COMPONENT MODEL OF THE CLOUD-ORIENTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT OF A MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The rapid development of innovative methods of learning, which are based on the widespread usage of information and communication technologies, forms the conditions for the transformation of the system of higher medical education. The emergence of cloud services in the IT services market has opened up new opportunities for the development of higher education institutions' (HEI) infrastructure. The quarantine crisis has made medical university faculty to begin restructuring the infrastructure of higher education institution in the direction of implementing the latest technologies of learning. During the COVID-19 quarantine period, medical universities started using Microsoft and Google cloud services extensively to provide distance learning to medical and pharmacy students. At the stage of adapting these services to the organization of the learning process, the problem was that there were no developed models of cloud-oriented learning environments for medical HEIs, which take into account the specifics of teaching subjects at medical faculties. In developing the component model, we applied methods of system analysis and approaches to describing the departments of the university from the perspective of an invariant model of the organizational system. This model allows scaling the technology of forming a hybrid cloud-oriented environment to all departments of the university. The component model of cloud-oriented educational environment was based on the model of the pedagogical system, which consists of the target, teaching, methodological, student, content and technological components. During the analysis of organization of medical education system of the university by method of stratification four main system levels were identified: І- strategic planning and organization of studies at the university; ІI- tactical planning and organization of medical education according to specialties; ІІI- planning and organization of educational process for students at 62 departments of the university; IV - modeling of partner interaction in the process of study on the basis of subject-subject relations of the teacher, technical staff of university departments and the student. The pedagogical system model was integrated with the hierarchical structural model of the medical university departments. Implementation of the developed model, in the shortest possible time, made it possible to optimally build the projection of the ground structure by means of MSO365 cloud services to the virtual cloud-oriented learning environment of the medical university and provide distance learning. The developed structure was implemented in the educational process of Zaporizhzhia State Medical University (ZSMU) during the period of COVID – 19 quarantine. The gained experimental experience in the organization of distance learning was used as the basis for the ZSMU mixed form of studying.