Centers

Regional Center of History and the Ukrainian Language Development

Address: 1st building of DNU, Nauky avenue, Dnipro city, 49010

Regional center of history and the Ukrainian language development as structural subsection of DNU started its work at the 1st September in 2006. Its foundation is a two-sided initiative of Dnipropetrovs’k Regional state administration (the head of it was N.M. Dieiev at that time) and a rector of DNU, a professor M.V. Poliakov.

To be a scientific leader of the Centre was appointed a dean of the Ukrainian and foreign philology and study of art faculty of DNU, professor I.S. Popova, to be a director – a docent from the Ukrainian language chair of DNU N.S. Holikova.

There work docents I.P. Mamchych, Yu.Y. Pysich, T.V. Shevchenko, a senior teacher V.V. Zaitseva, a teacher V.V. Nahel’.

The main aim of Regional center of history and the Ukrainian language development activity is the help of the basic parts of state language politics realization, which are directed to increase the social status and further development of the Ukrainian language and to create optimal conditions of its functioning in Prydniprovs’k region.

The main measures, which were prepared and made by the Centre during about 2 years, were directed to different social layers of population of Dnipropetrovs’k city and region – pupils, students, scientists, workers of educational establishments, state employees, wide range of people. This and a scientific-practical seminar made twice for teachers of the Ukrainian language, which dealt with topical questions of Ukrainian orthography, dedicated to the Day of Ukrainian literature and language (9 November 2006, 2007), “round” tables to the Day of the native language (21 February 2007, 2008), a seminar for the workers of Dnipropetrovs’k region RATsS (19 March 2008), where the problems of official registration of the personal names were discussed, holidays to the Day of Slavonic literature and culture (24 May 2007, 2008) etc. Regional center of history and the Ukrainian language development conducted a Regional scientific-practical conference “The culture of speech in the Ukrainian society” at the 16-17th April 2008.

To help the wide range of people of Prydniprovs’k region, 2 consulting stations dealing with the questions of official documents registration and the questions of city communication work at the Center.

The results of the Regional centre of history and the Ukrainian language development work are expressed in the range of publications: 3 numbers of published organ of the Centre – the magazine “Ukrainian sense”; “Russian-Ukrainian dictionary of the surnames of the people of Dnipro city” was published (managers are T.S. Prystaiko, I.S. Popova, I.I. Turuta, M.S. Koval’chuk), 3 issues of scientific-methodical manual “Written word in the streets of Dnipro” saw the world, 2 collections of “Young people are thirsty to understanding a word” are the result of scientific-research activity of students – members of scientific community “Philologist”. 

Regional Center of Education Monitoring

Address: Ukraine. Dnipro city, N.Armstrong str. 18, building ¹ 14, auditorium 110.
Telephone: (0562) 33-58-83.
E-mail: rcmo-mmf@mail.dsu.dp.ua
Web-site: www.rcmo.dnu.dp.ua

A director is Balanenko Iryna Hryhorivna. She is a senior teacher of the differential equations chair of mechanical-mathematical faculty of Dnipropetrovs’k national university named after O. Honchar.
A Sunday school of DNU started to work in October 1996, which then became the basic part of the young people professional orientation Center, which was given the status of Regional center of education monitoring (RCEM) by the decree of Ministry of science and education of Ukraine ¹ 226 on 29 March 2002.
Such subsections work in the structure of Regional center of education monitoring of the Center of training before entering the higher educational establishment of Dnipropetrovs’k national university named after O. Honchar:

1. “A Sunday school” accomplishes education of the pupils of 6-11 classes on such subjects: mathematics, physics, information science, biology, chemistry, history of Ukraine, geography, the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature, the English language, and gives the possibility to attend a demonstrational lesson on economical theory, the Japanese and Chinese languages for free. The pupils are given a methodical literature, training exercises, tests. Leading specialists and the best teachers of Dnipropetrovs’k city schools give lessons.
   The period of study is 7 months (from October till April inclusive), the lessons are on Sunday.
2. Educational bases. The university concludes a treaty with an educational establishment, which receives the status of Educational base of RCEM of the Center of training before entering the higher educational establishment of DNU named after O. Honchar. An elective class is organized under the Educational base, which works under the guidance and with methodical supply of RCEM. The lectures and seminars for the pupils of Educational bases take place on the territory of these educational establishments with the teachers from the university and teachers of medium general education establishments.
3. Current monitoring of the pupils from 6-11 classes knowledge on the subjects of general education of the medium school are conducted every month on the base of RCEM in accordance with groups gathering or on the base of medium educational establishments after signing a corresponding agreement with them.
   Distance monitoring for the pupils of 11th classes on Ukrainian and literature, chemistry, geography, English is made with Scientific-methodical Center of Distance education APN of Ukraine under Dnipropetrovs’k national university named after Oles’ Honchar through the Internet or e-mail. Distance monitoring on mathematics is proposed to the pupils of 6-11 classes.
4. Adaptation courses on mathematics, physics, chemistry and drawing for the first-year students. They are created to correct the students’ knowledge with the implementation of Bolon process in the system of higher education in 2006. The intake of the fourth-year students is conducted on the base of Adaptation courses in 2010 for the training for entrance examination on the foreign language at the education of education-qualified level of master.
5. A standing seminar “Topical questions of the teaching methodology of the natural-mathematical disciples in general education schools” for teachers of Prydniprovs’k region. The lessons on subject sections are conducted in the limits of seminar: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, Ukrainian, information science, economical theory. The chiefs of the sections are the leading scientists of DNU. The basic directions of the modern science are examined at these seminars, and also the most difficult questions of the school program, methodological aspects of the disciples teaching, modern methods of organization and conducting optional lessons and hobby groups, the progressive pedagogical experience is spread.

• Further expanding of the Educational bases net in Prydniprovs’k region;
• Organization of work with talented pupils in the Olympiad groups on mathematics;
• Opening of the express-courses for entrants both on the base of DNU and in the regions of the district;
• Prolongation of the work with DOLIFMP on the questions of organization and conducting the Regional mathematical tournament “Evrika”. 

Regional Center of Continuous Education “Prydniprovia”

Director – Yudin Sergii Petrovych, PhD of physical-mathematical sciences, professor
Telephone: 760-85-14

Nowadays Regional center of continuous education “Prydniprovia” (RCCE “Prydniprovia”) contains 105 educational establishments situated in Dnipropetrovs’k, Zaporizhia, Khmelnyts’k and Kherson regions. The main aim of RCCE “Prydniprovia” is improvement of general tasks and functions concerning the continuous training of highly qualified specialists, executing of organizational and methodological work as well as providing of professional orientation of pre-university study for the students of general secondary schools and specialized educational establishments, arrangement of Olympiads, testing and current monitoring of the level of knowledge of the graduates of the educational establishments of the center.
Activity of the center “Prydniprovia” is of professionally oriented character:

• organization and analysis of the results of General Certificate exams;
• encouraging of the cooperation between DNU and the Board of education and science of Dnipropetrovs’k state administration concerning the professional orientation of rural youth;
• participation in the arrangement of “The Open Days”;
• holding of the public opinion poll among the students of educational establishments of RCCE “Prydniprovia” concerning their desire to enter DNU for improving professional orientation of the university;
• arrangement of meetings of chiefs of department boards and heads of the departments of DNU with students of 10-11th forms and their parents.

Regional Scientific-methodological Center of Distant Learning

Address:Ukraine, Dnipro, D.Yavornitsky, 36, building ¹2
Telephone: +38 (0562) 45-51-34
E-mail: E-mail
Web-site: distance.dnu.edu.ua

Scientific-methodological center of distant learning of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine at Dnipropetrovs’k national university was founded according to the decree of the Presidium of Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine dated 15.04.2002. The operation of the center is executed due to the regulations on Regional scientific-methodological center of distant learning. The coordinator of the scientific activity of the center is the Academy of pedagogical sciences of Ukraine.

Scientific advisor of the center on psychological and pedagogical issues of its functioning is the corresponding member of the Academy of pedagogical sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of psychological sciences, professor Nosenko E. L., scientific advisor on the issues of providing information is the Doctor of biological sciences, professor Chernyshenko S. V., director of the Center – PhD of chemical sciences, associate professor Derkach T. M.

Staff of the center: Gutnik Yu. Ye., Dubinko L. L., Samoshkin I. S.
On the photo from left to right: in the first row – T. M. Derkach, E. L. Nosenko, L. I. Baisara; in the second row – N. M. Liashenko, K. P. Kutovyi, S. V. Chernyshenko, L. L. Dubinko, Yu. Ye. Gutnyk, A. O. Lysutin.

Main task:
Main task of the Center is working out of psychological and methodological foundations of modern distant learning, approbation and realization of principles of this form of education by means of creating distant learning courses and providing opportunities of obtaining educational services in a distant form to the citizens of Ukraine.

Tasks and functions of the center

1. introducing the methods of distant learning in various variants;
2. solely distant (for externs and students of correspondence department), distributive ( to improve self-taught work of students of full-time department);
3. making scientific investigations to work out psychological and methodological foundations of distant learning and to improve its software;
4. search and analytical processing of materials concerning the experience of using distant learning methods;
5. arrangement and holding of conferences among higher educational establishments, scientific practical seminars, symposia on methodology of distant learning;
6. creation of software means and surroundings for working out of educational computer and Internet courses;
7. working out of sets of methodological supply on certain academic courses according to the state standards of education;
8. providing chargeable educational services on the methodology of working out of educational materials for distant learning for other higher educational establishments of Ukraine;
9. automation of the procedure of module control works for students of various departments;
10. creation of conditions for students for studying extra courses which are provided in the format of distant learning including those of foreign educational establishments.

Over the period of its functioning Scientific-methodological center of distant learning of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine at Dnipropetrovs’k national university has repeatedly been awarded (medals) at the exhibitions “Modern Education of Ukraine”.