Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article deals with teaching professional foreign language. It proves the importance of introducing its components into bachelor’s courses. It views humanitarization of educational content as the key optimization principle that allows to train students of all profiles equally effectively for interaction in social space. Methodological opportunities of modeling the content on this base are viewed as well.

Annotation: This article is devoted to the problems of information technologies influence on the system of education and the impact of computer-based learning on overcoming students’ fears. Computerization of education is in rapid evolution and it affects the pace and the quality of education. There is a tendency to increase in the role of software used to improve the quality of teaching, cognitive interest and students’ liberation. The article deals with the concept of fear and the reasons for students’ fear in modern educational institutions. It presents the ways of information technologies implementation in the process of education, including distant learning, psychological diagnostics, introduction of interactive technologies. Much attention is given to the analysis of information technologies as means of overcoming students’ psychological stress. The results prove the necessity for extensive use of information technologies in the process of education as a means of psychological support for students in the course of their adaptation to the education system.

Annotation: The article presents analysis of capabilities of Lesson-Study technology for development of teachers’ professional competences and identifies the features of its usage in teaching practice. The relevance of the research is substantiated by importance of teacher’s professional growth under present conditions of reforming Russian education, as well as by increasing attention to studying the relevant foreign pedagogical experience, particularly, the experience of using Lesson-Study for developing and improving teaching and learning processes. The article reveals Lesson-Study content (a pedagogical approach that characterizes a special form of сlass activity research, aimed at improving teacher’s practical knowledge). Lesson-Study genesis is described as well. The attitude of modern scholars and teachers to using Lesson-Study for professional competences development is analyzed. The stages of Lesson-Study implementation are highlighted and its advantages are listed.

Annotation: The article deals with the use of innovative technologies in higher education and their role in the training of highly professional personnel in the field of law. The author reveals the experience of using such methods and forms of work as the method of projects, “case study” (training with the use of specific educational situations), business and role-playing games, grammatical modeling, training technologies (training of business communication, personal development, communication skills).

Annotation: The article discusses the impact of communication technologies on the social development of XIX–XX century and early XXI century. It is concluded that the progress of technology over the two time periods led to similar consequences. Result of the development of communication media has been the transformation of social institutions, democratization or destabilization of existing political regimes. Emergence of new means of communication at the turn of XIX–XX centuries was preceded by the formation of a modern information society.