scholarly journals Fostering University Students’ Digital Skills: De Jure vs De Facto

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-79
Author(s):  
Ya. V. Dmitriev ◽  
I. A. Alyabin ◽  
E. I. Brovko ◽  
S. Yu. Dvinina ◽  
O. V. Demyanova

The article discusses the problem of within-the-education-process fostering digital skills among university students of various training programs. The specific skills (relevant to a particular sphere) are differentiated from the general ones (digital skills formed beyond the IT industry). The authors suggest that all training programs contain a «pillow» of general digital skills, which can be fixed both de jure – in the methodological and regulatory bases of the educational process, and de facto – in teaching practices. The study identifies a framework for general and specific digital skills. To test the hypotheses, two groups of data are analyzed: the normative and methodological bases of educational programs (fostering skills de jure) and students’ questionnaire answers on how the practices of developing and using digital skills in their studies are integrated (fostering skills de facto). The research is carried out in seven programs with obviously wide differences – from medicine to information technology and philology. The research has shown that digital skills are de jure represented in all programs, but normative consolidation is more typical for general skills, not for specific digital ones. There is identified a gap between de jure and de facto fostering digital skills, and this gap is various for different programs. The research results can be used in universities when designing strategies to form digital skills or when modifying such skills-related methodological bases of training programs.

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 07009
Author(s):  
Tatyana Savina ◽  
Vladimir Filatov ◽  
Victor Mishakov ◽  
Svetlana Osipenko ◽  
Svetlana Artemyeva

The purpose of the study is to show the necessity to integrate the Corporate Social Responsibility course into the educational process. The methodological basis of the study are such methods of scientific knowledge as a historical method, method of logical unity of analysis and synthesis, systematic method, and others. The questions of necessity to reflect CSR in educational programs of economists training programs are discussed. The author substantiates the reasons for the growing interest in this issue. A review of relevant practices in the field of CSR knowledge dissemination is given. It was found that the introduction of the proposed educational product in the learning process allows to strengthen main vocational training programs in many areas of training, to improve their efficiency, to have a significant impact on improving the quality of students’ knowledge, and contribute to the development and the formation of a fundamentally new professional competencies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Yu. F. Telnov ◽  
M. S. Gasparian ◽  
M. A. Filyuk

The ever-growing demand for digital IT industry specialists brings to the fore the task of developing effective educational programs that ensure a high qualification level of graduates. The result of such activities – the turn-out of highly qualified specialists will depend on how much more detailed all the components of the educational activities of the University are considered, designed and implemented. Therefore, when developing and updating educational programs, higher education institutions will have to clarify the composition of professional competencies that must meet both the needs for effective performance of generalized labor functions and labor functions fixed in professional standards, and many educational parameters fixed in the regulatory framework of Russian higher education. The purpose of this research is to develop innovative educational programs at the stage of digital transformation of higher education and the transition to practice-oriented project training of University graduates in IT areas. The research tasks include the following stages: 1. Development of a conceptual model of an intelligent integrated educational environment based on the interface of ontologies of professional and educational standards. 2. Systematization and organization of elements of the digital repository and on its basis, the development of algorithms for generating educational-methodical and organizational-administrative content of the intellectual integrated educational environment. 3. Testing methods for generating content in the intelligent integrated educational environment. This task can be achieved only by integrating all components of the educational process into a single information and educational space. The solution to this problem is seen in the development of methods and tools for generating educational-methodical and organizational-administrative content based on the digital repository of the electronic learning system through knowledge management technologies that ensure the adaptability of the educational process using the ontological approach. Such work is currently being carried out at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, including ICT areas. The analysis of professional activity of graduates of bachelor’s degree and master’s degree programs in terms of requirements of the Federal State Education Standards of Higher Education in the field of “Applied Informatics” has shown that these requirements with varying degrees of completeness correspond to a number of professional standards in the field of IT industry. As a result of the analysis of the factors for improving the quality of the educational process, the ways to improve training of bachelors in the field of “Applied Informatics” in the context of combining ontologies of professional and educational standards are outlined. The article also provides approaches to the development of an approximate basic educational program in this direction and reveals the method of its engineering, based on the interaction and composition of elements of the integrated information and educational space and, on its basis, semantic modeling and automatic generation of educational and organizational and managerial content. Thus, the proposed method will contribute to improving the efficiency of the educational process and meet the world trends in the development of science in this field of knowledge, which will bring the training of highly qualified IT industry specialists to a qualitatively new level.


Author(s):  
Тетяна Пащенко ◽  
Наталія Ваніна

The article is devoted to the formation method of the education content of future associate specialists in the construction and engineering fields in terms of competency that is indicated in the standard. The goals of the professional training of a future associate specialist are defined in accordance with the outcome of the education process and are displayed in the education content. The general purpose of education, particularly professional is defined by the society, it is declared in educational standards and displayed in educational programs, curriculum, syllabuses of training programs, etc. The formation of professional competence of a technical college graduate requires optimization of educational process taking into consideration initial vocational, educational, and personal potential, implementation of the most acceptable (scientifically based and didactically feasible) choice of education methods and technologies, as well as compliance with didactic laws and principles. The article analyzes the requirements for designing of training content, the main components of the formation of the content of education, the principles of designing the content of competence-oriented training of future junior specialists. The implementation basis of the competence approach is the usage of pedagogical techniques or methods that guarantees the achievement of the planned educational results (consequently, these planned results should be clearly and specifically reflected in the standards of education). Such technologies should envisage learning with action: students perform not artificial, but real practical tasks (projects), gain experience, learn both from teacher, and each other, solve puzzling production and technological cases.


Author(s):  
Vladimir Makeyev ◽  
Elena Sartakova

В условиях четвертой промышленной революции, информационного общества и цифровизации экономики все более возрастает значимость комплексной подготовки мотивированного абитуриента, способного не только к успешному прохождению вступительных испытаний, но и готового к обучению в условиях образовательного процесса современного технического университета. Различные способы формирования готовности будущих студентов к обучению в технических вузах демонстрируют новые организационные структуры – предуниверситарии, деятельность которых направлена на профориентацию и реализацию образовательных программ довузовской подготовки (профильные инженерно-технические классы, подготовительные курсы и т. д.). В статье обосновываются особенности предуниверситариев, механизмы их создания и функционирования. Предуниверситарий в современных условиях выступает как система отбора, сопровождения и подготовки мотивированных обучающихся для поступления в университет, широко использующую не только предметную подготовку, но и развивающую научно-исследовательскую работу школьников, создающую условия для погружения учащихся в культуру, образовательное и творческое пространство вуза в период школьного обучения; важной особенностью данных моделей является тесное взаимодействие образовательных организаций общего и высшего образования, широкого привлечения партнеров и работодателей к данной работе. Обоснованы отдельные характеристики деятельности предуниверситариев и аналогичных инновационных образовательных структур по работе с абитуриентами на базе вузов, в том числе в рамках следующих направлений: организация сетевых моделей профильного обучения старшеклассников при сохранении традиционных форм довузовской подготовки; реализация процесса психологической, интеллектуальной, культурной подготовки будущего студента к обучению в вузе через различные формы участия в системной образовательной и воспитательной работе предуниверситариев; обеспечение предпрофильной подготовки обучающихся (в том числе и ранней) и др. Систематизированы различные модели предуниверситариев современных высших учебных заведений, выявлены и описаны ключевые аспекты деятельности данных структур.Currently, in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the information society and the digitalization of the economy, the importance of comprehensive training of a motivated applicant, capable of not only successfully passing the entrance tests, but also ready to study in the educational process of a modern technical university, is growing. Various ways of building the readiness of future students to study at technical universities demonstrate the new organizational structures of the pre-university, whose activities are aimed at career guidance and the implementation of educational programs of pre-university training (specialized engineering classes, preparatory courses, etc.). The article substantiates the features of preuniversaries, the mechanisms of their creation and functioning. In modern conditions, a pre-university acts as a system of selection, accompaniment and preparation of motivated students for university entrance, widely using not only subject preparation, but also developing research work of schoolchildren, creating conditions for immersing students in the culture, educational and creative space of the university during the period of schooling; an important feature of these models is the close interaction of educational organizations of general and higher education, the wide involvement of partners and employers in this work. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the substantiation of certain characteristics of the activities of pre-university students and similar innovative educational structures for working with applicants on the basis of universities, including: a) the creation of a system of specialized training for high school students with the optimization of the implementation of educational programs towards educational institutions of higher education while maintaining the traditional forms of pre-university preparatory courses; b) the organization and support of the process of psychological, intellectual, cultural preparation of a future student for studying at a university through various forms of participation in systemic educational and educational work of pre-university students and similar models; c) ensuring early vocational guidance and profiling of students in order to support the determination of the choice of further educational paths before moving to graduation class, etc. The theoretical significance of the work is associated with the study of various preuniversity models in modern higher education institutions, the identification and description of key aspects of the activity of these structures and models.


Author(s):  
E. Borodina ◽  
A. Hafiiak ◽  
O. Shefer ◽  
S. Alyoshin

The article is devoted to the analysis and research of information technologies and mobile applications for the preparation of university students. Analyzed the actual problems of preparing students in terms of mobile devices. The versatility of the use of mobile devices in the educational process allows you to change the traditional form of teaching material, while applying innovative technologies. Various Google Apps services are explored with the help of which you can get wide opportunities for information education. Applying educational information technologies, it can be noted that learning becomes interactive, enhances the intensity of the learning process. Thus, the introduction of new information technologies and mobile applications in the educational process introduces completely new components of educational content necessary for the preparation of competitive specialists.


Author(s):  
Alia Abdulaziz Al Amer Al-Qahtani

This study aimed to identify female teachers' skills readiness towards applying Computer Technology in Educational Process in Riyadh and their psychological readiness result from training and practice, and to highlight the most prominent difficulties which lead to reduce the level of applying computer for female teachers in educational process (quantitatively and qualitatively) and to provide proposals to increase its effectiveness. In order to achieve this goal, the researcher used the descriptive method. The study sample consisted of 243 female teachers of general education in Riyadh who was selected randomly. The most prominent results that the study sample was agreed with a high degree towards: (psychological readiness of female teachers to apply the computer in educational process, impact of applying computer in education on female teachers with an arithmetic mean (2,6 of 3) and (2.74 of 3) respectively. While they were agreed with a medium degree towards: (skills readiness of female teachers to apply computer in educational process, difficulties face female teachers to apply computer in education process) with an arithmetic mean (2,05 of 3) and (2,21 of 3) respectively. The most prominent programs which were applied are: display program and search engines. The study results indicated that there are statistically significant differences between the average responses of the study sample towards the psychological readiness of female teachers towards applying computer in the educational process, according to variable of training programs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismail Karakus ◽  
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Sena Karakus

Currently, international university students are working hard to cope with many problems in socio-cultural, psychological and economic terms. Particularly after Covid-19 epidemic experienced by the whole world in early 2020, they have started to face greater problems. Therefore, in this study, the aim is to examine the opinions of international university students taking Turkish online lessons about course practices and learning-teaching processes. Qualitative research design was used in this study, and the data were collected through focus group interviews. Participants of the study consist of 18 international university students enrolled in a state university in the academic year of 2020-2021 and receiving Turkish language education at B2 level. While some of the international university students expressed positive opinions regarding the economical and comfortable online education process, some of them expressed negative opinions; namely the lack of communication, the difficulties experienced in online exams and the language learning process and the inefficiency of education. Most of the students stated that the online education process has both positive and negative aspects. As the advantages of this educational process, students pointed out facilitating academic processes easily, managing time, being healthy and saving money. On the other hand, it was highlighted that there are technical, personal, educational, health and language difficulties in the online education process. As solution suggestions for these difficulties, the participants made suggestions on eliminating the problems in technical and physical conditions, including more motivational activities and improving the educational process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Pāvels Jurs ◽  
Dina Bethere

Technological progress, which sets scenarios for the development of humanity, affects the pattern of human behaviour in the most direct way and becomes an integral part of life, serving as progressives and at the same time also as regressive means in the educational process. The school should follow the modern digital age so it is necessary to offer students to learn the content of learning in an interactive, understandable, achievable and educational way. In order to facilitate the interaction of the digital competence of student’s with knowledge-building in the learning process of History and Culturology, two years of development resulted in the creation of a website enabling students to learn more successfully history and culturology. It should also be noted that the European Commission highlights the digital competence as one of the key competences for lifelong learning: it is recommended that the European Union should raise and improve the level of digital competences at all stages of education and training (European Commission, 2018). The aim of this article is, highlighting the importance of digital competence and information technology in the education process, identify students' growth rates in History and Culturology studies using the learning platform developed and tested www.pavelsjurs.lv. The article reflects the introduction of innovation in the History and Culturology subjects through an open interactive learning platform that can be used in daily education at school and for online learning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Zh.Zh. Ainakulov ◽  
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D.V. Zuev ◽  
B.K. Seidakhmetov ◽  
I.O. Fedorov ◽  
...  

This work considers the relevance of the use of virtual reality technology, and specifically virtual prototyping, in different areas of application. The main tasks, analyzed in the virtual collection of details solved with the help of a set of software and hardware for visualization. The use of virtual reality technology in the educational process allows you to increase the success and at the same time reduce the amount of errors and losses. The introduction of training programs through the use of virtual reality technology allows to improve the quality and reduce the period of training, which will be saved on the savings of funds spent on the training of specialists. Training programs can be used in the process of training specialists. As a result of the implementation of this stage of the study, the qualitative and quantitative requirements for the hardware-software complex of interactive educational programs are determined.


2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-270
Author(s):  
Zh.K. Nurbekova ◽  
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Т. Тolganbaiuly ◽  

This article presents the key competencies for an IT specialist, which are formed during project-oriented training during the programming of microrobots. A pedagogical experiment was carried out using this technique when studying the programming of microrobots at the Faculty of Information Technology (L.N. Gumilyov ENU). The project was selected taking into account the characteristics of the basic components of the microrobots. As the training platform, we chose the Arduino microcontroller. The study identified the basic requirements for aspiring candidates for positions in the IT industry on the HeadHunter website. Also, based on the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) documents and our own research, an IT specialist development map was developed. This map shows the main positions of the IT industry. The individual development map of each IT specialist is unique, while it was interesting to highlight certain patterns and bring them into our scheme.


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