On December 23, the NTUU "KPI" hosted the Fourth Interuniversity Scientific and Methodological Seminar "Current Problems of Teaching History of Ukraine and the History of Ukrainian Culture at Higher Education Institutions". Initiated in the KPI at the instance of the Department of History of the Faculty of Sociology and Law, meetings of historians - teachers at Ukrainian universities have become a tradition. A current seminar was devoted to the development of e-learning forms.
- The fact that we acclaim the teachers of the humanities within the walls of our technical university is very valuable for us, - said professor Volodymyr Tymofieiev, Deputy Vice-rector of the NTUU "KPI", welcoming the participants of the seminar. - Humanities are an important part of training of a modern specialist, and we treat these disciplines with due respect. This has already become a tradition for the KPI.
Director of the Institute for Retraining and Career Enhancement of the Institute of Postgraduate Education of NTUU "KPI" Yurii Bohachkov told about the development of the system of e-learning in the world, about its advantages and disadvantages. His report on "Wide-Scale Open Remote Courses: A New Form, New Opportunities" set the tone for discussing the issues raised at the seminar. They are extremely relevant today: e-learning as an education form has been particularly powerful in educational systems in many countries since the financial and economic crisis of 2008, which, to begin with, has deprived a significant number of young people of the opportunity to obtain knowledge under the classical scheme "university - teacher - student"; and, secondly, made people acquire new abilities, skills and even specialties. In this context, the formula proposed by the European Commission for modern approaches to the organization of schooling and training of specialists - "New Skills for New Jobs" is quite prominent.
Much has been done in this area in the KPI particularly, as the Ukrainian Institute for Information Technologies Education in the NTUU "KPI" has been an integral part of the university for many years. According to Volodymyr Tymofieiev, NTUU "KPI" has remote courses for the overwhelming majority of both technical and humanitarian disciplines that are taught at the university already developed. They can already be used as an important additional form of students’ training and testing their knowledge and skills.
However, the potential of remote methods, of course, is not limited to auxiliary functions in stationary training. They are already becoming independent, since the capabilities of modern telecommunication technologies allow the use of a variety of visual materials, provide a high-quality course submission and, at the same time, operational control of its mastering, taking the student's individuality into account. Specific examples of the use of these opportunities in the teaching of the history of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture discussed with colleagues representatives of the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, NaUKMA, Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport, Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education of Kyiv B. Grinchenko University and, of course, NTUU "KPI".