Experience of use of electronic educational resources by Ukrainian teachers during the distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic (March-May 2020)

The introduction of distance learning in Ukrainian schools during quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic has updated the study of use of different types of electronic educational resources by teachers to ensure qualitative distance learning. The online survey of 576 teachers in March–May 2020 determined that the introduction of quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst and motivated 12% of the surveyed teachers to start using electronic educational resources to provide the distance learning for students during the lockdown. The analysis of electronic educational resources recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for use in all schools of Ukraine made it possible to identify areas of educational activity that are insufficiently provided with electronic textbooks and electronic training manuals that have passed the state examination. The results showed that in 2016–2019, electronic textbooks were developed only in some subjects of the 1st, 2nd grades of primary school and 5th, 6th grades of middle school. None of the 5 electronic textbooks developed for high school has passed the examination of the commissions. The electronic manuals that have passed the examination of the commissions also cover only certain subjects, mainly for primary and middle schools. The lack of certified educational and demonstration, control electronic educational resources, which teachers actively used during distance learning, is compensated by teachers with the help of electronic educational resources, developed by other teachers and posted on the YouTube channel or platform Na urok and also self-developed electronic educational resources: presentations, video lessons, tests and interactive exercises.
The effective ways to overcome the problem of providing teachers with qualitative electronic educational resources can be: 1) resumption of the program of development at the expense of the state of high-quality electronic textbooks for different classes and subjects in accordance with the gaps identified in the study in providing students with educational electronic educational resources, which have passed the state examination;
2) creation of a state register of self-developed by teachers open electronic educational resources and the development of criteria for assessing their quality;
3) development of a national platform of electronic educational resources, which would place e-textbooks and manuals that have passed the state examination, and independently developed by teachers demonstration, game, control or other types of electronic educational resources, which meet the quality criteria for content and technical implementation.

Zhenchenko M., Melnyk O., Prykhoda Y., Zhenchenko I. (2022). Experience of use of electronic educational resources by Ukrainian teachers during the distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic (March-May 2020). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3104, pp. 55 – 65.