Online Course Architecture And Implementation: Issues Of Professional And Social Interaction

Abstract

The central problem of this research is professional and social communication within the framework of digital education. In particular, we consider the effectiveness of an online course created on the Moodle platform, its resources and elements. Within the general problem we set the aim to reveal the communicative potential of the online course, and its individual resources and elements, in order to improve the effectiveness of the educational process. This research is the summary of a large amount of work during the pre-pandemic and intra-pandemic periods covering about eight years (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020). This allowed us to obtain the required research material and consider the following issues: online course in the system of digital learning, its place and specificity; the structure of online course, its resources, elements and features of building communication; active and passive communication under the conditions of online learning; online course support as a condition for professional and social interaction. To implement these tasks, we developed an integrated approach using the following methods: empiric method, analytical comparison, experiment, observation, questionnaire, activity approach and synthesis. This allowed us to identify the purpose and true meaning of online course which are rather to create a communication platform than transmit knowledge. So, we consider the online course as an active element of learning environment. The research proves a scientific hypothesis about the determining role of a person in the context of e-learning which ensures its effectiveness and success.