Conditions of Effective Development of Information and Communication Competencies of Teaching Staff of the University

• Authors: Kocharyan Artur
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article summarizes the results of the pilot study on the implementation of the model of information and communication competencies of the university teaching staff that was conducted at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine, and describes the basic stages of the research and the conditions of an effective implementation of the model. The article examines ways of improving the quality of higher education in Ukraine in the context of European quality standards for university educational space. The European standards and guidelines are considered in relation to internal quality assurance. The author examines the model of ICT competencies of teaching and research stuff and describes structural components of this model: motivational target component, organizational and procedural com- ponent, contents and operational and technological component, diagnostic and effective components. The article suggests tools to measure the level of educators’ formation in the ICT competence of teaching and research stuff. The tools are considered in accordance with the form activities of teaching and research stuff. The tools are formed in accordance with the recommendations of UNESCO Stand­ards and Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area, namely: understanding and awareness of the role of ICT in education, and basic use of ICT tools.

Keywords

EN

Quality of higher education; ICT competence; corporate standards; measurement tools

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: International Journal of Research in E-learning IJREL
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 33-44

Dates

published

2017-04-01

Contributors

author

Kocharyan Artur

• Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

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