Digital pedagogy: analysis, requirements and experience of implementation

Abstract

Abstract The object of research is the process of digitalization of teacher education in Russian universities at the present time. The authors pay special attention to the characteristics of the concept of ‘digital pedagogy’. They analyze the definitions of the concepts of ‘digital pedagogy’, ‘electronic pedagogy’, ‘virtual pedagogy’ and ‘techno-pedagogy’. The authors of the article describe the functional and content components of digital pedagogy characteristics such as content-based, environmental, technological and competence-based components on the result of research by methods of content analysis, discursive analysis, synthesis of ideas of modern digital technologies. The article reveals the significance of digital transformation of education in creating non-standard algorithms for solving traditional pedagogical problems, forming and developing an innovative learning process based on artificial intelligence, big data and distributed computation. The article describes the Master’s program in digital pedagogy implemented at the Mari State University.