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==Digital transformation of educational process planning at a university ==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2667/paper72.pdf
Digital transformation of educational process
planning at a university
Alexander Nechitaylo Olga Vasilchuk Anna Gnutova
Department of Publishing and Book Department of Financial Markets and Department of Publishing and Book
Distribution Technologies Distribution
Samara National Research University Volga Region State University of Samara National Research University
Samara, Russia Service Samara, Russia
alik.51@mail.ru Togliatti, Russia lola_red@mail.ru
famvas@yandex.ru
Abstract—The article discusses the innovative process of does alternating the recruitment of applicants for different
preparing curricula within enlarged groups of specialties areas of training by year have the desired effect.
(areas of training) with the integration of general disciplines
into a stream. This method provides a reduction in the total III. SOLUTION DESCRIPTION
load, as well as simplification of the automation processes for According to the authors, one alternative that has a
the preparation of the curriculum. significant prospect for solving the existing problem of small
groups (streams), is to change the organisation of the
Keywords—educational process, optimization, training
direction, curriculum, discipline
educational process for those enlarged groups of specialities,
where all specialities, areas of training and training profiles
I. INTRODUCTION combined into enlarged groups are concentrated in one
faculty (institute) of a specific university.
The modern educational process in most universities is
characterised by a significant set of specialities, areas of In this context, taking into account the opportunities
training, and profiles of areas of training for future graduates. provided by the higher education institutions of the last
This can be explained by the diversity of desires of generation, the authors propose changing the process of
applicants and their parents in choosing a future profession, developing curricula for preparing students within large
as well as the need of the national economy for a wide range groups of specialities, where possible. Of course, in each
of highly specialised graduates. Therefore, in almost every case, the decision on the possibility of using the proposed
university there is a need for a significant number of groups method remains with the developers of the curriculum.
of up to 15 students. Since the curriculum is compiled The authors' experience in the period from 1998 to the
separately for each speciality, field of study or profile of present shows that the proposed change in the organisation of
training, then in the whole university this leads to a the educational process is quite possible.
significant increase in the study load.
As an illustration, to consider the proposed changes, we
On the 15th January 2020, President of Russia V.V. Putin consider the block diagrams of the generally accepted
gave the Address to the Federal Assembly, wherein he set curriculum development for an enlarged group and that
the task “to enable second-year students to choose a new proposed by the authors (Fig. 1).
direction or study programme, including related professions” For each enlarged group of specialities/areas of training,
[6]. you can draw up curricula that will differ only in the
One of the solutions to this problem for enlarged groups disciplines of the main cycle necessary for this speciality
of training areas may be the digital organisation of the (field of study or profile of training).
educational process proposed by the authors, which ensures For example, for the specialities “Publishing and Editing”
the integration of small groups into streams in the first two and “Book Distribution”, you can teach the disciplines of
courses. auxiliary cycles in one stream and for separate students only
when studying disciplines of the main cycle.
II. FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM
To test the proposed curriculum compilation scheme, the
The problem of increasing the workload is observed not authors developed standard curricula in the form of network
only separately in each area of training, but also within the graphs for the specialities of “Publishing and Editing” and
enlarged groups of areas of training. A large number of small “Book Distribution”, which provide for the passage of all
groups of students for whom one has to give lectures and general educational disciplines for all students of this
conduct practical exercises in all subjects of the curriculum enlarged group of specialities in one stream. The division of
throughout the learning process leads to low profitability of students into groups occurs only when studying special
the university as a whole. In this context, the task arises of disciplines, and thus, a significant reduction in the total load
optimising the costs of implementing educational in an enlarged group of specialities is achieved. An
programmes and organising the educational process at a illustration of integrative graphs of professional competence
university. is presented in Fig. 2.
The existing problem of small groups and small flows An analysis of the curricula developed in the form of
that reduce the cost-effectiveness of training students, both network graphs shows that, in this case, not only is a
with budget funding and with paid tuition, prompt reduction in the overall load achieved, but there is also the
universities to look for alternative ways to solve it. Attempts possibility of significantly simplifying the automation
to reduce the diversity of specialities, areas or profiles of processes for scheduling semesters.
student training lead to a decrease in the attractiveness of the
university in the eyes of applicants and their parents, nor
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А B
Fig. 1. Curriculum development schemes (A – generally accepted; B – proposed).
The graphs of the educational process are developed for disciplines into a stream and reading each of them in one
the entire period of study and are directed from one semester stream.
to another, which makes it possible to create time-oriented
procedures for scheduling for a semester, academic year, and In the discipline “Life Safety” the number of hours for
even for the entire training period. this discipline does not coincide in all areas of training. To
be able to teach this discipline also in one thread, it is
The graphs not only take into account the actual process necessary to equalise the number of hours for this discipline.
of conducting classes but also allow you to determine the
TABLE I. THE NUMBER OF SUPPORTING DISCIPLINES THAT CAN BE
time (start and end of work) for the timely preparation of the COMBINED INTO ONE STREAM
necessary teaching materials for a quality training process,
starting from work programmes, term papers, practical and The total number of disciplines per
laboratory work and documentation for them, practices, and semester for various specialties of The number of
the preparation and protection of final qualifying work. one enlarged group of specialties disciplines that can
Semester
be combined into a
Publishing and
IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH Editing
Book distribution stream
From the illustration of the network graphs of the
curricula of the specialties “Publishing and Editing” and I 7 7 6
“Book Distribution” belonging to one enlarged group, it can II 8 7 6
III 9 9 8
be seen that in the first semester of the 7 disciplines taught IV 11 11 9
in this enlarged group, in six disciplines, students can be V 10 8 7
combined into one flow, in the second semester - 6, in the VI 9 9 4
third - 8, etc. These data are shown in table 1. VII 8 6 3
VII 8 7 1
From the illustration of the network graphs of the IX 7 6 0
curricula of the specialities “Publishing and Editing” and
“Book Distribution” belonging to one enlarged group, it can TABLE II. THE NUMBER OF HOURS PROVIDED FOR THE STUDY OF
be seen that in the first semester of the seven disciplines DISCIPLINES OF THE COMPULSORY PART OF THE UNDERGRADUATE
PROGRAMS “MASS MEDIA AND INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE” IN
taught in this enlarged group, in six disciplines, students can
VARIOUS AREAS OF PREPARATION
be combined into one flow, six in the second semester, eight
in the third, etc. These data are shown in Table 1. The number of
Direction of hours provided
Subject
An analysis of the Federal State Educational Standards of preparation for the study of
Higher Education (3 ++) in the areas of undergraduate the discipline
TV 108
“Media and Information and Library Science” [8] shows that
in all areas of training included in this group (Publishing, Journalism 108
Journalism, Television, Media Communications, Advertising Philosophy Publishing 108
and public relations) the educational programme should Advertising and
108
ensure the implementation of disciplines included in the public relations
compulsory part of the programme with load volumes of the TV 108
Journalism 108
same or similar magnitude. These disciplines include History (history of Russia,
Publishing 108
philosophy, history (Russian history, general history) and life general history)
Advertising and
safety (compulsory disciplines). public relations
108
Having examined the plans existing for 2019-2020 at TV 72
Samara University, we see that in the compulsory disciplines Journalism 72
“Philosophy” and “History (Russian history, general Life safety
history)” the number of hours provided for the study of these Publishing 108
disciplines coincides and equals 108 hours (Table 2) Advertising and
72
Consequently, we can safely talk about combining these public relations
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Fig. 2. Illustration of network graphs curriculum specialties one enlarged group.
The same can be done for disciplines that are compulsory Let there be i main directions of training i ϵ (1, n) with j ϵ
in these areas of training and are included in the block of (1, m) identical disciplines. To draw up a digitalised
compulsory disciplines, for example, the disciplines curriculum for the entire course of study, we divide the work
“Modern Russian Language” and “Russian Language in by year and for each academic year, we teg all academic
Professional Activities” (Table 3). disciplines with an indication of their volume (load) by year
of study.
For this, the authors propose the following algorithm
(Fig.3).
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TABLE II. THE NUMBER OF HOURS PROVIDED FOR THE STUDY OF 3. We determine the i-th direction of training with the
DISCIPLINES OF THE COMPULSORY PART OF THE UNDERGRADUATE selected j-th discipline having the maximum load Sijmax.
PROGRAMS “MASS MEDIA AND INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE” IN
VARIOUS AREAS OF PREPARATION 4. We determine the difference in loads for the selected j-
The number of th discipline in the listed i areas of training:
Direction of hours provided
Subject
preparation for the study of Sijmax– Sij = Δij
the discipline
5. Equalise the load of each ij-th discipline by the value
TV 108 of its difference Δij to the value of Sijmax by reducing the
Journalism 108 load of optional disciplines of the same curriculum.
Philosophy
Publishing 108 6. We approve the received volumes of loads on the
Advertising and
108
recalculated mandatory j-th disciplines of each i-th direction
public relations of preparation of this enlarged group.
TV 108
7. We approve the received loads of optional disciplines
Journalism 108 of this enlarged group
History (history of Russia,
general history) Publishing 108
V. CONCLUSION
Advertising and
108
public relations The modern labour market is changing dynamically,
TV 72 presenting more and more challenges to higher education.
New professions are constantly appearing and requirements
Journalism 72
Life safety
for existing ones are becoming more complicated; therefore,
Publishing 108 higher education must respond flexibly and quickly to these
Advertising and
72
questions.
public relations
The authors proposed a way to digitalise the
TABLE III. THE NUMBER OF HOURS PROVIDED FOR THE STUDY OF THE educational process; in particular, computer optimisation of
DISCIPLINES "MODERN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE" AND "RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN curricula in all areas of preparation of an enlarged group
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES" OF THE COMPULSORY PART OF THE
provides students with basic training for two years for them
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS "MEDIA AND INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES"
IN VARIOUS AREAS OF PREPARATION to choose the actual course of study from the third year.
Digitalisation will simplify the development and release of
Subject Direction of The number of
preparation hours provided
semester curricula for students and teachers, and offer it
for the study of online on demand.
the discipline
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