AN APPROACH FOR DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF CPSS- EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IN BULGARIAN SCHOOL

Abstract

Modern realities in the era of Industry 4.0 and the global Covid-19 pandemic place new challenges to education. It is a fact that classical learning, supported by modern information and communication technologies, provides an effective learning process, but the Covid-19 realities require a rapid transition to distance absentee learning. The use of computer-based training systems and cloud platforms has its advantages, but also problems related to the low level of personalization of the learning process and the adaptability of the learning content to the specific characteristics of each student.

Cyber-physical and social systems (CPSS) largely solve the problems associated with integrating processes and interactions in the virtual world with the dynamically changing conditions of the physical world in which learning occurs. This gives grounds to draw the attention of specialists to the creation of CPSS educational platforms for secondary school. Following this approach, we created a prototype of ь CPSS educational space called BLISS. The results of the test application of this platform in the school environment give us reason to believe that if we put the learner with his/her peculiarities, goals, and interests at the center of such a system, and present him/her in the virtual space through his / her personal assistant, we could significantly increase the interactivity of the learning process and the adaptability of the offered learning content.