Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article deals with the potential of applying web quest technology in teaching English at a modern university. It analyzes the advantages of information technologies` employing in educational process. The article justifies the necessity of applying web quest technology in teaching a foreign language as it contributes to solving a number of important tasks: organization of independent and group activities of students, development of critical and analytical thinking, activization of all types of speech activities. The author presents her own web quest used in English lessons, contributing to the development of linguistic, cognitive and communicative skills of students.

Annotation: In scientific work and teaching, historians often face with the problem of contradictory points of view contained in various historical records. The main purpose of the researcher is to work on separating genuine historical facts from fictional ones and not allowing the subjective value judgments of contemporaries to misrepresent objective historical reality. One of the most important research methods is the method of comparative analysis of historical records, which is used to perform such task. The use of this method is obligatory for the reconstruction of events related to political conflicts, when the researcher has at his disposal the facts left by representatives of the opposing sides. An example of the implementation of this method can be the records of the XVII century relating to the events of the Time of Troubles, in particular, the siege of the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Monastery. The subject of the research of this paper are such documents as the Legend of Avraamy Palitsyn and the Diary of Jan Sapieha. The purpose of the work is to compare information from the mentioned records and restore the course of real events. In addition to comparative analysis of historical records, chronological and narrative methods were used as key methods of work. In conclusion, work results are drawn about the degree of reliability of the records studied and the facts contained in them. The materials of the paper are of a historical and local history nature and can be used as part of teaching the discipline «History of Russia» on the topic of the Time of Troubles in Russia in the early XVII century.

Annotation: Self-upbringing as a university education method seems to be the most relevant in the age of rapid IT and distant learning development. The study aims at working out a conceptual approach to students’ self-upbringing under modern educational realities. The article reveals the necessary psychological basis on which self- upbringing as professional’s psychological quality is based. The article highlights principles and tasks of self-upbringing technology on DIY example (by G.K. Selevko). It can be used by distant learning students. The article points out the need for this implementation with help of algorithmic and mathematical models of distant learning parameters and assessing the student’s competencies at a given level and other formalized methods of increasing the creative students’ potential as well. The article highlights the criteria of successful development of self-upbringing as a psychological quality. The obtained research results can be applied in solving the issue of achieving a synergistic effect in distant learning.

Annotation: На фоне усиливающейся коммерциализации системы высшего образования необходима разработка действующих стратегий по привлечению потенциальных абитуриентов в вузы и презентации широкому кругу потребителей комплекса образовательных услуг. Если теория журналистики необходима для формирования базовых принципов журналистской деятельности, то медиаобразование помогает осознать как эта деятельность и продукт этой деятельности интегрируются коммуникативными процессами в обществе. Поэтому целью статьи является анализ медиатехнологий на этапе подготовки абитуриентов в выборе творческой специальности, к которой принадлежит профессия журналист. Кафедра журналистики ФГБОУ ВО «Национальный исследовательский Мордовский государственный университет им. Н.П. Огарёва», отслеживая и анализируя актуальные вопросы современной концепции медиаобразования, с 2007 г. организовала и внедрила в практику своей работы «Школу молодого журналиста», служащую экспериментальной площадкой апробации медиаресурсов. Материалы статьи демонстрируют направления профориентационной работы кафедры, в частности, и вуза в целом.

Annotation: The study is devoted to topical issues of discourse. The thematic focus of pandemia orientation is given as an example. Of great importance is the choice of the methodological orientation of the problem coverage for the objectification of the results obtained. Within the framework of the research article the essence of the strategy and tactics for the application of the methodological component of the discourse texts analysis is indicated. The purpose of the study is to determine the most essential combination of methods for an integrated study of the discourse of pandemia thematic orientation. The research methodology reflects the methods of content analysis (of content and structural character), intent analysis, and discourse analysis, the combination of which is an objective basis for a comprehensive study and understanding of the discourse of pandemia thematic orientation. This makes it possible to carry out a pragmatic description of the texts of pandemia thematic orientation on the basis of linguistic representation. The results of the study consist in developing a combination of compatible methods for an adequate assessment of the texts of pandemia thematic orientation.