Involvement of modern information technologies to support the free choice of academic disciplines by students of higher educational institutions

Abstract

The work is devoted to the implementation of the procedure of free choice of academic disciplines by students of higher educational institutions and the development of means of support for this choice. The main task, which is solved in the work, is the definition of methods and means of information and technological support for the free choice of academic disciplines by students. The purpose of the work is to make the process of choosing disciplines by students more transparent, convenient and understandable. The provisions on the free choice of academic disciplines of the leading institutions of higher education of Ukraine were used as sources of information. The analysis of these provisions made it possible to highlight the main stages of students' free choice of academic disciplines. On the example of the declared procedure for choosing educational disciplines of Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University, the specified stages were detailed. The following structure was used for detailing: stage description; content of the stage; problems and contradictions that arise at the selected stage; proposals and ways of solving identified problems and contradictions. The results of the analysis of the support system for the free choice of educational disciplines are presented in the form of a decision tree. The developed decision tree contains three ways of developing a support system for the student's free choice of educational disciplines, depending on the level of automation of the process. For each development path of the support system, the final products that must be developed to achieve the selected degree of automation of the process of free choice of educational disciplines are indicated. Also, for each path of the development of such a support system, schemes for the involvement of process subjects, which are understood to mean employees of departments and the university administration, have been drawn up. The student is at the top of this process, he is the final consumer, therefore the whole system is aimed at facilitating the procedure of choosing educational disciplines from the student's point of view. Changes to the format of presenting information in the university-wide catalog of free-choice disciplines are also proposed. Key words: individual educational trajectory; disciplines of free choice; information support system; information support; decision tree.