Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: In work the characteristic of the major cognitive events of history of a paradigm, the prerequisite, au-thorship and importance of its main scientific concepts are presented. The following periodization of evolution of the object-oriented paradigm (OOP) in the theory of software development is offered: academic OOP; early OOP; mature OOP; modern OOP. The progress is caused by aspiration to en-gage human potential in development of evolving program complexes.

Annotation: Article is devoted to the development of web-application for 3D-visualization of objects, processes and values which are the result of energy research. The new approach to work with geospatial data which has been called Situational awareness or Neogeography used for 3D-visualization. The possibility of web-applications for 3D-visualization is illustrated by two specific energy problems

Annotation: The article deals with the problems of intercultural communication teaching at the university level. It shows the great importance of the subject and gives some clues to deal with those problems. The Matrix model is proposed to describe the system of cultural values and peculiarities. A short historical comparative survey makes it possible to state that cultural transformations are relatively slow processes/

Annotation: The article examines the questions the usefulness of our scientists to society. The specific character of an academic titles and degrees. Suggestions are made for extensions of the domain of scientists working in universities and ranking Russian scientists depending on the degree and academic rank

Annotation: The article deals with the geometric method for constructing balanced threshold k-valued functions. A new method of synthesis of bijective mappings on their basis is considered.