Bodnenko D. Training of teachers for providing distance education in higher education establishments

Dissertation is devoted to theoretical and experimental researches of the issue concerning training of teachers for providing distance education in higher education establishments. The usage of distance education in the beginning of the 21st century and its future development has been studied. Characteristics of approaches, forms, methods, means and technologies of distance education were represented. In this thesis work, basing on didactics of higher school pedagogy a system of psychological and pedagogical characteristics for higher school teachers was created. Due to pedagogical experiment, the particularities of training of teachers for providing distance education were found out. They are informational and communicative, didactical, constructive, organizational, cognitive, communicational, perceptional, suggestive, practical skills as well as in the sphere of the applied psychology. On the basis of the developed during the research "Pedagogical Basics of Distance Education" study program, three experimental groups were prepared. The result of the research gave the possibility to create the model of training of teachers for providing distance education in higher education establishments that consists of five fields of trainings. They are: organizational, guidance, informational and communicative, normative-legal, psychologically-pedagogical directions. A list of criteria of forming of skills, knowledge and experience was represented. The prior direction that was controlled during the process of experimental works was the preparation of a teacher to practice distance education. The organizational direction of level of preparation of the teacher was determined by the organizational skills in the sphere of distance education. During the preparation process of experimental course participant within "Pedagogical basis distance education" a conceptual category database for distance education teacher was created and every participant completed a special set of individual tasks that contributed to the formingof skills and distance education tuition experience. It is necessary to point out that in the mentioned list of educational directions there are no of those that have priority or are less important. All of them have equal priority and deserve the same attention. Furthermore, the elements of every part of the directions are closely related to each other and their location is determined and selected by the author of this dissertation according to the main principals and approaches of the most correspondence with didactic parameters of the related direction. In the result of the work, using the experience of leading the Ukrainian educational establishments, unified model of training of teachers for providing distance education in higher education establishments was created.