Organising e-learning in war conditions using Google Classroom

Abstract

The priority task of the higher education system is the training of personnel who are able to creatively solve professional tasks and be ready for lifelong learning and self development in the conditions of the changing needs of the labour market. The modern period of the development of society is characterized by a strong influence on it of digital technologies, which penetrate into all areas of human activity, which ensures the spread of information flows in them, forming a global information space. Digital technologies‘ development and implementation in the world is happening faster than the implementation of any other innovative developments. The rapid spread of digital technologies requires a wide variety of new knowledge and skills, fundamentally new approaches to education and work, and a qualitatively new relationship between work and leisure. The accelerated development of information and communication technologies presents teachers with the task of fluency and application of information and communication technologies in the educational process. Thanks to electronic learning systems and information and communication technologies, the teacher transforms and improves traditional learning models. Strict quarantine measures, which were introduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, forced the education industry to adapt and reorganize its work to remote mode. There are also significant problems with the use of online learning. First of all, some students from low-income families faced additional obstacles in their studies. Educational institutions also faced significant technical and methodological problems, forced to make operational changes to the infrastructure in order to facilitate distance teaching. The war in Ukraine brought new challenges to the education sector: the destruction of educational institutions and housing, the forced relocation of both students and teaching staff to other regions of Ukraine and abroad. In a number of regions of the country, face-to-face training of education seekers has become impossible, and therefore distance learning has become the only available form of education.