Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The purpose of the article is to justify the choice of web services for conducting distance classes in educational institutions during the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19). The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that due to the sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in 2020, almost all Russian educational institutions were forced to switch to remote learning, which in turn caused the need to search, master and integrate services for hosting web conferences into educational process. The work carried out an empirical study and a pedagogical experiment on the basis of the Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University. K. Minin. Based on the results of the research, the main provisions of the methodology for choosing web services for conducting classes in a distance format in educational institutions have been determined. The results of a survey of teachers of secondary and higher education institutions on the choice of the preferred web service and tools are described and interpreted. Conclusions are made about the advantages and disadvantages of web services for distance education available on the market; in accordance with different criteria, recommendations are given on the choice of a web service, taking into account the specifics of classes and educational institution.

Annotation: The article is devoted the prospects of dominance of online education in relation to the traditional system of teaching in Russian universities. The preconditions of such changes are revealed, rooted, firstly, in the formation of the global information society, and secondly, in the needs dictated by the latter in a new type of employee with a fundamentally different from the established classical educational profile. The article is divided into two interrelated blocks: the first one analyzes the vector of movement of domestic universities to the dominant of online education. It analyses both the positive and possible negative aspects of this process, but emphasizes the steady increase in the scale of the changes taking place. The second section is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of Millennials as the main subjects and consumers of modern online education. In the final part, socio-cultural and technological recommendations are given, which, according to the author of the article, should mitigate the consequences of the transition to modern forms of University education for both the faculty and Russian students.

Annotation: This article is devoted to one of the main problems of modern educating system – the building of relationships between teachers and students. The aim of this study is to define the set of teacher’s competences necessary for establishing psychological relationships between students and teachers. Among the objectives of this article is the description of the most important teacher’s competences; their individual characteristics; identification of ways of to increase motivation in the study of a professionally oriented foreign language. Authors pay particular attention to the psychological conditions of educational process, define the important role of technical means of education which help to intensify the process of education, to increase the motivation of students to learning. The article discusses the methods and techniques of work which help the teacher to intensify students’ involvement in the process of learning in spite of certain particularities of their way of information perception thus helping them to achieve their educational goals successfully.

Annotation: The article analyzes the state of information asymmetry in education and educational technologies. The article reveals the causes and types of information asymmetry presented in the form of relations between objects and subjects of the educational system. Categorical and inter-categorical information asymmetry are considered. The concept of information asymmetric situation is introduced. Emerging situations in the education system are classified into static and dynamic, which provides a basis for their analysis and evaluation on certain grounds. It is shown that information asymmetry in education can be eliminated in the learning process. The rules of formalized representation of various types of information asymmetry are described. The article reveals the principle of algorithmization of the learning quality assessment process, based on information asymmetry, on the part of both teachers and students. The article shows the possibility of information support for making managerial decisions on the organization of the educational process in the direction of its improvement.

Annotation: The increased importance of modern information and network technologies in all areas of our life involves the informatization of various processes in a university, including the new organization of the educational process. The interconnection of the processes of upbringing and the formation of an information culture often remains outside the scope of research, and computerization is considered only in the instrumental and technological aspect, not taking into account that through the educational space it is possible to carry out the necessary informational influence, forming motivation, a value-semantic cultural basis of youth, and a mechanism protection from information impacts on the human psyche – a property of “information stability”. Therefore, along with the traditional directions of upbringing, another direction of upbringing activity appears – the creation, maintenance and regulation of informational upbringing space. An important issue is the preservation of a harmonious combination of traditional means of education, direct forms of communication and new forms and methods associated with the use of information and telecommunication technologies.