The aim of the study was to analyze the correlation between the students’ involvement and their progress within the online component of the blended learning model during the theoretical and practical courses. The authors have applied data mining Moodle from learning portfolios of 1500 students (N = 1500). Comparative analysis of the courses under review showed significant differences in the behavior of the same students. For the theoretical course students spent less time than for a practice-oriented one. Students’ progress in the form of points and demand for non-binding elements of the course differed significantly in favor of the practical course. Based on the data obtained, the authors concluded that an important parameter that influences the behavior of students and their educational progress in general is precisely the focus on practice. Thus, the predominance of the online component in blended learning is appropriate for practical courses. Within the theoretical and general education courses, the predominance of face-to-face learning can positively affect the educational process and results of learning.

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Purpose of the study: The paper addresses the issue of regulating Internet communication activities in the context of online forums. The study aims to create a forum communication model identifying the areas subject to social regulation and defining the most common types of norms Methodology: The study draws upon the semiotic method to develop a new communication model based on classical theories. Quantitative empirical studies are also used. The rules and guidelines of 1,205 online forums were analyzed to identify the most common norms. Main Findings: Communicators and moderators access the forum communication space via user accounts and create a sign system. Some categories, such as a ban on deceptive or offensive content, are similar to those used in offline life. Other regulations are Internet-specific in that they are determined by inherent challenges of online communication (for example, account cloning) or by the way a forum is structured (flooding, necroposting, etc.). Applications of this study: The findings related to the forum rules are presented in a summarized manner, although the rules vary slightly in reality, depending on the forum topic. The prevalence of deviant behaviors on online forums was also beyond the scope of this study. The study was based on the rules of Russian- and English-speaking forums, and it should be noted that language differences could influence the results. Social Implications: The evolving social interactions on the Web require regulations, which can differ significantly from those used offline. The study of social norms on the Internet allows us to trace what types of online behavior are now considered deviant and examine the current potential of Internet self-regulation. Novelty/Originality of this study: The study developed a new communication model for categorizing online communication norms. Major categories of online communication behavior regulation were identified and the most popular types of social norms were determined.

This article is focused on the poststructuralist thinking from the perspective of the ontological problems. Poststructuralism is asserted as a project of overcoming the boundaries of the previous philosophy and a break in the deadlocks of structuralism. Analysis of the key poststructuralist concepts, such as "hyperreality" and "simulation", in Baudrillard's and Derrida's redaction, allows disclosing the crossover points with Heidegger's problems of fundamental ontology. Poststructuralists approach the language as one of the orders of simulation, which enables them to interpret the "experience of Nothingness" more radically as well as to renew the question of Being at the new historical and philosophical stage. The essential task of the investigation of reality meanings in the postmodern discourse is to realize how the reality is penetrating into it. Regardless of the purposes and intentions of postmodernist philosophers, something that superficially seems to be situated out of the boarders of reality appears to be the revelation of reality as it is. Compromised in all variants of realistic, naturalistic and materialistic philosophy, ontology finds its theoretical realization exactly in the postmodern discourse, in which the concept of "reality" is always "in quotes". This is another trick of the postmodern philosophy. The pathos of postmodern analysts is to realize the consequences of one's own methodological proposals. The indifferent, superficial, or insidious glance could consider that philosophical judgments do not to have their ontological consequences. The world is logocentric; words rule the world, and they are the starting point of existential cataclysms-wars and reconciliation, happiness, and disasters.

Biography as a historical description is possible in different forms: as historical evidence, as a value or value judgment, as modeling history according to the principle “als ob” (“as if”). The latter type of biography can be accepted as a heuristic and hypothetical model of events in the absence of reliable evidence, when the biography is created from indirect sources. Modeling by the principle “als ob” was invented by Hans Feichinger, a little-known original follower of the philosophy of I. Kant.