Complex Framework of Digital Learning Quality Assessment in Covid-19 Context: Survey Study for European and Oriental Languages Programs

ABSTRACT

The global pandemic and subsequent quarantine measures have posed an array of challenges to the complex comprehensive structures and procedures of higher education workflow, which influenced significantly the scope of individual experiences, projected outcomes, and estimated quality of higher education in countries across the world. This study focus is the in-depth assessment of individual perceptions and experiences of complex models of digital distance and blended learning by students of different tiers (Bachelor's level, Master's level, Graduate school level) in European and Oriental Languages university programs in regions of Ukraine through the span of educational activities in the time-frame of COVID-19 quarantine measures of March 2020 to January 2021. The survey is used to assess the parameters and challenges of individual quality and efficiency of translation of the complex system of real-life Foreign Languages Acquisition practices into the digital format, involving activation of interdisciplinary skills and cross-sectorial activities, implemented by ICT tools. The online survey of 14 universities in regional centres of Ukraine provides for disclosure of student comprehensive assessment of the complex framework of digitalized foreign languages education, systematized individual experiences, and quality estimation of e-learning and hybrid learning in the framework of COVID-19 lockdown.