Abstract:

Emerging technologies are part of modern educational process. In compliance with new educational standards, e-learning and the design of new learning environment are compulsory requirements in Higher Education of Russia nowadays. E-learning tools offer new ways to obtain knowledge, develop personal and professional skills while studying at university. E-learning environment determines new types of interactions and learning styles.

The research under review focuses on the issue of e-learning in Higher Education and examines factors affecting overall students’ performance in e-learning environment. The work describes the experience of designing a model of e-learning environment based on the use of learning management system Moodle combined with the integration of additional e-learning tools (MOOC, open educational resources and online services) to organize educational process and enhance foreign language professional training at Sevastopol State University.

The article presents results of empirical research conducted at Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations of Sevastopol State University in 2020 to explore and define the level of bachelors’ readiness to learn foreign languages in e-learning environment.

The study was based on the use of the system-oriented approach, synthesis and generalization methods as well as qualitative and quantitative empirical methods (observation, survey and questionnaires). The authors applied statistical methods to process and fragment the data in order to define categories of the results. The new formats of educational process and compulsory transition to e-learning because of COVID-19 in 2020 have revealed the necessity to explore and define the level of bachelors’ readiness to learn foreign languages in e-learning environment. Besides, the didactic challenges of distance learning and methodological limitations concerning the implementation of new educational models prove the significance of the study.