Assessment by Students of the Influence of Distance Learning Technologies on the Organization of Practice as a Factor of Improving the Quality of Training

Abstract

Under the conditions of the new sanitary and epidemiological situation, the work of the university have transformed in the field of interaction with the bases of practices and the coordination of information, network communications at specialized enterprises. The purpose of the study is to analyze students' assessments of the organization of practice in pre-pandemic education and in the shift to distance learning technologies to improve the quality of professional training in general. The basis of methodology is the analysis and generalization of literature in describing the potential of distance technologies to support UNESCO initiatives, identifying problems of their implementation in the university educational environment, and organization of practice. The students' assessment of the influence of remote technologies on the organization of the practice was carried out during the survey through the forms of Microsoft Teams. 124 students of the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics from the Faculty of Digital Economics and Mass Communications were involved in the study learning the courses "Introduction to Information Technologies" and "Information Security". Research results. In Microsoft Teams a questionnaire has been developed containing blocks: "Distance technologies at the stages of organization of practice", “Satisfactory quality organization of practice lacking distance learning technologies”, "Directions for improvement". The Moodle course implements an appropriate algorithm for organizing practice based on distance technologies. In conclusion, the authors describe the ways of modernization of the educational environment for practice organization in line with identified problems to enhance the quality of specialist training.