Dear Dr. Shtaltovna!

Your research is of primary role in supporting teachers during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic:

1) Jost, N.S., Jossen, S.L., Rothen, N. et al. The advantage of distributed practice in a blended learning setting. Educ Inf Technol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-020-10424-9 Open access:

Article The advantage of distributed practice in a blended learning setting

2) Hannah Sherbersky et al. (2021). The journey towards digital systemic competence: Thoughts on training, supervision and competence evaluation, Journal of Family Therapy, Early View, Open access:

Article The journey towards digital systemic competence: Thoughts on...

Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely

Okay, I admire utilizing educational platforms that are open source and love testing whose primary goal is learning. Therefore, I think I will illustrate my ideas specifically with Edmodo. It is very basic but free to use. My students always have access to the internet, online books accessed through our school's subscriptions. With Edmodo in a test questions can be:

A. matching usually scientific words or concepts to their definitions

B. Multiple choice

C. Short answers (where I have to correct and score)

D. True False

E. Fill in the blanks (I always check these answers in case my students' spelling has gone awry;-))

So all the nightmares of standardized testing.

Now I am going to present a lesson on Parasites that I assigned in a course to French speakers:

An introduction to Microbiology for Medical Students and Graduate Engineers

My students could watch beforehand

Ed Yong: Zombie roaches and other parasite tales

Then have access to Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer, a fantastic book btw to read if they want, knowing that during the quiz Ed Yong & Rex Parasite Quiz on EDMODO they will have in this case 90 minutes with open/book/internet.

See the attached copy of the quiz to have an idea of the questions asked. Not only do students have to deal with the concepts presented they are in a real-world situation and have to deal with information retrieval overload. Preparation, mental agility, and work led to more favorable results.

There were fifteen modules/lessons/projects and each time you proved that you had completed the work I gave the students a Badge that I designed with Gimp.

Our tasks might entail presenting concepts or new discoveries in Microbiology to the group etc. such as http://yukna.free.fr/science/biology/poisonous/PoisonousAnimals.php

True, I had to give marks to the schools for the individual students, but if you successfully completed each section you were assured at least a B-. But students told me over and over again that the task accomplished and acknowledged was the charm of this course.

مهتم

Rusudan Makhachashvili authored an article (now Scopus-indexed) on the topic

along with Ivan Semenist and Anna Bakhtina

The survey and analysis of different ICT tools are used to translate real-life qualification assessment practices into an online blended format. The investigation identifies various groups of applied digital skills and soft skills, utilized through the qualification assessment process by primary subjects (students).

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the practices of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv, Ukraine) and ICFAI Business School (Hyderabad, India) digital qualification assessment for students of European (French, Italian, Spanish, English, German) and Asian (Mandarin, Japanese) Languages major programs, employed in the year 2020 due to quarantine measures.

Article Soft Skills and ICT Tools for Final Qualification Assessment...

Dear Dr. Shtaltovna!

Your research is of primary role in supporting teachers during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic:

1) Jost, N.S., Jossen, S.L., Rothen, N. et al. The advantage of distributed practice in a blended learning setting. Educ Inf Technol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-020-10424-9 Open access:

Article The advantage of distributed practice in a blended learning setting

2) Hannah Sherbersky et al. (2021). The journey towards digital systemic competence: Thoughts on training, supervision and competence evaluation, Journal of Family Therapy, Early View, Open access:

Article The journey towards digital systemic competence: Thoughts on...

Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely

Dear Dr. Bulcsu Szekely

thank you for your suggestions!! I expect these to be an interesting read, meanwhile, take a look at findings by Prof. Rusudan Makhachashvili et al. on Measuring and Assessing Digital and Soft Skills during Final Exams in Higher Education:

Article Soft Skills and ICT Tools for Final Qualification Assessment...

From your profile, it looks like we have a plethora of mutual interests, would you consider joining in (maybe forwarding your PhD students ) in presenting research or case-studies to our Skills Development Conference? https://www.gile-edu.org/gile4youth-conference/

Sincerely,

Yuliya

It was interesting to find out how the skills (both Digital and Soft Skills) are acquired and measured in the same COVID-semester during final exams in the Universities of Ukraine (BGKU, Kyiv) and in India (ICFAI, Hyderabad).

Specifically, Table 3.Comparative score of top soft skills, identified as necessary for successful Final Qualification Assessment respondents from Ukraine and India!

Article Soft Skills and ICT Tools for Final Qualification Assessment...

How to assess teamwork skills? Critical thinking skills? How to measure employability?

What cannot be measured - can not be improved (at least efficiently) 📷

So if we are looking up to upskilling, reskilling, continuous professional development in soft skills, 21st-century skills, communication skills and digital skills, we should be able to do placement tests to know where we are in our roadmap, how many milestones to celebrate and yet to achieve.

Looking forward to another publication going live into open-access and starting the discussion!