PROFESSIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL COMMUNICATION OF TEACHERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: CHALLENGES OF WAR

The article investigates the problem of professional and pedagogical communication of teachers of higher education institutions during the war. The purpose of the article is to reveal the phenomenon of «professional and pedagogical communication», the presentation of new accents of professional and pedagogical communication, which must be considered by the teacher in higher education in wartime. Professional and pedagogical communication is understood as a system of direct or indirect connections and interactions of the teacher, which are realized through both verbal and nonverbal means, as well as computer communication tools for information exchange, modeling and management of communication, regulation of professional pedagogical relations. It is noted that the established concept of professional and pedagogical communication in the war has gained renewed importance and needs new accents, namely: shifted attention to the subjects of communication, which are carriers of the active, transformative principle, which is a communicatively educated person, able to consciously plan and organize their own communicative activities, influence the partner, in some way perceive, analyze the informational, emotional and intellectual content of speech, psychophysiological and energy states and evaluate them; has a developed emotional intelligence, communication skills, abilities, experience. Emphasis is placed on establishing effective interaction of participants in the educational process through the organization of personality-oriented, emotional and supportive communication, based on impartiality, sincere interest, support, care for each other; shifting the emphasis in the educational process from teaching to learning, organizing the teaching process not as a transition of information, but as facilitation of the processes of meaningful and conscious learning. The essence of the concepts «personality-oriented communication of the teacher», «emotional-supportive communication of the teacher» is revealed; the principles of emotional and supportive communication of a teacher of a higher education institution are determined; the importance of reflexive (active) listening during the professional and pedagogical communication of the teacher in the conditions of war is substantiated; effective methods of reflexive listening (clarification, paraphrasing, reflection of feelings, summarizing) are revealed; the characteristics of pedagogical facilitation are distinguished (cooperation, own position, individuality and equality, self-disclosure, involvement of everyone in joint activities, organization of space). It is concluded that only a teacher who trusts students, recognizes their uniqueness, is interested in their life, problems, is always ready to help, can show students openness and accessibility, create for them the opportunities to express thoughts and feelings, a sense of involvement in the educational process, protection from environmental threats

DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL-COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCY OF HIGHER INSTITUTIONS’ FUTURE INSTRUCTORS BY MEANS OF WEB-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGIES

The article discusses the issues of social-communicative competency development of higher institutions’ future instructors by means of web-oriented technologies. It presents the analysis of different scientific approaches to the organization of social-communicative training of higher institutions’ future instructors. The authors state that among the means of the above-mentioned competency development scientists distinguish information and communication technologies, particularly web-oriented, as carrying a significant didactic and communicative potential. Special focus is put on the essence of the social-communicative competency of higher institutions’ future instructors and on its structure (motivational and axiological component, cognitive, operational-pragmatist, personal components). The experience of LearningApps.org service, e-mail, and social networks’ application to the process of higher institutions future instructors’ social-communicative competency development is explained. The article gives examples of the LearningApps.org service’s implementation into real learning scenarios as a constructor for creating interactive multimedia exercises based on a variety of templates. The application of interactive exercises provides an opportunity to intensify cognitive motivation of master students, involve them in solving the discussed problems, develop communicative skills and reflection; gives a more flexible control of the acquired knowledge and skills. The example of the e-mail usage as a tool to implement a long-term project aimed at establishing professionally directed contacts with future teachers of higher educational institutions and psychologists who study at universities in Poland is provided. The peculiarities of the project work organization in social network environment, aimed at developing teamwork skills, information and communication skills for solving professional and social problems are revealed. The article underlines the expediency of extra-curricular activities (Skype workshops, webinars, etc.) for the development of spoken and interactive skills, as well as social intelligence of master students

Data science: opportunities to transform education

The article concerns the issue of data science tools implementation, including the text mining and natural language processing algorithms for increasing the value of high education for development modern and technologically flexible society. Data science is the field of study that involves tools, algorithms, and knowledge of math and statistics to discover knowledge from the raw data. Data science is developing fast and penetrating all spheres of life. More people understand the importance of the science of data and the need for implementation in everyday life. Data science is used in business for business analytics and production, in sales for offerings and, for sales forecasting, in marketing for customizing customers, and recommendations on purchasing, digital marketing, in banking and insurance for risk assessment, fraud detection, scoring, and in medicine for disease forecasting, process automation and patient health monitoring, in tourism in the field of price analysis, flight safety, opinion mining etc. However, data science applications in education have been relatively limited, and many opportunities for advancing the fields still unexplored

Features of design of digital aids for training students with autistic disorders

In accordance with the aims of the paper, it is covered essential peculiarities of the design of digital aids for ASD-students. They are distinguished coming from the analysis of common learning and social difficulties inherent to the trainees with autistic disorders; needs for their speaking habits development; advantages of special digital support in terms of facilitating ASD-students’ training. The distinguished features essential in the process of the digital aids design are demonstrated on the example of the development of an e-simulator for young ASD-students’ speech encouragement. The main stages of its design and functionality are characterised. It is emphasised in conclusion that the developed digital simulator due to its functionality helps to overcome a number of problems faced by young ASD-students. The problems are specifed

Analyzing of main trends of STEM education in Ukraine using stemua.science statistics

STEM-education is a modern effective approach that nowadays can be interpreted in very different ways and it even has some modification (STEM/STEAM/STREAM). Anyway, the “New Ukrainian school” concept includes approaches similar to STEM-education. However, there wasn’t analyzed the current state of STEM-education in Ukraine. We propose to analyses it by using SEO analysis of one of the most popular STEM-oriented cloud environment in Ukraine stemua.science. It is proposed to use the cycle for cloud-based educational environments (publishing/SEO analysis/team’s brainstorm/prediction/creation of further plan) to improve their efficiency. It is found, that STEM-based and traditional publications are characterized by similar demand of educational process stakeholders. However, the way how teachers and students found the publication proves that traditional keywords (47.99 %) used significantly more common than STEM keywords (2.67 %). Therefore, it is proved that STEM-methods are less in demand than traditional ones. However, considering the huge positive effect of the STEM method, stemua.science cloud educational environment provides a positive effect on the educational process by including the STEM-aspects during finding traditional approaches of education by stakeholders of the educational process

Educational digital games: models and implementation

Nowadays, social media, ICT, mobile technologies and applications are increasingly used as tools for communication, interaction, building up social skills and unique learning environments. One of the latest trends observed in education is an attempt to streamline the learning process by applying educational digital games. Despite numerous research data, that confirms the positive effects of digital games, their integration into formal educational contexts is still relatively low. The purpose of this article is to analyze, discuss and conclude what is necessary to start using games as an instructional tool in formal education. In order to achieve this aim, a complex of qualitative research methods, including semi-structured expert interviews was applied. As the result, the potential of educational digital games to give a unique and safe learning environment with a wide spectrum of build-in assistive features, be efficient in specific training contexts, help memorize studied material and incorporate different learning styles, as well as to be individually adaptable, was determined. At the same time, the need for complex approach affecting the administration, IT departments, educators, students, parents, a strong skill set and a wide spectrum of different roles and tasks a teacher carries out in a digital game-based learning class were outlined. In conclusion and as a vector for further research, the organization of Education Design Laboratory as an integral part of a contemporary educational institution was proposed

Educational digital games : Models and implementation

Nowadays, social media, ICT, mobile technologies and applications are increasingly used as tools for communication, interaction, building up social skills and unique learning environments. One of the latest trends observed in education is an attempt to streamline the learning process by applying educational digital games. Despite numerous research data, that confirms the positive effects of digital games, their integration into formal educational contexts is still relatively low. The purpose of this article is to analyze, discuss and conclude what is necessary to start using games as an instructional tool in formal education. In order to achieve this aim, a complex of qualitative research methods, including semi-structured expert interviews was applied. As the result, the potential of educational digital games to give a unique and safe learning environment with a wide spectrum of build-in assistive features, be efficient in specific training contexts, help memorize studied material and incorporate different learning styles, as well as to be individually adaptable, was determined. At the same time, the need for complex approach affecting the administration, IT departments, educators, students, parents, a strong skill set and a wide spectrum of different roles and tasks a teacher carries out in a digital game-based learning class were outlined. In conclusion and as a vector for further research, the organization of Education Design Laboratory as an integral part of a contemporary educational institution was proposed.

Use of Web 2.0 technology tool – educational blog – in the system of foreign language teaching

This paper discusses the use of a Web 2.0 technology tool – educational blog – in the system of teaching foreign languages for enhancement of teaching effectiveness and optimization of students’ performance. The authors describe the content, characteristics and didactic properties of an educational blog as an alternative or auxiliary educational environment, define its methodological objectives and list a number of advantages of this approach versus conventional teaching model. The effectiveness of the above-mentioned Web 2.0 technology tool was confirmed by the experiment which showed that an educational blog integrated in a foreign language teaching system contributed to optimization of the process of teaching and learning, development of foreign language communicative competence of students and thereby allowed them to acquire not only communicative but also technological skills

Google cloud services as a way to enhance learning and teaching at university

The article is devoted to the issue of a cloud-based learning system implementation as a powerful strategy for future specialists’ training at higher educational establishments. Using cloud computing in self-work management of the university courses is essential to equip students with a workload of appropriate educational materials and variable activities for professional training. Theoretical and empirical research methods were applied to select the appropriate services and tools for organizing students’ self-work at university. Critical analysis of scientific literature, synthesis of the data, didactic observation of the educational process, designing of the skeleton for university courses, questionnaires enabled to facilitate the study of the issue. G Suite has been chosen to enhance the quality of training of prospective specialists at a higher educational establishment. This paper introduces the outcomes of the project on applying Google Classroom in the management of students’ self-work while studying university courses. The focus of the first stage of the project was on testing pilot versions of the courses with the aim to work out the requirements and recommendations for incorporation general blended learning model of university courses. Particular attention is drawn to the designed model of the university course based on the curriculum with the necessary components of blended learning in the G Suite virtual environment. Cloud-based higher education is considered as a prospective tool for design of university courses with the need for further research and implementation