DISTANCE EDUCATION IN UKRAINE DURING THE WAR
1 Uman National University of Horticulture (UKRAINE)
2 Cherkasy State Technological University (UKRAINE)
About this paper:
Conference name: 15th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 3-5 July, 2023
Location: Palma, Spain
Abstract:
With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, education was forced to move to a distance learning form. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Ukraine's education was ready for new challenges. The authors note that online learning has taken the central stage in the times of war and is being lauded as a feasible alternative for imparting education to students again after pandemic. Current trends in the education of young people in the mode of remote access to educational resources intensify the emergence of changes in the system of education. Such advantages of distance learning, as study anywhere and learn at your pace, allow Ukrainian students to get knowledge under the war circumstances. The authors highlight some of the difficulties faced by education during the war. They note that distance learning has become a quick solution for the education system to gain knowledge for Ukrainian students. The aim of the article is to analyze distance learning in Ukraine in order to identify the impact of the war on education. The key methods of our study are synthesis, analysis, systematization and generalization. In our monitoring, we use published regulatory documents, secondary data, Ukrainian and international media reports as well as reports of Ukrainian representatives of the central and local governments. Distance learning is the most important component in the education. But authors point out the difficulties of organizing the education process during the war. At the same time, some students and professors are in dangerous areas, in war hotspots or in temporarily occupied territories and they may not be able to join the process. Students or professors who are relatively safe may not have access to the internet or the required equipment. There are also air raid sirens in most Ukrainian regions every day (or even multiple times a day in many of them),during which students and professors have to take shelter. This can directly affect the organization of the education process and interrupt it. It may be useful to collect data and to develop recommendations at the national level on the organization of the education process under the current circumstances of war. First in the history of Ukraine the education rapidly reorganizes and adapts to the current situation so professionally and at a high level.Keywords:
Distance education, new challenges, under war circumstances, difficulties, educational process.