Topicality of the topic is driven by the changed social and economic conditions in Russia, that led to the search for educational paradigms adequate to the new social and economic development of the country, and by the rapid growth of the role of information technologies as well as by the need to improve the professionalism of teachers in their use of computer technologies in education. The aim of the article is to draw the attention of the pedagogical community to the actual forms of e-learning in modern educational practice of Russian education. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the analysis of world and Russian experience of using e-learning in order to strengthen the independence of students. The recommendations on the implementation of e-learning in the context of Russian education were suggested as the result of the research. The material of the article can be useful for teachers seeking to apply modern methods and technologies of teaching.

Participatory planning is widely used worldwide as a tool of involving citizens in the processes of urban development, and it has also become more popular in Russia. The projects in Russia are implemented using foreign practices of participatory planning, thus there are N theoretical and methodological bases being developed. As a result, the involvement of citizens in the processes of urban development lacks in quality. This paper is devoted to organizing the participatory practices in the design of outdoor areas on the example of Saint Petersburg.the goal of the study is to create unifed rules of organizing participatory planning in Russia.The methodology is based on a systematic approach to the assessment of the outdoor areas quality, evaluation of citizens’ readiness to participate in participatory design and assessment of the availability of the projects implementation in this feld. The assessment of the outdoor areas quality was conducted with a method of a quality rating of a living environment.The evaluation of citizens’ readiness was based on a survey of the territory users. The method of the expert interview was used to assess the availability of the participatory planning projects implementation.The research results are formulated as recommendations for organizing the practices of participatory design in Russia.The following conclusions were made: the implementation of the recommendations provided for organizing the practices of participatory planning would increase the quality of outdoor areas and decrease the number of conflicts between stakeholders. Moreover, it would help in creating the local community, where the participants go through the transformation from the passive user to the active designer of the area.

Following the ideas of Yu.M. Lotmanexpressed in his book ‘Culture and Explosion’ (1992), the authors have discovered the direct relationship of this culturological bestseller to the processes of modern explosive development of technologies, especially digital ones, and their impact on the educational sphere.

The paper proposes the mainstreaming of the conceptual potential of Yu. M. Lotman (1922–1993) and M. K. Petrov (1923–1987) scientific and philosophical heritage relating to the theory of explosive complexity, increasing diversity and instability, which our society has recently been observing in occupational, vocational and professional spheres and the related social institutions (professional associations, professional education, professional guidance, etc.). Heterogeneous and heteronomic being-in-common (Fr. partage) in light of the works of J.-L. Nancy (b. 1940) is the most important heuristic intuition of the proposed updating. It allows one to think through a single, but flexible, multi-directionally transformable and polysemantic framework for the future theory of rapidly updated professional diversity, its explanation, forecast of likely development scenarios and strategies for self-determination within it and management strategies in relation to it. The authors present the conceptual unfolding of the intuition of being-in-common (partage) to be compatible with both the theoretical provisions of the semiotics of culture of Yu. М. Lotman and the socio-cultural dynamics of M. K. Petrov. Professionology is still searching for a methodological platform that would complement its retrospective generalizations and interdisciplinary discontinuity. The actualization of the potential of the concept of compatibility allows it to consolidate multidisciplinary research and its results and to guide them along the path of careful and, at the same time, bold theoretical construction in accordance with what social processes declare themselves to be. The authors observe the readiness of today’s multidisciplinary discourse to unite on such a methodological platform that allows for not to being lost in it under the influence of priorities and presumptions that are inevitable for the methodology, but, at the same time, focusing the collective efforts of occupational researchers on the most promising and practice-oriented aspects of the subject of their research.