Abstract
Sustainable development of a coal mining region such as Kuzbass to a large extent depends on the high-level education of specialists provided by higher education establishments of the region. The article focuses on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an integral part of educational process at a tertiary education level that are reforming and advancing it towards the innovative rank satisfying the demands of the mining region industry. The current situation of forced distance learning because of coronavirus epidemics in the world made it necessary to look at ICT not as a supportive tool of an educator but as a meaningful agent of pedagogical interaction. The analysis of ICT function in higher education allows defining ICT as a subject of pedagogical interaction. Some of e-learning resources and applications are analyzed from the point of view of their capability and efficiency to conduct foreign language distance teaching, in particular in multinational student groups of Kemerovo State University.
Highlights
In recent decades, the informatization of a society stimulates the fast rate of the innovations in various spheres of life such as economy, production, management, medicine, education, culture, and so forth
A simultaneous forced switch to distance learning conducted exclusively by means of information and communication technologies (ICT) made all educational community re-estimate the part ICT play in education on a qualitatively new level - as a supportive and additional pedagogical tool but as a valid agent of educational process that determines the quality of training specialists for sustainable development of such mining region as Kuzbass
To sum up the definitions of ICT from a number of sources, we may conclude that ICT are considered to be a set of procedures, processes, and hardware-software means and devices which are integrated with the purpose to gather, process, store, share, display, and use information as well as to allow people and organizations to interact in the digital world [2]
Summary
The informatization of a society stimulates the fast rate of the innovations in various spheres of life such as economy, production, management, medicine, education, culture, and so forth. The higher education system is actively following the dynamics of changes in the field of rendering knowledge and skills by implementation of new technologies, creation of educational information environment, the increase in competence of faculty members to the level which satisfies the demands of both students and the professional market. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are considered a powerful tool for educational change and reform; their ultimate objective is to advance the teaching and learning process [1]. A simultaneous forced switch to distance learning conducted exclusively by means of ICT made all educational community re-estimate the part ICT play in education on a qualitatively new level - as a supportive and additional pedagogical tool but as a valid agent (or a subject) of educational process that determines the quality of training specialists for sustainable development of such mining region as Kuzbass. One of the most efficient ways for organizing the dialogue of cultures is by means of a foreign language course that is a compulsory subject of the curriculum for any specialty
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