DIGITAL PLATFORMS FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: DISTANCE LEARNING IN THE CONTEXT OF FULL-SCALE AGGRESSION IN 2022-2024

Abstract

The article is devoted to the critical contemporary topic of developing digital platforms in education in the context of a full-scale invasion of the Ukrainian state. The relevance of the research topic is undeniable, as modern challenges put the search for and implementation of the latest digital platforms on the agenda. First, many higher education institutions have been displaced, and the academic staff and students are scattered across the territory controlled by Ukraine and abroad. It gives significant impetus to searching for optimal models of educational process management and introducing digital platforms into education. The article's purpose is to summarise and systematize the existing innovative digital platforms and to characterize their essence through the prism of the experience of a displaced higher education institution. The research methods used are analysis, systematization, and generalization of various pedagogical scholars' views on the prospects for developing digital platforms in vocational education. The article analyses the current conditions in which higher education institutions in Ukraine find themselves, with particular attention paid to displaced universities, where distance learning has become an essential form of education because these institutions are cut off from their own material and technical facilities. The scattering of both students and academic staff characterizes them. In addition, attention is drawn to other challenges of our time: rapid European integration processes, globalization of science, mobility of the teaching and student environment, etc. The emphasis is on constantly searching for the most influential distance education models. The efficiency and adequacy of management processes in displaced higher education institutions are assessed. The main types of distance education platforms are characterized, and recommendations are made as to which of them are most optimally used in the educational process of other higher education institutions that have the opportunity to conduct a mixed format of classes. Conclusions and recommendations are made about online education's most promising digital platforms.