DiSpace 2.0 e-learning system – a fundamental element of the digital educational environment (ecosystem) of NSTU

Abstract

The article discusses the problems of content, formation and functioning conditions of the electronic informational-educational (digital) environment оf educational organizations. The main system-forming factor uniting and managing all the components of the educational process in the digital environment into a single complex is the software platform (electronic learning system, LMS), which allows for the implementation of electronic (distance, online) learning. The DiSpace 2.0 e-learning system is a popular and adapted educational system, not inferior in capabilities to the widespread learning management systems. As training objects (digital educational resources) in the Bank (depository) are designed by teachers electronic training courses, online courses, tests, interactive simulators, as well as animation, laboratory workshops (in digital format). The dynamics of growth of working digital educational resources (electronic courses and test control materials) at NSTU is shown. If you have your own electronic learning environment, there is a constant development of information and communication competencies of the NSTU academic staff, including skills to design their own educational resources. In keeping with the system-activity approach to teaching, the educational ecosystem of NSTU is supplemented by interactive simulator stands, for example, for fire and electrical safety, developed by teachers in collaboration with software developers. The types and forms of students» knowledge control are shown during the organization of independent work, both for the traditional and correspondence forms of training, involving the use of distance technologies. Considered from the point of view of the ecosystem approach, the e-learning environment is a decentralized, self-organized, emergent ecosystem, which increases its stability and quality. An algorithm has been developed for the comprehensive assessment of the quality of the e-learning environment, with the identification of rubrics and quality criteria that require additional research.