checklist”, “Forum” or “Chat”, “Groupself-selection”, “Seminar”. It is concluded that the tools of the Moodle system are enough to ensure full-fledged extracurricular work of students on the project and evaluate the effectiveness of such work. LMS Moodle is also a convenient tool for organizing students to complete case studies. As a tool containing case materials and implementing an automatic or semi-automatic check of its solution, such Moodle elements as: “Task”, “Lecture”, “Questionnaire”, “Forum” were revealed and tested.Conclusion. Each of the presented directions for the implementation of active and interactive teaching methods using distance educational technologies has its own didactic and methodological advantages. The choice of this or that method or their integration depends on the goals and objectives facing a particular lecturer.


Author(s):  
S.L. Suvorova ◽  
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T.V. Khilchenko ◽  
Yu.V. Olar ◽  
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The article presents the authors’ experience of implementing distance learning in the information and educational environment of the higher educational institution as one of the conditions of its innovative strategies. Based on the latest research on introducing distance learning in teaching foreign languages in the modern conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors identified the key semantic fields of the problem, namely: positioning the process of introducing distance learning for teaching a foreign language as a prerequisite for the innovative development of the university as a whole and its strategic planning in particular; identification of universal technologies and platforms that can be used in the educational process of the university: videoconferencing implemented on Zoom, Discord, Skype; television and satellite technology based on the use of interactive television: television and radio lectures, videoconferences, virtual practical exercises; email technology; network technologies for posting various educational materials; case studies. The article describes specific models for the implementation of distance learning technologies in organizing practical classes in English. It describes a step-by-step algorithm for using Zoom platform, a model for integrating this technology with network technologies that provide an opportunity to use educational and methodological materials of electronic information educational environment of the university. The authors carried out a comprehensive analysis of the experience of introducing distance learning technologies in the process of foreign language teaching of two universities of the Ural Federal District – Shadrinsk State Pedagogical University and the Ural State Pedagogical University and concluded that it is necessary to use these technologies as a condition for the innovativeness of educational strategies of the university.


Author(s):  
M. V. CHURSANOVA ◽  
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F. M. GAREEVA ◽  
D. V. SAVCHENKO ◽  
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The paper analyzes up-to-date distance learning technologies used in European education system for ensuring overall organization of the educational process during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quarantine conditions have become a catalyst for development and practical testing of virtual learning tools and innovative pedagogical technologies, and application of the experience with them is a necessity of today and a strategy for the future. The article is focused on distance learning technologies in higher education. Institutions of England, Germany and France are chosen for the study due to their banner quality of educational service, like the University of Oxford, for example. The basis for successful conduct of all types of classes is employment of universities’ own specialized learning platforms. The learning model remains more similar to the traditional one. The main role continues to belong to communication between qualified teachers and students through various interactive web applications, while digital technologies create space for such interaction, filling it with learning materials. Students get access to all educational services using a single password to the university network. At the same time, some learning materials are available with open access, video lectures and podcasts are popular. Unlike other countries, education in Germany is governed by strict principles of information and data protection. In the contrary, in France many courses have been made available on network, and the education system has instantly adapted to work in virtual mode through the developed system of national distance learning platforms and the massive open online courses. The result of effective distance learning organization in Europe during the pandemic is that the introduction of digital technologies and transition to more flexible learning models become the education strategy at the state level, while pedagogy becomes an area of advanced development of information and communication technologies. Key words: distance education, online learning, information and communication technologies, educational platforms, quarantine, COVID-19.


2021 ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Ирина Геннадьевна Алмазова ◽  
Ирина Владимировна Кондакова ◽  
Наталья Александровна Нехороших

Подчеркивается необходимость своевременного вычленения и качественного анализа проблем дистанционного обучения, учета предпочтений и интересов обучающихся и преподавателей вуза, консолидации их усилий по преодолению трудностей и решению проблем, связанных с объективными и субъективными ситуациями, особенностями использования технологий дистанционного обучения при организации образовательного процесса в университете. Описаны особенности использования дистанционной формы организации обучения в вузе. Приведены данные, полученные при исследовании (опросе) влияния применения технологий дистанционного обучения на здоровье студентов 1–5-го курсов очной и заочной формы обучения направления подготовки 44.03.05 Педагогическое образование (с двумя профилями подготовки) Института психологии и педагогики Елецкого государственного университета им. И. А. Бунина. The article describes the need for timely identification and qualitative analysis of the problems of distance learning, taking into account the preferences and interests of students and university teachers, consolidating their efforts to overcome difficulties and solve problems related to objective and subjective situations, the peculiarities of using distance learning technologies in the organization of the educational process at the university. In the current situation, burdened by the spread of a new coronavirus acute respiratory infection, which is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV), the world education system (including higher education) is forced to turn to distance learning technologies. These technologies allow you to work remotely, maintaining the necessary distance, protecting the health of people (both students, teachers, and employees of higher educational institutions), excluding their close interaction during training, scientific research, in the admission campaign, in extracurricular work, etc. The authors describe the features of using the remote form of organizing training at the university so that it contributes to the maximum saving of students ‘ health, has a positive effect on their physical and mental state; minimizes the viral load in a difficult epidemiological situation; increases and develops digital literacy of students; “opens” new opportunities for remote work for the teaching staff. The article provides the data obtained in the study (survey) of the impact of the use of distance learning technologies on the health of the full-time and part-time students of the 1st – 5th year of studies of the area of training 44.03.05 Pedagogical education (with two training profiles) of the Institute of Psychology and Pedagogy Bunin Yelets State University.


Author(s):  
Serhii RADUL ◽  

The article considers the peculiarities of providing English-language training of (future) aviation specialists for professional self-realization and performance of professional duties with the use of modern distance learning technologies. The specifics of distance learning are revealed. Terms and concepts, forms of learning are provided. Distance learning technologies, namely: psychological and pedagogical, information and communication, web-environment provide an opportunity to implement the process of distance learning in educational institutions. There are also two strategies for organizing distance learning: asynchronous distance learning and synchronous distance learning. During the planning and organization of distance learning a great role is given to the independent work of cadets. There are also IT elements that a lecturer and a cadet should be able to use in professional interaction. It is noted that Internet technologies, the ability to use Internet resources have a special place in the formation of professional self-realization of a future aviation specialist and providing innovative approaches to the educational environment. The main tasks of English language training in the educational language centers of the Flight Academy of NAU are: improving language skills and strengthening the communicative competence of the teacher / instructor to teach the professional disciplines in English, teaching professional English, preparation for the general English exam at level B2. The use of distance learning technologies in the English-language training of future aviation specialists requires a high level of knowledge, both theoretical and practical. It is necessary to interest and direct students to the use of innovative methods in order to build their professional capacity to use information and communication technologies in their further professional self-realization. Key words: distance learning, English language training of an aviation specialist, ICT, Internet resources, innovations, professional self-realization.


2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Ирина Геннадьевна Алмазова ◽  
Галина Александровна Корякина ◽  
Светлана Николаевна Числова

Анализируется проблема разработки, характеристики и реализации важного условия организации образовательного процесса в университете с применением технологий дистанционного обучения, связанного с созданием в университете качественной цифровой образовательной среды, развития технической инфраструктуры и повышения квалификации вузовских преподавателей с целью эффективного использования ими технологий дистанционного обучения в процессах цифровой трансформации высшей школы. Причем такое условие анализируется не только с позиции повышения эффективности организации исследуемого процесса, но и с позиции обеспечения деятельности вуза, отвечающей требованиям мировых стандартов, что чрезвычайно важно в формате реализуемой государственной программы Российской Федерации «Развитие образования» на 2018–2025 гг. Приводятся данные опроса студентов и преподавателей университета, освещающие результаты измерения уровня эффективности реализации проверяемого условия организации образовательного процесса в университете с применением технологий дистанционного обучения. The materials of this publication analyze the problem of development, characteristics and implementation of an important condition for the organization of the educational process at the university with the use of distance learning technologies, associated with the creation of a high-quality digital educational environment, the development of technical infrastructure and advanced training of university teachers in order to effectively use distance learning technologies in the processes of digital transformation of higher education. And a certain condition is analyzed not only from the perspective of improving the efficiency of the organization of the process under study, but the operations of the University that meets the requirements of world standards, which is extremely important in the format of the State program of the Russian Federation “Development of education” for 2018–2025. The results of study of the levels of effectiveness of the implementation of the conditions are tested and and the data of the questionnaire survey of students and teachers are provided. The article describes the terms “distant education” and “distant learning”. The synonymy of their meanings and the peculiarities of their use in the context of the characteristics of a special way of implementing the educational process at the university are noted. The features of the implementation of the selected condition that took place in 2020 are noted: flexibility in taking into account the time frame of classes and in choosing an individual pace of training; modularity; the use of various types of communication; wide coverage of the audience of students.


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