The purpose of the presented article is to review existing approaches to modern training methods design and to create a variant of its technology in virtual educational environments in order to develop general cultural and professional students' competence in pedagogical education. The conceptual modeling of a set of methods for students' training in the conditions of an information-and-communication saturated environment was carried out by means of a subject-design method within the framework of prescriptive theory. This allowed us to allocate the stages in designing the methods of student training when using a virtual educational environment. The presented results reflect the general approach to the design of teacher activity including the design of training methods on the basis of accounting for the primary structural components of educational technologies. The given results of examining the features and the opportunities of the virtual educational environment allow us to define the essence of training methods enrichment as well as mechanisms of self-adjustment and self-improvement for a training methods system in educational information environments, and to formulate conclusions about the impossibility of creating modern educational processes without virtual educational environments.

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доктор педагогических наук, заведующий кафедрой информационно-коммуникационных технологий в образовании Уральского государственного педагогического университета, Екатеринбург.

The article considers the possibility of using smart and e-learning technologies to create flexible educational information environments. A way to combine the modular instruction technology and the technology of building and application of mind maps (mind mapping) is offered. Mind mapping is considered as an instrumental basis for creation of multidimensional information environments. Mind mapping is regarded as instrumental basis of the modular instruction. Mind maps are used for systematic organization of training material and management of the students' activities. The peculiarity of the proposed format is the navigation system that allows, using cross hyperlinks, to direct students to diverse information both within the blocks and modules, and between them, to use sources of information presented on the Internet and in the personal computers of students, to develop common and personal information environments based on the underlying environment created by the teacher. This paper was written as a part of work on Governmental Order 2014/392, Project 1942 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

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