ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES OF THE MEDICAL
EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Dubitsky
A.A. Bayganova Zh.A.
Medical
University Astana, Kazakhstan
Advanced
technologies became irreplaceable assistants for establishments of the
scientific and educational sphere. If earlier various collections and
directories for entrants were the main source of information on institutions of
higher education, catalogs and booklets, now this role are carried out by
electronic catalogs, search engines and special vebometrics ratings.
One
of the priority purposes of modern scientific and educational community –
training improvement of quality. Kazakhstan passed the period of a
computerization and actively passes to informatization and entry into global
information space. For the successful solution of these purposes in our country
are accepted the Law "About Informatization" [1], "About
education" [2], "A state program on the development of the Republic
of Kazakhstan forced industrial innovatively for 2010 - 2014" [3].
In
the Message of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people
of Kazakhstan "Strategy "Kazakhstan-2050": new political policy
of the taken place state", the Head of our State noted: "... we have
to introduce intensively innovative methods of the decision and tools in a
domestic education system, including distance learning and training online,
available for all comers" [4].
Questions
of optimization of the official website of higher education institution, its
role in scientific and educational activity, the Internet representation of
educational institution were studied by a number of authors (Sugak D.B.(2003),
Shinkevich A.V. (2004) Poltavets A. Century (2007), Danilenko L.V. (2009)
Goryunova M. A. (2010) Melikhov L.G. (2010) millers of M.G. (2011).
Now
in the world a certain theoretical and practical experience of development and
creation of websites is saved up. Among foreign specialists in convenience of
use of websites it is possible to note Nilsen Ya. works (2007) which considers
key aspects of creation and promotion of websites in a global network.
World
web analyst Koshik A. (2009) opens the questions connected with web analytics
and the analysis of websites by quantitative criteria and indicators.
Since
2004 realization of the Vebometrichesky rating of universities of the world is
begun. Web indicators used in it are based on traditional scientometric and
bibliometric indicators. Main goal of the Vebometric rating is development of
web publications at universities, an assessment of information resources of
these organizations, and also fight against a digital gap. Though the rating
doesn't set the purpose to estimate efficiency of universities only on the
basis of web representations, it measures wider range of kinds of activity,
than present generation of bibliometric indicators [5].
Thanks
to this indicator, the relation of higher education institutions to development
and filling of sites changed and already over 100 higher education institutions
of Kazakhstan are present on a site of Vebometriks among more than 20 000
higher education institutions of the world. If in 2011 only three higher
education institutions were included into 5000 higher education institutions of
the world, 2012 already 8 universities of Kazakhstan are included into this
number. JSC Medical University Astana by results of Vebometrika on the world
takes 13 244 place, across Kazakhstan 51.
Also
since 2008 in Kazakhstan the Independent Kazakhstan agency on ensuring quality
of education (IKAEQE) which is non-profit organization in the form of
establishment functions. Work of Agency is directed on improvement of
mechanisms of system of introduced procedure of accreditation in Kazakhstan,
ensuring systemacity of process of receiving and an assessment of objective
data of educational activity of higher education institutions and colleges. One
of requirements of this accreditation is existence of the website reflecting mission,
the purposes and tasks of educational institution, efficiency of its use for
improvement of activity of the organization of education. According to agency
on a rating of leading medical schools in 2012 of JSC Medical University Astana
I took 1 place [6].
The
main object of research is JSC Medical University Astana web representation. On
the basis of the carried-out analysis rekomedation on improvement of web
representation of this university will be developed.
However in
Kazakhstan there is no system of ratings of websites of medical educational
institutions which would show their representation on the Internet. Among
medical schools there is no rivalry in this area that, promotes
abituriyento-orientation a little. Unfortunately, we didn't find scientific
researches of how entrants (their parents), students, undergraduates, doctoral
candidates, teachers, employers and expert community perceive quality of
information resources of medical educational institutions.
Many educational
institutions seek to place the resources opening the various parties of
educational process on the websites. However quality, both already functioning,
and again created websites, not always meets the user expectations. In many
respects it is connected with that today there are conventional in the theory
and practice of a saytostroyeniye no universal methods and the principles of
quality management of educational websites by which developers could be guided
throughout life cycle of information product. Absence of the uniform standard
regulating activity of websites on the Internet, leads to that the assessment
of websites occurs without their specific features.
Thus, effective filling
by resources of websites of higher education institution is one of the factors defining
formation of the modern market of educational services. The site of university
has to be socialized in the Internet community: to prove on the largest social
domestic and foreign networks, to involve the teachers and students in
formation of an actual content, to use modern methods of attraction of target
audience.
Literature:
1. The law of the
Republic of Kazakhstan of January 11, 2007 No. 217-III "About
informatization" (with changes and additions as of 10.07.2012) - www.zakon.kz.
2. The law of the
Republic of Kazakhstan of July 27, 2007 No. 319-III "About education"
(with changes and additions as of 14.01.2013) - www.zakon.kz.
3. "A state program
on the development of the Republic of Kazakhstan forced industrial innovatively
for 2010 - 2014" [An electronic resource]. - Access mode http://ru.government.kz.
4. Message of the
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan
"Strategy "Kazakhstan-2050": new political policy of the taken
place state" 30.10.2012 [An electronic resource]. - Access mode http://www.akorda.kz.
5. Webometrics Ranking of
World Universities - http://www.webometrics.info.
6 . Independent agency on
ensuring quality of education - http://nkaoko.kz.