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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 3

Personality in the virtual educational space

I. G. Borisenko1, S. V. Kamashev2, T. S. Kosenko2, E. V. Ushakova3
1Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny Ave., Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 660041
2Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, 28 Viluiskaya St., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630126
3Altai State Medical University, 40 Lenina Ave., Barnaul, Russia, 656038
Keywords: globalization, open system with complex evolution, personality, virtual educational environment

Abstract

Globalization is a process which is unfolding literally before our eyes, and so the way of its understanding should be the most adequate and effective. Diverse studies of the contemporary researchers often share a common idea of globalization as an open system which evolves in a complex fashion and causes a lot of problems in the world. Identifying and analyzing the depth of these problems condition their solving, and therefore the prospects of the development of modern civilization, including education. In any case, the ultimate goal of the educational process is the person. Education as an innovative process is directed towards the future and, accordingly, is gradually assuming the forms of advancing knowledge; that is, all educational technologies will be aimed not at the preservation of the existing system of values, but at the potential new information in the future. This futuristic orientation of the contemporary global education along with positive innovative strengths can create additional axiological difficulties. The possibilities of the virtual educational space in training cannot be considered unlimited, because of the impersonality of computer programs which are not able to replace the personality of the teacher, on one hand, and, on the other hand, because of the arising of psychological dependence of the person from the computer, which is manifested in the fact that students are beginning to abandon the «real» life, giving preference to the virtual reality. This problem is associated with characteristic social-psychological problems and may manifest itself in different ways: too much time spent in the internet; increasing anxiety while in the real world; lies or hiding the amount of time spent in cyberspace; dispirited functioning in the real world, and others. In this regard, the determination of the limits of computer use in the educational process is by far more important thing than the identification of its positive results.