Professional Education: Methodology, Theory and Technologies

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Senior Researcher, Institute for Digitalisation of Education of The National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine

Education

• Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Philology, Specialist, Speciality "Ukrainian Language and Literature".
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, Bachelor in Applied Mathematics.
• V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Faculty of Economics and Humanities, Specialist, Speciality "Informatics".
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Philology, Master, Speciality "Philology. Germanic Languages and Literatures (including translation)".

Defended dissertations

• PhD dissertation: "Formation of professional competence of future teachers of informatics in the process of studying specialised disciplines".
• Doctoral dissertation: "Theoretical and methodological foundations of professional training of future teachers for tutoring activities".

Professional activity

• 2000-2005 – Laboratory assistant at the Department of General Pedagogy, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
• 2005-2010 – Software engineer at the Information and Computing Centre, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
• 2008-2010 – Assistant at the Department of Informatics and Cybernetics, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
• 2010-2011 – Senior Lecturer at the Department of Informatics and Cybernetics, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
• 2008-2015 – Director of the Centre for Distance Learning, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
• Since 2015 – Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Cybernetics, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
• Since 2021 – Professor at the Department of Informatics and Cybernetics, Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University.
• 2023-2025 – Researcher in the Excited (Centre for Excellent IT Education) project, NTNU (Norway).

Academic publications

Author of more than 240 academic works. Published 3 monographs, 3 educational and methodological manuals, 8 methodological recommendations; holds 15 authorship certificates and 1 patent.

Fields of academic and educational interest

Professional education; educational technologies; teacher education; tutoring; distance and blended learning; digital technologies; information and communication technologies; artificial intelligence in education.

Academic and international activity

• Member of the Sectoral Expert Council of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (015 "Professional Education (by specialisations)").
• Member of associations: Tutors’ Association of Ukraine; Computer Science Teachers Association.
• Participant of the Women Techmakers programme.
• Volunteer of the FIRST Lego League programme; online volunteer of the United Nations Volunteers programme.
• Coordinator of the "Girls in STEM" branch.
• Reviewer for academic journals: Bulletin of Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University (Ukraine), Information Technologies in Education (Ukraine), Globalisation, Societies and Education (United Kingdom), Sustainability (Switzerland), Education Sciences (Switzerland), Applied Sciences (Switzerland), Osvitolohichnyi Dyskurs (Ukraine).
• Reviewer for international conferences and seminars: The International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social and Economic Matters (Ukraine), ICT in Education and Sustainable Futures (Ukraine), History, Theory and Methodology of Learning (Ukraine), Workshop on Cloud Technologies in Education (Ukraine), Computing Conference (United Kingdom).

Awards

• 2024 – Badge of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "Excellence in Education of Ukraine".
• 2017 – Letter of Gratitude of the Head of Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration.
• 2016 – Certificate of Honour of the Melitopol District Council.
• 2013 – Certificate of Honour of the Melitopol District State Administration.
• 2012 – Certificate of Honour of the Executive Committee of Melitopol City Council.
• 2011 – Certificate of Honour of the International Exhibition "Modern Educational Establishments – 2011".
• 2010, 2011, 2012 – Certificates of Honour of the International Exhibition "Modern Education in Ukraine".

Advanced training and additional education (for the latest period)

• 2023-2024 – Academic internship, University of Konstanz (Germany).
• 2023 – Advanced training course "Artificial Intelligence – the Future of Education", Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, NGO "Progresylni".
• 2020 – Online programme of academic internship within the European educational project "The Innovative Methods and Technologies of Teaching: The Newest in the European Educational Practice" ("Vocational Education. Digital Technologies"), WSL (Poland).
• 2019-2020 – Internship "Modern programming languages and methodology of their teaching in higher education institutions", Zaporizhzhia National University (Ukraine).