FEATURES OF THE DISTANCE LEARNING ORGANIZATION AT UNIVERSITIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Distance education is becoming in demand in many universities in the country. At the beginning of 2020, an epidemiological situation arose in Russia and the world, which showed that distance learning is the safest way to get an education. But not all Russian universities were ready to quickly switch to distance learning. This led to some difficulties: the load increased on all actors of the educational process, the technical problems of the university and students became actualized, there was a need for additional time for adaptation of students, teachers, and university administration. As a result, the level of satisfaction with the learning process has changed. The purpose of this publication is to characterize the features of the organization of distance learning and identify its future prospects (using the example of Perm State National Research University). The empirical base of the study is materials of a survey of university students about their satisfaction with online learning. The authors assess three areas: 1) the level of material and technical equipment of students; 2) changes that have occurred in the organization of training (workload, time for completing assignments, mastering educational material, academic performance); 3) prospects of distance learning (limitations and reasons for their occurrence, merits). In practical terms, the study can clarify the need to expand distance learning in all universities in the country. Distance learning can become an effective alternative to classical education if state authorities and local governments finance distance learning, if universities provide trainings on organizing and conducting classes in an online format.

Acquaintance with Digital Etiquette: Email Correspondence for Distance Learning

The article is devoted to the analysis of the rules of behaviour of communicants in the process of distance learning. The purpose of the study is to consider the main difficulties that arise when students and teachers communicate in the virtual space, to identify their causes and ways to overcome them. The author focuses on the rules of email etiquette. The data obtained during a survey of students and teachers of the Perm State National Research University is used by the author. The relevance of the topic raised in this article is due to the fact that at present it is an urgent need to teach students and schoolchildren the basics of digital etiquette, namely, polite communication in social networks, compliance with the etiquette of official email correspondence, etc. The methods used for research include analysis, description, observation, comparison. The results of the study showed that in the moving to distance learning, when students ' communication with the teacher becomes mediated, many students experience certain difficulties, because they do not know the rules of behaviour in cyberspace. In this regard, it is concluded that teachers should include the module " Acquaintance with digital etiquette " in the course of training in order to make communication with students more effective and develop the necessary communicative competence.

SPIRITUAL AND MORAL DIRECTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF VOLUNTEERS AT LEISURE AND RECREATION SITES

Представлены теоретические основания организации волонтерской деятельности студентов – будущих педагогов для решения задач духовно-нравственного воспитания детей и подростков на площадках досуга и отдыха. Обоснована специфика воспитательной деятельности духовно-нравственной направленности, конкретизированы цель и результат данной деятельности с учетом возможных ограничений, выделены виды и формы совместной деятельности детей и волонтеров, позволяющие инициировать духовные усилия воспитанников на самоанализ деятельности и поведения. Данные теоретические положения прошли практическую проверку и доказали свою результативность в рамках проекта «Ребята с нашего двора», который реализуется в течение пяти лет студентами Соликамского государственного педагогического института (филиала) ФГБОУ ВО «ПГНИУ». The article raises the question of finding effective forms and means of overcoming the value disorientation of the younger generation. As a solution to this problem, the author proposes to use the volunteer resource of student youth, to attract future teachers to work with children’s associations of different ages at leisure and recreation sites. The content, purpose, objectives, methods and forms of interaction between volunteers and children at such sites determine the spiritual and moral orientation of their joint activities. To understand the specifics of such social practice, the author of the article presented the rationale for the peculiarities of educational activities of a spiritual and moral orientation, concretized the pedagogical goals and the result of this activity, taking into account possible restrictions, methods of selecting specific types and forms of interaction between children and volunteers, which allow initiating the spiritual efforts of pupils to self-analysis of activities and behavior, to motivate them to choose creative ways of self-realization. These theoretical propositions have been tested in practice and have proven their effectiveness within the framework of the “Guys from Our Yard” project, which has been implemented for five years by students of the Solikamsk State Pedagogical Institute (branch) of the Perm State National Research University. The materials proposed in the article can be used by volunteer associations, student pedagogical teams for organizing educational activities of a spiritual and moral orientation at leisure and recreation sites (or in working conditions with children’s associations of different ages at the place of residence).

The development and creation of the Atlas of the Perm territory for educational purposes

The designed program of integrated geographical atlas of the Perm Territory for educational purposes has been developed for universities. It is a handbook where the aims and objectives, spheres of application, structure and content, organizational issues are defined. According to the given program the atlas “Geography of the Perm Territory” has been created by the professors and students of the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics of Perm State National Research University (PSNRU). The inner unity of the atlas as a system is provided by the unified projection, a set of scales, unified principles of cartographic generalization, consensual system of legend and a unified design. The modern techniques and methods of geoinformation mapping were applied while creating the atlas. The designed atlas has 108 maps, made in ArcGIS10.4.1. The introduction of the atlas includes geoinfographics about geographical position of the region, satellite images, and up-to-date maps administrative and territorial division and a physical map. In the first chapter of the atlas “Physical Geography” the natural conditions of the region are characterized by a series of 72 theme maps. This chapter contains nine sub-sections: Geological structure; Relief; Climate; Surface water; Soil; Vegetation; Wildlife; Landscapes; Adverse natural processes and phenomena. In the second chapter of the atlas “Social-economic geography” the social and economic conditions of the Perm Territory are characterized by a series of 36 theme maps. This chapter contains three sub-sections: Population; Social infrastructure; Economy. The maps in the atlas are followed by additional information, designed by the modern methods of geoinfographics and infographics. All maps in the atlas are harmonized and are complimentary to each other. The complexity of the atlas is defined by the circle of its users: the professors and teachers of high and secondary schools, students and pupils, specialists in geography and connected sciences, state agencies and all people who are interested in geography and local studies.

Personal Files and Personal Provenance Fonds of Philologists Studying Foreign Literature in the Archives of the Perm Krai: Continuity and Innovation

The relevance of the study is due to the interest of the humanities in the study of the processes of formation and development of foreign philology as a field of scientific and educational activities in the Perm University, since its foundation in 1916. In the Perm archives we study personal files and personal provenance fonds of philologists and historians affiliated with the Perm State National Research University (PGNIU), whose field of interests is foreign literature and language, as well as other archival documents. Research methods are source study and archival methods, methods of philological analysis. Personal files of the Perm philologists of the first third of the last century A. A. Smirnov, B. A. Krzhevsky, B. L. Bogaevsky, N. P. Obnorsky, A. F. Shamray, E. O. Preobrazhenskaya, who taught language and literature or even history and language (V.V. Weidle, N.P. Ottokar, V.E. Krusman) contain documents related not only to their professional pedagogical activity, but also documents on their scientific interests, everyday and family life, places of residence, reflecting the realities of time and representing the era in Perm. Personal files of the staff of the Department of Foreign Literature (since 1999 – the Department of World Literature and Culture) A. A. Belsky, R. F. Yashenkina, N. S. Leites, E. P. Khanzhina, A. F. Lyubimova, G. S. Rutskoi, who worked there in the 1950s-2010s, have not yet undergone evaluation and remain in the departmental storage. The personal provenance fonds of philologists B. M. Proskurnin and N. S. Bochkareva, containing a large amount of hand- and typewritten documents, can be considered not only as archival sources, but also within the framework of philological discourse as a post-modern text created as a game of different texts that refer to different cultural layers, languages, realities. Documents of the personal fond, reflecting the methods of scientist’s work with literature, play a pedagogical role in the formation of the competencies of a university graduate. Today, archives need to create personal provenance fonds and collections of philologists who worked in the 1950s and later, via interaction with the scientists themselves or their relatives.

Chemical faculty of Perm State University: emergenc and formation (on the 90th anniversary of education of the faculty

The article is devoted to the emergence and formation of the chemical faculty of Perm State National Research University. The period of the appearance of the first chemical departments and the contribution to the formation of the faculty of scientists, who stood at the forefront of the chemical education - D.V. Alekseeva, N.V. Kultasheva, Yu.S. Zalkinda, N.I. Cromera, A.I. Lunyaka. The reasons for the creation of the faculty in 1929, the results of the first year of its existence and the reorganization into a chemical-technological institute are analyzed. The period of restoration of the faculty in 1933 and the contribution of R.V. Mertslin, M.N. Polukarova, G.G. Kobyaka, V.F. Ust- Kachkintseva, D.M. Marko, I.I. Lapkin, as well as graduates of the pre-war chemical faculty who made a significant contribution to the development and formation of the faculty: K.I. Mochalova, I.S. Berdinsky, V.P. Zhivopisetseva and othersBerdinsky, V.P. Zhivopisetseva and others.

Current state and prospects for the development of the chemical faculty of Perm State National Research University (on the 90th anniversary of the education of the faculty)

The article is devoted to the current stage of development of the chemical faculty of Perm State National Research University and strategic plans for its further development. It is a continuation of a series of articles published for the 90th anniversary of the Faculty of Chemistry. In the previous issue, an article was published on the emergence and formation of the Faculty of Chemistry of PSU

TO THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF A. V. SHILOV, SCIENTIST, HISTORIAN, LOCAL LORE SPECIALIST (WITH THE FULL LIST OF HIS SCIENTIFIC PAPERS ATTACHED)

The article examines the lifepath, teaching and scientific activities of A. V. Shilov, Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of the Department of Ancient and Modern History of Russia at the Perm State National Research University. The article observes an assessment of his contribution to the study of the Ural region and to historical science in general. A complete list of his scientific works is provided as an appendix to the article.