LNU is for the European Choice: Students and Teachers Appreciated Remote Education

2.6.2015

By the end of academic year LNU decided to find out how effective remote education is.

Experts interviewed teachers and students. Those students, who don’t come to classroom trainings, were suggested to fill in an anonymous form in Moodle system. Survey result was quite positive: European technologies are convenient and help to learn information well.

This year university has implemented remote education for the first time. At year-end students and teachers left good comments about remote education, website content and its refresh rate.

Head of Department of Analysis and University Perspective Development Mykolai Semenov noted that university made the European choice and focused on modern approaches to technologies. University experts provided comfort, quality, openness and transparency of website. This is a high rate of university work. Deputy Head Kateryna Kotelenets says: “We have organized work for three month and received good comments from students. This is a very good result. Students’ opinions are very important for our work and its improvement.”

Through survey students and teachers can also leave their suggestions on improving work in online mode. Many students said that this form of learning was easily combined with a job: “Website is user-friendly enough. We can read lectures and individual tasks there. For me, this is a big plus that one can quickly find the desired section. I think that remote education is convenient primarily due to the fact that each student can build his own timetable” – told a student of Faculty of Ukrainian Philology and Social Communications Olha Vilchynska.

Student of the Institute of History, International Relations and Socio-Political Sciences Alina Panteleimonova shares her expression about remote education year: “Talking about Moodle system, I definitely can say that our work is progressing productively. Of course, studying at home is not such full as in classrooms but nevertheless we have a connection with teachers, our works are checked quite quickly and week mode is very convenient.”

LNU notes that students’ activity at remote education website, their progress in study had been significantly increased comparing with stationary education. To make work more productive education in remote mode must be combined with classroom trainings that is provided by university as well.

Press-Center of LNU (the City of Starobilsk)