authors: Pavlo Mykytenko, Oleksandr Halytskyi
Urgency of the research. Providing higher education quality is a priority direction of national development. The introduction of modern technologies which cloudy technologies (services) belong to, in the educational industry is an effective enough and self-weighted decision.
Target setting. In the modern terms of development of society and limitations caused application of modern cloudy technologies needs the pandemic of all greater attention question of choice in the educational industry. There is plenty of technologies that are capable substantially will promote the efficiency of the educational process. However, there are problems with their adaptation in establishments of higher education of Ukraine and high charges for the receipt of the extra package of services without regard to such their amount.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The following academics have studied the application of cloud technology in education: V. Yu. Bykov, M. I. Zhaldak, V. M. Kobisya, N. V. Morze, V. I. Olevs`ky, O. M. Spi-rin, V. M. Franchuk, M. P. Shyshkina and others.
The research objective is to analyse and compare modern cloud technologies and to highlight the most effective ones for organising the learning process in higher education institutions.
The statement of basic materials. The article considers modern cloud services for use in the educational process, namely Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft 365 Education and AWS Educate. The functional characteristics and services that teachers can use in their professional activities are analyzed. In particular, the most widespread cloud storage services are considered and a comparative characteristic is given to choose the most efficient service.
Conclusions. The use of modern cloud technology in the learning process provides new perspectives and opportunities for both students and teachers, who have to develop the need for purposeful and systematic self-improvement of their professional competence in accordance with modern social requirements. Through the effective and active use of cloud technology, all participants in the learning process, regardless of age, location or time, have free access to educational resources, virtual libraries, electronic catalogues, journals, encyclopaedias and dictionaries, educational videos and audio materials. In considering the most popular cloud platforms for education, Google Workspace for Education stands out. Although its office suite interface differs from the well-known Microsoft Office, which follows Microsoft 365 Education, in terms of integration with other applications Google Workspace for Education significantly wins. A comparative analysis of cloud storage services shows that Google Drive, pCloud and Mega are the most suitable in terms of storage capacity, data protection and functionality.
Keywords: cloudy technologies (services), cloudy platforms, cloudy depository, electronic educational resources, educational process.
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