Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The object of the study is the multifaceted problem of students’ cognitive interest as the main issue of effectiveness and even meaningfulness of educational efforts and interactions. The subject of the research is the construction of high-quality educational content in the context of the digitalization of education, which one way or another, to a greater or lesser extent, more or less explicitly, involves a decrease in the amount of direct contact between the teacher and the audience, or conducting studies online. In the situation of digitalization, this problem becomes more acute and relevant and can be the object of a comprehensive psychological, pedagogical, didactic and methodological understanding. The aim of the work is to find ways, methods and didactic techniques for building effective educational content. Research methods are empirical generalization, deductively and inductively organized conclusions, pedagogical observation, thought experiment, comparative analysis, abstraction and idealization. The result of the work and one of its conclusions is the position according to which, even in the situation of classical educational interaction, at all times there is an important issue of building and organizing educational material offered to students, which, by design and definition, should be clear, “transparent”, accurate, life-oriented, or practically oriented, and, if possible, interesting and exciting, regardless of the specific discipline being studied, direction and profile of training; which allows to increase the effectiveness of teaching activities significantly, as well as the level of motivation and cognitive interest of students. The application area of the research results is educational multifaceted interactions in higher education.

Annotation: The article is devoted to the analysis of the possibilities of gaming technologies for teaching philosophy in universities. The authors substantiate the need to update educational technologies, taking into account the trends of edutainment, gamification of education, the totality of the game as a characteristic of human culture and the specifics of philosophical knowledge itself. The author consider quiz is as one of the innovative technologies that make it possible to implement a game approach, overcome dogmatism and extreme academicism in teaching philosophy. The article presents the results of testing this technology on the basis of Moscow Witte University and Yekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art. The quiz game tasks were developed by the authors with the help of digital tools such as Kahoot, Quizizz, Learnis and LearningApps. The authors come to the conclusion that in the context of the digitalization of higher education, the spread of distance and blended learning formats and the popularization of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) approach, which does not prohibit, but encourages the intellectual partnership of students and gadgets, online quiz makes it possible to update philosophical knowledge in the Digital Natives environment, motivate students and emotionally involve them in the process of philosophizing, independent search, choice and creativity.

Annotation: The purpose of this study was the analysis of Russian and foreign studies to identify environmental risk factors that provoke the spread and formation of addictive behaviors in juvenile students. The subject of the study was the environmental approach in the prevention of the psychoactive substances use by minors in an educational organization. In order to obtain the stated results, a search and selection of scientific publications congruent to the problems was carried out in two scientometric databases (eLibrary – 29 publications, ScienseDirect – 7679 publications). Based on the theoretical analysis of the selected sources, 3 groups of environmental factors that have a potential impact about the educational environment were described. Thus, a permanent influence on a person’s choice of an addictive behavior model is exerted by the residence territory and the area specifics of human activity, the presence of landscaping and elements of the natural environment, the social environment and involvement in prosocial interaction. Thus, the implementation of an environmental approach in the preventive activities of an educational organization seems promising, and the development of an ecopsychological educational environment significantly enhances the effectiveness of any measures aimed at psychoactive substances use prevention among minors.

Annotation: The article develops a practical theory of communication studies within the framework of learning technology in an electronic information and educational environment. The development of e-learning forms and the widespread use of distance learning technologies are initiating new challenges in the field of education. This contributes to the formation of a new paradigm within the framework of the theory of communicativistics, called by the author “educational communicativistics”. The article describes the essence of this concept, aimed at studying theoretical and practical issues of communication of subjects of the electronic educational process. It is shown that educational communicativistics can be considered as communicativistics in the information field, which makes it possible to apply an information approach and information modeling to this technology. The role of educational communicativistics as a learning technology in solving the problem of knowledge exchange in the electronic information and educational environment is shown. It is shown that educational communication defines a new methodology of the educational process, reflects the dynamics of educational technologies.

Annotation: In the system of higher education, the problems of patriotic education of students are the main issues in the field of educational activities. In the era of post-truth, fakes, informational fast food, the confrontation between values and meanings is becoming more and more intense. Young people are most exposed to destructive information impact. Due to these circumstances, the patriotic education of young people in modern conditions is of particular relevance and significance. The relevance of this work is connected with the need to improve and develop methodological support for the civil and patriotic education of students, taking into account new realities. In the article, on the basis of a questionnaire, an analysis was made of the level of formation of the qualities that a patriot should possess among students of a pedagogical university. The life values and personal qualities of students included in the concept of “patriotism” are highlighted. Based on the results of the study, the approximate content of the curriculum for the discipline “Civil and Patriotic Education” is proposed. Directions for organizing events are identified and a list of events tested in practice that contribute to the development of patriotic qualities among students is given.