A problem of long distances in the educational environment

Abstract

A process of the specialist’s professional development involve two aspects of the decision-making support: choosing a field of study (by an applicant) and choosing an applicant for a job position and training (by a company). The correctness of solving this task depends greatly on developing methods allowing to identify potential of an applicant. The goal of this research is developing a formalized approach to create the metrics in the educational environment, which would allow comparing applicants to each other in terms of compliance with the requirements of a certain job. The methods: the research uses system analysis approaches; models of characteristics changing during the training; scaling of heterogeneous values; integrating particular estimations (getting integral estimation) based on expert opinions. The results: the analysis allowed identify a set of dependencies related both to a study subject and job requirements, distinctive features and resource characteristics of learning technologies. Several models and an approach to assessing a prospective applicant were suggested taking into account a multi-dimensional resource, which is required to train a certain applicant up to the required level. The practical relevance: the suggested approach allows to make formalized setting and further addressing a set of evaluation and optimization tasks related both to the best choice of future job (for an applicant), and a choice of most promising applicants and learning techniques (for a company).