THE CONCEPT OF GEOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF MONITORING FOR ONLINE-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
The article presents the results of theoretical research in the field of monitoring of complex systems based on GIS technologies. The development of educational programs online learning will increase the mobility of students and give them the right to education in remote regions. A great many of complex technologic tasks for monitoring of educational programs of online learning have been emerged at higher educational institutions, as well as the tasks for control of organization quality and learning process. The monitoring of an online learning program means a collection, processing and presentation of data of relatively specified criteria and indicators aimed at ensuring of effectiveness and improvement of quality of the learning process. The problem of evaluation of online learning programs is considered in three aspects: pedagogical, economical and social. We have considered the criteria of expenditure for organization and implementation of the online learning process. Also we have considered the evaluation criteria of training quality of online learning program. We suggest the evaluation criteria of effectiveness of online learning in the educational program. The online learning programs acquire significant amount of data which have geographical link to the cartographic basis. The application of geographic information systems for monitoring, evaluation and information support of procedures for making management decisions for improving the implementation quality of online learning programs is reasonable. Application of geographic information systems makes it possible to generate cartographic, attribute information and the data distributed with geographic link to the cartographic basis from higher educational institutions that allows us to evaluate and design the processes in the online learning programs. We present a flow chart of a geoinformation system of educational programs monitoring. We have developed a model, method and algorithm for evaluating the effectiveness of online learning programs at higher educational institutions. The practical use of such a specialized GIS will improve the efficiency of managerial decisions for organization, implementation and modernization due to gaining reliable information, its processing and analysis.