Directions for the Development of Agro-Engineering Education in Russia After the Pandemic

Abstract

There is a decrease in general intellectual development level and mastery of a certain range of logical operations when learning. The decrease is compensated with the help of increased motivation and efficiency. When managing students’ cognitive processes and learning motives, it is important to consider the formation stages of logical and theoretical thinking. The authors found that insufficient professional orientation and low level of academic motivation hold a second position among the student dropout reasons, after the lack of desire to study and work in the chosen direction. If we consider the state of a graduate student at an agricultural university from the point of preparedness for the production process, then the professional education and competencies that the future specialist has mastered largely determine their competitiveness on the labor market. Since the current education system has never experienced the problems that the pandemic caused, it is necessary to reconsider the further development of the education system on an innovative base using not only distance (remote) education but also digital technologies.