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 Volume 9, Issue 10 (October 2022), Pages: 66-73

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 Original Research Paper

 The social responsibility of distance higher education in the COVID-19 pandemic

 Author(s): Valeriia Shcherbak 1, Liudmyla Ganushchak-Yefimenko 1, Olena Nifatova 1, Pavlo Dudko 1, Oleksii Baula 1, Oleksii Volianyk 1, Valentуna Yatsenko 2, Petro Kutsyk 3, *

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Entrepreneurship and Business, Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, Kyiv, Ukraine
 2Department of History and Socio-Economic Disciplines, Municipal Establishment "Kharkiv Humanitarian-Pedagogical Academy" of the Kharkiv Regional Council, Kharkiv, Ukraine
 3Rector, Lviv University of Economic and Trade, Lviv, Ukraine

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5795-9704

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.10.009

 Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to determine the actual and ultimate necessary level of social responsibility of distance higher education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article presents a model for assessing the effectiveness of teaching and social responsibility of distance higher education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This model, unlike the existing ones, takes into account organizational and technological, economic, and socio-pedagogical factors. The degree of influence of the presented factors was revealed using factor analysis. Based on the taxonomic method and cluster analysis, clusters of universities were obtained by the level of teaching effectiveness and social responsibility of distance higher education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial data included online reporting of 50 higher education institutions from the Top 200 Ukraine rating for 2020; the results of a survey of teachers and students on the Google Forms platform. The proposed model, unlike the existing ones, makes it possible to adjust the components of distance learning at universities, to develop a system of measures to increase the level of social responsibility of distance learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: COVID-19, Distance education, Responsibility

 Article History: Received 11 February 2022, Received in revised form 3 May 2022, Accepted 26 June 2022

 Acknowledgment 

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Shcherbak V, Ganushchak-Yefimenko L, and Nifatova O et al. (2022). The social responsibility of distance higher education in the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(10): 66-73

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