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THE ROLE OF DISTANT LEARNING IN THE FORMATION OF INTELLECTUAL NATION
| УДК: 4И(07) К-30 THE ROLE OF DISTANT LEARNING IN THE FORMATION OF INTELLECTUAL NATION А.О. Каус Филиал «Назарбаев Интеллектуальная школа физико-математического направления в г.Семей» акционерного общества «Назарбаев Интеллектуальные школы» The world is not standing still - it develops with a very fast pace. The sooner changes occur, the better people realize the importance of modern education. In every sense, education is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and the outside world. It improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people’s productivity and creativity and promotes entrepreneurship and technological advances. In addition it plays a very crucial role in securing economic and social progress and improving income distribution. Nursultan Nazarbayev has repeatedly stressed in his speeches that high quality education is a key to successful future of Kazakhstan. In his lecture “Kazakhstan in the post-crisis world: intellectual leap into the future” the President announced the idea of the project “Intellectual Nation 2020”, which main aim is to nurture people of a new formation and to transform Kazakhstan into a country with a competitive human capital. The project is based on three aspects: a breakthrough in the education development; the development of science and scientific potential of the country; the development of innovations. Head of the State focused his attention on the actions, which are necessary for Kazakhstan to fit into the trends of modern time. “Kazakhstan,” emphasized Nursultal Abishevich “is in a great necessity of an intellectual revolution, which will awake the nation potential. It is important to create such education system, which will allow to bring up active, successful generation, capable to create and realize breakthrough projects. We need to ensure that our youth is able not only to receive, but also to create new knowledge. Today, the most important qualities are creative thinking, ability to process knowledge, and ability to find not ordinary decisions, methods of teaching, new specialist”. Distance learning based on modern information technologies meets all requirements of the educational paradigm of postindustrial society. Distant learning is a process of transferring knowledge to learners who are separated from the teacher by time and/or physical distance and are making use of technology components, such as Internet, video, CD’s, tapes, and other terms of technology to accomplish learning. Distance learning is attractive for several reasons, including convenience, flexibility, and pace. It is convenient because you can study when and where you want. Other students like the ability to work at their own pace. For example, a distance learning student can complete assignments quickly, or work ahead on a subject that is easy for him or her. Likewise, a student can spend additional time on assignments that are difficult. Distant learning is very flexible. But at the same time, it requires more of the learner. As a learner, you are responsible for ensuring that you schedule the necessary time away from other activities in order to complete your coursework and assignments. Besides that, statistics says that students who succeed at distance learning are generally very organized, self-motivated, and comfortable with a computer. That’s why teaching and learning via the internet are becoming more and more popular. At Nazarbayev Intellectual School in Semey distant learning technologies, such as yacapaca.com, zunal.com, master-test.net, are widely used. They are free e-learning platforms designed for educators to create, share, set, mark and analyse students’ assessments. Our students have an opportunity to complete homework assignments independently at home and submit them electronically to their teacher. They use online research tools, including databases and extensive collections of electronically stored documents, to complete projects-instead of wading through stacks of books in a traditional library. The Internet's search engines, along with the many scholarly databases that online schools make available to their students, replace traditional trips to the campus library. Students communicate with a tutor, ask questions via e-mail, online chat or scype phone calls. Such intensive use of internet-based technologies is possible thanks to the excellent technical equipment. The school has 12 multimedia classrooms with software for managing class, 3 classrooms of computer science with licensed software for programming and construction graphics, 37 smart-classrooms, more than six hundred computers and laptops. The school is connected to the high-speed Internet; there is settled wireless local network (Wi-Fi), which covers the entire territory of the school. Distant learning also helps us to reach learners in different geographic locations, and what is more important in rural areas. In September 2010 Virtual School of Nazarbayev Intellectual School was opened. Virtual school provides a kind of additional remote learning using distance learning technologies, which allows students to receive and carry out tasks, to use teaching material and to take a consultancy services off network teacher in the off-line mode. Its main goal is to create conditions for developing students’ skills in Mathematics and Natural Sciences in every Kazakhstani region and city of republican value. Another reason, why virtual school was created, is to prepare 5th-6th grade pupils to get the grant of the First President at Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools. The main objectives of the Virtual School are: to provide opportunities for individual assignments according to NIS profile subjects’ curriculum; to provide methodological support for students of virtual school; to organize a vacation school for full-time studying. In 2010-2011 academic year more than a hundred students all over the region took part in Virtual school project at Nazarbayev Intellectual School in Semey. Twenty seven of them completed the course successfully and were invited to participate in the vocational school in the end of March. Many students say that thanks to lessons at Virtual school, they got an opportunity to enlarge their knowledge on Mathematics, English, Kazakh and Russian languages, compare subjects’ curriculum at NIS and their own school, find out their weak points and work harder at them. As can be seen form the passage above distant learning is extremely important technology of Kazakhstan, a country which has enormous intellectual potential and beg territories. On the 7th of December 2010, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev in his speech to students of Nazarbayev University said, “You, representatives of modern generation, have great opportunities, which you have to use them as much as possible. You are future intellectual elite of the Kazakhstan Republic. And nowadays your mission is to study properly.” Lifelong learning should be the motto for all Kazakhs, Nazarbayev said, adding that Kazakhstan will continue to create conditions for the people to pursue this goal and usage of distant learning technologies will play an important part in this process. LITERATURE: N.A. Nazarbayev Address to the Nation 2011 N.A. Nazarbayev “Kazakhstan in the post-crisis world: intellectual leap into the future” | |
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