Магистрант Каирова Ж.М., к.п.н. Тургинбаева Л.В.

Региональный социально-инновационный университет, Казахстан

Южно-Казахстанский государственный педагогический институт, Казахстан

FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING BASED ON CLOUD TOOLS

Power of cloud computing at university education cannot be underestimated. The university can make important gains by offering e-learning based on Cloud computing systems. Cloud Computing is recognized as a new paradigm computing resources (e. g., be network servers, applications, platforms, infrastructure segments and services) with its dynamic scalability and usage of virtualized resources as a service through the Internet. As such, Cloud computing applications provide flexibility for all e-learning. Cloud tools can support e-education for institutions to resolve some of the common problems such as expenditure costs, quality of communication, security, privacy, flexibility, and accessibility. The universities can keep pace with ever growing resource requirements and energy costs. Students expect their personal mobile devices to connect to campus services for education. Faculty members are seeking for efficient access and flexibility when integrating technology into their classes. If traditional e-learning is implemented with Cloud computing, it can save costs of investment in infrastructure, hardware, software and services. It also improves performance from utilizing the applications and processes in cloud. Users’ devices do not have any impact on the servers when they are working [1]. Moreover, the software existing in the cloud is automatically updated with the cloud power. In addition, since all documents are opened in the cloud by the cloud application, the format, fonts and appearance of the documents are compatible with users’ devices. e-learning in the cloud also offers options and convenience to users in taking online courses, attending the online exams, getting feedback about the courses from instructors, and sending their projects and assignments through online to their teachers. Similarly, teachers can prepare online tests for students, deal and create better content resources for students through content management, assess the tests, homework, projects taken by students, send the feedback and communicate with students through online forums. This automatically reduces the cost of organizational expenses and offers more powerful functional capabilities. Even though e-learning based on Cloud computing enables students and administrative personnel to have the opportunity to quickly and economically access various application platforms and resources through the web pages on-demand, security concerns is a main thing that requires institutions to ensure that they receive informed consent for any information. In addition, the information must never be accessed or used beyond the purpose for which it was collected. It is a necessity that personal information in its custody or under its control is stored safely and properly.

Language ability is not merely the ability to speak, listen, read, and write in the traditional form. It is important that instructors emphasize on the development of the student as a whole. Therefore teaching responsibilities should not start and stop solely with language instruction. Students should be encouraged and helped to develop and practice trust-building, leadership, decision-making, communication, conflict management and technology skills. Cloud computing tools earn reputations on promoting collaborative and self-directed learning. As Cloud helps students to access applications and data from anywhere at any time, all they would need is a computer with a link to the internet. Thus the price comes cheap. However the existing concerns on education in the Cloud are about privacy, security, data integrity, intellectual property management, and other issues. Successful implementation of this technology relies on a high degree of trust between users.

Last but not least, teachers are still one most important part of Cloud classrooms in supporting this new social environment. Under this circumstance, both students and teachers move along seamlessly from chalk and-talk to social networks to online tools for shared social learning, presenting, collaborating, and connecting in the Cloud. In fact social learning environment can significantly increase teachers-students’ engagement.

Литература:

1 Stein S., Improving K-12 Pedagogy Via a Cloud Designed for Education. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference. 2013