ELECTRONIC EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT AS A CONDITION FOR DESIGNING OF INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION TRAJECTORY IN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT

Nowadays the education becomes open, adaptive, non-limited in the frameworks of separate countries. Moreover, on-line communication allows the educational processes to transpire irrespective of the territorial boundaries: not only the number of students is growing, but also their cultural identities are becoming more diverse. Nowadays educators are facing new problems caused by different world views, specific types of educational discourse, various information processing strategies etc . Currently, a significant part of educational process transforms to online format. Modern learning process becomes autodidactic in many ways. The purpose of modern education is to create conditions in which educational path could be formed and adjusted with the help of the trainee. It seems to us appropriate to establish the criteria for determining cultural-cognitive profile of a person, in order to make possible further technical and methodical adaptation of educational content and interface. Control of knowledge and qualification boundary will be realized by “competence-based profile of students”. It is also possible to create advisory service facilitating “buildup” of professional competence according to cultural-cognitive profile of individual. To improve “cultural intelligence” of tutors we suggest to use online cultural assimilator. As a part of cross-cultural multimedia didactics, the following subject may present particular interest. Cross-cultural multimedia didactics may be viewed as a combination of cultural, psychological and pedagogical aspects, of culture specific pedagogical discourse, unique features of ergonomic design of educational resources, cognitive and pragmatic features and specific methods and forms of teaching and, therefore, is set to become one of the most important trends in contemporary education system. Additionally, one of the primary issues in cross-cultural educational environment is a problem of quality and appropriateness of the feedback (timely responses, degree of clarity of the goals and objectives set by tutors), which for the most part depends on the cultural context. For the most rapid adaptation of tutors it would be appropriate to develop a cultural assimilator, aimed at adapting to the multicultural education in a virtual environment.

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