Psychodidactic aspects of developing and substantiating digital educational content for additional professional education

The article examines the problem of methodology for the development and implementation of digital educational content (hereinafter referred to as DEC) for additional professional education (hereinafter referred to as APE) for adults in order to determine its optimal digital, psychodidactic structure and methodological tools for the interaction of the main subjects of the  educational programme using the example of the educational and methodological centre for APE of the All-Russia Scientific and Research Institute for Irrigation and Farming Water Supply Systems “Raduga”. Research methods: scientific and practical analysis, development andsystematisation of DEC components, study of practical experience and results of DEC testing under an additional professional programme (hereinafter referred to as APP) for the period  2023–2024, logical and situational analysis, processing and generalisation of the results. The novelty of the research: the content of the concepts “educational programme for APE” and DEC is specified; for the first time, the concept of DEC for adult APE is formulated with the definition of its purpose and fundamental differences; for the first time, the structu ral components of DEC according to the APE programme have been identified and meaningfully presented, taking into account the psychodidactic features of learning in the digital educational environment (hereinafter referred to as DEE), contributing to the self-development of a personality in professional activity by means of DEE. As a result of the study, the structural and substantive features of the DEC for APE for adults are revealed; the psychodidactic, information technology, socio-psychological, and industry- specific characteristics of DEC and methods (synchronous and asynchronous) of purposeful interaction of the main subjects of APE contributing to continuous professional training and self-development of an adult’s personality in the conditions of DEE are determined.

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