What is it about?
Hybrid education is a form of education which is being determined by transformation of educational systems under applying ICTs for educational processes and by external factors connected with determining sustainable development as the main goal for the mankind, as well as with hybridization of environment, where e-Environment has been turned from artificially created environment into a constituent part of environment that serves as a platform for saving scarce resources and optimizing resource allocation, both on the national and global levels. Hybrid education preconditions emerging new communication and interaction forms and processes among new and old elements of educational systems/systems of educations at different levels. Quality hybrid education requires new instruments for quality assessment which are currently being under development. Openness and transparency of HEI outputs, regarding inputs, is one of the indicators of quality education. Academic staff performance should be measured and assessed applying new requirements for being competitive under e-Environment and hybrid education. Hence, e-Environment of the University should include e-portfolio as an open decentralized constituent part containing web-pages of agents with qualitative and quantitative indicators of their academic performance. The indicators should be prioritized in accordance with objectives of HEI.
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Why is it important?
The process of adjusting transformation of education to dynamics of civilization development requires from systems of education to respond to constant corrections from all the stakeholders, agents and processes to upgrade its elements and parameters, which can be facilitated by real-time feedbacks at all levels of systems. Studying quality education in the context of the goals that the mankind has been setting for its sustainable development helps realize the changes in the attributes of educational system and subsystem elements, given quality of education reflects a level of disorder providing objective data on interactions of system elements and their discord with normative goals forecast for certain educational systems. The paper analyzes hybrid education as a form of education which is being determined by transformation of educational systems under applying ICTs for educational processes and by external factors connected with determining sustainable development and with hybridization of environment, which requires new instruments for quality assessment that are currently being under development.
Perspectives
The open information and education e-Environment of HEI contributes to efficiency and quality of leaming processes, intensification of scientific research, an increase in efficiency and effectiveness of university administration and the education system, integration of national educational information systems in the global network that facilitates access to international information resources in education, science and culture. An obligatory condition for its use and development is openness and transparency. To ensure the quality of the educational activities of the university, it is necessary to adhere to standards and guidelines developed by the European Association for quality assurance. Key quality indicators are used in the most authoritative world rankings of universities. Analysis of world rankings and using them to implement internal rating systems makes it possible to identify weaknesses, activities to develop further and to develop strategies to improve management decisions and the intensification of structural units and employees to improve the quality of educational services at the university. Improvement of the problem of quality indicators of educational activities is a necessary condition for the development and compliance with the education policy of the university and its corporate standards. Internal ratings system makes it possible to determine the place of a teacher, department, Institute of the University and their contribution to creating a positive vector of development activity of academic staff of the university influences the formation and development of e-environment, which is essential to ensure the quality of educational activity.
Hanna Pavlova
Kyyivs'kyj Universytet imeni Borysa Hrinchenka
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This page is a summary of: Quality Hybrid Education Evaluation: Academic Staff Performance Assessment (Cases: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University and the University of Silesia), International Journal of Information and Communication Technologies in Education, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ijicte-2017-0003.
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