Abstract
The article examines the features of the transformation of the role of a teacher in higher education in connection with the digitalization of education in the period before the pandemic, and during the transition of the university to a forced remote mode under the conditions of the pandemic. The assessment of the effectiveness of distance learning from the point of view of students and teachers is given. The purpose of the article is to determine expectations, the degree and nature of the influence of the teacher's personality on the effectiveness of educational process in general and distance learning in particular. Researching the effectiveness of higher education in the digital age and assessing the impact on teacher effectiveness involves the use of a number of scientific principles and research methods, theoretical and empirical. To achieve the goal, the scientific works of leading foreign and Russian scientists on the problems of digitalization of education, dehumanization of education, transformation of the role of the teacher have been analyzed, and our own research has been carried out on the basis of the Moscow Polytechnic University in the form of a survey. An assessment of the emotional consequences of isolation is given. The analysis of the effectiveness of distance learning, from the point of view of higher education teachers and students has been carried out. The expectations of students and the change in the role of a teacher of higher education as a result of expansion of functional responsibilities under the circumstances of distance learning are described. Long before the coronavirus pandemic, digitalization had been a trend in the education system. A year of distance learning has revolutionized higher education. The role of a teacher in higher education has been transformed with a significant expansion of functions and a rapid increase in the level of competencies.
Highlights
Educational institutions in 2020-2021, due to the well-known events, faced a vital need to organize their main activities using distance learning systems built on the basis of e-learning or distance educational technologies
─ in the process of distance learning, there is a problem of maintaining a balance between a rigid learning strategy, where a clear route is set and absence of creative freedom and a strategy to facilitate the course for students, which reduces the quality of education;
─ one of the main competencies in the digital age is the ability to live in the digital world and, at the same time, preserve humanness, mechanisms that form human relationships and support the authority of a teacher in the education system should be laid in distance technologies
Summary
Educational institutions in 2020-2021, due to the well-known events, faced a vital need to organize their main activities using distance learning systems built on the basis of e-learning or distance educational technologies. We globally and urgently entered another era - the era of digitalization Such a sharp transition to distance learning in education has entailed a lot of organizational, economic, methodological, and mental iJET ‒ Vol 16, No 21, 2021. The question of effectiveness of education is still open, even from the point of view of its assessment (Evans-Amalu and Claravall, 2021; Kalimullina et al, 2021). In this regard, the transformation of the role of a teacher in the process of distance learning and the assessment of a teacher's influence on the effectiveness of training are especially interesting. The role of a teacher is being transformed, becoming more significant and accompanied by expansion of the functions performed (Gapsalamov et al, 2020; Williams et al, 2021; Deryagin et al, 2019; Shurygin and Krasnova, 2017; Shurygin et al, 2021; Volkova et al, 2020; Koroleva et al, 2021)
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