Using the Mentimeter Information Platform for Formation of a Communicative Educational Environment

Abstract

The objective of the article is to highlight and analyze the pedagogical experience of the Department of Philosophy and Pedagogy of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (KNUC&A) in attracting the Mentimeter platform in the forming an innovative, communicative and educational environment of the higher education institutions during lectures on the example of educational course “Philosophy”. The article notes that the communicative component of the educational process has a great significance for humanitarian education in the field of culture, which is aimed at forming competencies related to creativity and using communication skills. The demand of the society for these competencies actualizes the urgency of studying the experience of using online educational platforms in the educational process of cultural and artistic education, which have significant communicative potential. The article uses such research methods as pedagogical observation and experiment, methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization. The scientific novelty of the study is to highlight the experience of the department in attracting online educational platforms to work with students during lectures (on the example of teaching in terms of distance learning). It is found that the use of the Mentimeter platform, which is used by lecturer while working with students during lectures both for educational purposes and getting feedback from students about the content of the course or lecturer’s methodological developments, significantly increases the interest of students in the materials of educational course and the learning process in general. Online surveys, created employing the platform, provide an opportunity to establish synchronous communication with students during lectures, which is extremely important for both full-time and distance institutional education. Students’ assessment of the communication and educational components of distance learning has much higher rates. Communicative practices in the educational process in the context of the pandemic are important not only for learning but also for the harmonious development of personality and overcoming the socio-psychological challenges of the time.
 Keywords: feedback; lecture; online survey; Mentimeter; communicative educational environment; learning experience of KNUC&A; distance learning; humanitarian education.