The chapter deals with the methodology of creating a unified information educational environment, providing the implementation of continuing education, the development and implementation of educational models, programs, environments, implemented with the use of digital technologies. The concept of “open educational system” was determined. The necessity of system analysis at the macro and micro levels with views of subsystems, which are its elements, was sufficiently justified. The notion of “system of continuous education” was determined. The related problems were analyzed and the solutions for the management of system of continuous education in the market economy and in terms of accession to the digital economy, were proposed. Were classified digital learning technologies in order to implement them in the open education systems. The paper shows that shaping of creative potential of future specialists can be performed through the introduction of digital technologies on the basis of educational technology and information and telecommunication technologies.

The article presents the results of studies conducted on the effectiveness of barley foliar feeding under field experiment conditions. The studies were carried out in a field stationary experiment in a grain-vapor-tilled crop rotation system with the following rotation: green-manured fallow - spring wheat - barley - maize - spring wheat. The object of the research was leached chernozem. Rotation cropping was sown on two degrees of ground fertilization – without fertilizer and with fertilizer. Urea (carbamide) was added as barley foliar feeding. Spring wheat that was sown on rape plant green-manured fallow served as the forecrop to the barley. Soil fertility heterogeneity was determined by examining barley crops during the tillering period (biomass scanning). Unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Krasaeroskan were used for this purpose. The results of NDVI index determination in the field experiment formed the basis for determining the mineral nitrogen fertilizer doses. Such doses were refined by tissue diagnostics. It was established that foliar feeding with mineral nitrogen fertilizers (urea) contributed to an increase in barley productivity.

The research is devoted to the investigation of chemical composition of epiphytic lichens Lobaria pulmonaria growing in the territory of the Barguzin Nature Reserve in the Republic of Buryatia (Russia). This reserve is considered as a background area because of its far location from anthropogenic pollution sources. The objective of this research is to assess the chemical composition of lichens of the Barguzin Nature Reserve – one of the background areas in Russia. 9 lichen samples were collected in the summer 2015, in which the concentrations of 67 chemical elements were detected using inductively coupled plasma mass-spectrometry. The research findings were compared with the data for the lichens from the Zabaykalsky National Park and taiga forest in Tomsk region (oil field area). Comparing the reserve area with the taiga area (with anthropogenic load from oil field development), it was detected that the lichens from the Barguzin Nature Reserve had lower concentrations of most chemical elements except Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, K, Ca, and Ti, which contents are 2-16-fold higher in the lichens of the Barguzin Reserve. The concentrations of most chemical elements detected in the lichen samples of the Barguzin Nature Reserve can be used as baseline values while investigating territories with different anthropogenic load.

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The article describes the experience of organising the Russian Open Education Centre at Siberian Federal University with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation by giving the brief overview of the most common approaches to defining the term “open education”, pointing out the structural and target differences of the centres for open education and distant learning found in some Russian universities, presenting a detailed description of the conceptual grounds and the prospects for the development of the Russian Open Education Centre at Siberian Federal University as well as the courses, workshops and cultural events held in October and November 2020 for the participants learning Russian as a foreign language from more than 70 countries