ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR TEACHERS’ READINESS FORMATION TO USE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND DISTANT LEARNING

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NOSKOVA Marharyta – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Pedagogy and Social Management Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S. Bandera Str., 12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine E-mail address: margaryta.v.noskova@lpnu.ua ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4396-3408 ResearcherID : http://www.researcherid.com/rid/R-7823-2017 HAVRYLIUK Marianna – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Foreign Language Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S. Bandera Str., 12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine E-mail address: mhavrilyuk@gmail.com ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2347-2188 ResearcherID : http://www.researcherid.com/rid/ D-9475-2019 To cite this article: Noskova, M., & Havryliuk, M. (2019). Organizational and pedagogical conditions for teachers’ readiness formation to use information technologies and distant learning. Liudynoznavchi studii. Seriia «Pedahohika» – Human Studies. Series of «Pedagogy» , 8/40, 81–93. doi: 10.24919/2413-2039.8/40.164407. Article history Received: November 4, 2018 Received in revised form: January 3, 2019 Accepted: February 18, 2019 Available online: April 22, 2019 Journal homepage: http://lssp.dspu.edu.ua/ p-ISSN 2313-2094 e-ISSN 2413-2039 © 2019 The Authors. Human studies. Series of «Pedagogy» published by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University & Open Journal Systems. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ). Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of teachers’ readiness formation to use the information technologies and distant learning. The research focuses on teachers working in schools who have completed vocational education for at least ten years ago as well as have already got some teaching experience and plan to develop their teaching career. The article analyzes the research works of Ukrainian scientists concerning the essence of the concept of readiness and the components that determine it. In particular, the notion of teacher’s readiness to conduct a professional activity, which has been used throughout the research, was defined as following: «teacher’s professional readiness» is a complex, multicomponent concept that requires a certain formation process throughout the professional activity of a teacher. The readiness or ability of a teacher to perceive various innovations in the professional activity is formed by external and internal factors, which, ideally, should be harmoniously combined and complement each other. The organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of teachers’ readiness to use information technologies and distant learning in their professional training have been formulated and substantiated, namely: the availability of the state professional standard of a teacher, which determines the teacher’s informational competence according to his/her education and position; a steady motivation to use information technologies in the professional activities; the creation of an appropriate technical support on the teacher’s workplace; the availability of an information learning environment and sufficient technical equipment and software in the educational institution; system of teachers professional training concerning the use of information technologies and distant learning in the educational process; professional freedom to choose forms, methods, technologies and teaching tools; adequate financial support for the use of information technologies and the introduction of distant learning in the educational institution. The prospects for further scientific research on the defined problem are the following: analysis of the current state of the regulatory and legal framework of Ukraine that regulates the informatization and implementation of information technologies and distant learning in Ukrainian educational institutions; analysis of the reasons for the inhibition of the distant learning introduction in the educational process of Ukrainian institutions of secondary education; the study of the current state of content and the organization of professional development of school teachers’ information competence in institutions of postgraduate education. Acknowledgments. We wish to express our gratitude and appreciation to Ph.D., Professor Mukan Nataliya for the assessment of the materials under study, which have been presented in the article as well as for the valuable recommendations concerning the structure of the article. A thorough discussion of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of teachers’ readiness to use information technologies and distant learning in Ukrainian educational institutions as well as the influence of internal and external factors on the professional activity of a new Ukrainian school teacher has influenced the content of the article and contributed to the identification of new research areas. Funding. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.