RESEARCH PROGRAM OF DIGITALIZATION OF TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN SOME COUNTRIES OF EUROPE

Abstract

The article formulates and defines the program of digitalization of teacher training in some European countries (Poland, Hungary), reveals the methodological and theoretical basis of the study, identifies the source base of the study. The digitalization of education is seen as a transformation that goes beyond simply replacing an analog or physical resource with a digital one, but as a change in the educational paradigm. Digitization has been proven to make significant changes in the educational process, making it more flexible, adapted to the realities of modern times, which provides more comfortable conditions for self-study, effective development, provides the formation of competitive professionals and their career growth. Among the tasks of digitalization, which should be set before the institution of higher education, one of the main is to provide training and retraining of research and teaching staff on the use of digital technologies in educational activities. Reforming educational systems, teacher training in the context of world requirements, introduction of new methods and technologies of its activity requires taking into account the experience of leading countries, including European countries, which began the process of reforming educational systems, their digitization much earlier than Ukraine and already have a positive result. The leading idea of the research is based on the position that the systematic comparative analysis of digitalization of teacher training in some European countries (Poland, Hungary) and Ukraine requires a thorough monographic study of this problem in each country and substantiation of comparison criteria and the content of the study of the selected problem in these countries and Ukraine.

Keywords

• digitalization
• education
• information technology