DISTANCE EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION – AN OVERVIEW

Usenko A.A. Ukraine

Poltava Petroleum Geological College

Poltava National Technical University

Higher education has moved away from distance education, including physical meetings, to online education with no physical meetings at all. It focuses on the shift from distance to online education using an educational management perspective. The online courses attract many more students compared to traditional campus courses. Overall, the transition from distance to online courses has contributed to more students, an economy of scale that makes it possible to increase pedagogic development work. The online courses have also contributed to better working conditions for teachers. Without a deliberate educational management strategy, general educational courses might have been discontinued, a choice that would threaten the study of education as an academic discipline. As a result of these conditions, ICT pedagogical development needs technical and pedagogical support as well as strategic leadership Technological development has created new possibilities for distance education. Information and communication technology can make it possible to connect people to each other and create interplay between people regardless of time, place, regions, and countries [1]. Although distance education and open universities influence higher education that the prevailing pedagogy of traditional teaching has remained largely unchanged although this has started to change. This change in educational conditions, given the technological advancements, has become a significant phenomenon facing the way universities deliver content [2]. The technology redefines what a teacher does, leading to new pedagogical rationales that change the teacher’s role. There are multiple motives for universities to engage in e-Learning. In many ways, one might think the transition would be easy since we were not novices to the distance education field. To establish long-term stability, however, requires academic staff acceptance and engagement in combination with institutional structures in place to support the sustainability and mainstreaming of e-Learning initiatives. Clearly, there are real obstacles encountered when implementing change such as distance learning when funding is tight and competing priorities are present. It also has to be acknowledged that while the support of senior management for change is essential, purely top down implementation strategies will not work in the traditional academic environment. When being part of an educational experience, in this case being part of a net-based teacher training program, students transcend the intended use of both ICT and design. A pedagogy in which the being-together is the starting point seems to be called for when designing this kind of educational program. It should be designed with the pedagogical issues firmly based in an ethical view of people and education. In most countries the term to describe a learning management system .Learning Management System is a computer program that combines the functions of teaching, learning, assessment and management of educational courses. Often countries develop their own systems of management training. Some universities this century developed their own LMS. Swedish learning management system called Ping Pong and used in major universities in Sweden. Learning Management System (LMS) is the driving force of innovation in engineering education . Leading universities, administrators, teachers, researchers and students interested in learning social dividends from investments in modern computer programs to improve teaching and learning. Different countries tend to use different terms to describe the LMS, which is defined as a computer program that combines the functions of teaching, learning, assessment and management of educational courses. Training platform in a virtual environment education is not uncommon. The university develops their own LMS-system. Having trained faculty, traditional universities have a significant potential for intelligent design and creation of pedagogically useful courses based on modern information and communication technologies with the use of multimedia and hypermedia technology[3]. Studies carried out mainly using case-based technologies (printed books, electronic materials, etc.) using communication tools.

The main objectives of distance education models:

- To enable students to improve, supplement their knowledge in various areas within the existing educational programs.

- The degree of proficiency on the basis of appropriate tests.

- Providing quality education in different areas of college and university programs.

System management of students in distance learning implementation patterns underlines the educational process modeling. The purpose of educational monitoring is supported by the Government to establish contacts and cooperation in higher education.

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