On 15-16 November 2016, a practical seminar “Topical issues of state accreditation of educational activities. On-line information educational environment in view of the FSES requirements” was held in Samara (Russia).

NAA together with Samara State Technical University held a practical seminar “Topical issues of state accreditation of educational activities. On-line information educational environment in view of the FSES requirements”.

On November 15 the Rector of the Samara State Technical University, Dmitry E. Bykov opened the seminar with a welcoming speech. Mr. Bykov stressed the importance of this event “not only for the University but for the Samara region, and even for the whole country”, and the geography of seminar participants confirmed it.

Svetlana Y. Bakulina, Deputy Minister - Head of the Department for Supervision and Monitoring in Education and Information Security of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Samara region, read a welcome address from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Samara region.

The Director of NAA Lemka S. Izmaylova gave start to the content-related part of the seminar with the report on “The role of the on-line information educational environment in the enhancement of the quality of students’ training”.

The Deputy Director - Director of NAA’s branch in Yoshkar-Ola, Mikhail V. Petropavlovskiy, informed the colleagues about the requirements to the structure of an educational organization’s official website and the use of the information posted on it during state accreditation as well as about monitoring of the education system.

The seminar program was further continued with the presentations of the leading NAA’s specialists. Elena V. Avtenyeva, Head of the Automated Data Processing Department spoke about the formation of a set of documents on state accreditation by the organization, carrying out educational activities. The report of Elena V. Zakhvatova, Deputy Head of the Department for Innovative Development was devoted to the methodological support of the state accreditation procedure. The Programmer of the Database Support Department Denis V. Saveliev gave practical recommendations to educational organizations concerning the transition to an electronic document management when preparing for state accreditation, as well as on the work in a Personal Account of the educational organization in the Complex Information System of State Accreditation (CISSA).

The colleagues from the Irkutsk State University - Rector Alexander V. Arguchintsev and Head of the Department for Licensing, Accreditation and Methodical Maintenance Marina V. Paromonova, shared their experience of submitting documents for state accreditation via CISSA.

In the afternoon, the seminar participants took part in the panel discussion “Designing the on-line information educational environment of an educational organization”. Panel discussion was moderated by the leading experts from Russian HEIs. Denis V. Savelyev spoke about the requirements to the hardware and technical provision used to maintain the on-line information educational environment. Olga V. Yusupova, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Samara State Technical University introduced the model of a Personal Account of a teacher and a student used in the on-line information educational environment of SamSTU. Irina P. Cherkashina, Dean of the Faculty of Distance Learning of the Institute of Innovation and Alexander Nosulenko, Head of the Information Department of the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics informed the participants with the e-learning technologies as a means of the education quality enhancement. Natalia O. Vereshchagina, Head of the Teaching and Learning Division of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, in her turn, debated on the experience of her university in the creation and maintenance of the on-line information educational environment. Tatiana A. Guzeva, Head of the Department of Educational Standards and Study Programs of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (National Research University), made a presentation on the on-line information educational system of the Bauman MSTU – “On-line University”.

At the end of the first day of the seminar leading experts of NAA held workshops devoted to the peculiarities of filling in the application for state accreditation, typical mistakes when filling out the application, filling in the forms containing the information on study programs’ delivery: an analysis of typical mistakes, practical recommendations and review of the structure of the official website of an educational organization. Expert candidates were interviewed to be included in expert panels for carrying out external reviews of educational activities.

Svetlana Y. Bakulina, Deputy Minister - Head of the Department for Supervision and Monitoring in Education and Information Security of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Samara region opened a rich program of the second day of with the report “Regional experience of state accreditation of educational activities. Challenges and the ways of solving them”. Mikhail V. Petropavlovskiy, Deputy Director - Director of NAA’s branch presented a software product “Data Collection Module for the special section of HEIs’ websites”.

The Chief Consultant of the Department for the Delivery of General Education Programs of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Samara region Yulia V. Pryakhina continued with the report “Best practice in developing an on-line information educational environment of the educational organization in framework of implementation of the FSES requirements for general education in the Samara region”. The theme was further developed by Victor A. Akopyan, Head of the Samara Management of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Samara region who spoke about the on-line information educational environment at an institution of general education in the light of implementation of FSES.

The Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of the Samara State College Natalia A. Krasnopevtseva, shared her experience of building up an on-line information educational environment at an institution of secondary vocational education and training.

The series of presentations ended up with the report “Implementation of the FSES requirements applied to an on-line information educational environment during the state accreditation procedure” made by Olga V. Sevostyanova, Deputy Director of the Samara College of Sociology and Pedagogics.

On the second day the leading specialists of NAA together with the certified experts of Rosobrnadzor Andrey V. Tamyarov and Yulia L. Kamasheva held practical sessions. The sessions dealt with the experience of evaluating an on-line information educational environment during state accreditation, as well as of the possibilities the on-line information educational environment of the organization provided as a tool for the enhancement of the quality of students’ training.

At the end of the seminar the leading specialists of NAA – Lemka S. Izmaylova and Svetlana Bakulina – answered the participants' questions.

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