KNUTD
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

The Education and Scientific Institute of Modern Learning Technologies using the technologies of distance learning enables graduates to train in-service at a convenient time and place and receive a diploma from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design.

The institute activities:

• Organizing the educational activity of higher education students of part-time (distance) training.
• Supporting the Information Environment (IE) of full-time and part-time training.
• Training courses for academic staff.
• Certifying people applying for the civil service, concerning the fluency of the state language.

Mission Statement

The Institute provides people with the opportunity to exercise the constitutional right to education and professional qualifications, improves their qualifications regardless of gender, race, nationality, social and property status, kind and nature of occupations, ideological beliefs, membership of parties, attitude to religion, religion, health, place of residence according to their abilities. [p. 1.4. Policy Statement on Distance Education No. 466 dated on April 25, 2013]

The purpose of the Institute activities

The Institute is to provide educational services through training with help of modern information and communication technologies in certain educational or educational and qualification levels in accordance with the state education standards; according to the programs of people's preparation for admission to education institutions, preparation of foreigners and vocational development of workers [p. 1.5 Policy Statement on Distance Learning No. 466 dated on April 25, 2013].

Part-time education has been and remains an important part of the education system in Ukraine. In order to improve the scientific and methodological support, organizational work and further development of new forms of students’ in-service training on the basis of the correspondence faculty, in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine No. 557 of 12.08.2000, the Institute of Part-time and Distance Education (IPDE) was organised.

The first dean of the correspondence faculty was Mine Glushchenko, who occupied this post from 1957 to 1970. From 1970 to 1981, the faculty was headed by Pavlo Yemets, and from 1982 to 2011, the correspondence faculty, based on which the Institute of Part-time and Distance Education was created, was headed by Anatoly Klimenko.

From April 2011 to September 2014, Iryna Tarasenko headed IPDE.

In accordance with the order No. 260 dated 01.08.2013 the department of philosophy, political science and Ukrainian studies, the department of higher mathematics and the department of physics joined the Institute.

In April 2014, IPDE was renamed as the Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies (IALT).

Since September 2014, Tetiana Vlasyuk has been appointed the Director of the Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies.

According to the Order No. 81 dated on April 28, 2015 The Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies was renamed as Education and Scientific Institute of Modern Learning Technologies (ESIMLT).

Since September 2017, Igor Panasyuk heads Education and Scientific Institute of Modern Learning Technologies.

According to the Order No. 169 dated on September 01, 2017 the Department of Technological Safety and Heat Transfer Processes and the Department of Foreign Languages joined the Institute.