Optimization of Information Flows Based on Network Models of Systems

The educational process is a complex social management system, the elements of which are combined and interact through information flows. At the same time, information flows can differ in purpose and type of transmitted information. The article is devoted to the substantiation of the need and ways to optimize information flows existing in the educational process. An analysis of the tasks that exist in organizing the educational process is provided using the example of a higher educational institution, the role of modern information technologies that ensure student learning. The educational process is a complex social management system, the elements of which are combined and interact through information flows. At the same time, information flows can differ in purpose and type of transmitted information. The article is devoted to the substantiation of the need and ways to optimize information flows existing in the educational process. An analysis of the tasks that exist in organizing the educational process is provided using the example of a higher educational institution, the role of modern information technologies that ensure student learning. This analysis is also typical not only for higher education institutions, but also for institutions of additional education for adults, during training in which students simultaneously work, are busy with family and study mainly remotely. Representation of the educational process using network models allows them to be formalized, presented in a form convenient for optimization, depending on the task, corresponding to the objective function and specified constraints that take into account the specifics of each information model of the educational process. Network models of organizing the educational process, their features and formalization - presentation in a form convenient for modeling and optimization are considered. An analysis of various types of information used in the educational process, methods for its quantitative assessment are carried out. On the basis of the models, the problems that exist in the optimization of information flows and ways of their solution based on the application of mathematical methods of optimization are substantiated. The connection of the problems pertaining to optimization of information flows of the educational process with similar problems of the application of information technologies in various systems of management in social and economic areas is shown