Application of cloud educational technologies for teacher competence development

Abstract

The research deals with solving an urgent pedagogical problem - finding ways for teacher competence development based on the use of innovative educational technologies that meet the modern requirements of society, pedagogical science and practice. It is established that the educational process on-line can be managed with the use of cloud technologies that influence the architecture, the services provided and the logistics of implementation of training courses. The experimental use of Google Apps Education Edition and OwnCloud was tested in distance training courses for teacher competence development with up to 10 years of practical experience. The obtained results and the dynamics of the development of the motivational, cognitive, activity and personal components of teacher competences were analysed using the methods of mathematical statistics. This study reveals that Google Apps Education Edition has powerful tools and extensive opportunities for distance learning, and is an effective means of enhancing the development of all components of teacher competence. The use of these services in the process of distance learning courses to increase teacher competence almost completely solves the problem of interaction with the teaching staff and the learning environment. This helps to establish the correspondence of the content of assignments to the studied topics and to ensure a professional focus of project assignments of teachers. This model can be used to develop and implement services that allow the organization of personal information space for teachers (on the example of blogs and Google cloud service).