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  • ‘Digital Educational Practices and Technologies’

    • Online
    • 2,5 years
    • RU
    • 245 000 RUB
  • Entrance exams

    • Interdisciplinary Exam for Teacher Education
    • Foreign language (English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish)

Program description

The Institute of Online Education is a synthesis of modern IT technologies and the fundamental knowledge of the FinU faculty. We believe that modern technologies are our friends and helpers, and we successfully apply them in the educational process.

Our mission is to preserve and increase the quality of education, making it available in a modern and convenient online form. With us you get a state diploma of higher education, and you study entirely remotely. The geography of our students is wide: Cape Town, Vienna, Alanya, Dushanbe, Kaliningrad, Murmansk (and many other cities in Russia and around the world). You only need to come to the university once – to pass the final state certification. 

“Digital Educational Practices and Technologies” is an online master’s program for those who want to become leaders in digital education and manage EdTech projects.

Our students will professionally master modern educational technologies, learn how to implement pedagogical design and pedagogical program design, create digital content, work with digital traces, analyze instructional data, and use advanced learning technologies to improve the quality of education in a digitalised environment.

The master’s program is built on a combination of fundamental pedagogical training and practical activities in applying digital educational technologies, development of educational content, creation of EdTech projects, and educational events.

Program managers

Mozhayeva Galina Vasilievna

  • PhD in History, Associate Professor.
  • Director of the Institute of Online Education, Head of the Department for Digitalisation in Education at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
  • Laureate of the Russian Federation Government Prize in Education (2013), Laureate of the Russian Federation President Prize in Education (2001), “Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation", member of the International Academy of Informatization, Corresponding Member of RANS, Board Member of the Russian Association for Digital Humanities, member of the Board of the Association “History and Computer". 
  • Authored more than 240 publications in the field of online learning, 4 multimedia courses, 3 patents of Rospatent. 
  • Initiated the development of a number of multimedia educational products, online platform Adaptive Mathematics, recruitment system for applicants in social networks, simulator Professional Probation Platform, etc. 

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Apply advanced technologies in educational activities, including adaptive and immersive technologies;
  • Perform pedagogical design and pedagogical design in a digital learning environment;
  • Create contemporary digital content;
  • Develop and use tools for individualisation and personalisation of learning, create and implement educational projects using digital services and tools;
  • Work with digital data, evaluate learning effectiveness, and make instructional decisions based on learning analytics;
  • Conduct research related to online learning, advanced educational technology, explore various aspects of digitalisation in education, and apply research findings in practice.

Key disciplines of the concentration

Digital Transformation of the Educator

As part of the discipline, students will study the basic requirements for a modern teacher, various competency models of digital mastery, and basic tools for building an individual teacher’s digital environment.

Pedagogical Design in a Digital Learning Environment

Students will study the main models of pedagogical design, learn more about the tools of design thinking, including emotional intelligence and its impact on the learning process. The discipline explores modeling of educational space for distance learning, features of the construction of educational space in online courses as well as data-driven mechanisms for managing educational space.

Immersive Technologies in Education

Students will be introduced to the possibilities of immersive learning and explore techniques for implementing immersive learning in the classroom and in the digital learning environment.

Instructional Analytics and Assessment of Learning Effectiveness

Students will learn about the possibilities of immersive learning and explore techniques for implementing immersive learning in the classroom and in a digital learning environment.

Digital Tools for Educational Content Development

This course introduces students to the methodology and principles of digital educational content development and explores its typology. In practice they will learn how to create and develop educational content for visualisation and presentation of information (infographics, mental maps, educational video content). They will study digital tools of augmented and virtual reality as well as tools for creating interactive assignments to organize active learning activities, effective feedback and project work.

Individualization and Personalization of Learning in a Digital Environment

This discipline examines Russian and foreign experience of personalized learning, aimed at educational results and the realization of personality-centered potential of the learner, as well as methods and practical approaches to designing an individual educational trajectory.

Simulators in the Modern Educational Process

The discipline explores cases and practical tasks related to the development of simulator game architectures, methodological aspects of learner involvement and evaluation of the effectiveness of educational simulators.

Adaptive Technologies in Online Learning

This discipline introduces the experience of using flexible and adaptive approaches in learning to solve various professional problems, as well as the development of soft skills and digital skills.

Career

A graduate of the program can work:      

  • In the field of education:
  • University, college, school teacher
  • Developer of educational projects and educational events
  • Developer of educational content, simulators, games
  • Specialist in the field of personalization of learning, adaptive and intensive technologies in education
  • Mentor and multiplier of the teacher's digital competencies
  • Developer of educational trajectories

In the field of management:

  • Specialist in managing the digitalization of the educational process
  • Consultant on digital transformation of educational activities
  • Content director of educational platforms
  • Designer of information and educational environments
  • In the field of research:
  • Expert in the field of digital transformation of education
  • Digital analyst in the field of education

You will become a part of the professional community and expand your career opportunities.

Unique advantages of the program

Mastering new professions: digital leader in education, educational designer, educational technologist, digital curator, content manager;

Digital learning practices and technologies from online learning experts and program partners;

Strategic partner is the educational ecosystem GeekBrains, a leader in the digital education market;

Participation in the program of NTI University and educational online platforms Simulizator.com, Skyeng, Rosetta Stone;

Opportunity to study on the world’s leading online platform Coursera;

Internships in EdTech companies and leading digital universities. Study abroad programs at foreign universities;

Ability to receive scholarships and grants during training;

Individual learning plan;

Portfolio with ready-made EdTech projects and relevant skills for working in schools, universities, and at online platforms;

Main focus on advanced learning technologies and student-centered learning.