Digital Twin of an Educational Institution: An Innovative Concept of Blended Learning

Liubov Kartashova, Andrii Gurzhii, Valentyn Zaichuk, Tamara Sorochan, Feliks Zhuravlev

2020

Abstract

The actuality of this work lies in the fact that it features and singles out the problems occurring in organization of educational process during the period of forced breaks and formed needs of information society. It highlights the necessity of introduction of blended learning used to support the educational process continuity and to ensure the formation of motivation and interest of students/learners in process of knowledge acquirement. It shows the need to update the educational environment in conditions of digital prototype of educational institution, created in order to provide quality knowledge and ability to build an individual development trajectory for each learner. For the first time the use of state-of-the-art Digital Twin (DT) technology has been proposed to build a digital prototype of educational institution. It is shown that this technology is quite actively used in various fields. An analytical review of successful DT practices and clarification of problems caused by COVID-19 quarantine leads to the conclusion that DT can be used effectively in slowing down and limiting the spread of the disease, as well as preparing for possible long-term disruption of school attendance by learners. It is assumed that the usage of DT for each educational institution requires the creation of authentic digital environment (web environment) aimed to support the educational process in blended learning format and based on integration of traditional teaching aids and digital resources. It is justified that the involvement of DT in education will logically combine physical and digital spaces as well as functional components of each educational institution and create their digital prototypes, which will actually function as dynamic and open web resources. DTs open to all participants of educational process the opportunity to obtain quality results in any circumstances that may be dictated by the society, while maintaining the integrity of educational system and pedagogical values of each educational institution.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kartashova L., Gurzhii A., Zaichuk V., Sorochan T. and Zhuravlev F. (2020). Digital Twin of an Educational Institution: An Innovative Concept of Blended Learning. In Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 2: AET, ISBN 978-989-758-558-6, pages 300-310. DOI: 10.5220/0010931100003364

in Bibtex Style

@conference{aet20,
author={Liubov Kartashova and Andrii Gurzhii and Valentyn Zaichuk and Tamara Sorochan and Feliks Zhuravlev},
title={Digital Twin of an Educational Institution: An Innovative Concept of Blended Learning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 2: AET,},
year={2020},
pages={300-310},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010931100003364},
isbn={978-989-758-558-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 2: AET,
TI - Digital Twin of an Educational Institution: An Innovative Concept of Blended Learning
SN - 978-989-758-558-6
AU - Kartashova L.
AU - Gurzhii A.
AU - Zaichuk V.
AU - Sorochan T.
AU - Zhuravlev F.
PY - 2020
SP - 300
EP - 310
DO - 10.5220/0010931100003364