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Approaches to the choice of tools for adaptive learning based on highlighted selection criteria
Full text linkThe article substantiates the relevance of adaptive learning of students in the modern information society, reveals the essence of such concepts as “adaptability” and “adaptive learning system”. It is determined that a necessary condition for adaptive education is the criterion of an adaptive learning environment that provides opportunities for advanced education, development of key competencies, formation of a flexible personality that is able to respond to different changes, effectively solve different problems and achieve results. The authors focus on the technical aspect of adaptive learning. Different classifications of adaptability are analyzed. The approach to the choice of adaptive learning tools based on the characteristics of the product quality model stated by the standard ISO / IEC 25010 is described. The following criteria for the selecting adaptive learning tools are functional compliance, compatibility, practicality, and support. By means of expert assessment method there were identified and selected the most important tools of adaptive learning, namely: Acrobatiq, Fishtree, Knewton (now Wiley), Lumen, Realize it, Smart Sparrow (now Pearson). Comparative tables for each of the selected tools of adaptive learning according to the indicators of certain criteria are given
Integration of chatbots into the system of professional training of Masters
Full text linkThe article presents and describes innovative technologies of training in the professional training of Masters. For high-quality training of students of technical specialties, it becomes necessary to rethink the purpose, results of studying and means of teaching professional disciplines in modern educational conditions. The experience of implementing the chatbot tool in teaching the discipline “Mathematical modeling of socio-economic systems” in the educational and professional program 124 System Analysis is described. The characteristics of the generalized structure of the chatbot information system for investment analysis are presented and given: input information, information processing system, output information, which creates a closed cycle (system) of direct and feedback interaction. The information processing system is represented by accounting and analytical data management blocks. The investment analysis chatbot will help masters of the specialty system analysis to manage the investment process efficiently based on making the right decisions, understanding investment analysis in the extensive structure of financial management and optimizing risks in these systems using a working mobile application. Also, the chatbot will allow you to systematically assess the disadvantages and advantages of investment projects or the direction of activity of a system analyst, while increasing interest in performing practical tasks. A set of software for developing a chatbot integrated into training is installed: Kotlin programming, a library for network interaction Retrofit, receiving and transmitting data, linking processes using the HTTP API. Based on the results of the study, it is noted that the impact of integrating a chatbot into the training of Masters ensures the development of their professional activities, which gives them the opportunity to be competent specialists and contributes to the organization of high-quality training
Features of design of digital aids for training students with autistic disorders
Full text linkIn 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
Strengthening of e-learning at the leading Ukrainian pedagogical universities in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
Full text linkDistance education has become the mandatory component of higher education establishments all over the world including Ukraine regarding COVID-19 lockdown and intentions of Universities to render valuable knowledge and provide safe educational experience for students. The present study aimed to explore the student’s and academic staff’s attitude towards e-learning and the most complicated challenges regarding online learning and distance education. Our findings disclosed that the online learning using Zoom, Moodle, Google Meet, BigBlueButton and Cisco has become quite popular among the students and academic staff in Ukraine in time of the lockdown period and beyond. Based on the Principal Component Analysis data processing we can conclude that students’ satisfaction and positive e-learning perception are in a good correlation with quality of e-learning resources and set of apps which are used while e-learning and distance education. Also, education style, methods, and manner predict willingness of students to self-study. The self-motivation, time-management, lack of practice, digital alienation, positive attitude towards ICT, and instruction strategy belong to the most important challenges of COVID-19 lockdown based on the students and academic staff interviews. Online learning on daily purpose should be used in the favor of strengthening of classical higher education rather than replacing the former. Blended education is the best alternative to face-to-face education, because the communication with mentor in a live environmental even virtual should have ushered the learners to complete online learning and improve its results
Computerized adaptive testing in educational electronic environment of maritime higher education institutions
Full text linkThe article is devoted to the organization of modern learning process, namely the use of innovative technologies – computerized adaptive testing in educational electronic environment of maritime higher education institutions. The example of educational electronic environment is presented in the article on LMS Moodle. The provided new technological and methodological opportunities are a priority in the developed methods of control and testing of knowledge, skills and abilities of students. Comparative characteristic of using computerized adaptive testing in educational electronic environment is given in the article according to different criteria: the role of tests in the learning process; methods of training; equipment; presence of the problems in educational process; level of its control and learning outcomes. The paper also presents examples of activities to form communicative competency of future maritime professionals. Types of adaptive tests are listed in the paper. The research activities were done by second year cadets of ship engineering department of Maritime College of Kherson State Maritime Academy. The experiment was devoted to the formation of communicative competence with the help of electronic environment of maritime higher education institution. The results of experiment proved positive impact of computerized adaptive testing on communicative competence of future ship engineers. Further investigation of adaptive testing can also be done for learning system of maritime education establishments using simulation technologies of virtual, augmented and mixed realities
Cloud enabling educational platforms with corc
Full text linkIn this paper, it is shown how teaching platforms at educational institutions can utilize cloud platforms to scale a particular service, or gain access to compute instances with accelerator capability such as GPUs. Specifically at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), it is demonstrated how the internal JupyterHub service, named Data Analysis Gateway (DAG), could utilize compute resources in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This is achieved by utilizing the introduced Cloud Orchestrator (corc) framework, in conjunction with the novel JupyterHub spawner named MultipleSpawner. Through this combination, we are able to dynamically orchestrate, authenticate, configure, and access interactive Jupyter Notebooks in the OCI with user defined hardware capabilities. These capabilities include settings such as the minimum amount of CPU cores, memory and GPUs the particular orchestrated resources must have. This enables teachers and students at educational institutions such as UCPH to gain easy access to the required capabilities for a particular course. In addition, we lay out how this groundwork, will enable us to establish a Grid of Clouds between multiple trusted institutions. This enables the exchange of surplus computational resources that could be employed across their organisational boundaries
Cloud technologies and learning analytics: web application for PISA results analysis and visualization
Full text linkThis article analyzes the ways to apply Learning Analytics, Cloud Technologies, and Big Data in the field of education on the international level. This paper provides examples of international analytical researches and cloud technologies used to process the results of those researches. It considers the PISA research methodology and related tools, including the IDB Analyzer application, free R intsvy environment for processing statistical data, and cloud-based web application PISA Data Explorer. The paper justifies the necessity of creating a stand-alone web application that supports Ukrainian localization and provides Ukrainian researchers with rapid access to well-structured PISA data. In particular, such an application should provide for data across the factorial features and indicators applied at the country level and demonstrate the Ukrainian indicators compared to the other countries’ results. This paper includes a description of the application core functionalities, architecture, and technologies used for development. The proposed solution leverages the shiny package available with R environment that allows implementing both the UI and server sides of the application. The technical implementation is a proven solution that allows for simplifying the access to PISA data for Ukrainian researchers and helping them utilize the calculation results on the key features without having to apply tools for processing statistical data
8th Workshop on Cloud Technologies in Education: Report
Full text linkThis is an introductory text to a collection of selected papers from the 8th Workshop on Cloud Technologies in Education (CTE 2020) which was held in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on the December 18, 2020. It consists of short introduction, papers’ review and some observations about the event and its future
The learning process simulation based on differential equations of fractional orders
Full text linkThis article is an integrated study conducted to develop a learning model which would make it possible to identify the students’ changes of knowledge, abilities and skills acquisition over time as well as the formation of special features of their individual background. Authors have justified the application of the cybernetic model based on fractional equations for the description and evaluation of the student’s learning process. Learning is dealt as a transformation of young people’s knowledge, abilities and skills into a complex background, which envisages its implementation in the future professional activity. The advantage of the suggested model is better approximation characteristics which allow the consideration of a wide range of factors affecting the learning process including the youth’s neurodynamic and psychological nature. The research has employed both mathematical modeling methods and psychodiagnostic techniques (surveys, questionnaires). As a result of the findings, students who assimilate the content of teaching information and form personal experience in different ways have compiled different groups; the learning curve constructed on the basis of the heterogeneous differential equation of second order with integer powers has been compared with the set of models with equations of fractional order of aperiodic and fractional power components. The prospect of the issue to explore is the improvement of the suggested model considering special characteristics of cognitive processes aimed at the formation of an individual path of the student’s learning
Comparison of ontology with non-ontology tools for educational research
Full text linkProviding complex digital support for scientific research is an urgent problem that requires the creation of useful tools. Cognitive IT-platform Polyhedron has used to collect both existing informational ontology-based tools, and specially designed to complement a full-stack of instruments for digital support for scientific research. Ontological tools have generated using the Polyhedron converter using data from Google sheets. Tools “Search systems”, “Hypothesis test system”, “Centre for collective use”, “The selection of methods”, “The selection of research equipment”, “Sources recommended by Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine”, “Scopus sources”, “The promising developments of The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” were created and structured in the centralized ontology. A comparison of each tool to existing classic web-based analogue provided and described