At present, IT have become an indispensable condition for the quality of education, but they are rarely applied in education of senior citizens and their range is quite narrow. An exception is the methods of teaching computer literacy to older adults, which is much narrower than IT in education. Meanwhile, they are no less essential both for adaptation of the elderly to the contemporary conditions of life and for the young generations. The authors prove that application of these technologies can change the quality of life for older adults and enables them to extend their professional activity, to broaden their scope of communication, and to raise their level of social adaptation to the environment and daily life. It has been found during the research conducted that the use of IT in education of senior citizens has some essential features and requires special conditions of application. In the research, questionnaire survey and testing, indepth interview, expert survey, and participant observation methods were used that allowed studying the senior citizens' demands for educational services, computer literacy improvement, as well as barriers and risks in their getting the education, conditions for enhancing its efficiency. During the research, disadvantages in development of IT and software products targeted for education of the aged have been found. The results obtained allow contributing to the development of concepts of thriving old age, active longevity, and higher social and professional engagement of older adults. They are of great importance both for the very senior citizens and for education providers, as well as for developers of educational software products needed by older adults and their teachers.

In this paper, we focus on the effects and outcomes of enhancing the careers of engineers and various technical specialists with leadership competences. It is quite clear that engineers and experts possessing technical knowledge who intend to advance their careers must be able to lead teams effectively and to handle human resources in an efficient way according to the principles of modern management science. Therefore, it appears that professionals of all kinds should be interested in investing into advancing their leadership and management roles and in enhancing their "soft" skills. Our results demonstrate that for the technically minded people, there might be some personality areas that are worth investing their time and effort and concentrating on developing them accordingly. Among these features are personality growth as well as such areas as team management, public speaking, or learning the principles of modern management, just to name the most important ones. Our results might be useful not only for human resource managers operating at industrial enterprises but also for management professionals that have to deal with people from the technical background in their everyday jobs.

Nowadays in the Russian society there made high demands on the level of professional-ethic communicative culture of education managers. Meanwhile the subject concerning the development of education managers communicative culture within refresher courses on basis of pedagogical deontology is not studied enough. This article analyses the essence, structure and revealing levels deontological communicative culture of education managers. The article discusses the results of the diagnostics of personal characteristics of managers in education that affect the manifestation of professional ethic communicative culture of heads of educational institutions. The material illuminates the outcome of long-term work of the authors as teachers of refresher courses for education managers.

Sign languages are a consequence of the development of modern society, confirmation of its inclusiveness, social orientation, attention to each member of society, regardless of his possibilities. The needs of society for knowledge of sign language are great, and not only because part of it cannot communicate in another way. But because such a knowledge of sign language is designed to eliminate and compensate for numerous barriers of interaction. The article contains materials for analysis of general principles of organizing training, legislatively enshrined conditions for organizing the process of training Russian sign language translators (RSL) on the basis of secondary vocational or higher education institutions, as well as the experience of implementing such programs in various educational organizations. Induction, deduction, literature analysis, comparative analysis, unstructured observation are used as research methods. The result of the research will be a number of proposals based on teaching experience and regulatory documents that are recommended for use in the educational process. The authors offer their own vision of the organizational aspects, the provisions of which are advisable to use in organizing training for RSL translators.

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