FACTORS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF ONLINE LEARNING

• Анатолій Стеблецький

  Університет імені Грінченка, м.Київ

Economic and social changes, the demise emergence of professions create new, rapid and, therefore, not always successful transformation processes in education. The problem of ensuring the quality of education has always been and remains topical. This problem has become especially acute during the transition of the educational process to online mode. Therefore, everything related to maintaining high standards of educational services by higher education institutions (HEIs) under the quarantine restrictions requires scientific analysis. This has determined the purpose of the present study. The article describes the factors of higher education quality assurance in the context of online learning. The factors influencing the success of interaction of the educational process parties to ensure the trainees' projected learning outcomes have been identified.

Reserves for ensuring the quality of higher education under the online learning conditions have been determined, one of them being the purposeful development of interaction between the parties to the educational process on the basis of openness, impartiality, friendliness, responsibility, integrity, constructiveness, perfection. On the basis of the conducted research, the contradictions arisen between the existing methodical support of educational process (HEIs) and necessity of maintenance of higher education quality under the conditions of online training have been formulated and considered. The factors influencing the success of trainees in the process of learning at HEIs under the conditions of online learning, as well as those hindering the achievement of the predicted learning outcomes have been analyzed. Conditions for the development of interaction of the parties to the educational process are determined by the interdependence of the processes that are the basis of their educational activities self-organization. Under the conditions of online learning, the direction of professional activity of scientific and pedagogical employees at HEIs changes and becomes more advanced, the educational process becomes after all more and more non-directive and needs facilitation support on behalf of the teacher. Educational activity acquires the properties of self-organized and autonomously developing process under the conditions of continual changes. The analysis of problems in providing effective methodical support of the educational process at the higher education institution under the conditions of online learning format has been carried out. The main trends and prospects for the development of online learning in higher education have been characterized.

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