ONLINE SERVICES AS PROMISING AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL MEANS FOR STUDENTS OF UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The purpose of the article. The article deals with possibilities of online services as means of obtaining practice IT-skills by high school students of specialty «Information, library and archival activity». The methodology of the research is using such methods as information analysis and synthesis, comparison, the solid learning curve of online services’ functional capabilities. It determines the efficiency of these tools and their influence on academic activity at University. The scientific novelty is consideration of the online services as a fixed software alternative, as the effective tool for developing students’ practical IT-skills and tool for their ongoing improvement. Conclusions. The using online services allow Ukrainian Universities to approach the international technical and technological software norms, and it is going to help to put into practice ongoing improvement students’ IT-skills. Specialized online-services solve specific tasks. Also, they make it possible to increase and to improve practical skills and to provide regular academic activity. Ukrainian and international companies present many Internet-marketing and Internet-advertising online-services. They have the same way they operate. They have a set of ready-made layouts, the possibility of creating self-layouts, friendly and understandable interface, etc. They vary by interface design, the number of functional tools sets, opportunity to save own layouts. They have advantages over traditional IT.