METHODICAL MAINTENANCE
The purpose of the work is to explore the current problems and prospects of mining solution, big web data in real time, as well as the possibility of practical implementation of Web Mining technology for big web data on a practical example.
Materials and methods. The study included a review of bibliographic sources on big data mining. We used Web Mining technology for associative analysis of large web data, as well as computer modeling of the practical task of transaction analysis using a general-purpose scripting language (PHP).
Results. During the work, the specifics of the Data Mining technology were described, and a modern approach to the analysis of large web data –Web Mining was analyzed. A brief classification of tasks solved using Web Mining technology is given. The problem of data mining of large web data in a general-purpose scripting language (PHP) has been solved: the lack of libraries for data mining, the difficult normalization of data to the form necessary for associative analysis, interaction with the database management system. Also, an example showing an approach to the mining of large web data was implemented. Based on the understanding of Web Mining technology and the described difficulties of analyzing web data in the PHP language, methods for effectively solving the practical problem of analyzing web data based on transactions committed in a dynamic web application have been proposed. A module for associative analysis of customer transactions in the programming language PHP was developed. The module includes an intelligent data processing class. The structural scheme of the module and system architecture were developed. The constructed module allows us to solve the main part of the problem of associative analysis of large web data using Web Mining technology in order to solve the problem of identifying patterns in a large array of web data. Associative analysis of web data is much faster because of the combination of a general-purpose scripting language and an object-oriented approach.
Conclusion. According to the results of the study, it can be argued that the current state of the technology for the analysis of large web data allows efficiently process data objects, identify patterns, obtain hidden data and receive complete statistical data in real time. The results can be used both for the purpose of the initial research of technologies for analyzing large web data, and as an addition to the content management system for the intelligent analysis of web data. The usage of the technology of associative analysis and the created universal handler class makes the created module flexible, while the possibility of manual integration makes this module universal. With manual integration, the database management system is not important. Algorithm methods work with selected data. This factor greatly simplifies the further development of program code.
The ever-growing demand for digital IT industry specialists brings to the fore the task of developing effective educational programs that ensure a high qualification level of graduates. The result of such activities – the turn-out of highly qualified specialists will depend on how much more detailed all the components of the educational activities of the University are considered, designed and implemented. Therefore, when developing and updating educational programs, higher education institutions will have to clarify the composition of professional competencies that must meet both the needs for effective performance of generalized labor functions and labor functions fixed in professional standards, and many educational parameters fixed in the regulatory framework of Russian higher education.
The purpose of this research is to develop innovative educational programs at the stage of digital transformation of higher education and the transition to practice-oriented project training of University graduates in IT areas. The research tasks include the following stages:
1. Development of a conceptual model of an intelligent integrated educational environment based on the interface of ontologies of professional and educational standards.
2. Systematization and organization of elements of the digital repository and on its basis, the development of algorithms for generating educational-methodical and organizational-administrative content of the intellectual integrated educational environment.
3. Testing methods for generating content in the intelligent integrated educational environment.
This task can be achieved only by integrating all components of the educational process into a single information and educational space. The solution to this problem is seen in the development of methods and tools for generating educational-methodical and organizational-administrative content based on the digital repository of the electronic learning system through knowledge management technologies that ensure the adaptability of the educational process using the ontological approach.
Such work is currently being carried out at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, including ICT areas. The analysis of professional activity of graduates of bachelor’s degree and master’s degree programs in terms of requirements of the Federal State Education Standards of Higher Education in the field of “Applied Informatics” has shown that these requirements with varying degrees of completeness correspond to a number of professional standards in the field of IT industry.
As a result of the analysis of the factors for improving the quality of the educational process, the ways to improve training of bachelors in the field of “Applied Informatics” in the context of combining ontologies of professional and educational standards are outlined. The article also provides approaches to the development of an approximate basic educational program in this direction and reveals the method of its engineering, based on the interaction and composition of elements of the integrated information and educational space and, on its basis, semantic modeling and automatic generation of educational and organizational and managerial content.
Thus, the proposed method will contribute to improving the efficiency of the educational process and meet the world trends in the development of science in this field of knowledge, which will bring the training of highly qualified IT industry specialists to a qualitatively new level.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
The paper considers the evolution of project activities and the impact of modern technologies on the form of project presentation. Features of the network project are considered, digital tools that are suitable for organizing network activities are described. The stages of project organization and digital tools for conducting a telecommunication project are described, as well as the features of creating a website for a network educational project. The article offers a description of the network project “Internet Safety”.
The purpose of this article is to describe a method for creating a modern telecommunication project based on modern cloud and network tools.
Based on this goal, the following tasks can be identified:
• Consider the evolution of project activities.
• Review the stages of project development.
• Analyze modern digital tools that are suitable for transferring educational activities to the Internet. To pick up modern tools for the implementation of the network project.
• Identify the features of the organization of project activities in the network.
• Conduct testing and draw conclusions about the work done.
The relevance of this work is that the services used in the course of studying the discipline “Informatics and ICT” must constantly change to the most modern ones and demonstrate to students the relevant tools necessary for a modern graduate and specialist.
Materials and methods. The conclusions are based on a theoretical analysis of scientific and methodological literature on the use of the project method in education. The article was prepared using the materials and conclusions made by the author when creating the website of the telecommunication project “Internet Safety”. The telecommunication project took place in 2019 (May-June) at the College of Omsk State Technical University, as part of the study of the discipline “Information Technology”.
Conclusion. The modern telecommunication project has a number of distinctive features. The process of preparing for the launch of the project is quite time-consuming and requires sufficient digital literacy from the teacher. The use of modern educational environments can make the process of organizing and conducting a project as comfortable as possible for all project participants.
The analysis of modern educational tools, based on the description of the key features of the telecommunication project, allowed us to offer fairly easy-to-use services that can fully take advantage of network project activities.
The proposed services were tested as part of the network project “Internet Safety”. As part of the research, a method of telecommunication projects has been developed and tested, which, thanks to the use of modern services, is capable of not only acquainting students with the topic of the project, but also developing the ICT competence of students, as well as increasing students' interest in studying modern technologies and improving the ability to navigate the information space.
Results. The method of telecommunication projects is an effective pedagogical technology that has found a new life in the digital age. A modern project carried out on the Internet has a number of features, but due to the fact that this type of work is based on modern services and technologies, we can say that it develops the ICT competence of students and their skills to work in the network.
The purpose of study is to develop the training method for operation with digital data. The article discusses the issues of training for mining and analyzing digital data on the example of social networks for higher education programs in the areas of “Management”, “Public administration”, “Human resources” and “Political Science”. The relevance of the study is justified by factors: digital transformation of economy; development of digital data sources; increasing the importance of digital data in management. Universities have a new task - to prepare students for working with digital data in their professional activities. A review of scientific sources has shown that programming skills are required to apply existing data mining methods. While the modern IT and data sources contain tools for working with data, which are available to a wide range of users without the need to write the code.
Materials and methods. The study is based on the theoretical materials and the practice of operation with digital data in management processes. The empirical studies were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the application of practical data manipulation techniques in higher education training.
Results. The method was developed for the practical training in data mining and analysis skills. The implementation of the author’s method in the educational process showed its effectiveness in the formation of practical skills in working with digital data, as well as a high level of assimilation of theoretical foundations due to the presentation of educational materials in an accessible form for non-core IT area. The method doesn’t require a specific complex of the material and technical support for training and labor intensity. The article highlights the areas of application of social network data in Economics and science: marketing research of consumers and competitive advantages of goods or services; formation of a data set for machine learning and usage of artificial intelligence technologies, political research of civil society and political preferences of citizens, scientific research on the organization and management of social media. Training for analytical work on the example of social networks highly motivates students due to the significant role of networks among young people. The use of effective pedagogical technologies such as project-oriented learning, social learning, and collaboration in an electronic educational environment supports the quality of training by the developed method. As a result, students better learn knowledge and practical skills that are also applicable to working with other types of social media and global data platforms.
Conclusion. The article reveals: the specifics of teaching materials; development of a workshop in the areas of training; modern pedagogical technologies, scheme, and teaching methods. The advantages and disadvantages of social networks as a data source are considered. The presented method is implemented in teaching the discipline “Informatics” of the basic training cycle at the faculty of public administration of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Nowadays the plagiarism problem has become a real nuisance for the spheres of science and education, thus the specialists of the Russian State Library resolved to study the issue in depth. The results of those studies were planned to be organized in a series of articles to be published.
Purpose: The article is devoted to the key aspects connected with usage of digital collection of dissertation theses and author’s abstracts together with the “Antiplagiat.RSL” software for plagiarism tests. There are given grounds for broadening the scope of verification by way of involving more educational and research organizations with their works to be studied.
Materials and Methods: Using the materials of the results of the plagiarism tests carried out at the Russian State Library and having analyzed the foreign publications on the theme, the authors offer systematization of the common types of the borrowings revealed. The article points out their routes and brings forth the prognosis of the development of Russian education and science in view of plagiarism resentment with drawing the attention of the scientific community to the existing problem and supporting the atmosphere of intolerance towards the very phenomenon as such.
Results: The authors bring the information concerning the development of the digital dissertation base of the RSL. There is given characteristics of the service offering the scientific and educational establishments of the nation to carry out an independent and objective examination of the texts to be published. The article would also prove the uniqueness of that kind of offer due to the opportunity to verification of the texts against the original database and to the presence of the scientifically sound methodology on which the verifications are based.
Conclusions: The necessity of independent and objective evaluation of incorrect borrowings in thesis and other research papers has long ago been stated. Still there evidently lacks a somewhat common idea of who and how could realize the evaluation procedure, and on which grounds too. The Russian State Library deserves a leading position in this respect for its possessing a rich collection of research works in Russian and in foreign languages as well. Its expertise could become a part of a certain regulation mechanism for supervising norms of academic integrity.
Human resource management (HRM), as well as the management of any other business area becomes dependent on global digitalization and undergoes attendant changes. The need to search for new digital solutions in HR sphere, analysis of the principles of adaptation of existing methods of automation of human resource management processes demonstrate the relevance of the research.
The purpose of the article is to assess modern state and further prospects of usage different digital-tools in HRM in national companies. The objectives of the present research: to determine whether companies really need to digitalize HR processes, to evaluate the rate of usage of automated services in HR, to analyze the most popular HR tools and to assess the applicability for different companies, to identify the correlation between the level of digitalization of companies and human capital.
Materials and methods. General theoretical, empirical and statistical methods of assessing information are used in the article. The data available in the current scientific and periodical literature, as well as in fundamental works in the field of personnel management, are systematized. The research work relies on information provided in open sources that contains a set of information and analytical reports of companies, including their analysis and interpretation.
Results. As the result of the research the number of key features of the current state of HR digitalization was identified. A comparative analysis of modern automation systems for personnel selection is presented and an assessment of their technological functionality is carried out. The rate of applicability of the most popular tools in HRM for different companies and the factors affecting the company’s choice of a particular HR software tool was determined.
Conclusion. The work revealed that the digital transformation of HR processes is at the stage of formation; however, the modern conditions of informatization of society are quite favorable for the transition of companies to digital HR. The exceptions are companies with a small headcount (up to 100 people), the digitalization of which, will not be economically feasible. An analytical review of a number of relevant studies has shown that most domestic companies have high hopes for digital HR. Nevertheless, there are practically no firms on the market that have managed to completely digitize the entire set of HR processes. In addition, the study made it possible to formulate conclusions about the presence of a high correlation between the dependence of firms on human capital and the scale of their use of digital HR tools.
EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
The purpose of the research. The study focuses on the analysis and feasibility of online whiteboard web-based applications used as multimedia educational tool for collaborative learning and group activities implemented in foreign language training at the university via e-learning. The research is relevant due to the didactic challenges and methodological limitations associated with the general transition of Russian institutions of higher education into e-learning format.
Materials and methods. The author considers various specific didactic requirements and criteria defining the selection of learning tools and resources for collaboration of students. The study is based on the analysis of scientific theoretical and methodological papers devoted to the issues of team work format and tutorial peculiarities at the university. Special attention is paid to the specifics of collaborative learning and group activities review while teaching the discipline “Foreign language” at the University. The next stage of the research included the study of the functionality of existing web applications of the online whiteboard in order to determine the benefits of using and options for using the tool in question to provide visibility, interactivity and organization of the group form of students’ work in a practical lesson in a foreign language in e-learning.
Results. The results of the study have been obtained upon testing the features of Linoit web-based application as an example of online whiteboard software in educational process at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) Branch in Sevastopol. Linoit was used as the additional learning tool for managing group activities in foreign language classes via e-learning. University courses have been delivered online through the official website of distant learning at MSU Branch in Sevastopol (https://distant.sev.msu.ru/). Various functionalities of the Linoit tool were tested in the format of joint work of students in the process of conducting practical classes during the organization of e-learning with the use of distance learning technologies for students of 1-4 years of study areas 46.03.01 “History”, 01.03.02 “Applied Mathematics and Informatics”. Based on the results of pedagogical observation and testing of the technical capabilities of the online whiteboard, the paper presents variations in the use of the resource for the implementation of group activities at different stages of a practical lesson in a foreign language. Examples of learning activities that can be completed using the online whiteboard are presented.
Conclusion. Using an online whiteboard solves the problem of providing visibility, interactivity, availability of quick feedback, as well as organizing work in a single web space. The online whiteboard is a multifunctional learning tool. First of all, the resource provides visual contact for all members of the group. The online whiteboard can be viewed as an effective tool for joint study and project activities of students thanks to the functions of sharing files of different types (multimedia objects) and the option of co-editing materials. The presence of an online board greatly facilitates the procedure for carrying out control stages, as well as mutual verification. The use of the resource contributes to the development of students’ creative abilities, the formation of universal and professional competencies in a practical lesson in a foreign language in the context of e-learning.
Purpose of the study. In modern dynamic conditions, education should be directed to the future, have openness and redundancy in relation to the assigned pedagogical tasks, the existing educational students’ needs, the current state of society, economy, and labor market. Ensuring such a quality of education is impossible without Internet resources and information technology, without the organization of students’ online activity. The purpose of this article is to consider the variety of opportunities for students’ educational activities in the Internet, to present a typology of the risks of such activities, to suggest ways to overcome risks and ensure its effectiveness and safety.
Materials and methods. The opportunities and risks of informationeducational activity are summarized based on the analysis of scientific papers and the results of an empirical study. In the process of study, we used methods of theoretical analysis and systematization, empirical survey and methods of descriptive mathematical statistics. Empirical study conducted on a sample of the first-year IT-students (N = 174) using the questionnaire method.
Results. The variety of types of information-educational activities (educational-cognitive, search-cognitive, communicative-cognitive, informational-creative, entertaining-cognitive) and the advantages of online learning compared to classroom learning are presented. A typology of information-educational activity risks based on two grounds is given. According to object, the risks to student health, development and emotional well-being and the risks of loss of performance are identified. According to localization, external risks associated with the organization of the Internet and online educational activity (congestion of the information space, manipulative technologies in the supply of information, content risks, communication risks, cyber risks, inaccurate Internet content, poorquality educational and methodological support of the educational process, lack of feedback, technical and methodological support), and internal risks associated with the psychological and pedagogical students’ characteristics (instability of the worldview, internal prerequisites for exposure to content and communication risks, internal prerequisites for Internet addiction, aimless and unskillful activity in the Internet space, ineffective cognitive styles and critical thinking, lack of desire for self-development, the prevalence of external educational motives, difficulties of self-regulation, lack of volitional qualities, narrow interests, digital incompetence) are highlighted.
Conclusion. Ways of overcoming risks and ensuring the effectiveness and safety of information-educational activity are proposed: 1) promotion lifelong education as a way of existence, development as a value, education as a significant capital; 2) creating excess information-educational environments and educational Internet resources (in relation to the pedagogical tasks and the modern students’ learning needs); 3) development of psychological stability, digital and educational students’ competence; 4) pedagogical management of students’ activities in the Internet (organization, support, control). The possibility of using technological solutions for students’ information-educational activities management is pointed out. At the same time, the important role of lecturers in this process is emphasized.
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