Features of professional activity of an academic staff in the conditions of a digital educational environment

The fundamental positions of modern education are standardization and modernization, focused on solving the problem of increasing the state competitiveness through the training of competent per- sonnel for the development of the digital economy. Education, as a sector of the economy and social activity, is focused on the widespread use of Internet resources, the expansion of the capabilities of academic staff in the use of digital resources, communication in the digital educational environment, taking into account real economic trends. In the course of theoretical analysis and study of the ed- ucational practice of universities, objective contradictions have been revealed between the require- ments of legal acts regulating the creation of a digital educational environment in universities, and the insufficient development of essential characteristics of professional activity of academic staff in a university digital educational space. The search for a solution to the identified contradiction allows us to formulate the research problem: what are the features of the professional activity of academic staff in a digital educational environment that affect its effectiveness?

The purpose of the research is to theoretically substantiate the main areas of professional activity of academic staff in a digital educational environment.

The research methodology was based on the study of scientific information and the experience of pedagogical activity in foreign and domestic literature, the use of theoretical and empirical research methods, such as analysis, generalization, deduction.

The results of the research are as follows the features of the digital educational environment of a modern university have been substantiated; the structural and content characteristics of the activities of academic staff in the digital space of the university have been disclosed.

Key conclusions are: the key role of digital technologies lies in the innovative development of a higher education, namely, in the competence of modern university teachers to work in a dig- ital educational environment; structural and content characteristics of the activity of academic staff in the digital space of a university include a number of areas: interaction with the subjects of education in the electronic information and educational environment of a university, creation of electronic methodological tools for readable disciplines, the use of various forms of organizing training sessions in the electronic educational environment, the creation of a digital portfolio, etc. All this significantly expands the horizons of organizing educational activities in the digital educational space.

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