Title: New educational strategies in contemporary digital environment

Authors: Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska; Tatiana Noskova; Tatiana Pavlova; Olga Yakovleva; Nataliia Morze

Addresses: University of Silesia, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland; The Faculty of Ethnology and Sciences of Education in Cieszyn, Bielska 62, 43-400 Cieszyn, Poland ' Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Nab. R. Moiki, 48, Saint-Petersburg, Russia ' Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Nab. R. Moiki, 48, Saint-Petersburg, Russia ' Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Nab. R. Moiki, 48, Saint-Petersburg, Russia ' Borys Grinchenko Kiyv University, 18/2 Vorovskogo Str, Ukraine

Abstract: This paper prepared by an international team of authors, focuses on the following conceptual aspects: new educational strategies in the contemporary digital environment on the basis of a study in the framework of the international project IRNet-International Research Network. In particular, the paper describes some of the results of a survey for students and academic teachers conducted within the framework of the project. During the study common and specific categories of university informational educational strategies were examined as well as a teachers' personal attitude to different educational strategies were tested. The paper contains data, describing the situation at universities in Poland, Russia and Ukraine.

Keywords: competences; digital environment; higher education; educational strategies; e-learning; electronic learning; online learning; IRNet project; lifelong learning; education quality; teacher attitudes; universities; Poland; Russia; Ukraine.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2016.075036

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 2016 Vol.26 No.1, pp.6 - 24

Received: 22 Jun 2015
Accepted: 20 Aug 2015
Published online: 01 Mar 2016 *

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