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VIRTUAL LEARNING OF ELECTRONICS
Get PDFThe development of computer technology has enabled the emergence of new teaching opportunities in an artificial, virtual environment. It is then possible to work with electronic systems without the possibility of physical access to them and without measuring equipment. Such teaching and work with electronic systems was possible in a laboratory with computer stations with appropriate software. Only the development of network technology, and in particular the Internet, made it possible to fully virtual work at a distance. Until now, virtual learning has only been an alternative to teaching in a real hardware lab. It was also a supplement to the work that was carried out in the course of practical teaching with students. It was only the emergence of the Covid-19 epidemic that made this type of remote work learning a necessity, but also the only alternative in the event of school closings and quarantines. The necessity of distance learning inspired the use and development of many programs and information systems for this purpose. The paper presents selected programs that can be used and are used to learn electronics at a distance while working remotely. Each of these systems has its own advantages and disadvantages and can meet specific requirements.
DETERMINANTS, MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF PERFORMANCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
Get PDFSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered the backbone of economic growth, as they play a vital role in the economic development of any country, they contribute to the provision of job opportunities and act as suppliers of goods and services to large companies. Despite the role of SMEs in national economies, as well as their importance in promoting competitiveness and employment, the author believes that the SMEs performance determinants and their impact on performance measurement and management have not been sufficiently studied in Latvia. The aim of the research is to explore the SMEs performance determinants and their impact on performance measurement and management. The research is based on the analysis of scientific publications. General research methods are used in the research: information analysis and synthesis, logically – constructive, monographic, data grouping and graphical representation methods. As a result, the impact of the SMEs performance determinants on the measurement and management of SME performance are explored, and the conceptual framework for measuring and managing SME performance is developed
PEDAGOGICAL IMPROVISATION IN FORMING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF THE FUTURE TEACHERS-PHILOLOGISTS
Get PDFThe article analyzes the concept of pedagogical improvisation, clarifies its content, functions and types, determinates its role in developing professional competence of students-philologists. During the research we used the following methods: observation, analysis, interviews, mathematical statistics. The aspects of preparation of future teachers-philologists for pedagogical improvisation are highlighted, and their preparedness criteria are defined. The methodological tools of research into the level of students\u27 ability to pedagogical improvisation are selected. The relevance of the topic is confirmed by the results of the survey of the students-philologists who are diagnosed with the level of ability to pedagogical improvisation both in the conditions of the traditional form of education and in the distance learning mode. 205 students of the specialties 035 «Philology» and 014 «Secondary Education» (Ukrainian language and literature) of Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University took part in the experiment. By means of experimental activities, the features of the influence of the pedagogical improvisation on the formation of professional competence of future teachers-philologists have been identified. It was found that the level of ability to pedagogical improvisation of students-philologists in the conditions of traditional education is higher than in the conditions of excessive stay in the virtual educational space. A step-by-step algorithm of using improvisation for development of the future teachers-philologists’ professional competence in the context of blended learning is developed.
ENERGY AUDIT INFORMATION SYSTEM
Get PDFThe opportunities provided by energy audits to improve the competitiveness of companies by reducing energy consumption and introducing energy-efficient solutions also allow for achieving the environmental goals set by the European Union and Latvia in relation to climate neutrality. It is important to consider the results of energy audits in the development of both local and regional and national policies, thus setting more precise results to be achieved. At present, there is no unified energy audit development information system in Latvia, in which all audit stages and calculations could be performed; this would reduce clerical and calculation errors and allow data to be predicted and used in policy development, research. Within the framework of the work, the authors researched the concept of energy audit, its process and the results to be achieved by companies by implementing energy efficient measures, as well as the policy goals of the European Union and Latvia in environmental improvement programs. The paper summarizes and analyses the programs and methods available in Latvia, which are used to develop energy audits of companies, as well as the practices of other countries and their results.The research goal is to develop the specification of the energy audit information system, based on the analysis of the used energy audit information systems. Based on the findings, the authors developed a specification of the program\u27s energy audit information system requirements, which is suitable for the Latvian market
MODERNISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN UZBEKISTAN: TRANSFORMING QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM AND APPROACHES
Get PDFThe paper explores the current transformations in the Quality Assurance (QA) system in the Higher Education (HE) of the Republic of Uzbekistan and examines the impact of the World Bank Modernising Higher Education project which aims, among other issues, to develop and implement a new system of external QA and strengthen the system of internal QA. The research analyses annual and quarterly reports prepared by the Project Team of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of Uzbekistan, World Bank, Expert Advisory Panel as well as national and international consultants. In addition to this, a series of interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in Uzbekistan. The data received from the analysis of project reports and other documents were triangulated with the data obtained during semi-structured interviews. The research addresses the issues of the process of reforms in QA system at national and university levels and the gradual transformation of QA culture. It covers challenges in the introduction of new QA arrangements and assesses the role of various actors in the process of transformations.
DISTANCE EDUCATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF LEARNING IN A PANDEMIC CONDITION
Get PDFThe aim of the research is to analyze the relationship between the success and frequency of the distance learning server Moodle using in the study of medical students, as well as to assess the features and identify major problems in training during COVID-19 pandemic. The results of 200 medical students total success have been analyzed. Students’ education achievement was assessed as a factor in determining the training success in the context of relationship with the number of Moodle distance learning server visits. Two subgroups have been analyzed (100 people in each) depending on the departments: сlinical discipline (propaedeutics of іnternal medicine) and theoretical (biochemistry). Statistical analysis of students’ activity in Moodle system revealed high correlation between the frequency of the platform visits and students’ educational success at the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine. A similar pattern is observed in the analysis of the correlation between the use of Moodle and learning outcomes in theoretical disciplines by the example of Bioorganic and biological chemistry and clinical biochemistry department. Thus, in order to prevent the spread of acute respiratory disease COVID-19, an distance education elements should be implemented; the using of the Moodle platform helps to increase medical student’s educational success
INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING IN THE CONTEXT OF BLENDED MODE OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL: CHALLENGES AND EXPECTATIONS
Get PDFModern learning is the ultimate collaboration between teacher and student. Much like a doctor, the teacher must assess each individual’s needs, then prescribe the right solution for that person by crafting an appropriate curriculum and delivering it in a way that is meaningful. The principal aim of the research is to get an insight into contemporary issues of the individualized learning against the backdrop of blended learning in secondary school, to say nothing of the future directions for its progress and exercising. The group of researchers prepared a web-based experimental questionnaire (intended for schoolteachers and parents) targeted at illustrating the didactic potential and educational opportunities of the individualized learning as an effective remedy of preventing malign influence and retaining the quality while rendering the learning services faced with unanticipated shift to distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The inquiry-based pattern which was chosen with the aid of a voluntary response sampling technique comprised some 500 schoolteachers and parents from a various metropolitan secondary schools. Qualitative data analysis of the data obtained offer the opportunities for forming didactic rationale of the individualized learning, which could facilitate the learning process in secondary school as close as accomplishable to practical application of the learner-centered principle within a competency-based approach and digitalization of education. Alternatively, the obtained findings and logical conclusions showed the trends of teaching modes, methods and tools transformation of the individualized learning within the conditions of blended learning in secondary school.
THE SELF-ASSESSMENT OF SUPERVISORS\u27 SELF-CARE STRATEGIES
Get PDFDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the availability of resources has decreased and the risk of burnout on employees increased. Supervision is one of the resources, available for employees to learn self-care. It was necessary to find out how supervisors themselves assessed self-care strategies. The aim of this study was to explore the self-assessment of Latvian supervisors\u27 self-care strategies. The following research questions were raised: 1) What are the indicators of the importance and attainability of supervisors’ self-care strategies? 2) What are the difference indicators of the importance and attainability of supervisors’ self-care strategies? In this study importance is an assessment of how significant and necessary a certain value is, attainability is an assessment of how attainable a certain value is. Based on the Self-Care Strategies Questionnaire, an online survey was conducted between May and October of 2021. The respondents assessed the importance and attainability of their self-care activities using a four-point Likert scale. 66 supervisors participated in the survey. For data analysis the descriptive statistics and Wilcoxon signed-rank test were used. The results showed statistically significant differences between the self-assessment of importance and attainability in all strategies. The importance was rated higher than attainability. Planning of time, balance of personal and professional life, being alone and in silence, professional development, reading were the self-care strategies more often assessed higher and more often carried out by supervisors.
FOLKLORE COMPETENCE IN THE REPRESENTATION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ESSAYS
Get PDFThe article, using the theory of conceptual analysis and the principles of SOLO (Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes) taxonomy, analyses the manifestations of folklore competence in the essays of secondary school students, available in the corpus of essays www.korpuss.lv. The levels of folklore competence were determined by analysing the use of lexemes belonging to the semantic field of folklore in secondary school students’ essays. Out of 157 (or 34%) essays containing lexemes belonging to the semantic field of folklore, the majority (i.e. 43%) show the lowest level of folklore competence with domination of the naming function without further elaboration, or is limited to a broader elaboration of just one element without any perceived correlation with a broader folklore context. At the second level of folklore competence that can be observed in 45 essays (29%), secondary school students show the ability not only to name but also to classify into simpler systems 2- 3 realia belonging to the semantic field of folklore. At the third level of competence represented in 9 essays (or 6%), secondary school students show the ability to reason, analyse, explain causes, integrate, infer and identify problems using 4-6 lexemes belonging to the semantic field of folklore. The overview of the essays written in 2018 shows that most of the secondary school pupils’ folklore interests are related to the events dedicated to Latvia’s centenary, in particular Latvian Song and Dance Festival, which is typologically connected with the folk songs and Cabinet of Dainas (‘dainu skapis’) collected by Krisjanis Barons. In terms of genres, secondary school pupils have mostly stayed in the genre of fairy tale, which dominates at the first level of folklore competence (43 out of 100 essays), but it often merges with the understanding of the literary fairy tale and is subject to a formal application of genres. The study shows that folklore competence at its highest possible levels is more convincingly demonstrated by pupils from minority schools, which may be explained by the socio-cultural competence building content included in the minority school curricula
ECOLOGICAL APPROACH IN YOUTH EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
Get PDFThe current geopolitical situation in the world, and especially in Europe, highlights the sustainability of each society and country in the present dimension and sustainable development in the future. The ability of the society of the future to develop itself, to provide for the sovereignty of its country, to strengthen its economy, to raise its level of prosperity, to preserve and enrich its culture is shaped and developed in today\u27s schools and universities as the next generations are learning and studying there. They will be managing the country in the future, taking care of sustainable development of the society, the economy of their country, its security and defence, being at the heart of our country\u27s future society. Therefore, innovations in the content of general secondary education in Latvia are needed by introducing a new subject of National Defence Training in schools. The legal basis for this has already been prepared in the form of laws and other regulations. Model curricula for general secondary education and the Youth Guard have been developed. Since in global forums as well as in scientific publications at the end of the 20th century the ecological paradigm has been justified as a transdisciplinary paradigm, but the ecological approach in human thinking, in promoting the development of children/youth, in all kinds of activities (in all areas of human activity, including education) has been justified as an imperative, which has become more and more relevant in the 21st century, the aim of the research was to substantiate the diversity of ecological approaches in the education of young people in the field of national defence. The results of the research demonstrate that the ecological approach is visible in the development of the national defence content. It is also common in the justification for the many aspects of the national defence learning environment