This publication reveals the possibilities of using modern information technologies as a part of the educational process at the university. The authors analyze the modern information technologies used in higher education. The paper formulates the didactic principles of applying modern information technologies and determines their significance. Information technologies implemented in the framework of the educational course “Self-determination and professional orientation of the student’s personality” are examined in detail. The paper describes the conditions for the implementation of this discipline and detailed steps for constructing it within the educational process. It also provides an analysis of the InfoDa distance learning system which is implemented at the FSBEI HE “Moscow State Pedagogical University” and allows running the entire training cycle, starting with the presentation of lecture material and ending with the monitoring of acquired knowledge and skills. Possibilities and features of the application of the InfoDa system are presented on the example of the educational course “Self-determination and professional orientation of the student’s personality”. The paper also shows the effectiveness of using the InfoDa system as modern information technology in the educational process. The conclusion is clear that modern information technologies make the educational process more productive, having a positive effect both on the level of students’ knowledge and on the formation of professionally important competencies.
The article deals with some pedagogical aspects of the digitalization of education. As it is shown in the article, the problem of digital education has been systematically analyzed and discussed for the last two decades by various analysts, researchers, and experts. Most of them consider the transition of education into its digital stage as the greatest turning point in the history of civilization and its culture. At present, teachers are facing quite new educational and pedagogical functions. The idea of a digital teacher as the leader of digital educational activity is in the focus of the analysis presented in the article. Educational platforms, online courses, digital textbooks, etc. influence on the transformation of the educational environment. Education is becoming more personalized. The content of teaching and learning is being changed radically according to its new values, meanings, orientations, as well as educational and pedagogical discourses. It is stressed in the article that teacher’s digital skills and competencies should be identified as the key professional pedagogical skills and competencies for his or her life-long learning, professional development and professional growth due to the challenges of the 21st-century knowledge, information and innovations society and education. To fulfill a system of professional-pedagogical and educational functions more effectively and to guarantee the optimal implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs), it is quite necessary for teachers to have adequate skills and competencies that characterize his or her digital professional culture of teaching.
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