THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL NATURE OF EDTECH-PLATFORMS IN PERSONNEL TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

Abstract

The application of EdTech-platforms is linked to the institutional and legal support of the personnel training and certification processes, the application of targeted solutions in updating competencies when using a network of adaptive forms of learning subject to safety, ensuring academic sustainability, where IT solutions, which are distinguished by relative accessibility in the context of the transition to digital forms of education and employment, are most deployed. The purpose of this article is to describe the institutional and legal nature of EdTech-platforms as a system of network form of contractual relations, organization of learning and certificating to form the digital profile in the labour market. The review and analysis of peculiarities of EdTech-tools and EdTech-platforms development have been carried out. The legal analysis of requirements to new («digital») phenomena in the educational services and labour market is given. The dialectical approach has helped to clarify new risks and perspectives in the context of transition to «digital rails» when applying EdTech-tools for the personnel training. The formal-logical approach to the operational definitions and categories such as: «competence framework», «quality criteria to EdTech-tools» has been applied. The comparative analysis according to the current educational and professional standards has revealed contradictions in the ratio of competent elements (“know”, “be able”, “own”) labour functions and quality criteria of EdTech tools. The legal analysis of international and national standards of quality requirements for EdTech-tools has allowed to establish the necessity to bring educational standards to IT-standards in order to fill the competence framework due to the transformation of employment into digital labour relations and labour mobility into digital labour ecosystems. There is a significance of implementing standards with international regulations in order to integrate and harmonize training requirements. E-certification can serve as a tool not only for updating the competence framework, but also for automatically constructing an employee’s personal career and competitiveness map. The criteria for EdTech-tools for e-learning, including for the network form of e-certification, have been specified. The results and conclusions obtained do not exhaust the issue of the institutional and legal nature of EdTech-tools due to the insufficiency of the legislative foundations for digital relations and are valuable in the form of principles for developing local regulatory frameworks in achieving transparency of contractual relations among participants in e-learning and e-certification.

Keywords

EdTech-platform, educational and professional standards, institutional and legal regulators, labour market, digital employee profile, e-learning, personnel e-certification

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About the Authors

Anna Yu. Rozhkova – PhD in Economics, Docent; Associate Professor, Pskov State University, Pskov, Russia. E-mail: annroz80@ya.ru. SPIN РИНЦ 7717-5184. ORCID 0000-0002-0321-6603
Yury V. Daneykin – PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Docent; Vice-Rector for Educational Activities, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod, Russia. E-mail: Yury.Daneykin@novsu.ru. SPIN РИНЦ 7876-1730. ORCID 0000-0001-7181-2557

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Rozhkova A.Yu., Daneykin Yu.V. The Legal and Institutional Nature of EdTech-Platforms in Personnel Training and Certification // BENEFICIUM. 2022. Vol. 1(42). Pp. 47-58. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.34680/BENEFICIUM.2022.1(42).47-58