Google cloud services as a way to enhance learning and teaching at university

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of a cloud-based learning system implementation as a powerful strategy for future specialists’ training at higher educational establishments. Using cloud computing in self-work management of the university courses is essential to equip students with a workload of appropriate educational materials and variable activities for professional training. Theoretical and empirical research methods were applied to select the appropriate services and tools for organizing students’ self-work at university. Critical analysis of scientific literature, synthesis of the data, didactic observation of the educational process, designing of the skeleton for university courses, questionnaires enabled to facilitate the study of the issue. G Suite has been chosen to enhance the quality of training of prospective specialists at a higher educational establishment. This paper introduces the outcomes of the project on applying Google Classroom in the management of students’ self-work while studying university courses. The focus of the first stage of the project was on testing pilot versions of the courses with the aim to work out the requirements and recommendations for incorporation general blended learning model of university courses. Particular attention is drawn to the designed model of the university course based on the curriculum with the necessary components of blended learning in the G Suite virtual environment. Cloud-based higher education is considered as a prospective tool for design of university courses with the need for further research and implementation.

The current level of competence of schoolteachers on how to use cloud technologies in the educational process during COVID-19

“…During the pandemic, the readiness of students and pupils to organize independent learning becomes especially important, which requires them to be motivated to learn, keep track of time, can use modern ICT, self-discipline, and control. Korobeinikova et al [8] show an example of the use of cloud services in their activities as a means of improving student learning and teaching disciplines, in particular Google Classroom, which allows you to manage the independent work of students while studying disciplines. Korobeinikova et al [8] emphasize that when organizing the educational process using cloud technologies, it is necessary to move to the application of the model of blended learning in universities.…”

“…Korobeinikova et al [8] show an example of the use of cloud services in their activities as a means of improving student learning and teaching disciplines, in particular Google Classroom, which allows you to manage the independent work of students while studying disciplines. Korobeinikova et al [8] emphasize that when organizing the educational process using cloud technologies, it is necessary to move to the application of the model of blended learning in universities.…”

The Use of Digital Tools for Mastering Practical Disciplines in the Distance Format of Training Bachelors of Preschool Education

“…The publications of Ukrainian scientists consider a variety of digital tools for organizing various forms of educational interaction, in particular the use of cloud technologies (Korobeinikova T. [13], Proshkin, V. [21]), word cloud services for the students development of thinking functions (Nezhyva, L., Palamar, S., Marienko, M. [18]), AR technologies -2D and 3D modeling in the educational process (Kozak L, Kozlitin D. [11]), creation of open resources for practice (Velychko V., Fedorenko E., Soloviev V. Dolinska L. [6]). The question of the necessity of forming ICT competence among educators, since media literacy of preschool children is an integral component of the content of modern preschool education, was analyzed by Yankovych, O., Chaika, V., Ivanova, T., Binytska, K., Kuzma, I., Pysarchuk, O. Falfushynska, H. Arguing the need to modernize the training of young specialists Yaroshenko O. Samborska O., Kiv A. suggest using a comprehensive approach to the digital training of future teachers [13]. The experience of teaching the disciplines of the specialty 012 Preschool education in the online format is revealed in the study of Bielienka, A., Polovina, O., Kondratets, I., Shynkar, T., Brovko, K [3].…”

Educational Technology Quarterly: in the beginning

“…WWW: https://tinyurl.com/v3kbw85n ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1258-7251 Notable works: Korobeinikova et al [102], Petrova et al [163], Tokarieva et al [217], Volkova et al [245], Volkova, Rizun and Nehrey [246].…”