Application of Information Technologies is a Necessary Condition for Qualitative Monitoring of Higher Education and Modernization of Educational Process

Abstract

Possibilities of using information technologies for high-quality monitoring of higher education and modernization of the educational process in higher education institutions have been clarified. The information support of a higher education institution consists in the selection and appropriate treatment of information that characterizes the state of the educational system. The main functions performed by the system of information support of monitoring and management of the quality of education in the institution of higher education and the main components of information are highlighted. It is characterized by the achievements of modern information technologies in education. Universal computer monitoring has a number of important features due to the program. The forms of scientific and methodical work with the help of which it is possible to conduct monitoring with the help of information technologies are outlined. A number of features that can be used to classify information technology and methods that can be used to monitor the quality of higher education information technology. The national information system includes components that are disclosed in the article. The advantages of the information system based on open technological solutions of the Internet for monitoring the quality of higher education over closed unique technologies are shown. Information technologies of monitoring information processing are considered: centralized, decentralized and mixed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, which changed the lives of the whole society, the role of the teacher in the educational process also changed significantly. It is responsible for such functions as coordinating the cognitive process, adjusting the course being studied, advising students in organizing an individual curriculum, managing their educational projects, assessing students' knowledge and conducting monitoring. Therefore, the features of distance education in terms of communication between teacher and student, which allowed to form a number of advantages of distance education compared to traditional learning and its monitoring.