Formation of ICT competencies of scientific and pedagogical staff under conditions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The article is devoted to the coverage of peculiarities of innovative technologies and methods of ICT competence formation of scientific and pedagogical staff under conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. To implement this goal, the article presents the rationale, development, and experimental testing of various innovative methods of training using ICT. To assess the effectiveness of innovative methods and information and communication technologies in the formation of ICT competence of scientific and pedagogical workers in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the article applies theoretical and empirical methods which consist in processing professional literature and in surveying scientific and pedagogical workers of COVID-19 pandemic increase their ICT competence The following results were achieved: the confirmation that in the process of ICT competence formation a reliable result can be reached was obtained These methods represent a set of traditional educational and the latest information and communication tools and technologies, the use of which in the educational process occurs to intensify research and learning activities. The scientific novelty of the study is to demonstrate that the attitude of scientific and pedagogical staff to the use of ICT for professional development depends on access to the Internet, their competence, and motivation.

Evaluation of sars Cov -2 variants among RT-PCR tested positive COVID-19 patients at our teriary care hospital in Telangana State, India

“…Failure to target the gene encoding the spike protein was observed during detection of the 501Y.V1 variant in the UK2. According to the latest guidelines of the Indian Council of Medical Research, approved test kits employ multiplex RT-PCR assays, as tests assessing only the spike protein may fail and thereby underestimate the true number of cases [24,25].…”