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THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FORMATS FROM THE FACULTY VIEWPOINT // Pedagogical Review. 2022. Issue 4 (44). P. 91-106

A survey of university teachers (130 people) from various study areas was conducted to identify the prevailing attitudes and judgments about the implementation and prospects for the development of various formats of higher education in an unstable epidemiological situation and changing socioeconomic conditions. The authors attempted to analyze the factors that determined the survey results and the challenges of creating conditions ensuring the optimal implementation of various formats in a modern university. The successful experience of the university faculty in a number of projects in the development of the digital educational environment at the international and all-Russian level is described. Inferior learning outcomes in the online format in comparison with face-to-face and blended format were reported by the respondents. The survey revealed an optimistic view of the teaching community regarding the prospects for the development of a blended format. Blended and face-to-face formats were preferred by the majority of respondents, regardless of their teaching experience at the university. Questions about the level of online education, effective tools for assessing its quality, measures to encourage online work turned out to be the most “sensitive”, which was reflected in the significant proportion of evasive answer to the above questions. Higher education ecosystems often lack professionals specializing in instructional design, data analysis, educational program development, educational technologies, etc., which adversely affects the quality of educational products.

Keywords: higher education, educational format, online learning, blended learning, teacher assessment of learning outcomes, COVID-19

Features of organizing extracurricular unsupervised work in a foreign language in a mixed format at a non-linguistic university // Pedagogical Review. 2024. Issue 4 (56). P. 78-88

The purpose of the study is to determine the features of organizing extracurricular unsupervised work (EUW) in a foreign language in a mixed learning format and the prospects for increasing its effectiveness. The authors have considered modern approaches to designing unsupervised student’s work in the context of digital transformation of education and the problems faced by the participants of the learning process. Within the framework of the study, at the end of the 2022/2023 academic year, a survey of 200 students from various fields of study in the Moscow Polytechnic University was conducted to identify the students’ assessment of EUW organization. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the consideration of specific features in EUW design and organization in the emerging reality of digital education environment in a mixed format of FL learning as well as in an attempt to optimize it. As a result of the study, it was found that digital learning environment requires developing new approaches to EUW organization; students positively assess the organization of EUW and demonstrate a conscious responsible attitude towards EUW as a significant factor in successful completion of a foreign language course; there is a request for assignments directly related to solving professional problems or modeling professional activities.

Keywords: extracurricular unsupervised students’ work, perception, foreign language, mixed format, nonlinguistic field of study