Digitalization of Education: Models and Methods

Abstract

The paper examines the possible effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on educational institutions (four directions of impacts and four axes of measuring changes—pedagogy, technology, organization, and economics). The authors propose to use four classes of models to describe all forms of technology-based education and possible transformations of educational institutions under the influence of ICT to analyze the modern experience of digital transformation: a value chain model describing the primary and secondary activities of an educational institution; a diagram of added quality chains describing the sequence of actions carried out by an educational institution; a model of the routine loop of a teacher (employee) of an educational institution, describing his/her daily activities, taking into account the use of software products and computer and communication technology, displayed at the appropriate place in the value chain; the event chain of the process, detailing the description of the routine loops of teachers (employees) and trainees, describing the logic of their actions, incoming and outgoing information, information systems used, and all types of interactions in the educational process between a trainees and a teacher, a trainee and training material, and a trainee and his own himself. As a result, a tool has been created to describe and research all modern forms of technological education and their digital transformation.

Keywords

• digital transformation of education
• digital transformation of education process modeling
• technology-based education