Headings of the journal
"Educational Resources and Technologies"

Annotation: The article considers improving educational process with the use of information resources and educational environment. For this purpose it analyzes current trends in military education. It touches upon using videoconferencing systems in military higher education institutions. The article considers the interdependent influence of education and tuition on forming cadets’ personality. The authors identify the latest trends and changes in educational programs that give an opportunity to effectively use information resources.

Annotation: In the article using the methods of regression analysis examines data from the international PISA educational monitoring. It is established that Russia shows results higher than the average for all the countries participating in the study and approaches the average results for the group of OECD countries. Parity with OECD countries is feasible in the medium term. It is proposed to use the results of the participation of Russian schools in the monitoring of PISA as criteria for assessing the effectiveness of management of educational institutions. In particular, the results of monitoring can be taken into account in the system of teachers ‘ remuneration. The proposed management principle based on the results will improve the effectiveness of the teaching staff of educational institutions and create prerequisites for the successful development of the disciplines of Humanities and natural Sciences by graduates in subsequent studies at universities.

Annotation: Factors affecting the adaptation of first-year students to new living conditions are scrutinized. Particular attention is paid to the educational component of the adaptation process. The necessity of developing an integral criterion characterizing the general educational level of the applicant is substantiated. It allows to predict the level of adaptation of the applicant to studying at the university. The integral rating criterion was obtained by the method of individual expert estimate on the example of Mathematics. The applicability of this criterion for predicting the success of the adaptation of students to the educational process in higher education is confirmed on the basis of analysis of the results obtained by 100 cadets of the Academy of the Federal Penal Service of Russia, during the entrance examinations, as well as in the learning process. Non-parametric correlations were used to find the relationships. This approach can be used to build similar integral criteria for other specialized academic disciplines that involve the passing of specialized Unified State Exams, as well as extra entrance examinations when entering a university.

Annotation: The article aims at analyzing opportunities of perfecting teaching humanities in non-humanitarian universities based on example of the Russian language. For this purpose the following objectives are reached: efficiency through the prisms of humanities is tackled; potential of such disciplines is revealed; module content structure is proved. The method of research is componential linguo-pedagogical analysis that reveals the specificity of linguistic knowledge, its interdisciplinary ties and potential opportunities of it being used for perfecting educational process.

Annotation: The article deals with the issues of implementation and evaluation of effectiveness of distant continuing education programs. Particular attention is paid to the material and technical basis, as well as to the tools of current and final control of students’ knowledge for developing their professional skills that could guarantee their effective integration into present-day social and professional space.