Designing The Learning Process For Technical University Students In Conditions Of Uncertainty

Abstract

The ongoing pandemic that has swept across the world significantly affected the education system as well. New living conditions required a serious transformation of the educational system that had to move to online remote learning in a short time. All participants of the educational process found themselves in difficult conditions that required rapid adaptation to changes. The current extreme situation during the period of self-isolation can be described as a situation of uncertainty for all participants of the educational process. This empirical research was conducted in 2020-2021 in Samara State Technical University. Its aim is to study the situation of uncertainty in the conditions of distance, full-time and blended learning. When face-to-face classes resumed, the authors conducted a sociological survey aimed at identifying students' attitude to full-time and blended learning and made a comparative analysis of the survey's results. The study showed that students acquired new ways to respond to the challenge of changing forms of learning as well as to interact with the surrounding world. They developed unified patterns of behavioural reactions, algorithms of educational actions, which contributed to the formation of new learning patterns in the proposed conditions. The assessment of students ' preferences for choosing a particular form of education led the authors to the conclusion that the future belongs to blended learning, which includes both online and face-to-face classes. In this regard, teachers need to think, develop, and modify the patterns of training modules, both online and face-to-face, in advance.