DISTANCE TECHNOLOGIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF MASTER’S PROGRAMS: ANALISYS OF FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES’ EXPERIENCE
Implementation of distance educational technologies in learning process is even more often included into the list of higher education institutions’ development priorities. It is caused by politic, economic, social and cultural processes in the global community. Besides, there are some important factors defining actuality of implementation of distance technologies in Master’s programs: To achieve a high level of individualization of learning in a Master’s program is a current challenge what may be met by distance technologies; Limited academic mobility of professors and students obstructs realization of Master’s programs that may be changed by distance technologies providing virtual academic mobility. The article is aimed to research the experience of leading foreign universities in realization of Master’s programs using distance educational technologies. According to the aim there are defined following objects: To collect information about principles and technologies of organization of Master’s programs using distance educational technologies in the leading foreign universities; To identify and describe similarities and differences in the experience of foreign universities. For the research there were selected the following methods: Search and analysis of documents where principles of implementation of distance educational technologies in realization of Master’s programs are described; Examination of e-learning systems in foreign higher education institutions and representation of the examination results; Interview with representatives from foreign universities about implementation of distance educational technologies in learning process within Master’s programs; Comparison of received data about various objects. The article investigates the world experience and practice of Master’s programs realization using distance educational technologies through the example of 14 foreign partner universities of National Research Tomsk State University entered the TOP - 200 of the QS ranking. The research which was conducting in January and February, 2015 is based on materials and information available to the public on the websites. The article describes various organization models of learning, structure and activity of electronic informational and educational environment of the higher education institutions, departments responsible for ICT implementation in learning process. The perceived conclusions allow to determine possible methods of using of distance technologies in Russian higher education institutions for organization of Master’s programs with foreign partners.
Keywords
дистанционные технологии,
электронное обучение,
магистерские программы,
международные программы,
зарубежные университеты,
distance educational technologies,
e-learning,
Master’s programs,
international educational programs,
foreign universitiesAuthors
| Arenkina E.A. | National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia | arenkina@ido.tsu.ru |
| Babanskaya O.M. | National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia | babanskaya@ido.tsu.ru |
| Dubrovskaya V.S. | National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia | dvs@ido.tsu.ru |
| Feshchenko A.V. | National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia | fav@ido.tsu.ru |
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