Designing Cloud-oriented University Environment in Teacher Training of Future Physical Education Teachers

Abstract

One of the most promising means of creating and updating the database of educational and methodological materials are assumed to be cloud technologies (CT). The prospects of cloud technologies have made it possible to assume that, unlike traditional, educational and methodological support developed in the context of cloud technologies, it is open and dynamic, elementarily interchangeable and responsive to a wide range of teachers with different levels of IT competence. Theoretical and methodical principles of pedagogical training of teachers in the conditions of informational and educational environment of a HEI are substantiated: availability of interrelated IT tools system, software tools of cloud services intended to provide openness and accessibility of the selection and modification of teaching aids, organization of interactive training; diagnostic and control of the training at all stages with the aim of possible adjustment of it (application of a person-oriented approach), feedback; multilevel and differentiated approaches in training with the possibility of continuous on-line and offline assistance; flexibility of training organization. The research aims substantiate theoretical and methodical principles of professional training of physical education teachers under the conditions the university’s informational and educational environment. Methods: retrospection, comparison, content analysis; synthesis, generalization, theoretical design; psychopedagogicalobservation, conversations, testing, questionnaires, interviews; pedagogicalexperimentwithqualitativeandquantitativeanalysisofresults, theirstatisticalprocessing (A chi-squaredtestor χ2 test, Microsoft Excel, 2 dispersion, Student’s t-test, thePearsoncorrelationcoefficient). Participants: 642 students were divided into three groups: two control groups (CG1 – 210, CG2 – 215) and one experimental group (EG – 217). Results: the values of the observed statistics 2 13  and 2 23  are respectively 8.45 and 10.08,gives grounds for rejecting the null hypothesis and acceptance of an alternative hypothesis.Conclusions: The experimental checkup indicates the effectiveness of the developed model, which was used by students of experimental groups since it made it possible to improve the quality of students’ pedagogical knowledge, form independent work skills and increase the level of professional motivation.