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378.4
Shutenko Andrey Ivanovich
Кандидат педагогических наук, Cand. Sci. (Pedag.), the Senior Scientific Fellow of Institute of Economics and Management, Belgorod State Technological University named after V. G. Shukhov, avalonbel@mail.ru, Belgorod
Shutenko Elena Nikolaevna
Кандидат психологических наук, Cand. Sci. (Psychol.), Assoc. Prof. of Department of the General and Clinical Psychology, Belgorod National Research University, shutenko@bsu.edu.ru, Belgorod
Derevyanko Julia Petrovna
Кандидат психологических наук, Assistant Professor of Department of the General and Clinical Psychology, Belgorod National Research University, geyman@bsu.edu.ru , Belgorod

The use of Information Technology as Tools of Developing Educational Communications for Realizing the Personal Potential of University Students

Abstract: 
The article is devoted to the problem of educational communications development as a sphere of implementation of modern information-communication technologies in the higher education system. The purpose of the article is to present the structure and functions of educational communications aimed at the development of personal potential and self-realization of students. Methodology. The study is based on the methodology of personal and communicative-informational approaches in education, psychological-pedagogical provisions on the structure of communication, the leading role of learning activity, didactic principles of building an educational-informational environment. In theoretical terms, the study is based on the idea of the indirect implementation of ICT in education through the development of educational communications. The developing structure of educational communications, including didactic, informational-gnostic, interactive, psychological, attractive-motivational, value-semantic components, is presented. The possibilities of developing personal potential in educational communications are considered. The author’s developmental model of ICT functions is presented, which includes clusters of actual and latent functions aimed at the formation of information-educational space for the development of students’ personal potential. In conclusion, a inference was made about the prospects of the indirect introduction of modern ICT as tools for the development and functioning of various educational communications. At the same time, it is essential that these communications perform psychological and pedagogical tasks and functions.
Keywords: 
educational communications, higher school, information-communication technologies, personal potential, developing structure, model, ICT functions
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