Interoperable Digital Skills for Foreign Languages Education in the COVID-19 Paradigm
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The study employs a combination of mixed methods (Almalki, 2016) – a proportional arrangement of quantitative and qualitative inquiry- to assess in-depth aspects of subjective and individual quality estimation of digital distant, hybrid, and AI-enhanced learning. The survey structure comprised of 16 complex diagnostic questions (multiple choice, criteria comparison and Likert scale score types), divided into the following categories: 1) questions on overall assessment of digital and AI literacy level in the framework of wartime emergency; 2) questions on diagnostics of specialists according to the established frameworks of digital/AI competencies and e-skills in the professional field; 3) questions on diagnostics of interoperability of linguistic/communicative/soft professional and digital skills for pre/in-service teachers. The inquiry is conducted through the consistent study of digitization measures and outcomes for Arts and Sciences education programs in Ukraine, beginning with the period of the Covid-19 pandemic and extending into the crisis paradigm of active warfare in various regions of Ukraine, across different educational levels. The inquiry's main findings disclose global event horizon and paradigm shifts in the interdisciplinary trends of digital education in the Covid-19 timeframe and through the emergency of the warzone in Ukraine; transformative changes of the network society and education as an interdisciplinary, multi-lingual sociocultural institution in the digital age; experiences, challenges, digital advances and specific national gains in quality assurance of Humanities education in the sustainable and emergency paradigms. The study results disclose the comprehensive review of dynamics of the digital skills development and application to construe interdisciplinary, AI-interoperable competencies of students and educators in Ukraine through the span of educational activities in the time-frame of the pandemic emergency digitization measures of 2020-2021 and wartime emergency digitization measures of 2022-2024 in Ukraine (including AI-enhanced communication as a staple of transdisciplinary education as of 2023).
Source: Proceedings
Institution: Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3215227322