The purpose of the paper is to assess the experience of Russian students in the online project class. The authors studied the impact of the international project “X-Culture” on the level of development of socio-cultural competencies of students and their knowledge of the English language. An additional aspect of the analysis was the question of the connection of students’ perception of the goal of participation in the international project “X-Culture” with their self-motivation and self-assessment of the success of the results achieved. The study used both quantitative and qualitative methods—student testing, database analysis provided by the project “X-culture”, and focus group records. The result of the participation has been inconsistent. As expected, such sociocultural competence as the level of proficiency in English increased among the majority of students, as confirmed by the values of the student’s criterion for the results of language testing, conducted before and after the project. At the same time, average indicators of sociocultural competences such as “interpersonal skills”, “creativity”, “leadership”, and “friendliness” have deteriorated during the project that is confirmed by the trends lines of time series. The focus group revealed differences in terms of participation in the X-Culture project, their connection with self-motivation, and student satisfaction with the results achieved. Students who have achieved high levels of sociocultural competences have set themselves the goals of participation in the project related to the improvement of professional competencies and intercultural communications. At the same time, students were most satisfied with their activities in the project and the results achieved, aimed at obtaining new professional knowledge and skills, and students whose goal was simply to obtain an international certificate of the project participant.

Purpose: Social and cultural prerequisites of Russia’s transition to an open information society have predetermined new requirements for graduates of modern educational organizations, ready for communicative activities in a digital educational environment. Informatization of education is characterized by increasing virtualization of the educational process and, as a consequence, the predominance of fragmented thinking, and increase in the gap between traditional and innovative educational technologies. Methodology: The basis of the digital educational environment in the context of the use of knowledge management technologies can be specialized knowledge management systems that combine knowledge of related scientific disciplines, which should provide integration, accumulation, and support, as well as the organization of access to knowledge of the educational environment. A distinctive feature of the development of mankind at the present stage is the transition to information society in which information and information processes are becoming one of the most important components of human life and society. Result: The development of the global process of informatization of society leads to the formation of not only the new information environment for people but also new, information way of their life and professional activities. Many researchers as the most acute problem of modern education called the mismatch of software, including for educational purposes, to high technical characteristics of computers, resulting in extremely low efficiency of computer use in training. Critically assessing the effectiveness of the existing software of the educational process and the ways of its development, we see the prospects for a radical change in the situation in the orientation to the use of knowledge management technologies that use software products that can be changed, adapting to the needs of the user and, in particular, to the didactic tasks of training. Applications: This research can be used for universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality: In this research, the model of Digital Educational Environment as a Tool of System Changes in the Teacher’s Professional Activity is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

Eye tracking research involved into educational process yields objective visualized data on the compliance of a product, interface or content with the goals and objectives of users. The mechanisms of controlling visual attention, interest and cognitive load are of importance in pedagogical research based on eye tracking. The article discusses the results of a pilot study to understand the perception of electronic presentations by Russian and foreign students based on eye tracking technique. A total of 10 respondents took part in the study, the purpose was to test eye tracking as a tool for evaluating and tailoring the textual and visual parts of a presentation. The hypothesis of the study about the difference in the strategies of studying presentations for Russian and foreign students was confirmed. Gaze plots, heat maps and total viewing time as a result of the study render the main strategies of students’ interaction with the electronic presentations’ content. The data provides the educational practitioners with the insights on honing the educational content to different categories of students. It is recommended to carry out further research to study the multimodal stimuli of static and dynamic presentations in the process of perception of lecture material.

Цифровая трансформация и переход от компетентностного к метапредметному подходу в обучении требуют освоения новых объективных исследовательских методов в образовании. Когнитивные исследования, в том числе использующие высокотехнологичные методики и нейротехнологии, повышают исследовательский и учебный потенциал образовательной организации.Digital transformation and the transition from a competence-based to a meta-subject approach in education require the development of new objective research techniques in education. Cognitive research done with high-tech techniques and neurotechnologies contributes to the research and educational capacity of an educational organization.