EDUCATIONAL VIDEO E-PROJECTS FOR MANAGING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION STUDENTS' SELF-STUDY

The primary objectives of this research are to describe the experience of implementing e-projects aimed at creating educational videos at Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University while training vocational educators; to assess the efficacy of the pedagogy and to discuss our experience and give recommendations for organizing trainee-students' self-study with e-projects aimed at creating educational videos. A set of quantitative pre- and post-surveys were administered for students in order to evaluate their learning outcomes and competencies development. Students' motivation and attitudes were evaluated through questionnaires, interviews, and discussions. An expert group appraisal method was used to define assessment components. The experiment results showed positive dynamics in students' English and ICT competency. For most students, the level of their ICT competence development after the experiment was diagnosed as 'professional'. Concerning English skills and vocabulary acquisition, the post-survey results showed that all students demonstrated considerable improvements in reading and listening skills in their research area. Creating educational videos in English obviously contributed to the development of students' pronunciation skills as well. Interdisciplinary e-projects aimed at creating educational video in English proved to be effective for the development of vital professional competencies of VE students. The need for setting didactic goals, developing scenarios, recording, editing, using animation and specialized programs contributes to the development of VE students' ICT competency, while searching for information, writing, editing and mouthing professionally oriented texts in English provides a sound grasp of English skills and vocabulary in the project area. (C) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK