Tutor’s support of students in the age of digitalization: integration of digital and social systems (T-University DSTU Case)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the personalization of education in the case of the strategic project “T-university”, where the educational process is built on the principle of individual educational trajectories. The implementation of the new educational model requires the support the choice of the student arises. The aim of the study is to describe the organization of psychosocial work with students in the conditions of digitalization and its impact on the educational agenda. The choice of the research topic is caused by the rapidly changing trends in the labor market. The chosen methods are individual consultations, creating portfolios and personal resource-maps to help students become future professionals. There is a struggle for specialists with knowledge in several scientific fields simultaneously and with core and professional competencies. There is a shortage of such unique personnel in the market and it creates a demand for their emergence, which is possible only in the course of changing the educational model. The results tutorial sessions have shown that a significant attention should be paid to psychological self-regulation and digitized stress to create a modern professional and created a list of necessary tutor duties.