CASPIAN JOURNAL
MANAGEMENT AND HIGH TECHNOLOGIES
A direct analysis of information-communication technologies use by students to support their performance in group tasks
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Read | Brumshteyn Yuriy M., Solopov Vyacheslav Yu., Dyudikov Ivan A. A direct analysis of information-communication technologies use by students to support their performance in group tasks // Caspian journal : management and high technologies. — 2012. — №4. — pp. 87-97. |
Brumshteyn Yuriy M. - Ph.D. (Engineering), Astrakhan State University, 20а Tatishchev St., Astrakhan, 414056, Russian Federation, brum2003@mail.ru
Solopov Vyacheslav Yu. - Project Director, Closed Joint Stock Company “LANIT Consulting”, Group of Companies “LANIT”, 6 Plant “Sickle and Hammer” Drive, str. 1, Moscow, 111250, Russian Federation, solopov.v@gmail.com
Dyudikov Ivan A. - post-graduate student, Astrakhan State University, 20а Tatishchev St., Astrakhan, 414056, Russian Federation, brum2003@mail.ru
The article discusses students’ individual work projects, focusing on the advantages accruing to them from information-communications (InC)-based training technologies. As a collateral entry, it also delves into collective educational activities undertaken as part of the training period both in universities and in technical secondary (vocational) schools. The paper demonstrates that after their post-training period these students tend to lack the skills needed to adapt to the work environment. Subsequently, the critique considers student training programs undertaken as part of a group task (GT)-orientation. In so doing, it distinguishes between different projects according to timespan, expediency of access to InC technologies and project-management methods. The research project notes that successful GT orientation requires observance of execution discipline, time management skills and deadlines. In this sphere, it considers the merits and demerits of various classes of software that can be applied for the support of command work projects. Consequently, the document evaluates in depth InC usage at different levels of educational institutions (including faculties, chairs, lecturers, student groups and individual students). The review goes on to state that lecturers apply InC to follow such purposes as working out training-methodical materials, maintaining their overall availability for students, forming and employing databases on GT subjects, distributing students via command, and conducting operational registry for GT programs. By contrast, students tend to use GT to analyze the results of completed projects and to inter-relate with their fellow students. Finally, the blueprint considers some of the uncertainties and risk factors that are associated with GT-oriented programs.
Key words: information-communication technologies,training,group tasks,command work,projects,project management,databases