scholarly journals Usability testing of Google cloud applications: students' perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Alqahtani

Modern information and communication technologies affect all areas of life significantly, including education and learning. Cloud storage tools are one of the forms of modern information technologies that are employed to serve the educational process. The current research aims to study the use of Google cloud applications (Google Classroom, Google Plus and Google Drive) in education and to determine the most appropriate web-based training environment in view of the level of usability. The experimental method was applied in this study using a sample of 200 students from Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University. The current research found that there was some convergence in the usability of the three environments. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the environment of Google Classroom has the highest usability value (86.45), and also showed statistically significant differences in scholastic achievement in the application the service of Google Classroom in the educational process. 

Author(s):  
M.V. Vakulenkova ◽  

Cybernation of the world, which began in the middle of the 20th century, encompassed all spheres of the life of society, becoming an essential component of the environment. Electronic technologies are used in various industries and services, including education. The implementation of the idea of e-education has contributed to the change in educational technologies, the dominant component of which are information and communication technologies. The research problem lies in the need to disclose modern information and communication technologies as an actual resource for educational activities. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the effectiveness of the use of information and communication technologies in the educational process. The research methods are analysis, synthesis, generalization, description. The basic research method is a pedagogical experiment. The research results: the concept of "information and communication technologies" has been considered, their tools have been described; the advantages of using information and communication technologies in educational activities in the direction of training 44.03.02 Psychology and Pedagogy of primary education have been disclosed; the efficiency has been substantiated and the possibilities of using informatization means in the educational process on the basis of the branch of FSBEI HE "Adyghe State University" in the city of Belorechensk have been determined; examples of the use of information and communication technologies in the educational process in the disciplines "Modern information technologies", "Information and communication technologies in education" have been given; the results of experimental work have been presented, that confirm the increase in the efficiency of the quality of knowledge. Key conclusions: information and communication technologies include the integration of methodological techniques, technological processes, software and hardware that interact with each other in the process of using information for a specific purpose, determined by the interests of its consumers; the advantages of information and communication technologies in educational activities are the expansion of the possibilities of the educational process, the development of positive educational motivation and interest of students, an increase in the quality of knowledge, etc.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Yakovlevich Zobenko ◽  
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Alexandra Zobenko ◽  
Yuri Vasiliev ◽  
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The article pays attention to modern information technologies that allow distance learning among students in higher educational institutions. Describes the role of modern technologies, information and communication, in the education system and the practice of a doctor. The ex-perience of introducing telecommunication technologies for holding meetings with participants in the educational and medical process is described.


Author(s):  
Salomova Ra'no Vassievna ◽  

The article reveals the main methods of using modern information technologies in the educational process. Influence of information and communication technologies on the quality of teaching children and the basic requirements for a modern teacher.


Scientific and technical progress in the modern world is increasing its pace and is actively being introduced into educational process. Accordingly, the impact of information and communication technologies on the younger generation cannot be avoided. The level of educational needs of modern students in the system of additional education of children is qualitatively new, so there is a need to create informational and educational environment as an effective means to meet educational needs of students in modern conditions.The purpose of the work is to develop and determine the effectiveness of the method of using modern information technologies in educational process of additional education for children. Therefore, the article discusses the use of information and communication technologies in education, theoretical foundations of the method of using modern information technologies in additional education of children. The article assesses the effectiveness of information and communication technologies implementation into the system of additional education for children. The authors conducted an experiment in which 26 children from the third year of study in the Navigation Circle of the city of Nizhny Novgorod took part. In order to investigate classes’ effectiveness at the Center providing "Navigation" course from the inside, the authors carried out a rapid survey. The authors found that students tend to positively perceive the general nature of navigation lessons at the Center. The Center developed a method for conducting practical work using multimedia simulators, after introduction of which the survey among students was repeated. The authors obtained the following results: high levels of interest and student assessment of these classes is obvious for all selected items. The students began to take a more positive view of the lessons at the Center by navigation, responded to their novelty and non-traditional character, which effectively expressed itself in increasing learning motivation.The developed method of using information and communication technologies in the system of additional education of children can be proposed for implementation in the activity of a navigator teacher, taking into account the advanced methodological recommendations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Nemchenko ◽  
T. Markova ◽  
G. Pchelianska ◽  
O. Volodina

The article considers the role and importance of information technology in the field of educationalservices and innovative teaching methods. It has been determined that the use of information and communication technologies in the teaching process in higher education institutions is a necessity that has been accompanied by challenges of the world space, in particular in recent years. It has been determined that therole and mission of the teacher in the educational process is transformed into an organizer, consultant, leader and expert of independent work of students. The importance of modern information and communicationtechnologies in the process of teaching and educational process has been substantiated. The advantagesand disadvantages of distance learning, which is caused by the requirements for the adaptation of the worldspace have been identified. The essence of the concept of "innovation" and systematized modern innovativeteaching methods have been studied. The classification of innovations in the field of education and classification of pedagogical technologies has been given. Modern innovative teaching methods have been systematized.


1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia V. Soroko

The modern state of informatization of educational process is analysed in the article. Problems of the using of modern information and communication technologies in professional activity of teacher-philologist are lighted up in. The basic didactics functions of IСT are exposed in professional activity of teacher-philologist.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Muslimov Narzulla Alekhanovich ◽  
Umarova Fotima Abdurakhimovna

The article describes the pedagogical conditions for organizing the educational process, training designers using modern information and communication technologies, performing tasks for students in practical and laboratory classes. The radical solution to the problem of increasing the effectiveness of education is not to expand the technical capabilities of modern information technology, but to develop a system of didactic and methodological principles of their application in the educational process.


Author(s):  
Elena Gennadievna Matviyevskaya ◽  
Olga Grigorievna Tavstukha ◽  
Olga Vladimirovna Galustyan ◽  
Petr Aleksandrovich Ignatov ◽  
Darya Victorovna Miroshnikova

This article introduces the problem of formation of ICT competence of future teachers. It discusses the process of educational informatization which relates to the ability of all participants of educational process to use modern information and communication technologies. The paper deals with the pedagogical potential of ICT, pedagogical methods, ICT means, pedagogical capabilities of ICT.


Author(s):  
ANDRIY VELHACH ◽  
INNA GROD

The most often used information technologies in the future professional activity of students of pedagogical universities are computer technologies of text, tabular and graphic data processing, work with multimedia data, as well as computer telecommunications. Mastering the skills of working with these technologies involves the study of office suites that allow you to perform data processing work. The use of information and communication technologies provides ample opportunities for the organization of educational and cognitive activities of students. Therefore, it is important to teach students the effective use of information and communication technologies in their professional activities. As far as much attention is paid not only to the knowledge that graduates must master, but also the formation of their professional skills, the most modern requirements for higher education meets a new type of educational tasks – professionally-oriented tasks. The article clarifies the main aspects of the introduction of professionally-oriented tasks in the educational process of pedagogical higher educational institutions. New possibilities and ways of using a package of office programs in the work of a teacher have been investigated. The professionally-oriented tasks have been applied in creating an educational and methodological complex for students in the study of Microsoft Office 2010. An example of step-by-step and sequential system of tasks for obtaining a certain outcome result taking into account the professional orientation of students has been given. New approaches to the introduction of professionally-oriented tasks in teaching the course “Modern information technologies in the educational process” have been developed. They will allow students to apply skillfully the acquired knowledge and skills to work with office suite programs in their studies, flexibly adapt to situations that arise in the professional activities of teachers, independently acquire the necessary knowledge, effectively use them to solve various problems in practice. A set of interrelated methods was used to solve the tasks included in the study: theoretical: analysis and generalization of scientific and pedagogical literature, modeling of the educational process; empirical: observation of the educational process at school during pedagogical practice and at the university. The introduction of information technology into the educational process of higher education allows teachers to qualitatively change the content, methods and organizational forms of learning.


Author(s):  
Oksana Orlyk

The article studies the current trends in the use of information and communication technologies by Ukrainian enterprises in their practical activities during 2017–2019 years based on the generalization of statistical data. The object of the research is the information and communication technologies of the Internet as a key factor to ensure business informatization and to increase the competitiveness and economic security of enterprises. The purpose of the article is to analyze and identify the nature of changes in the dynamics and directions of the use of computer technology, information and communication technologies by Ukrainian enterprises in recent years. The work uses the methods of analytical-monographic – in the study of literary sources on the topic of research; analysis and synthesis – to summarize statistical data on trends in the use of information and communication technologies by enterprises; system analysis, abstraction, logical generalizations – in determining the characteristic features of the process that is being investigated; abstract-logical – to form conclusions. The data relative to the process of implementation and use in enterprises of modern information and communication technologies are summarized and analyzed. The areas of use of the Internet, which enterprises are mainly used to transmit or receive email messages, banking operations, obtaining information about goods and services, obtaining information from public authorities. The dynamics and directions of use by enterprises of websites, which are used mainly to serve customers and create electronic links to business social media profiles. The tendencies of the use of cloud computing services are analyzed, among which enterprises are preferred by the use of financial or accounting applications, Email and office software. The advantages, opportunities and threats from the use of modern information and communication technologies by enterprises are identified. It is proposed the information technologies that should be recommended for enterprises in practice in the context of accelerating business informatization.


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