Сurrent work and experience of distance learning for many years at the Faculty of Fire Safety NUCDU

For almost two months, cadets and students of the university have been in self-isolation at their homes and are forced to master some sections of the curriculum on their own. It is clear that they do not have the opportunity to use the laboratory and material base of the classrooms of the departments and the experience of teachers. Most teachers find themselves in a new and no less difficult situation, who in a short time were forced to arrange jobs for themselves at home, provide them with communication channels and, most difficultly, master new forms of teaching disciplines.

Perhaps it was a bit easier for the teachers of the Department of Automatic Security Systems and Information Technologies of the Faculty of Fire Safety, who once underwent advanced training in the development of distance learning courses at the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute". The department has been using distance learning for many years to prepare students using special courses "Design of fire extinguishing systems, fire alarms, fire alarm and evacuation control, smoke protection, alarm transmission, lightning protection devices, fire protection treatment." The special course was developed by the departments of the Faculty of Fire Safety and the IT Center and has received more than one positive response from those who have mastered it (http://univer.nuczu.edu.ua/dl/). It is developed on the Moodle learning platform, which is designed to unite teachers, administrators and students into one reliable, secure and integrated system by creating a personalized learning environment. This platform is free, open and focused primarily on organizing the interaction between the teacher and the learner. It is suitable both for organizing the study of traditional distance learning courses and for supporting full-time study.

The developed course is integrated and combines several disciplines taught at the department. This course is actively used by scientific and pedagogical staff of the department to prepare students of distance learning (http://asbit.nuczu.edu.ua/avt_ebook/), cadets and students who missed classes.

With the beginning of quarantine the course was adapted to the topics of training, and its necessary sections and topics with the beginning of quarantine were adapted and set out in free access on the website of the Department of Automatic Systems and Information Technology (http://asbit.nuczu.edu.ua/). The administrator and developer of the site is associate professor of the department Malyarov M.V. In addition, here you can see the task for the time of quarantine in the disciplines taught at the department (https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=957BA90D5CBBF22B!8303&ithint=file%2cxlsx&authkey=!ALv9B2wuM2B6ca to master the disciplines (for example, http://asbit.nuczu.edu.ua/files/M3/3.5.pdf), syllabuses of disciplines and find a lot of additional information.

The methodological support in the discipline "Applied Information Technologies" developed by associate professor Malyarov M.V. deserves special attention and was recognized as the best in the university. It is also posted on the website of the department (http://asbit.nuczu.edu.ua/view_disciplines.php?id_disc=8) and is used both for distance learning and for conducting classes at the university. This methodological support is easily integrated into the distance learning form. And the fact that this methodological support has been used during the classroom since the beginning of the school year contributed to the fact that cadets and students did not need to spend time to get acquainted and adapt to work with it. Cadets and students send the results of the work in electronic form to the teacher. The results of each lesson are evaluated by the teacher and recorded in an electronic journal that is available for viewing (https://onedrive.live.com/vihttps://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=957BA90D5CBBF22B!8166&ithint=file%2cxlsx&authkey=!AIxHfpblkA-0Yd8ew.aspx?resid=957BA90D5CBBF22B!8166&ithint=file%2cxlsx&authkey=!AIxHfpblkA-0Yd8).

For the organization of video lectures and video seminars in real time, as well as other teachers of the university, teachers of the department use the ZOOM platform. Unfortunately, for various reasons, not all students are active during such classes in real time. It is hoped that they will be able to independently master the training material using the methodological support presented on the website of the department.