“Corona-Trigger”: Optimization Possibilities of the Teaching Algorithm in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

The epidemiological situation in the world in the spring of 2020 made the educational environment change overnight. Due to the lack of an adaptation period and time for the development of methodological recommendations, the abrupt transition to online education once again indicated the need to optimize the teaching algorithm in higher school, integrating traditional and distance forms of education. The purpose of this study is to describe the optimization possibilities of the teaching algorithm in higher education institutions in a changing education ecosystem, as well as to analyze some of the problems lurking in online education. The conducted survey of the control group made it possible to identify several problems that the participants of the educational process have faced when switching to online education: physical and psychological discomfort, lack of socialization, technical problems. The Corona-Trigger accelerated the understanding of the need for a fast revision of the teaching algorithm in higher education institutions, taking into account the technologies of distance education.

Pedagogical ethics in distance education

“…For us, it is of interest to study distance education in the aspect of the peculiarities of communication between a teacher and a student. Zinkovskaya, Katermina, and Plaksin say that "distance learning is a special form of interaction between a teacher and a student using various means of modern information technologies when the student has the opportunity to receive the required amount of knowledge as a part of the curriculum and perform the teacher's tasks not only in real-time but also asynchronously while monitoring the implementation of educational assignments and feedback occur on a regular basis using various technical means asynchronously" [13]. Ippolitova defines pedagogical communication as "the interaction of a teacher and students, providing motivation, efficiency, creativity and educational effect of joint communicative activity" [14].…”