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Modern educational technologies offer great opportunities for teachers of general education institutions to develop key competencies in students in the geography and ecology classes. Curriculum guidelines in geography pay great attention to improving the skills of unsupervised activities, including using the resources of geographic information systems. The outcomes of mastering the main educational program should reflect the knowledge of geoinformation technologies as a tool for collecting and processing research ...

In the context of the global environmental crisis the development of new pedagogical models and teaching methods at the universities of Ukraine is aimed at the formation of socio-psychological competencies of future specialists as subjects of the implementation of the concept of sustainable development. The article presents the results of eco-psychological research of the level of formation of ecological thinking among engineering students. More than 300 students from three universities of Dnipro and Poltava have ...

Previous studies have shown that secondary school students may have misconceptions about geological scientific information. By the end of secondary education these misconceptions may remain unresolved. As a result, students enter university studies and still hold them. Students of engineering, as for example civil engineering, are no exception. The aim of this study was to investigate and analyse misconceptions of this specific target group. A closed questionnaire was designed and given to 102 University students ...

This article offers an innovative method for deriving curricula for tomorrow’s workforce in the geospatial sector, considering the market requirements through modelling business processes, identifying and analyzing occupational profiles. The idea behind this approach reveals business processes models described by workflows of tasks that workforce needs to master in their daily work. In addition, business processes show who is involved in projects and needs to communicate with one another, and how the information i...

The existence and development of geography as a science, as well as the geography training are inconceivable without a geographical map. Geographic maps serve as models of the studied territories, processes and phenomena, which makes them an indispensable tool for exploring and studying the surrounding world. The development of cartography today reaches such a level that geographical maps can depict not only the spatial relationships between objects and phenomena located on the earth's surface, but also their most...

The article is devoted to innovation culture and its main factors, such as innovativeness and creativity. The authors determine innovation culture as a social phenomenon of society's readiness to implement different types of innovations and to use new ideas in production, marketing, management and education. It is justified that innovation culture manifests in creativity and innovativeness. Authors define creativity as the ability to transcend traditional ways of thinking or acting, and to develop new and original...

The article discusses the visualization of educational information as an approach to the development of a graphic language that exists as a means of communication, in our case, as a language of instruction and research along with the verbal language. One of the means of improving the professional training of future specialists in the conditions of the prevalence of the screen environment is the formation of their skills in visualizing educational information. In the visualization of educational information, great ...

Both in the Central Baltic (CB) countries and Russia, there is a need to develop current education regarding resource efficiency, which is a relatively new and complex issue. The aim of the paper is to present the results of the two parallel twinning international projects "CREA-RE" (Creating aligned studies in Resource Efficiency) and "CREA-RE-RU" (Creating aligned studies in Resource Efficiency in Sweden and Russia), which has been realized from 2018 to 2020. The main goal of the projects was to produce up-to-da...

Development of environmental education becomes a topical issue of educational policy and secondary school in Bulgaria. The efforts are mainly focused on integrating and promoting environmentally friendly activities for children in different age groups. The paper explores new approaches to stimulate motivation and extension of activities related to sustainable development and environmental protection; new methodologies with a similar focus are interpreted, and specific models for implementation are proposed. The pa...

The article demonstrates application of distance learning in foreign language teaching at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies in Presov. The study of a foreign language is very closely connected with professional subjects. There is a close connection with many engineering disciplines within all study programs. The method of distance learning is an important part of the modern education. The implementation of blended learning to the study process is needed for the newly accredited study programs at the Facult...

The article is a summary of transforming geographic and environment research trends and shows new guidelines in the field of natural education in Ukraine in the context of the global process of sustainable development ensuring. It is argued that priority should be given to environmental studies, which will be considered exclusively in a set of three interrelated components. These are: 1) environment assessment as a natural area of society and analysis of its capacity to preserve the socio-economic and environmenta...

The level of geological competence of students studying in the areas of undergraduate studies ?Earth Sciences? and ?Pedagogical Education? (profiles Geography, Geography and Biology), determine not only the acquired theoretical knowledge and competencies, but also the ability to record and summarize field observations. The latter is formed in the process of a person's knowledge of the natural environment according to the didactic principle?- from the known to the unknown, from close to far. In Russia, it received ...

The aim of the article, in the pre-research issues, was to examine the scientific questions which cover the main ergonomic problems in the work environment of the training workplace for training of future air traffic controllers in the conditions of the educational institution. The methodology of researching the problem to achieve the goal of the article was based on an expert method, on a guided interview with instructors of practical training for air traffic controllers to obtain an expert opinion on identifying...

The current methodology of geography training in secondary school is aimed at finding opportunities for the implementation of an effective educational process. Recent studies prove the effectiveness of the so-called outdoor lessons. And this is no coincidence, given their impact on learning motivation in training process. They practically operationalize the methodological principle of "learning through experience", especially relevant to modern didactic. However, how can this type of lesson be organized in the con...

The article discusses the information-cartographic approach to the visualization of educational information as a universal educational strategy aimed at the full development of cognitive processes, the imaginative thinking of students, taking into account the functional asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres through the use of intellectual and graphic tools for visualizing educational information, creating a new communicative system of transition from verbal language to language grafting. The information-cartograph...

The need to make innovative changes in the professional training of students is due to the fact that today future specialists require not only deep knowledge, but also the ability to acquire new knowledge in a rapidly changing situation and use it to design their own activities. Recently, in the theory and practice of professional education, more and more attention is paid to active forms, methods and technologies of training, which can become an effective means of training specialists. The goal of innovation is a...

This study is intended to develop educational technologies for disabled students with violation of musculoskeletal system. According to the World Health Organization the statistical data on diseases of the musculoskeletal system accounts for 30% each 10 years, as for the percentage disablement due to this factor it accounts for 25-30%. The Global Burden of Disease study reported that musculoskeletal disorders are ranked as the second most common cause of disability. The disabled people?s problems related to the pr...

Sustainability is becoming an integral part of all aspects of life. Education for sustainable development (ESD) is rather a new educational paradigm and an important tool for achieving sustainability. The aims of ESD are well-established, but there are still significant challenges in finding the most efficient and strategic methods of achieving these objectives. Plurality of ESD perspectives and methodological approaches, as well as variations in practice also apply to integration in higher education. The complexi...

The article is devoted to the issues of communicative competence development at students of non-linguistic specialties, its role in adaptation, definitions of the concept, foreign-language components of communicative competence, a range of problems, methods, assessment of communicative competence level, the development of universal and general professional competences according to Federal State Educational Standard. The aim of this research is to identify and verify the most effective methods of communicative comp...

Many schools have long figured out that the internet can be a strong ally in the teaching of each subject. Those who are able to use its power offer online courses not only as a complement to mainstream studies, but as a full-fledged form of education for specific groups. Not only for full-time or part-time students, but also, for example, for people who are unable to relax at regular times or who prefer self-study at time, of their own choice. For this group, the school has undeniable advantages over the Internet...

The problems and challenges which contemporary world faces set the leading idea of ?sustainable development? as key aspect of geographic education. In the paper is used the well-known definition for sustainable development ? development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As a result of these tendencies, it can be pointed out three very important concepts in geography didactic ? environmental education, global study and education for s...

An actual problematic question in geography didactic, directly related to the quality and effectiveness of training, is that of the methodological principles. They are defined as the regulatory basic rules and criteria adopted in the practice, the compliance of which determines the optimal organization and effective implementation of the geography training process. The system of principles is open and dynamic. The principles themselves are not independent and isolated from one another, but interact. Principles are...

Today, the developing countries face a situation where there is an abundance of specialists with higher education, while the economy lacks qualified practice-oriented personnel. In general, there is a disproportion between the ever-increasing demand of specialists and supply on the labor market, and between the way of professional education and modern business. Society requires the commercialization of fundamental knowledge, the restructuring of the education system. Without losing its fundamental nature, educatio...

Large-scale changes can be observed in the Russian society in the XXI century. They laid the foundation to the Russian Federation integration into the global political, economic and cultural space, to the demarcation of a great number of borders as well as identified the indispensable necessity to uphold national interests of the state on a permanent basis. The processes of globalization, the development of international economic relations between the countries of the world community increased the need for competi...

The primary goal of the economic and innovative potential development lies in promoting cooperation between Russian universities along with academic organizations and manufacturing companies in order to expand knowledge-intensive production and fuel the supply of innovative products and services. Cooperation between universities and enterprises is organized around the joint development of sought-after technological solutions which are used as the basis for the creation of innovative products. By addressing applied...

The study of thinking, as well as any subject of psychological science, is determined by theoretical ideas about it, as well as various specific tasks. Currently, several theoretical approaches to the study of thinking are used. The system approach is based on the position that the specificity of a complex system object is not limited to the features of its constituent elements, but is primarily related to the nature of interactions between elements. In the process of system analysis, not only the causes of phenom...

The development of knowledge-based economy is based largely on the national innovative system. The effectiveness on innovative processes depends not only on the scientific, technical and production potential, but also on the relationship between science and production. Higher education institutions in post-industrial economies expand the list of functions they perform, as they are involved in the commercialization of scientific knowledge. Thereby, the article aims to investigate the forms and the level of particip...

Higher education in Kosovo is considered a public service, regardless of whether the institution is a state- or privately-owned facility. As such, regardless of the country?s stage of development, it faces a constant challenge, namely to ensure a quality education system. Quality assurance in higher education in Kosovo is characterized by problems and difficulties related to the low level of recognition and low interest of relevant institutions for internal quality mechanisms, as well as the lack of external contr...

The article examines the relationship between the tasks facing geologists and the General state of the economy of the USSR and modern Russia. Since the end of the 19th century, geology has moved away from purely historical research of the Earth and is increasingly focused on the search and exploration of minerals and on merging with the mining industry. Given that the territory of the USSR and modern Russia has almost all types of minerals, it is most profitable to use the resources located on its own territory. H...

The aim of the study is to give the evidence that the formation of students' cognitive initiative as a part of integrative personality development by means of a foreign language becomes a defining factor in training a competitive specialist. A sufficiently high level of mental development, a strong memory, having the logic for reasoning, broadening one's horizons, working capacity, perseverance, etc. ? all these contribute to student?s success. However, even with all of these qualities, it is necessary to constant...

In general, there is a long-term emphasis on the support of educational facilities at universities, according to the latest trends. Above all, it is about using progressive learning forms, proven methods and also linking higher education with practice. New teaching methods are being used more and more frequently as part of education at technical universities. Many modern and more efficient methods are used. It offers students new teaching methods to make their learning more attractive and better. At this case, it ...

Nowadays new technologies influence higher education very much. They affect students? worldview and encourage the quality of the education to grow. Recently one of the educational characteristics is online resources application during the study. It makes access to knowledge much easier. This theme is very actual regarding to the digitalization of the economy. In this paper the models of online courses application in higher education are explored. They are influenced with the requirements of educational organizatio...

The article deals with issues related to the use of a universal multi-subject mapping method belonging to the technology of visualization of educational information in the preparation of bachelors. The cartographic method of teaching is characteristic in that it allows you to visualize both the geographic proper and any simulated space, to investigate, first of all, its spatial structural patterns of the structure (the form often determines the content). In the process of learning, the use of the cartographic meth...

Geography cannot be limited to simple and in brief statements in contemporary society and real life. The comprehension of reality and its different and complex aspects assumes the complexity of the geographic research. And the philosophy of construction of the educational (school) geography could not ignore that fact. At the same time, the repeating didactic problems and realities require to answer the following questions: In what is encoded the school geography significance? What are the limits of geographic know...

The article argues in favor of an integrated indicator of quality of services of higher education institutions. This indicator is calculated relying on the balanced scorecard methodological tools modified to be suited to higher education. The integrated indicator which has been developed incorporates interrelated sets of criteria used to ensure the quality of higher education services such as academic performance and research activity among students, the way in which the quality of educational services is assessed...

Development of studies on higher education in Poland and extension of opportunities for exchange of experience with other countries influenced the acceptance of the pro-quality orientation by Polish universities. Thus, analytical actions were undertaken to achieve success, namely, to provide a high-quality education service. The quality of education was defined as a level to which requirements concerning the education process and its effects including internal and external conditions were met. Internal factors are...

A new mineralogical application for mobile phones and tablets was created named MINS (Mineral Identifier for Non-Specialists). Android Studio was employed in order to implement it in Java for Android devices and is compatible with versions starting from 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). MINS is an application for macroscopic identification of the most common minerals (about 99%) that exist on the upper crust of the earth. The user has the choice of identifying a mineral or to see a list with the most common minerals. In t...

Territorial risk analysis and assessment present current problem for optimization of these processes in regions, districts and municipalities. Threat scenarios need to be evaluated together with existing vulnerabilities in territory. From crisis management point of view, preparedness (protective measures) also need to be evaluated to form complete picture. Risk mapping allows its users represents possible approach for all these elements to be evaluated together at a same time. Vulnerability and risk mapping are us...

Practice-oriented learning is the process of students mastering an educational program in order to develop their practical skills through the implementation of real practical tasks. The basis of practice-oriented learning is the optimal combination of education with applied training. The introduction of a practical-oriented approach to the educational process is determined by the need to search for adequate educational technologies - a set of tools and methods for teaching students to successfully implement the ef...

The purpose of our research is to develop and implement a long-term strategy for organizing independent work of students through the formation of students? autonomy culture in a foreign language setting. To achieve the goal set and verify the main provisions, we used the methods of theoretical and empirical research. Theoretical investigation included an analysis of pedagogical and psychological literature on the development of students' cognitive activity and learning autonomy in higher education. Empirical metho...

The paper considers the model of formation of students? environmental and legal competence; gives a comparative analysis of the three components of the environmental and legal competence: motivational and values-based, cognitive and activity-based components; identifies the four groups of students: preschoolers aged 5-6 years, primary school students aged 7-10 years, middle school students aged 11-14 years, and senior pupils aged 15-18 years.The results of the survey, testing before and after the introduction of t...

The aim of the paper is to develop communication skills on professional topics to students studying oil and gas activity. We argue that it is effective to organize the teaching by means of using professional context, developing lexical skills. In order to design a professional context we suggest role-play activities related to oil and gas theme for students; development of lexical skills is possible in both language exercises and communicative ones. Methods of research presuppose theoretical analysis of relevant l...

This article is dedicated to the peculiarities of geology development in higher educational establishments in Russia in 20-21 centuries exemplified by two Tomsk universities ? Tomsk State University and Tomsk Polytechnic University. The theme is discussed in regards to transformation of the finance system for geological practices during the transition from planned to a market economy. This transformation has led to a slack demand for some types of geological works, which further brings us to discrepancy between th...

This article is dedicated to the problem of interaction between regional geological practices and geological education in the classical university exemplified by Siberian educational entities. Turning to real geological works in classical universities can reveal new aspects of geological knowledge for historians and methodologists of geology. It is important to emphasize that regional works are fundamental for all types of geological practices. It was proved that decline in funding for regional geological works th...

The article examines the experience of using geographic information systems (GIS) in the preparation of specialists of geographers in higher education institutions of Ukraine. Educational and professional training programs for geographers at the Kherson State University are represented as a basic model. The main accent is put on differences of programs according to the existing three specialties, for which the training is carried out: 103 Earth Sciences, 106 Geography and 014.17 Secondary Education (Geography). Th...

Lots of employers expect from their employees, apart from professional competences, a team work ability and ability to effectively implement team projects. However, few high schools and faculties in their curricula provide students with knowledge on teamwork, and therefore, graduates do not have appropriate competences in this area. In the course of studies, students usually learn about advanced IT tools for specialized applications, but they are rarely taught how to use groupware. As a part of the course on Infor...

When teaching in schools, especially in vocational subjects, it is very important to attract and motivate students to work independently, not only to remember important facts, but also to develop their ability to seek new solutions independently. One of the active assistants in achieving this goal can be the active use of information technology that is close to the current young person. In addition, it is essential not only to learn new knowledge in education, but also to educate them towards an active approach to...

In 2017 for the first time in Kazakhstan we gave several lessons at the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University (KazNPU) in Almaty, through the instrumentality of the ?flipped classroom? method within the frame of the following disciplines: ?The theory of evolution? for undergraduate students and ?A modern human physiology? for graduate students. In accordance with the requirements of employed method, teaching and learning process was built in such a manner. Teachers provided to the students educational materi...

Nowadays the concepts of environmental ethics and environmental responsibility are mentioned more and more frequently in relation to the performance of companies. These notions can relate either to a person or to a company. Being environmentally responsible entails fulfilling one?s duty to protect the environment. Companies whose activities do harm to the environment should carry out this duty. The aim of this research is to teach students specialising in oil and gas engineering how to assess a company?s corporate...

Environmental Citizenship is a key factor in EU's growth strategy (Europe 2020) and its vision for Sustainable Development and Green and Circular economy. Significant behavior change amongst both individuals and organizations is required in order to meet Europe?s sustainability objectives and climate change targets. At a general level, policies aimed at changing behavior have tended to rely on two aspects: the introduction of fiscal measures and statutory legislation or market-based measures. Unfortunately, relati...