THE ROLE OF MODERN INFORMATIONAL AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN TRAINING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY, ERGOTHERAPY

Abstract

Informatization of education calls for implementation of content-innovational forms, methods, and means of professional training of future specialists of the new generation, creation of efficient informational infrastructure within higher educational establishments with a developed informational and computer educational environment, implementation of Internet technologies, e-studies, communication networks (global, national, local and others). The author has conducted the analysis of use of modern informational and communication technologies in the organization of educational process of training of future specialists in physical therapy, ergotherapy by teachers of higher educational establishments. It is emphasized that an urgent problem of nowadays is the development and implementation of informational and communication technologies that can modernize traditional forms of higher educational process with the purpose to improve the quality of educational process in a higher educational establishment. Contradictions have been revealed between the increase of demand on labor market in specialists in physical therapy, ergotherapy who are able to be adapted to professional innovations, quickly react to modern and perspective processes of the development of society under conditions of its informatization, effectively use benefits of informational technologies in professional activity, and insufficient development of methods that allow the usage of informational and communication technologies in the process of professional training in higher educational establishments, which determines the topicality of the selected topic. With the purpose of defining the level of application of modern informational and communication technologies in organization of educational process of future specialists in physical therapy, ergotherapy, 192 teachers from 13 Ukrainian universities have been surveyed. The level of application of modern informational and communication technologies, namely the subsystem of object-oriented dynamic educational environment (MOODLE) and “on-line electronic register” subsystem to register various forms of control of students’ educational performance by teachers of higher educational establishments has been defined. The author has emphasized that the use of module object-oriented dynamic educational environment and “online electronic register” subsystem turn out to be an effective tool for training of future specialists in physical therapy, ergotherapy under conditions of postindustrial stage of developments of society in modern Ukraine.