Project Activity as a Means of Multicultural Values Development in the Internet-Mediated Learning Environment

Abstract

The article deals with the ways of increasing the efficiency of using the project activity for formation of multicultural values of students in terms of the modern digital educational environment and also includes analysis of the experience gained in the course of implementation of the Sharing Cultures project. Urgency of this issue is undoubted, since use of the digital educational environment in learning activity has a significant impact on formation of axiological orientations of students. The purpose of the article is to analyze the ways of increasing the efficiency of using the project activity for formation of multicultural values of students in terms of the modern digital educational environment, as well as to analyze the experience gained in the course of implementation of the Sharing Cultures project. The methodological basis of the study is the principles of the systemic and structural-functional approaches, which allowed considering the advantages of the project activity for formation of multicultural values of students in terms of digitization. The authors consistently prove that use of the project method in the course of intercultural communication not only contributes to axiological orientation of students, but also provides them with the opportunity to learn a foreign language in the natural language environment, achieve self-determination, self-actualization, self-fulfillment, socialization, form responsibility, and the ability to work independently.

Axiological potential development model and its implementation in digital educational environment of a technical university

“…Resource approach (Bulankina et al, 2019;Gulyaeva & Semikina, 2020;Sazonova et al, 2022) focuses on resources and competencies, allows to organize the activities of students in the digital educational environment of a technical university, apply a competency-based approach in practice, planning, designing, and developing the axiological potential of students, in creating pedagogical conditions and applying means, methods and forms, taking into account the resources of the digital educational environment of a technical university.…”

“…Modern education in the world community is the leading factor determining the state of development of all spheres of life. In terms of globalization and informatization, the issues of the value-semantic sphere development among future professionals, and the graduates of technical universities become relevant (Gulyaeva & Semikina, 2020). The study of the problem of the axiological potential development among students in the digital educational environment of a technical university is conditioned by the need to resolve the existing contradictions: between the need of modern society for university graduates ready for professional activity and existing approaches to teaching in higher education using distance and digital technologies; between the need of society for the graduates of technical universities focused on self-fulfillment in professional activities and insufficient theoretical and methodological elaboration of this problem in terms of higher technical education (Ereshchenko et al, 2019;Klochko et al, 2020).…”