University Of Tyumen Research Articles

Features of bioelectric brain activity of 18–22 years old male students with internet addiction

BACKGROUND: Excessive use of the Internet for entertainment or aimless activities often results in the development of Internet addiction.
 AIM: To study bioelectrical activity of the brain in young men aged 18–22 with Internet addiction using the EEG spectral analysis data. Specifically, the analysis will focus on the full spectrum power and rhythm indices.
 METHODS: The study involved 61 volunteers who were students in their first or second year of full-time education at the University of Tyumen (UTMN). These volunteers were young men with an average age of 19.63±1.27 years and were residents of Tyumen and the Tyumen region. To categorize the participants, the Chen method (CIAS) was used to divide them into two groups: Internet addicts and a control group. A background EEG was recorded using 16 standard leads. A spectral analysis of the EEG was then conducted, focusing on the total power of the spectrum, the power of the spectrum in the alpha range (µV2), and the rhythm index. The groups were compared using Mann–Whitney U-test.
 RESULTS: EEG Type 1 was found in 86% of individuals with addiction. This type exhibited an alpha rhythm structure that was well-organized in both time and space. Additionally, it displayed pronounced spindles. EEG Type 2 was observed in 14% of addicted students. It was characterized by hypersynchronous alpha activity, which was weakly modulated or not modulated into spindles. It also exhibited high Rhythm Index values. In the control group of young men, three types of normal EEG organization were identified. Most of the controls (69%) displayed an organized Type 1 pattern. Eight percent exhibited a hypersynchronous Type 2 pattern. The remaining 23% showed a desynchronous Type 3 pattern, which was characterized by a low representation of the alpha-component. Instead, theta- and beta1-rhythms were noted. When comparing the total power of the spectrum in the main frequency ranges (0.5–35 Hz), higher values were observed in the group of individuals addicted to the Internet, as compared to the control group. Specifically, the left anterior frontal Fp1 (U=210; Z=2.04; p=0.049), right parietal P4 (U=215; Z=2.07; p=0.049), right and left occipital O1 (U=180; Z=2.76; p=0.006), O2 (U=187; Z=2.64; p=0.008), left temporal T3 (U=230; Z=1.92; p=0.050), and left posterior temporal T5 (U=201; Z=2.41; p=0.015) leads exhibited significantly higher values.
 CONCLUSION: The bioelectrical activity patterns of the brains of UTMN male students addicted to the Internet indicate a developed stage of the addictive process. During this stage, there are no significant negative EEG manifestations of Internet addiction. This can be attributed to the adaptive mechanisms that have developed in these individuals because of their lifestyle.

Developing a Service for Collecting and Analyzing Electives Reviews

This article provides a review of publications on the analysis of students’ satisfaction with the educational process based on natural language processing methods. 197 student feedback on 129 elective disciplines at University of Tyumen was collected. A comparative analysis of keyword extraction methods was conducted: statistical TF-IDF, RAKE and YAKE; contextual KeyBERT; graph-based TextRank. On the collected reviews, grouped by elective disciplines, the RAKE method had the highest F1 BERTScore with 79 %. By parsing open sources, a dataset with 2210 Russian-language reviews for courses of different educational platforms was formed. Machine learning methods for sentiment analysis were described: support vector machines, logistic regression and based on Transformers, comparison on the manually marked part of the collected reviews. After fine-tuning on the rubert-base-cased model macro-averaged F1- score became 71.6 %. Classification into three classes (negative, neutral, positive) is not performed for the whole text of the review, but separately for each sentence from that text. The implementation of a database and information system for collecting and analyzing student feedback on the studied elective courses are presented. The model for sentiment analysis of the feedback is put into a separate microservice, which is communicated through an interface of the freely distributed Python framework FastAPI. The information system is designed to help students choose electives based on more qualitative data, and teachers and university administration ‑ to draw conclusions for further transformation of the educational space, taking into account students’ opinions.

Hybrid Learning: Russian and International Practice

The paper delivers the results of the study analyzing the established advanced practices of combining distance and face-to-face forms of learning in higher education. The key criterion for hybrid learning is the ratio of synchronous and asynchronous online formats in the learning process, and its essential basis - the learner's agency. The praximetric analysis of the sources and cases of foreign and Russian universities resulted in peculiarities of hybrid learning models. In-depth interviews with representatives of 14 universities allowed us to specify organizational and didactic features of the hybrid learning as well as its advantages and its limitations. The geography of respondents from foreign universities (Harvard Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Arizona) and leading Russian universities (St. Petersburg State University, ITMO University, Higher School of Economics, Tomsk State University, Moscow City University, Ural Federal University, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, University of Tyumen) makes the study representative. Based on the comprehensive analysis of the interviewees' answers, the authors consider the hybrid format not as a universal solution for higher education, but as an opportunity to solve specific educational goals, individualize learning and attract new target groups. The study focuses on the flexible hybrid format (HyFlex), which gives students the choice of attending the class on campus (face-to-face), participation of classes via videoconferencing, or studying the course completely asynchronously, i.e., from class recordings and other materials.

University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia

This article studies the development of the criminal law protection of public relations arising during the administration of justice, namely, the issue of criminal liability for the provision of falsified items and documents provided to the court by persons not involved in the case in response to the judicial act, to which such documents are requested by the court to resolve the case. The relevance of this issue lies in the constantly growing number of cases submitted to the RF courts, which in turn increases the possibility of encroachment on public relations protected by the chapter 31 of the RF Criminal Code. This article aims to analyze the evidence of falsification in civil and administrative cases in relation to acts committed in the process of providing falsified evidence in response to a judicial act seeking evidence. The author makes a proposal to improve the criminal law by expanding the characteristics of a special subject of falsification of evidence in civil and administrative cases by referring to a person providing evidence to the court based on the obligation imposed by the court on such a person to provide them. Additionally, the article considers the possibility of qualifying the studied acts in the conditions of the current legislation.

Scientific review of the materials of the 4th All-Russian Forum on Economic Security in Tyumen

April 22, 2023 was the final day of the 4th All-Russian Forum on Economic Security in Tyumen, organized by the University of Tyumen (namely, the Department of Economic Security, System Analysis and Control, the Financial and Economic Institute) together with the International Network AML/CFT Institute and International Training and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring. The forum has become a platform for communication, discussion, exchange of opinions and experience in the sphere of economic security of the country, region, organizations of different types of activity, individuals, forming strategies of economic security. The program of the forum was rich, starting with the plenary session, panel discussion, round tables, master classes and communication session for practitioners and finishing with workshops for schoolchildren.

The pilot corpus of German language textbooks for the second-grade students

The article studies the issues of textbooks corpus creation and its application for solving various applied and research problems. The authors have analyzed the works of global and Russian linguists in the field of corpus linguistics. That made it possible to identify the characteristic structural and design features of pedagogical buildings, and, in particular, textbook buildings, as well as to describe various ways of using textbook buildings for conducting linguodidactic research. Special attention is paid to the design and technological process of creating a corpus of textbooks. Having critically analyzed the recommended stages of the corpus creation, the authors have modeled and constructed a corpus of texts of German textbooks for elementary schools, which was tested in a comparative frequency analysis of vocabulary from textbooks. That required using the methods of modeling, frequency-rank method, and comparative analysis. This article was presented as a paper at the 8th Research Conference “Conference on Text Interpretation: Data Analysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities” (17 July 2022, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen).

Dynamics of subjective student wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: Because the COVID-19 pandemic has continued for a long time, it has become necessary to explore the dynamics of mental health phenomena during this period.
 AIM: To identify the dynamics of the emotional component of the subjective wellbeing of the personality of students in the psychological and pedagogical areas at various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study involved 911 students in the psychological and pedagogical areas at the University of Tyumen, Kurgan State University, and Ural Federal University. The research method used was the scale of subjective wellbeing by Perrudet-Badoux as adapted by M.V. Sokolova. Measurements were taken in April 2020, May 2021, October 2021, and January 2022.
 RESULTS: In April 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the university students had the lowest indicators of the emotional component of the subjective wellbeing of the individual. A year later, in May 2021, there was an increase in subjective wellbeing, which, however, was not statistically significant. The trend of improvement in subjective wellbeing continued for six months to October 2021, when it became significantly higher than when the pandemic began. At the fourth measurement in January 2022, subjective wellbeing had stabilized, indicating that the students had adapted to the conditions of the pandemic.
 CONCLUSION: The emotional component of the subjective wellbeing of the personality of students was subject to dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the two years of the pandemic, university students have adapted to the stressful situation of the pandemic as reflected by the improvement and stabilization of the emotional component of subjective wellbeing.

Subjective Assessment of the Effective Contract Impact in Universities on Improving the Indicators of Lectures` Research Work

Article shows the results of a sociological survey aimed at studying the opinion of the teaching staff on the impact of an effective contract on improving the research work indicators in universities in Russia and Belarus. The survey analyzes foreign and Russian evaluation of academic staff performance. A cross-sectional (single-point) study was the design. The focus of research was the academic staff of educational institutions that went over to an effective contract (Northern State Medical University, Russia) and without the implementation of an effective contract (Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute named after D. I. Mendeleev (branch) the University of Tyumen, Russia; National Institute for Higher Education and Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank, Belarus), the overall number of respondents is 395. A semi-structured questionnaire created by the National Research University Higher School of Economics was used as a tool for sociological research. The study showed that both study groups are aware of an effective contract purpose and criteria evaluation frequency. Respondents from universities without an effective contract receive information from the Internet and have overestimated expectations of the future income level. Respondents of both groups underlined the importance of determining the greatest weight in calculating incentive payments for publication and grant activity, participation in scientific conferences. When implementing an effective contract, not all lecturers are ready to fulfill the criteria for research work, but they note the positive effect of its implementation on the indicators of scientific activity. In the group of respondents without an effective contract, one third expressed doubts about the significant impact of the implementation of an effective contract on improving the performance of research work. This article will be useful to the management of universities when calculating weighting coefficients according to indicators and criteria for evaluating the activities of the teaching staff for the appointment of incentive payments. An interesting study in the future may be a comparison of subjective assessments obtained in universities without an effective contract, and after its implementation in the same universities.

Philosophy in mass education system: Teaching as a mimetic practice

Introduction. The article tackles the problem of changing the role and place of philosophy in the mass education system. Today, mass education is closely connected with pragmatisation and technologisation; and these two processes spawn a concern whether it is useful to study philosophy, and, as a consequence, an aspiration to transform the understanding of teaching itself.Aim. The aim of the present paper was to reconceptualise the bespoke teaching experience within the framework of personalised academic tracks launched in the University of Tyumen in an attempt to address the problem.Methodology and research methods. The theoretical part of the research lays out the foundation of philosophy teaching as a mimetic practice based on a methodology, which is developed through the following concepts: the dichotomy of E. Giddens’ practical and discursive consciousness, M. Polanyi’s tacit knowledge, E. Mach’s economy of thought, and C. Wulf’s mimesis. This was a starting point of a philosophy teaching practice that was tested on a batch of students, approximately a quarter of which agreed to take an anonymous survey about the process and the results of the joined work.Results and scientific novelty. A draft of a conceptual foundation of mass philosophy teaching in the current context is laid out. At the core of the process, there is a mimetic transfer of tacit knowledge, ensuring a skill to philosophise. This process presupposes an interaction of four actors: a teacher, a student, a text and a group of students. The lecture is a demonstration of a personal philosophic style, and the Socratic seminar is a joint practice with an unpredictable finale. In this practice, there is a system, where the teacher is an inquiring moderator launching the student’s personal search, the text provides a connection with a philosophic tradition, and the group – with the everyday life. The survey showed that this approach is effective: students like the process, they understand the connection of the philosophical ideas with the real life, and they track the level of their own understanding of philosophical texts.Practical significance. The research results may be useful for other philosophy teachers who on the basis of this study may adjust their teaching practices to a mass philosophy course delivered in the current conditions; and for further development of the theory, first and foremost, in terms of formulating the philosophical content being used.

Support of individual educational trajectories based on the concept of explainable artificial intelligence

Introduction. Professional education in the context of individual educational trajectories (IET) meets the needs of both students themselves and the labour market due to the relevance of the content, flexibility of the educational process and learning technologies. However, in the context of digitalisation, IET support, including their planning and subsequent management of learning, entails the emergence of new requirements for information, analytical and methodological support of information systems designed to manage the educational process of the university. The problem of this study is determined by the contradiction between the intensive growth (natural for digitalisation) in the volume and variety of types of collected data, which can and should be used to support IET. In addition, there is also a lack of adequate analytical tools in educational information management systems.Aim. The present research aimed to study and test the digitalisation methodology for IET support, based on the application of the concept of explainable artificial intelligence for analysing student digital footprint data, the content of documents regulating the educational process, as well as labour market demands.Research methodology and methods. As a theoretical basis for the study, the authors relied on the principles of explainable artificial intelligence and their application to the interpretation of data from the educational process and the prediction of educational outcomes. The methods of intellectual analysis of texts in natural language were employed for preliminary processing of source documents. To predict educational outcomes, the authors used clustering, classification and regression models created through applying machine learning methods.Results. The authors developed and studied predictive models with the subsequent formation of recommendations for the tasks of choosing an educational programme by applicants, choosing an elective discipline, forming a team for a group project and employment in accordance with professional competencies. The developed computer program automatically generates objective and explainable recommendations based on expert knowledge and predicting results. The algorithm for constructing recommendations is divided into stages and provides for variability in decision making.Scientific novelty. The authors proposed a methodology for digital support of IET, corresponding to the principles of explainable artificial intelligence, i.e. machine learning models predict educational outcomes, and a special algorithm automatically generates personalised recommendations based on the results of the analysis of data on the educational process. The developed approach confirmed its effectiveness in testing on the example of bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in the field of computer science, information technology and information security.Practical significance. A preliminary analysis of significant volumes of initial data made it possible to obtain objective information about the data quality, including the content and structure of documents presented in various university information systems. Based on the the oretical results of the research, the authors developed a recommendation system. It included special services for students, teaching staff, tutors, and administrators, providing visual and user-oriented predictive results and recommendations. Testing of services at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Tyumen confirmed the feasibility of developing the functionality of the university information systems in the direction of collecting and analysing data from a student’s digital footprint and the relevance of this analysis results both by subjects of the educational process and by the labour market.

Проблемы при изучении иностранного языка на неязыковых направлениях в ТюмГУ: вызовы и стратегии преодоления

The knowledge of a foreign language in the era of digitalization, communication, and high technology is one of the main indicators of a successful, competitive person. However, in higher educational institutions, as well as at the University of Tyumen, the result of learning a foreign language among non-linguistic students remains unsatisfactory. Moreover, not all students feel the need to learn a foreign language. Despite many modern methods of teaching a foreign language, the problem remains unresolved and predetermines the relevance of solving this issue. The research aims to theoretically justify, determine and analyze the key problems in foreign language teaching, and to identify pedagogical conditions to overcome barriers and causes that prevent effective foreign language acquisition by non-linguistic students at the University of Tyumen. To reach the aim, the available research in the field of teaching foreign languages in non-linguistic universities, difficulties and barriers in learning a foreign language that inhibit thinking processes and do not allow students to fully reveal their abilities were reviewed. By the method of a sociological survey (questionnaire), the reasons that prevent the successful mastering of a foreign language by students of non-language fields were analyzed. 265 students (1st-3rd year) of different non-linguistic specialties and foreign language teachers took part in the poll. The obtained data were interpreted and mathematically processed. The main results of the study are the identification of key problems in learning a foreign language by students of non-linguistic areas: psychological barriers (insecurity, fear of making mistakes, etc.); lack of motivation; low self-organization and self-discipline; language difficulties, initially weak level of foreign language skills, etc. The mechanisms of support and motivation of non-linguistic students in successful foreign language learning were determined (to clearly set a goal in learning a foreign language; to create positive emotions and motivation; to use authentic material, modern methods and technologies of learning to practice vocabulary, etc.); the model of support for non-linguistic students in mastering a foreign language and recommendations for solving the raised problems were developed. The conducted research gives grounds to conclude that an effective means of solving such a problem is the organization of the teaching of foreign language to students of non-linguistic areas, taking into account the requirements of time, as well as their psychological and individual characteristics. The article concludes with the prospects of research in designing an educational system for the training of non-linguistic students and replenishing the base with teaching-methodological and didactic materials.

Основания для субъективной оценки справедливости оплаты труда научно-педагогических работников

Equity is defined as a correlation between a person's merits and their remuneration. The article deals with social and labour equity, regarding it as a subjective assessment of the ratio of payments for the physical and/or intellectual efforts of employees. The article aims to determine the grounds for the subjective assessment of academic and teaching staff pay equity. The empirical study was conducted in 2019-2020, based on expert interviews with 86 faculty members of leading Russian universities (University of Tyumen, Tomsk State University, Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, and National Research Nuclear University MEPhI). The expert interview narratives allowed identifying seven categories for assessing subjective perception of pay equity (1) at a corporate level; comparing faculty members (2) in Russia and (3) internationally; (4) in terms of public/business organisations; (5) different spheres of activity; (6) historical periods; and (7) previous positions held either in the same or other organizations. The results show that (1) disparity in pay within a university (between structural units and positions) can reduce motivation or increase career aspirations. A high level of social and labour equity provides a sense of stability and increases organisational productivity. (2) The level of pay equity in Russian universities depends on their prestige and ranking. (3) When comparing the level of remuneration and the workload with their Western colleagues, the respondents were more likely to prioritise Russia. Employees experienced in international academic mobility choose to work in Russia. (4) Compared to other spheres of activity, university wages are mostly lower whereas faculty members appreciate the opportunity to increase their income through active scientific research. (5) The last 3-5 years have seen a positive change in pay equity, with teachers and other jobs compared. (6) Comparison between historical periods shows a positive assessment of the current situation in Russia. However, not all the respondents believe in the long term perspective. (7) Pay at the early career is the lowest, but the teaching and research load is high. Young teachers invest a lot of time in career development, working on their dissertations. Pay equity assessment by teachers of retirement age is high, due to family stability and availability of additional funding (e.g. pension, support by children).

Mathematical modeling of the processes of signal routing by logic matrix, information encoding and decoding in the biomorphic neuroprocessor

At the University of Tyumen, a biomorphic hardware neuroprocessor based on a combined memristor-diode crossbar has been developed. The neuroprocessor implements a biomorphic spiking neural network with a large number of neurons and trainable synaptic connections between them. Large biomorphic neural networks make it possible to reproduce the functionality of the human brain cortical column. This provides new opportunities for information processing tasks by standalone neuroprocessor. When designing and optimizing the operation of the input and output devices, as well as the logic matrix of the neuroprocessor created based on large combined memristor-diode crossbars, physico-mathematical models are needed to simulate their work. This report presents the physico-mathematical models developed for this neuroprocessor: of the operation of a logic matrix cell built on the basis of simplified electrical models of a memristor and a Zener diode; of the process of the neurons output spikes routing of by the logic matrix to the synapses of other neurons; of processes of information encoding into biomorphic impulses and decoding of neural block output into a binary code. With the help of these models and numerical simulation, the operability of the input and output devices, as well as the logic matrix of the biomorphic neuroprocessor, is shown when processing incoming information. The originality of the models is associated with the specifics of the selected memristor-diode cell of the universal large logic matrix, which, in addition to its main work as a spikes router, is the basis of the electrical circuits of the input and output devices of the neuroprocessor. For numerical simulation of the operation of large electrical circuits containing memristor-diode crossbars, the original specialized program MDC-SPICE was used.

University traditions in the context of the introduction of educational innovations: the research case of the University of Tyumen

The institution of higher education in Russia is currently involved in the process of cardinal modernization, which affects and reforms its forms and content that have been developing for a considerable time. During this process, the aim and values of education are also transforming: the idea of commitment and of integral personal development are substituted for the concept of service, profit and competitiveness. The novelty of this work is in the study of innovations in the system of higher education through analysis of university as an establishment with historically developed traditions. In this article, for the first time, the ratio of existing traditions and innovations that are being currently introduced is analyzed on the example of a specific university. The purpose of this paper is to examine the traditions of a single university involved in the process of innovative development and to identify how they compare to introduced innovations, as well as in what way the role of university traditions changes in this context. During the research, the authors’ typology of research approaches based on the ideas of M. Rokeach, C. Kluckhohn, and F. Strodtbeck, methodological works of S. H. Schwartz and R. Inglehart was used. The article presents the results of an interuniversity study of the value orientations of the university students and teaching staff, as well as of the transformations of its traditions in connection with the modernization of education in general and the introduction of innovations in particular. In this sense, the case of University of Tyumen is of interest — it is the university that entered the project 5-100 in 2015 and commenced the process of active modernization and the introduction of innovations in its educational process. The article presents the results of in-depth expert interviews with the management and teaching staff of the University of Tyumen (n = 60), as well as the analysis of mass survey data of the students (n = 743). The study revealed the following points: the university focuses on innovative development in its priorities; a demand for a new type of the university and corresponding personality is formed gradually. In the context of the development of the University of Tyumen, it is not only the traditions that change but rather their role. The university is not generally aimed at reproduction of traditions preferring innovative educational processes.

КРЕАТИВНЫЙ ПОДХОД К ПРОДВИЖЕНИЮ БРЕНДА УНИВЕРСИТЕТА

The authors consider the issues of effective brand management of Industrial University of Tyumen by developing a marketing strategy aimed at identifying tools that enhance branding and allow forming vivid mass communications of potential and actual consumers with the brand idea. To build an emotional connection with the brand, the authors suggest a creative format for presenting the university’s logo using the Tesla transformer. Particular attention is paid to the issues of rational placement of the logo in the architectural and urban ensemble of educational buildings of the university. The objectives of the pilot marketing research were to study the attitude of students and staff to the logo and other brand attributes of Industrial University of Tyumen and to identify their opinions on the proposed form of creative presentation of the logo. Analysis of the results of the study showed that it is necessary to strengthen the brand of the university by expanding the range of consumers and communications, aimed at creating a brand-oriented image of the university. This requires applying best practices for identifying and influencing its target audiences as part of an impressions marketing strategy. The creative format of the university logo fully meets the formulated needs.

Subjective well-being of psychological-pedagogical students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction. With the development of humanistic attitudes in society, the importance of issues related to the subjective well-being of the individual increases. It is important not only how successful a person is at work or in educational activities, but also how well he/she feels. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the learning environment for university students. The study of the factors of subjective well-being of students expands the instrumental capabilities of psychological support during the pandemic. In the case of a repetition of a similar situation, this knowledge will be useful for helping students, and potentially a wider circle of people, to maintain subjective well-being.Aim. The present research aimed to investigate the subjective well-being of students of psychological and pedagogical directions of universities during the pandemic with an emphasis on its emotional component.Methodology and research methods. The research methodology is based on the subjective approach, which considers a student as an active subject, capable of successfully adapting to the changed conditions of an educational activity. In the course of the research, the authors identified the interrelationships of subjective well-being, its semantic markers and self-organisation to expand the possibilities of diagnosing subjective well-being and maintaining it during the periods of extreme social situations, as well as to use semantic markers for self-analysis. To assess subjective well-being, three methods were applied. Self-assessment of satisfaction with one’s condition on a 10-point scale was carried out according to the following parameters: sleep, food, communication with family, communication with friends, studies, hobbies, and mood. The authors employed the scale of subjective well-being (by А. Perrudet-Badoux, G. Mendelsohn, J. Chiche, adapted by M. V. Sokolova) and psychosemantic characteristics of the subjective attitude to the situation of distance learning at the university due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To assess the ability of students to organise themselves in the changed learning conditions, the questionnaire of self-organisation of activities (N. T. Feather и M. J. Bond, adapted by E. Yu. Mandrikova) was used. The study involved 406 students between the ages of 18 and 45 years (383 women and 23 men) studying in the areas of psychology and pedagogy at the University of Tyumen and State Kurgan State University. For statistical analysis of the research data, the Mann-Whitney U Test and correlation analysis were used.Results. It was found that the ability to self-organise leads to higher subjective well-being, and this, in turn, stimulates self-organisation. Semantic markers of subjective well-being associated with educational activities during the pandemic, such as comfortable and uncomfortable, interesting and uninteresting, tired and vigorous, were highlighted. The authors revealed objective parameters associated with self-organisation and subjective well-being, namely sleep disturbances. This can lead to the fact that there is not enough daytime and the student works at night, thereby resulting in the disturbance of night sleep, and consequently – poor self-organisation.Scientific novelty. The parameters of subjective well-being and self-organisation of students in a new, extreme social situation, during the COVID-19 pandemic are considered.Practical significance. The data obtained can be used to develop a strategy for teaching students in a pandemic situation and forced self-isolation, as well as to increase subjective well-being in a new social situation. The research results can be applied in psychodiagnostics for a more complete interpretation of the parameters of subjective well-being, as well as for the use of the identified relationships in the programmes of psychological support for students of psychological and pedagogical specialities. Semantic markers of subjective well-being that have received empirical justification can be employed to create a diagnostic scale.

Tectonic regime of the area of the Sukhoi Log geological practice in the Middle Devonian and volcanic arcs in the basement of Western Siberia

The article briefly describes current understanding of the tectonic regime of study area. It is related to the field geological practice of students of Industrial University of Tyumen. Study area is located at the western edge of Sukhoi Log town, Sverdlovsk region. The relevance of the work is related to the educational process. Information about the geological structure of the Devonian and Carboniferous formations of study area is collected. Some of the most characteristic outcrops of Paleozoic are described. Actual information about the Ural mountain genesis is given. The list of studied objects includes the outcrop of Eifelian reefal limestones near to the Shata waterfall and the ruins of a volcano. According to other researchers, it is a part of Middle Devonian volcanic arc, which was formed over the subduction zone. Here the Ordovician-Silurian Paleouralian Ocean were subducted under the collage of different-age terrains and paleocontinents (Paleozoic basement of the modern West Siberian Plate). A possible section across the Middle Devonian subduction zone of study area is presented. Similar objects associated with the oil and gas are known in the Pre-Jurassic basement of Western Siberia. The limestones and volcanic massifs exposed near the Sukhoi Log are good natural equivalents of the objects of oil and gas exploration in Western Siberia.

К.Н. ВЫСОЦКИЙ И МЕДИЙНАЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИЯ В УЕЗДНОМ СИБИРСКОМ ГОРОДЕ ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ XIX в.

The article describes the activities of Konstantin Vysotsky (1836–1886), who was first to open a photographic studio (1866), a lithographic studio (1867), a printing house (1869), and a newspaper (1879) in Tyumen. The first consideration of Vysotsky in the context of the history of the media and their transformations/revolutions contributes to the novelty of the research. It allows for a description of his experience of media transformations in a Siberian regional town of the second half of the 19th century in a systematic way, as opposed to the local and fragmentary descriptions which existed in science until now. The research methodology is integrative in nature: the study of book printing as a cultural practice in connection with economic, social and cultural transformations within the boundaries of cultural history (F. Barbier) is combined with contextual and intertextual approaches, bibliological and structural-typological analysis. The research material contains Vysotsky’s book, photographic, lithographic, and newspaper heritage stored in the Russian National Library, Tobolsk Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, I.Ya. Slovtsov Museum Complex (Tyumen), and the Digital Collection of the University of Tyumen entitled K.N. Vysotsky and the Media Culture of Tyumen. Vysotsky is presented both as an object and a subject of the economic, technological, social, and cultural transformations of the city. He was actively and creatively changing it. Based on the analysis of Vysotsky’s journalistic and publishing activities, his role in the history of the Tyumen shipping company and railway is revealed. The connection between Vysotsky and the landscape transformations of the city is shown. The idea that Vysotsky’s figure can be interpreted in the context of the phenomenon of new people in Russia in the 1860s–1870s is introduced. It is shown that the Tyumen generation of new people (N.M. Chukmaldin, K.N. Vysotsky, I.A. Kalganov, etc.) with their daily practices (reading, self-education, movement towards “light and will”, a new order in servant-master relations) was being formed largely under the influence of Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s novel What Is to Be Done? Tales of New People (1863), Nikolai Yadrintsev’s ideas of Siberian renovation, Ivan Turgenev’s interpretation of the image of Don Quixote (Hamlet and Don Quixote, 1860). Intertextual connections of the system of motifs revealing the image of new people in Nikolai Chukmaldin’s memoirs Notes on My Life (1902) and Chernyshevsky’s novel are presented. It is established that the first book published by Vysotsky, Charter of the Estate Manager Club in Tyumen, actually became a message about a new life of the city which Vysotsky and Chukmaldin addressed to the people of Tyumen. Another finding is the logic of Vysotsky’s professional development from photography to book printing. The author discusses the structure of the Vysotsky printing house repertoire dominated by documentary and non-fiction genres (road books, statutes, reports, calendars, catalogs, etc.). The complementarity of the book and visual (photographic and lithographic associated with the graphosphere) portraits of Tyumen created by Vysotsky contributed to a new hyper-reality which appeared in the city.

SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF MATERIALS FROM THE 2ND NATIONAL FORUM ON ECONOMIC SECURITY IN TYUMEN

On 20-21 April 2021, the 2nd National Forum on Economic Security was held in Tyumen, at the Financial and Economic Institute of the University of Tyumen. The forum attracted the attention of academicians, practitioners, and students. The participants exchanged opinions on the most topical issues of social and economic security of the state, regions, and individual businesses as well as on the problems of organizing the sustainable business. The participants were interested in panel discussions, meetings of problematic sections, round table, which considered effective methods of ensuring economic security, based on scientific principles and sound calculations. Special attention was drawn to the prospects of the “Economic Security” specialty, the need for students to form relevant professional competencies, which are the most important factor in the demand for specialists.

Modelling a High Quality Education for International Students

Introduction.The strive for high quality of Russian higher education, puts an emphasis on seeking the ways to improve it in the line with the topical Global educational agenda. In the context of this study provision of high quality education is defined as managing students experience in and out of the classroom as an integrative whole which is indispensable for maximising educational outcomes. Though Russian universities have a steady intake of international students on mobility programmes, there are not enough studies modelling the application of these dimensions in Russian academic setting. The current study seeks for the pathways to overcome this gap.Aim.The article is targeted to rethink the strategy of managing high quality education for international students and to work out and test an integrated model for the educational quality enhancement regarding two critical dimensions of their university training in curricular-related and co-curricular areas.Methodology and research methods.Mixed research methods were utilised. Individual interviews and a survey with close-ended and open-ended items were used to find out challenging issues impeding the development of high quality education offered in curricular and co-curricular related dimensions. Classroom observation, peer experts opinions and content analysis of the courses taught and their outcomes evaluation were applied at the University of Tyumen, being 5-100 project participant, to indicate the components, pedagogical toolkit and competencies for high educational quality of international students.Results and scientific novelty.The developed integrated model for high educational quality provision included the main interrelated curricular and co-curricular components of quality enhancement. They involved the designed up-to-date academic Russian course; teacher-student interactive support, socio-cultural and intellectual engagement such as “buddy” scheme studentto-student support, discussion workshops on intercultural awareness of students and teaching staff. Teaching methods of reflection, critical analysis, confirmatory feedback, communities, project-based and action oriented learning, group discussions, language tandems were proposed. Major competencies for international students’ curricular-based and co-curricular educational quality were suggested: critical reading and reflection, academic writing, negotiating, argumentation, logical cohesion, intercultural and cross-cultural awareness, conflict avoidance, tolerance to ambiguity.Practical significance.The integrated model can be applied for road-mapping the action plan of international policy at any university in Russia to provide high quality education for international students.