Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: В статье исследуется методологическая проблема организации пространства свободного выбора для обучающихся на примере общеобразовательной школы. Излагается многолетний опыт педагогического коллектива в построении образовательного процесса на основе подхода свободного выбора. Излагаются принципы реализации индивидуального подхода к каждому обучающемуся, которые включают свободу выбора темпа обучения, свободу выбора преподавателя, свободу выбора уровня изучения предмета, свободу перемещения по аудитории. Рассматривается апробированный на практике активный метод обучения «коллективный способ взаимного обучения». Изложена разработанная и апробированная коллективом школы педагогическая методика обучения родителей в области творческого взаимодействия в отношениях с детьми. Представлена применяемая в школе нового формата унифицированная струк- тура учебно-методического комплекса «Учить учиться». Показано, что данный учебно-методический комплекс реализует основные постулаты творческого обучения и инвариантного отношения к изучаемым дисциплинам. Изложенный в статье многолетний педагогический опыт общеобразовательной школы в построении образовательного процесса на основе подхода свободного выбора может трансформиро- ваться для образовательных организаций среднего и высшего профессионального образования.

Annotation: The article is devoted to the issue of increasing the degree of involvement in the educational process of students studying with the use of distance learning technologies. Student engagement is a combination of efforts aimed at achieving positive learning outcomes, ensuring a high level of academic achievement, as well as willingness to apply the knowledge gained in real life. The aim of the work is to study the factors influencing student engagement, as well as the possibilities of stimulating it by a teacher in a distance learning environment. Students’ engagement in learning includes cognitive, emotional and behavioral manifestations. The analysis of literary sources allowed us to identify a number of indicators, as well as factors of student involvement in the educational process. The latter include academic motivation, a sense of belonging to the student community, the ability to self-organize in an electronic information and educational environment, interaction with other students, as well as interaction with teachers. The article presents pedagogical techniques that allow to stimulate the engagement of students in learning organized with the use of distance learning technologies. The results of the study can be used to improve the training organized with the use of distance learning technologies.

Annotation: A rapidly changing educational environment demands a constant search for new sources of information and educational technologies from a foreign language teacher. The widespread use of online resources contributes to the optimization of language education. It also makes the forming of students’ foreign language communicative competence more flexible and creative. The article examines the didactic potential of Internet resources for teaching a foreign language to university students of non-linguistic majors. The authors reviewed modern research on the use Internet resources in language education. They also describe the main features of the main kinds of Internet resources. The authors pay special attention to the criteria for selecting Internet resources for educational purposes. Besides, an in-depth analysis of the advantages of using Internet content in the educational process has been carried out. The practical significance of the research lies in the description of the experience of integrating Internet resources into the training course “English for Specific Purposes” taught to master’s students of Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University majored in Pedagogics, training profile “Mechatronics and Robotics”.

Annotation: In modern society, digital technologies are an integral element of every person’s life, they are not only a tool for learning about the world, but also the very environment of existence. Therefore, the domestic higher education system is designed to ensure the transition of society into the digital age. An important role in achieving this task is assigned to the teacher of higher education, who not only has to master digital tools independently, but also adapt the training program to modern trends of digitalization in professional activity. Based on the review of priority directions of strategic development of higher education and the existing experience of its digitalization, the author solves the problem of systematization of trends in the digital transformation of this industry. Priorities are determined in the areas of modernization of the education system, taking into account the demand for personnel in the real sector of the economy and the mechanisms for building the educational process. The article highlights the threats of digitalization of education and possible preventive measures to eliminate them.

Annotation: The relevance of the study is caused by the rapid digital transformation of higher education. The possibilities of using virtual environment means as self-sufficient educational products in the educational process of the university are considered. The subject of the study is electronic educational resources as effective conditions of students’ foreign language knowledge formation in university. In the course of the experimental study, the needs for improving students’ foreign language knowledge were identified, the levels of foreign language competence were determined and conditions were substantiated that ensure the effectiveness of foreign language competence forming. Electronic educational resources were used in order to provide experimental work in the context of Foreign language learning. An empirical testing of innovative educational resources in teaching Foreign language in a technical university has been carried out and described. A set of methodological support for monitoring foreign language competence has been implemented. The proposed recommendations can be applied for foreign language training among the students of technical universities. The conclusions about the effectiveness of the electronic resources realization in the educational process were stated.