The use of digital technology in various fields of education today is one of the most important trends in the educational process in the world. The article presents the results of the analysis of the current state of implementation of ICT in the educational process of institutions of general secondary education in Ukraine. For this purpose, a survey was conducted among students of the first year of the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, within which 17 questions were asked to students related to the use of information and communication technologies in the educational process. As a result of the research, the introduction of the discipline “Educational technologies and digital education” into the training of future information technology specialists was substantiated, as well as the certification educational program “Information systems and cloud technologies in the educational process”, designed for general education teachers, educators for higher education institutions, experts in the field of additional educational services, and other professionals.
The Law of Ukraine “On Education” states that the formation of information and
communication competence in students is mandatory [
The use of digital technology in various fields of education today is one of the most important trends in the educational process in the world [16; 21; 29; 30]. Such technologies allow making the learning process more qualitative and interesting, because using the media and interactive tools the teacher can introducing the different ___________________ Copyright © 2020 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). methods of working in the classroom: project method, research and development work, educational games, etc. [9; 32; 42; 44; 46; 52].
Also, the latest situation with pandemic spread of COVID-2019 and corresponding measures that cause disruptions in the educational process around the world one more time emphasizes the importance of ICT in Education [14; 36].
The issues of computerization and informatization of the educational process are
widely considered in the works of Olga V. Bondarenko [
Also, the issue of the introduction of various ICT in the educational process of educational institutions is considered by foreign scientists.
In particular, Alkhansa A. Shakeabubakor, Elankovan Sundararajan and Abdul
Razak Hamdan considering cloud computing services and applications to improve the
productivity of university researchers [
Gonzalo Almerich, Natividad Orellana, Jesús Suárez-Rodríguez and Isabel
DíazGarcía analyze teachers’ information and communication technology competences [
Chipo Dzikite, Yvonne Nsubuga and Vuyisile Nkonki investigated lecturers’
competencies in ICT for effective implementation of ICT-integrated teaching and
learning in textiles and clothing degree programmes [
The purpose of this article is to establish the current state of implementation of ICT in the educational process of institutions of general secondary education in Ukraine. 2
Results To find out the current state of implementation of various ICT in the educational process of institutions of general secondary education, as well as to form a group of selective disciplines, a survey of students of the first year of the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University was conducted. In total, 167 respondents participated in the survey.
Students were asked to answer the following questions [
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No 91% Regarding the second question, “Did you study application packages at school/college?”, 18% said no and 82% said yes (see Figure 2). This indicates that either the teacher did not adhere to the standard of general education, or the first-year students do not understand the basic concepts of CS.
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No 82% The answer to what exactly served as this distribution of answers to the previous question is to analyze the answers to the following. In response to the question “What kind of application packages have you studied/reviewed?”, all 167 respondents chose one of the suggested options, which means that as a student they studied everything they needed, they just did not have the necessary terminology. In this case, 88% of respondents noted that they studied text editors, 77,8% – spreadsheets, 65,3% – tools for creating demonstration material, 38,3% – database management systems, 32,3% – graphic editors, 22,2% – educational programs, 16,8% – multimedia systems and computer games (see Figure 3). multimedia systems and computer games educational programs
graphic editors
database management systems
tools for creating demonstration material
spreadsheets
text editors
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During the informatization of society, new ICT are constantly appearing, which are
replacing the usual applications. One of such ICT is a cloud technology – a service that
allows remote use of data processing and storage tools [
The next question was to find out whether schools use the standard MS Office suite, or whether some teachers use cloud services. Results of the answers to the question “From which package did you study office application packages (text editors; spreadsheets; database management systems; demo tools)?” 80,2% of those surveyed had studied MS Office, 22,2% had studied Office 365, and 24% had studied Google services (see Figure 4). In particular, 59,3% (99 people) of the proposed list chose MS Office only.
That is why the next question was “Do you know what “cloud services” is?”, to which 84,3% answered “yes” and the other 15,7% answered “no” (see Figure 5). Although the study of cloud services is also included in the CS curriculum, not all school teachers adhere to the relevant document.
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No 84,3% Answers to the following question “Which of the following programs and services are cloud-based?” are quite interesting as 13,4% of respondents said that MS Office is a cloud service. Also, 12,7% said Office 365 was cloud-based, 82,6% noted Google services, and 7,6% noted Prezi (see Figure 6). It’s worth noting that Office 365, Google, and Prezi are among the cloud ones listed.
As Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University actively introduces massive open online courses, the following question “Did you know what massive open online courses are?”. The survey results indicate that 74,3% know what it is, the other 25,7% do not (see Figure 7).
In doing so, in response to the question “Do you use these courses at school/college?” 88,6% of students (percent of those who answered “yes” to the previous question) answered, “yes” (see Figure 8).
To find out what kind of open online courses are used in the educational process of general secondary education institutions, the following question was analyzed: “If the answer to the previous question is “Yes”, which one?”. The analysis of the results
Prezi
Google Office 365
MS Office shows that in most cases (50%) are Cisco Academy courses, in some cases (13,6%) are Prometheus, and all others are isolated cases of other courses (see Figure 9). It should be noted that Zhytomyr Polytechnic is closely cooperating with Cisco Academy, as a result of cooperation in the institution of higher education actively used courses of the said academy in the educational process (when studying courses “Computer Networks”, “Python Programming”, “Cybersecurity”).
0,00% Fig. 8. Percentage of respondents’ answers to question # 8 Yes No Yes No Also, to facilitate the use of massive open online courses (MOOC) in students’ independent work, the following question “Have you used massive open online courses for self-study?” The results of the survey (67,1% – yes, 32,9% – no, see Figure 10) indicate that not all students used MOOC for independent work, and therefore, before using these courses, it is worth conducting coaching for students who do not know how to use such MOOC. 32,9%
Yes No 67,1% Also, an important question was, “Did teachers use any other tools when studying programming in Computer Science?”, in which 50,9% said “yes, they used”, 49,1% – no (see Figure 11).
To find out what kind of tools were still used in CS lessons, the following question
was asked: “If the answer to the previous question is “Yes”, what are the tools?”. The
results (see Figure 12) indicate that 32,2% of the respondents worked with online
compilers, 33,3% – with automated programming tasks, 50,6% – with simulators,
52,9% – with training games. According to previous research [
As ICTs can be used not only in CS lessons, the next question was “Did any information and communication technology tools (curricula, multimedia, simulators, games, virtual laboratories, etc.) be used in the school/college by non-CS teachers?”.
other training games
simulators online compilers automated programming tasks 0,00% Survey results indicate that in 51,5% of cases ICT was used in other lessons, in 48,5% it was not (see Figure 13).
51,5% 48,5%
Yes No Among those who answered “yes” to the following question “If the answer to the previous question is “Yes”, in what lessons did the teachers use such tools?” were distributed as follows (see Figure 14): 50% – ICT used in language and literature lessons; 48,8% – in mathematics lessons; 43,8% – physics; 38,8% – history; 33,8% – chemistry; 30% – biology; 20% – geography etc. other economics informatics draftsmanship geography
biology chemistry history physics mathematics language and literature 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% This indicates that most teachers still do not use different ICTs in their activities, although there are currently many tools that can be used in the educational process of a general secondary education institution.
The next question is, “Which one did you enjoy the most and why (also indicate the item on which it was used)?” made it possible for teachers to use the following ICT tools in their activities: multimedia, presentations, games, documentary, online quiz, educational films, simulators, and automated verification systems.
Analysis of the distribution of answers to the question “Was the teaching of this subject more interesting using a variety of tools than without using them?” (see Figure 15) indicate that it is still more interesting for students to use ICT in the educational process than not use.
14,5%
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To determine what other services could be considered with students, the answers to the
question “What additional services would you like to consider and explore how to use
them?” were analyzed. The results show that students want to study game simulators in
detail – 62,3%, cloud services for collaboration on documents – 59,9%, educational
games – 45,5%, tools for learning programming – 43,7%, simulators – 41,3%, computer
network modeling tools – 35,3%, virtual labs – 34,7%, massive open online courses –
29,9%, statistical data processing tools – 25,7%, cloud services to build distance
courses – 24,6%, collaboration tools for project activity – 23,4%, mathematical services
– 22,8%, mind maps – 19,8% (see Figure 16).
mind maps
mathematical services
collaboration tools for project
activity
Cloud Services to Build
distance courses
Statistical Data Processing
Tools
Massive Open Online Courses
Virtual Labs
Computer Network Modeling
Tools
simulators
tools for learning programming
educational games
cloud services for collaboration
on documents
game simulators
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As a result of the research, the introduction of the discipline “Educational technologies
and digital education” into the training of future information technology specialists was
substantiated [
Certified educational program “Information Systems and Cloud Technologies in the Educational Process” aims at forming knowledge about the peculiarities of using information systems and cloud technologies in the educational process of educational institutions, forming the ability to plan, develop courses at the methodological and information-technical levels using modern information systems and cloud technologies, to organize various forms of higher education by applying modern information systems and cloud technologies.