A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR QUALITY EVALUATION OF DISTANCE LEARNING

Author(s):  
Silvia Gaftandzhieva ◽  
Rositsa Doneva ◽  
George Totkov
Author(s):  
Dmytro Rudnev ◽  
Kyrylo Fokin ◽  
Olena Trunova ◽  
Mariia Voitsekhovska

Currently various models are used for distance learning quality evaluation. The main issues with these models deal with the amount of time required for implementation and absence of the main factors involved in the distance learning organization process. Therefore, they cannot be used for quality evaluation of interactive distance learning courses. The multicriteria model of quality evaluation of the interactive distance learning course (IDLC) is considered. It includes the following criteria: the quality level of educational materials; the quality level of staffing; the quality level of software and hardware. An automated system "IDLC Quality Assessment" has been developed, which offers both numerical values and fuzzyinterpretations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-657
Author(s):  
A. V. Molokova ◽  
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N. E. Bulankina ◽  

Introduction. The purpose of this article is to present an extended analysis of specifics of hybrid learning of a pedagogue in the aspect of novel value educational dominants in the frameworks of recurrent/ continuous education that finds itself at a unique moment that the public school system, as it is currently being constructed, simply isn’t delivering on its promise of educational excellence for all children, and both future and current teachers – particularly for those in the underserved COVID-19 pandemic circumstances of totality of distance and e-learning formats. Materials and methods. State and regional documents on the national project ‘Education’, and its innovation initiatives, concepts and programs of educational and methodological complexes for both primary school, and international languages for both primary and secondary schools, are under consideration in this opus for methodological and theoretical substantiation of the comprehensive model of distance and e-learning that is considered a new approach that brings an improved result and is intended to prove the prior philosophical message of this research study concerning the possibility to create entirely new architectures within the existing architecture of the current system of advanced training and professional retraining of educators. The methods of critical analysis, statistics, and classification, modeling and programming, content analysis, search and longitudinal experiment, questionnaires, interviews, linguistic testing, diagnosis and teaching/learning /forming stages are intended to improve student/teacher achievement results. Results of the study. This research includes several stages that cover the following positive outcomes of the comprehensive model under consideration and discussion: 1) both monitoring and neutralizing regional professional deficits, 2) both creation and correction of modular additional educational programs for teachers that cover Pedagogy, Knowledge Content and Technology of distance and e-learning in the aspect of axiological approach, 3) favorable educational spaces to perform facilitation function of the tutors in full. Finally, the article presents a series of recommendations designed to encourage the teachers who can improve the learning conditions of the innovative educational context building new virtual spaces through different platforms that give grounds to serve an existing population in radically different ways, and to find ourselves at a unique moment of broad consensus with the public. Conclusion. Based on the analysis of current philosophy and methodology of training and retraining of educators in the aspect of their professional skills and competences, the authors of this study confidently state that the learners find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists, and innovation in education merely is not for the sake of novelty but it is intended to increase student/ teacher achievement results Keywords: pedagogue, distance learning technologies, e-learning, methodological support, upgrading, novel value educational dominants, cultural self-determination of an individual (CSD)


Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoon A. Leenaars

Summary: Older adults consistently have the highest rates of suicide in most societies. Despite the paucity of studies until recently, research has shown that suicides in later life are best understood as a multidimensional event. An especially neglected area of research is the psychological/psychiatric study of personality factors in the event. This paper outlines one comprehensive model of suicide and then raises the question: Is such a psychiatric/psychological theory applicable to all suicides in the elderly? To address the question, I discuss the case of Sigmund Freud; raise the topic of suicide and/or dignified death in the terminally ill; and examine suicide notes of the both terminally ill and nonterminally ill elderly. I conclude that, indeed, greater study and theory building are needed into the “suicides” of the elderly, including those who are terminally ill.


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