About Department of Modern Information Technologies of Education
Department of Modern Information Technologies of Education is at the forefront of modern psychology and pedagogy sciences, explores the psychological problems of the design and use of computer learning systems.
In 2022, the laboratory celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Department was established in 1972. As a base, it had the research group engaged, together with scholars from Cybernetics Institute AS UkrSSR, in development of the problem of non-professional users training. A series of handbooks intended for this type users was prepared, the programming language РЯОД created, which became popular both in Ukraine and abroad. The Department conducts a study of psychological and pedagogical problems of instructional systems design and use.
The Department developed the concept of instruction as learning activity management. This conception is the core of the new approach to the technology of instruction, it enables eliciting of correlation between the theory and technology of instruction. Specific features of new information technologies of instruction (NITI) were analysed.
The conception of hierarchical NITI design (Ye.I.Mashbitz) was also worked out here. On its basis some experimental instructional systems were developed; prepared were manuals for designers of instructional systems, whatever the system type: 1st generation or hypertext.
The staff of the Department has developed certain tools for instructional systems design, published the manual for teachers on design of hypertext and intelligent instructional systems, and produced the hypertext system for training on text composition.
In the period 1993-2003 Department developed psychological problems mechanisms of instruction. These mechanisms help to elicit relationships between the computer and students on the level of activity pursued by the student and simulated by the system. We focus our attention on such mechanisms as feedback, farther definition of the learning task, and dynamic distribution of managerial functions between the student and the tutor (computer).
In 2004-2007, Department developed the problem of teacher training for effective use of telecommunications technology in learning activities. Theoretical aspects of the impact of telecommunications networks in the education system, studies the theoretical and methodological foundations of research on teacher training for effective use of telecommunications in the learning process specified educational potential of computer hypertext environment, formed by network technology. Considered psychological principles using the Internet as a means of training teachers, problems of training and counseling teachers in the Internet. According to a study published educational methodical manual «Застосування телекомунікаційних засобів у навчальному процесі: психолого-педагогічні аспекти». (Київ, «Педагогічна думка», 2008).
In 2008, the Department began researching the psychological foundations of learning effectiveness (see publications).
In the years 2008-2011 studied the psychological foundations of learning effectiveness, the results of which in 2012 published a monograph «Дистанційне навчання: психологічні засади» (за редакцією М.Л. Смульсон).
In 2009 the Department conducted interdisciplinary scientific-practical conference «Technologies of intellectual activity», professional collection is given out «Психологічна теорія і технологія навчання» (Серія «Актуальні проблеми психології», Т.8).
In 2012, the Departmentof New Information Technologies started a new direction of - the research of adult intellectual development in virtual learning space. Theoretical and methodological analysis and concept development of research conception is conducted in the following main areas: the design of technology development and self-development of intelligence adults and the elderly, identifying psychological mechanisms to improve the quality of life of adults by means of intellectual development in virtual learning space, an analysis of project activity as a factor of intellectual development of adults of Adults virtual learning space, identifying psychological characteristics of group work in virtual learning space and more.
In 2012-2015, the laboratory conducted a study of the intellectual development of adults in a virtual educational space. As a result of theoretical and methodological analysis, as well as experimental research, significant results were obtained in the following main areas: designing technologies for the development and self-development of the intellect of adults and the elderly, determining the psychological mechanisms of improving the quality of life of adults by means of intellectual development in the virtual educational space, analysis of project activities as factors of intellectual development of adults in a virtual educational space, determination of psychological features of group work in a virtual educational space, etc. In 2015, the collective monograph "Development of the intelligence of adults in the virtual educational space" (edited by M.L. Smulson) was published, which took first place in the competition of scientific works of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine for 2015.
During 2016-2021, the laboratory carried out two large-scale studies devoted to the development of the subjectness of adults and the elderly in the virtual educational space. The specificity of subjectness activity in the modern transitive world is determined, the connection of subjectness and subjectness activity of adults with leading intellectual metacognitions, as well as with the functions of intelligence, is shown. Technologies for the formation of the subjectness activity of adults in the virtual space have been developed, in particular, the technology for the formation of the subjectness activity of adult users of social networks, the technology for the development of subjectness activity in the process of conflict resolution, the technology for the development of subjectness activity by creating the space of elections. The role of subjectness activity in intellectual development of adults and remote educational group work with them, in psychological support of adults and the elderly has been clarified.
The specificity of the subjectness of an adult is shown, as well as the connection of subjectness with the maturity of an adult personality. The leading psychological mechanisms of the formation of subjectness of adults, as well as specific psychological mechanisms of the formation of subjectness in gerontogenesis, have been determined. The principles of the formation of subjectness in the virtual space on the material of psychological work in social networks during the period of quarantine self-isolation, the regularities of the formation of subjectness in the conditions of group distance learning are clarified. Features of design are considered as a psychological mechanism of the formation of the professional subjectness of the military.
Based on the results of the research, the monographs "Development of subjectness activity of adults in virtual space" (2018, edited by M.L. Smulson) and "Psychological mechanisms of the formation of subjectness of adults in virtual space" (2021, edited by M.L. Smulson) were published ).
In 2022, the laboratory began researching the problem of designing a virtual space for the development of adult subjectness. Unfortunately, the beginning of the research coincided with the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Employees of the laboratory actively work as volunteers in various directions, in particular, in the direction of psychological training of the military, as well as rehabilitation work with families (women with children) who were particularly affected as a result of military operations in Ukraine (loss of loved ones, occupation, evacuation, shelling, etc. ). See more about the Wartime Recovery program.
On the basis of the laboratory, a series of annual international scientific and practical Internet conferences "Virtual educational space: psychological problems" is held (the XI conference was held in 2023), the electronic professional journal of category B "Technologies of intellect development" is regularly published, which is included in many scientometric databases .
From 2022, the laboratory is headed by M.M. Nazar, PhD of psychological sciences, senior researcher.
It is conducted on the base of Department a series of international scientific conferences online «Virtual educational space: psychological problems», published professional publications «Психологічна теорія і технологія навчання» (Серія «Актуальні проблеми психології», Т.8) and electronic journal "TECHNOLOGIES OF INTELLECT DEVELOPMENT"
The electronic scientific edition of Department of modern information technologies of education G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology Sciences of Ukraine "Technologies of intellect development" (http://www.psytir.org.ua) included in the list of professional publications in psychology that ratified by MON of Ukraine.
The Department cooperates with the Institute of Cybernetics of them. Acad. Glushkov National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, National Pedagogic University Dragomanov, Department of Psychology, National University "KPI" and other research centers in Ukraine and abroad.