DISTANCE LEARNING IN THE SYSTEM OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11603/me.2414-5998.2017.4.8283Keywords:
e-learning, massive open education, massive open online courses, distance education technologies, information technologies, learning management system, social network.Abstract
The aim of the work – to investigate the feasibility of massive open online courses introducing into the higher medical education system.
The main body. The issue of higher education institutions of Ukraine transition from traditional distance learning to massive electronic education on the basis of the online open courses is considered, its relevance is proved. Analysis of the major prerequisites for transition success is carried out (a demand for the educational Internet resources from mobile devices; existence of a large number of various electronic resources which are successfully used in practice by higher education institutions in remote educational technologies; maintaining experience for electronic magazines of students’ progress for planning and estimation of training results; essential growth of material costs in the world online training market). Key issues of transition are defined and the basic principles of electronic online courses development are formulated a technique for electronic online course development aimed as the result is given. The technique contains the following four stages: planning of expected training results, course electronic content structuring and training scenarios creation, development of the tests plan and electronic estimated means for automatic control of the planned training results, course realization by means of game mechanics and technologies of network communication between students. Requirements to various forms of control planned in the course of learning results are defined. Finally, the actual tasks of mass open education development in the leading higher education institutions of Ukraine are set forth.
Conclusions. The introduction of massive open online courses allows:
1) diversifying the methods of presentation of information, namely the use of text, graphic, illustrated and video materials, which allows the teacher to increase the level of information accessibility to students’ perceptions;
2) simplifying the process of control of the final level of knowledge through the system of test control Ratos;
3) carrying out differentiation and individualization of training, to provide the choice of an individual trajectory of training;
4) providing free access to a large number of visual and teaching materials, which contributes to raising the level of interest in the subject and level of knowledge in general;
5) using of modern means of communication between teachers and students allows to diversify forms of education.
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